OLFA/SENOIR ONE. APPRECIATION OF ART AND DESIGN

Appreciation of Art and Design

Introduction

Art and design is a subject made of two forms of creativity; Art and Design. To clearly understand this subject you need to know what is art and what is design.

Art is a diverse range of human activities or feeling to creating visual objects (artworks)

In the general form, the activities of art include painting, sculpture and architecture.

A design is a plan to do something with a specific purpose or the process to form a product. You will be doing both; a skillful plan or process and a creation of objects hence the study of “art and design”.

Why do we learn Art and Design?

There is a good reason for you to study art and design. You will begin to understand why things

are created and their value to society. You will learn Art and Design to:

• Develop your creativity
• Communicate using visuals
• Develop your understanding about cultures
• .Connect your learning to the society.

Practicing art and design activities develops your mental (cognitive) and employment

(vocational) skills so that you can compete in the 21st century. The 21st century requires you to

possess the following key competences:

• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Communication
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The language of design

Just as a child learns a language in order to communicate with the community, an Art student needs to learn a different language of visual Arts.

Art is a language used to communicate in two ways of Art response and Art making. When you look at something, you will like or dislike its appearance. You will somehow appreciate it by describing it; Is it small or big, colourful, pleasant or frightening? Appreciation is a response to an artwork.

Practice.

Activity 1.1 Appreciating art

1. Look for a cup/mug or a bowl in your home.
2. List down at least three things you like about the cup/mug or the bowl.
3. If you have a chance of adding something on your cup/mug or bowl what would you add on?

Art response is a theoretical recalling, understanding and communicating knowledge in a clear and coherent manner.

Appreciation involves describing what you see, discussing how an object was done in terms of colour, shape or texture.

The other method is creating or making something out of the available materials using handy tools. It is practical and skill based. Art making is the application of knowledge and skills (selection and control of materials, media and processes) to create an object.

Creating is designing. You will make your own designs as you go through several activities of art making. The Design language has three basic parts: form, colour, and concept.

Form. Is the composition of the fundamental elements of design. It is the way things look like-the shape, proportion, balance, and harmony of the parts (relationship between them).

Colour. This plays an important part of adding variety and mood as well as spatial dimension.

Concept. Is the idea or thought behind a design, the processes that artists go through to find an artistic solution to the problem. These components are what constitutes the language of design.

Art and design has several areas of study called art disciplines. Do you remember them? For example there is drawing, painting, graphic design and others. Each discipline is meant to produce different artworks for the society. These areas of art turn into careers of which you may become one.

Practice

Activity 1.2 Careers in Art and Design

1. In your art book draw a table with three columns.
2. Label the columns as art discipline, art form and career respectively.
3. Fill the table with at least six disciplines of art and its corresponding art forms and career

Remember:

1. Art is a visual language with many dialects. Design is one of them.
2. There are two ways of studying Art and design: Art response and Art making.
3. You study art and design to fit in the 21^st century requirements of: Critical thinking and problem solving, creativity, collaboration, and communication
4. There are many careers associated with the study of Art.