• The National Art Gallery. Located at Caracas, it has the most comprehensive collection of paintings of the nineteenth century in the country. It is possible to enjoy paintings such as "Miranda en la Carraca" de Arturo Michelena, as well as other works of masters of academic painting and traveling artists of the nineteenth.
• Museum of Fine Arts opened in Caracas February 20, 1938, it has a permanent collection whose pieces were classified as follows: European Medieval and Modern Art, Contemporary Art European and North American Cubism and similar trends Latin American art (painting and sculpture), Drawings and Prints, Egyptian Art and Ceramics.
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas (MACC). This is one of Venezuela's major museums, it opened its doors on 20 February 1974. Since then he has presented exhibitions of national and international visual artists of all genres: painting, sculpture, drawing, film, video and photography.
• Famous Venezuelan painters

Juan Lovera

Cristobal Rojas

Antonio Herrera Toro

Arturo Michelena

Tito Salas

Various forms of Arts:

Fine Arts, refers to painting, sculpture, and architecture,arts which have no practical function and are valued in terms of the visual pleasure in communicating ideas or feelings.

Applied Arts, describe the design or decoration of functional objects to make them pleasing to the eye.

Elements of Art: are the basic components, or building bloks: color, value, line, texture, shape, form and space.

COLOR: element made up of three qualities: hue, intensity, and value.

Hue: refers the name of the color.

Intensity: refers to the quality of brightness and purity of the color.

Value: refers to the lightness or darkness of the color. When you add gradual value changes on your art work, it suggest planes, or flat surfaces, concave or convex surfaces.

Color wheel:

• Primary colors
• Secondary colors
• Intermediate colors
• Complementary colors
• Analogous colors

Line: it is a continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.

Types of lines:

• Emphasizing line: shows the edges of an object
• De- emphasizing line: when artist eliminate the out line of objects in their paintings.
• Line and sculpture: it could be linear or painterly. Linear: when there are visible lines on the art work. Painterly: when there are visible brush strokes.
• Line and movement: when objects suggest movement. It could be horizontal, diagonal, vertical, or curved.

Jacobo Borges

Jose Gabriel Fernandez

Arte Kinetico

 

 

 

 

 

Kinetic art

 Is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for

its effect. Canvas paintings that extend the viewer's perspective of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement are the earliest examples of kinetic art More pertinently speaking, kinetic art is a term that today most often refers to three-dimensional sculptures and figures such as mobiles that move naturally or are machine operated. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.

There is also a portion of kinetic art that includes virtual movement, or rather movement perceived from only certain angles or sections of the work. This term also clashes frequently with the term apparent movement, which many people use when referring to an artwork whose movement is created by motors, machines, or electrically-powered systems. Both apparent and virtual movement are styles of kinetic art that only recently have been argued as styles of op art.

“Kinetic art” as a moniker developed from a number of sources. Kinetic art has its origins in the late 1800s impressionist artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Edouart Manet who originally experimented with accentuating the movement of human figures on canvas. This triumvirate impressionist painters all sought to create art that was more lifelike than their contemporaries.

 

 

Kinetic Sculptures

Drawing with pencil

Pencils, a Brief Overview

Pencils range in hardness and blackness from 9H to 9B. Pencil manufacturers use the letter "H" to indicate a hard pencil and "B" to designate the blackness of the pencil's mark. The letter "F" indicates that the pencil sharpens to a fine point. 9H pencil is the hardest pencil available. 9B is the softest pencil you can get and it will create the darkest lines. My ‘pencil kit’ ranges from 2H to 2B, but I recommend using up to a 6B for deep shadows and bold, dark lines. You will find that any harder that 2H is quite difficult to use and may create dents in your paper.

 

 

Homework

1) Built a sculpture using clay and wire or clay and nylon thread

2) Search about how to use light on drawings

3) Remember that the sculpture must be related with Venezuela and kinetic art.

 

Evaluation Plan: 

 

1)Draw 3 points for:

a.- Technique: 1 point

b).- Uses of the value and shadow: 1 point

c) Presentation and neatness work

 

 

2)  Clay Sculpture 3 points for:

a.- Presentation 1 point

b.- kinetic and Venezuelan theme 2 points.

Remember that everything must be done for Wednesday  April 21st.