Sabado, Disyembre 27, 2014

Ancient Art

Artwork has and still remains a very important part of people’s lives. The visual and performing arts allow people to express their beliefs and feelings. Since most art expresses the feelings and beliefs of a person, the art also express much of their culture. Historians and students can learn from this artwork about a certain culture. Most prehistoric and ancient cultures do not have many written documents and without this artwork we would know very little to nothing about them. That is why artwork from any culture, especially Ancient ones is so important. India, Greece, Egypt, Rome, China, Mesopotamia, Israel and Persia have many types of ancient art with different styles although it is a painting, sculpture, architecture and etc. Animals, people, Gods and Goddesses are the subject matter of ancient art. They use stones, chalk, pigments, charcoal and etc. to make art like for example the “Cave Paintings”, they draw in stone cave using medium of art. These is the picture of cave paintings:

Paleolithic Cave Painting


Ancient art and the artist were admirable because how the artist do their artwork? (how they do that?) I can’t believe it! It is important because it allows us to have a glance of a long deceased culture. A memories.

Biyernes, Disyembre 5, 2014

IMPORTANT IN ART







For me the most important in visual elements is color because they are shown of artist’s emotions in making their artworks. We all live in a world where at some point, color will be a part of, and effect us in our everyday lives. This element gives life and comely to every work of art. To create light, shadow, and space in making artwork. They are the most attractive and the best part in making art. Different colors can create different situations for artwork. We can create the mood by selecting warm or cool colors that remind us of emotions that we want in our artwork. This is the powerful effect on our works and the impressions of the people or the viewer. They choose artist what colors that they use either warm or cool colors. There are different meaning of each color for example red is love, blue is wisdom, green is calm, yellow is joyful and many more.

The most important for me in principles of design is harmony because they combine all elements of art like lines, shape, texture, shape, value, color and motion to create artwork. They also called unity. There are the three methods of harmony, the repetition, proximity, and simplicity. If there have harmony in music, also there have harmony in arts. We can create harmony with color to help us build a particular relationship between the colors on the palette. When colors are harmonized the relationship that is established allows the colors to work together. By sharing something in common, they blend together creating harmony.  

                         

I choose content in components of art because the artist shown their artwork using intellectual message. Content is what a piece of work is about or what is the subject matter. Content can also be the “essence” of the painting. It conveys a subject matter to portray or tell something to the viewer. It shows the significance, expression, meaning or significance of a work of art. Artist use different content in making their artworks. In one artwork, there are many symbols or message in art like for example of the artwork of Leonardo da Vinci’s “ Mona Lisa”, it is a portrait of a woman but there are many symbols in his artwork. “What you see, is what you understand”. 
Mona Lisa






http://www.taradesignspace.com/blog/2012/06/15/form-and-content-what-does-that-really-mean/.

Sabado, Nobyembre 29, 2014

Left Hand " Artistic Style"

Left hander is use the right side of the brain the most or is artistic? Is this true?  Did you know that the three renaissance great artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio, and Michelangelo Buonarroti are left hander? Yes, that’s true. Left hander like me is a well- informed in different arts but mostly, I focus in drawing. Drawing is my hobby since when I was 7 years old. I remember my previous drawing when I was a kid like a girl and a boy, a house, landscape like mountains and etc. I try and try to improve my drawings. When I was in 3rd Year High school I started to join in poster making contest. When I was in 4th Year High School, I elected as artist of Student- Teacher’s Organization. I thank God because I have a gifted hand/ talent.
What is my artistic style?
Previously I focus to draw “Anime” (are Japanese animated productions usually featuring hand-drawn or computer animation) but last week, I practice to draw “Portrait”. Here are some artworks that I created:

Lenore Quibael from MMA1-1
HB, 2B & 4B Pencil in A4 paper

HB, 2B & 4B Pencil in A4 paper
HB, 2B & 4B Pencil in A4 paper

Source:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime 

Sabado, Nobyembre 22, 2014

Leonardo da Vinci: "Mona Lisa" and Vincent Willem van Gogh: "Starry Night"




Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa or ( La Joconde in French; La Gioconda in Italian ) art by Leonardo da Vinci and one of the finest examples of Renaissance painting and it is probably also the best known example of sfumato (is one of the four canonical painting modes of the Renaissance; use of fine shading), a painting technique partly responsible for her enigmatic smile. A painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape and which has been acclaimed as the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. In dimensions, it is 77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in)and it is an oil rendition of Da Vinci using poplar wood. It is told that Da Vinci started the painting in 1503 and took about four years to complete, although art history books suppose that Da Vinci spent a few more years to perfect its creation. There are around 6 million people from all over the world every year who visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France (one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument) to see Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait, Mona Lisa. Who’s Mona Lisa? The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo (15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542 ), the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany in Italy. Her name was given to Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior. Centuries after Lisa's death, Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman. Speculation by scholars and hobbyists made the work of art a globally recognized icon and an object of commercialization. In 2005, Lisa was definitively identified as the model for the Mona Lisa.

Leonardo da Vinci 
Who is Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci? (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) he was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. He has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualized flying machines, a vehicle, concentrated, an adding machine, and the double hull, also outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.

Leonardo da Vinci was renowned as the inventive artistic genius long before he painted the Mona Lisa, and his fame drew wide attention to his art. His reputation as a genius was well- deserved. Leonardo lived his motto, “He is a poor pupil who does not surpass his masters” and is said to have surpassed not only his masters, but all his contemporaries in each of the many arts and disciplines to which he committed himself. He researched anatomy to perfect his art. His dissected animal and human cadavers to learn the muscle and skeletal structure and made copious drawings and notes. He studied perspective, the sky and atmosphere, and the way light falls in curved surfaces and, based on these studies, refined his painting methods. Although only a few paintings survive today, his work is still admired by experts. The Mona Lisa was one of his last paintings, all his skills is evident. Did you know that the original painting has a minor spot of damage near her left elbow. In 1956, for not known purpose, a man named Ugo Ungaza threw a stone at the painting and therefore creating the small damage. Mona Lisa artwork started to be so common because partially it created news when it was stolen from Louvre Museum in Paris by an employee in 1911 - in broad daylight. However it was recovered after about two years.


Musée du Louvre in Paris, France 

A minor spot of damage near her left elbow (1956)
 Vincent Willem van Gogh
 was a Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work—notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color—had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. He began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches, and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still life’s, portraits as well as paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
This is the famous artwork of Vincent, “The Starry Night”. It is an oil on canvas painting. Painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view (with the notable addition of an idealized village) from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. It is Van Gogh's best-known painting and one of the most recognized monuments in the history of Western culture. Just as most people can tell you that Vincent Van Gogh was a famous Impressionist artist who painted Starry Night, many people also have heard about how Van Gogh was "crazy" and suffered with mental health issues throughout his life. The story of Van Gogh cutting off his ear after a fight with his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin, is one of the most popular anecdotes in art history, and supposedly occurred in winter 1888, the year before the painting of Starry Night and not long before Van Gogh's death in 1890. Keeping with his reputation as a crazy artist, Van Gogh was committed to a mental health asylum in Arles after the ear incident with Gauguin. History has it that Van Gogh painted Starry Night while in the mental hospital, and that the landscape in the painting is the view Van Gogh had from his window.

(Source)

Book:
Readings from World Literatures. Great Books Publishing 2013

Sabado, Nobyembre 15, 2014

The Relationship of Arts and History

What is art? Art is one component important to a man’s life. It is found in all ages; it is also found in all countries of the world. Art is a man’s way of expressing his feelings, his views, his moods, or his ideas by the use of skills and imagination such as drawing, painting, sculpture, dancing and so on. His work is a product of his unique personality. An artist’s creative work is influenced by factors such as traditions, religious beliefs, his environment, his political views, economic conditions, and the place where it is produced. Art is part of a culture. Since every civilization has a culture, then every civilization has the arts. It is continued to undergo changes along with the evolution of time and of mankind. The making of the arts started since the beginning of mankind. Arts is everywhere and never stopped nor made pause. Every human being has learning to the arts although others do not have the chance to discover their ability or talent.



History is the study of the past, specifically how it relates to humans. It is the whole series of past events connected with someone or something. Art is one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by human beings. Paintings of animals like bulls were already found among the rough and rocky walls of caves. Other images were about activities of daily life of man. The pre- historic man was already seeking and making images to express his inner feelings and emotions. In modern times, art history has emerged as a discipline that specializes in teaching people how to evaluate and interpret works of art based on their own perspective. Art history has frequently been criticized for its subjectivity because the definition of what is beautiful varies from individual to individual. Learning to evaluate what you see by building on the art forms you already know can develop your aesthetic understanding.


All art is influenced by the historical period in which it is created Artists paint or carves historical subjects because they are sensitive to the events taking place in the world around them. Juan Luna’s Spoliarium for example, shows fallen gladiators at the arena in Rome. However, this has also an interpretative reference to the social injustice during the Spanish regime. The statutes of Jose Rizal and many of our Filipino heroes magnified their efforts to gain independence from the Spaniards. The Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan City reminds us of the events during the Revolutionary period in the history of our country.


             (The Spoliarium (often misspelled Spolarium) is a painting by Filipino artist Juan Luna.)

Source:
(The Dynamic Teeners of the 21st Century; LFP.Lopez, RJ. Pangan, MD. Beldia 
First Edition 2005; Book Store, Inc.)
(Appreciate and learn: Mapeh IV; AMG. Felizardo)
(http://www.arthistory.net)










Biyernes, Agosto 29, 2014

Living Quietly! What will happen to the world if there was no sound?

I think, the people in our world would be sad because “no sound, no life”. We didn’t hear that we want to hear. All people are like a deaf person so he/she use sign language to communicate each other. We didn’t use cellphones for calling someone but we did use for texting and video chat. When watching television and movies, we do not understand the story or series but if there is better have a subtitle.

It is hard to disappear the sound. If the sound was gone, I don't know what will happens to us.

SOUND NEVER SLEEP!
NO SOUND, NO LIFE! :)

Pictures paint thousand of words

 A idea, concept, thought proposal and many more (etc), can be presented easier with a picture, photograph, drawing, or any other visual representation. Showing a picture to explain something can be better than just words. This is the examples:




                In this image shows that the picture of a ice cream have many personality traits (many words).

The Power of Words

Words are powerful, each word has a meaning and it can be good or bad. Each word has a strength and weakness, it can create and to destroy and it can affect either positive or negative. Words have a strong impact in our daily lives.  It is use to communicate others using their languages. The people have disability to speak and to hear, he/she use word to communicate using hand gestures or “sign language”. It is use to protect and to defend ourselves.




We have a power to speak but we need to choose a word in a good way.

What makes multimedia click? Why is it such a big trend?

Multimedia is the use of computers to present or to show video, graphics, animation, sound, images and text in an integrated way. Multimedia have many applications or usage like commercial, education, research, industry, medicines, fine arts and entertaining and many more.

 People are interested to the multimedia because they are good for establishing personal contact, to entertain and it makes easier to understand like for example in education, the teachers use broadcast lectures or presentation and demonstrating techniques using video for their students to easily to understand. For commercial, they advertise their products, service or items to entice people to buy. 



VIDEO FOOTAGE
ANIMATION
IMAGES
         
SOUND
TEXT






                 

Huwebes, Agosto 14, 2014

How will entire Philippine we communicate in 10 years?

Maybe! But I think the scientists and the technology enthusiasts are invent a better communication gadgets than previous communication gadgets like cellphones, laptop, tablet and etc. or to communicate  each other using 3D holography (hologram) technology.

It still use the new media for communicating in ten years. I do not know what will happen to our country or world if the technology will vary. But don’t forget to use old media and use the new media in the right way.

Lunes, Agosto 11, 2014

Is the Philippine technologically updated? Yes or No? Explain.

     Yes, because for we do not latter in technology in our country. Reached as far as the technology of the world today but still remained the Philippines. But, we all know that here in the Philippines, we are not too technologically advanced. There is a hope on the technology in our country, much as the able contributions of Filipino scientists and technology enthusiast but it is not easy to process. 

     We need to change and should have informed the people and the whole nation about the situation of our country in the aspects of technology to help us both Filipinos and to have the same level in terms of technology in the other country.

Martes, Agosto 5, 2014

My thoughts on internet usage in Asia


     Internet user is an individual who can access the Internet, via computer or mobile device, within the home where the individual lives. Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and came in our life with many comforts in different aspects of life. The Internet changed our life enormously, there is no doubt about that. It is very useful to others like communicating or conversation using online social network like for example, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and etc, searching using Google, Online Gaming and many more activities using internet.

   Asia is the Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. Asia is the most active internet user in a world. In year 2012, Asia have 44.8% of internet usage.
 According to this site : http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/, Asia have 48.4% Internet user by region (as of July 1, 2013). 



For me, Internet is the most powerful because we knows all like chatting, blogging and etc. but don't forget to use "Hanguang Sekundarya" for examples books, dictionary, encyclopedia, almanac, magazines, newspapers and etc. and don't forget to make a mail :)





Lunes, Hulyo 21, 2014

Coping with power outage and calamities through Communication and Technology


     The first 72 hours following a natural disaster are critical. This window of time is when emergency responders are most able to save lives, and when swift assessments of damage are urgently needed. Communication in this period is essential to facilitate the flow of information between governments, communities and humanitarian organizations. A disaster situation with a severely disrupted telecommunication infrastructure magnifies chaos and uncertainty. Poor communication between responders can severely hamper assessment and relief efforts, and prevent affected populations from connecting with responders and relatives. The resulting rise in ad-hoc and uncoordinated communication methods further complicates the emergency response. 

     Mobile communication networks are the pre-eminent way for an affected population to communicate with the world in and beyond a disaster zone. Although utilised before, the power of mobile became particularly evident in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake which saw a proliferation of new coordination and response strategies that were built around this platform. The mobile phone and in particular voice calls are people’s primary method of communication in a disaster. As mobile communication becomes ubiquitous and its role in disaster response increases, a renewed commitment to creating robust mobile networks that can support effective communication during this period is essential.


     The GSMA Disaster Response Programme will engage in a two-tiered programme that seeks to understand how mobile operators can most effectively support each other and improve resilience among networks in disaster scenarios, and to identify how the mobile industry can best help citizens and humanitarian organisations on the ground following a crisis. The Coordination Work Stream will focus its efforts on addressing the challenge faced by operators in managing relationships with, and requestsfrom, humanitarian response organisations. It will explore the growing role of mobiles and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in disasters, and create strategies to maximise their participation in responding to emergencies. The working groups will work towards achieving improved standards of practice, accountability, coordination and support for disaster-affected populations and the humanitarian response community.

     The Technical Work Stream will focus on the technical challenges faced by MNOs before, during and after disasters. It will provide a forum for mobile operators to discuss issues and work toward industry cooperation. The working groups will contribute to the creation of a live blueprint that will evolve to suggest practical methods operators can use to improve their coordination, preparedness, resilience and ability to respond to the disasters specific to their locations. This discussion document presents the intention of the GSMA Disaster Response Programme in proposing key technical challenges faced by MNOs before, during and after disasters. It aims to open a discussion about which challenges are most important and to pave the way for creating and implementing working solutions.With the participation and commitment of the GSMA membership, this document will evolve into alive,regularly updated blueprint for addressing these challenges, implementing solutions and developing industry-wide standards that will improve the reliability, durability and effectiveness of the mobile network in a disaster.

(http://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Dealing-with-Disasters_Final.pdf)

         Calamities are affects to others because the electricity is temporary power outage (or also called a power blackout). We can't communicate people because their cellphones are no signals or might also battery low. We can still communicate/listen through radio to figure out what's going on or to know when the disaster fade away or not. But we do not know when power go back on. Although, we can't communicate to others, we need to be alert and be careful in the disaster. Be safe!

Biyernes, Hunyo 27, 2014

Changes of Communication

       
          Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of ideas, feelings, intentions, attitudes, expectations, perceptions or commands, as by speech, gestures, writings, behavior and possibly by other means such as electromagnetic, chemical or physical phenomena. It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or more participants (machines, organisms or their parts). The nature of communication has undergone a substantial change in the past 20 years—and the change is not over. Email has had a profound effect on the way people keep in touch. Communications are shorter and more frequent than when letters were the norm; response time has greatly diminished; we are even surprised if someone we wish to contact does not have an email address. Although there are still a few people who print out their emails in order to read and respond to them, most of us are accustomed to the daily duty of reading and answering emails that have arrived since we turned off the computer the night before, and to keeping up with them as they trickle (or flood) in during the day. Even as we have gotten used to email, though, the nature of communication continues to change. Instant messaging has created another method of interaction, one where the length of messages is shorter and the style of the interaction is more conversational but where it is acceptable and common to pay partial attention. Broadcast technologies like Twitter transform these short bursts of communication from one-on-one conversations to little news (or trivia) programs: we can “tune in” when we want an update or have something to say, and “channel surf” to other activities in between updates. The expectations we place on those we communicate with vary from medium to medium, as has always been the case. Sending a letter through the postal mail sets up an expectation of a response that will come in days; email, in hours; instant messaging, in minutes. 
          We expect the letter-writer to devote a certain amount of time and attention toresponding. With email, the expected time investment is smaller. With instant messaging, we understand that the other party’s attention may wander between messages in some cases and remain focused on us, as with a phone call, in others. New environments like virtual worlds present additional opportunities and challenges for communication. In such settings, there is a visual component to the online interaction that is lacking in email or instant messaging: we can see a “body” that goes with the voice or text conversation. Affordances like this can help foster a feeling of presence and give us clues about when the other person is listening, when he or she wishes to speak, and when his or her attention is directed elsewhere. This is not to say that these environments offer the same contextual cues as face-to-face communication—they do not; but there is an added dimension to interactions in these spaces that does not occur in other online contexts. Online communication tools also have the potential to increase our awareness of the movements of our professional or social contacts. Twitter, for instance, offers an at-a-glance update of things people we know happen to be doing: who is outside cleaning their gutters, who is writing a new blog post, who is about to have lunch with a friend.
          Today’s inforgraphic shows a timescale of how communication has evolved over time. It’s hard to imagine communication long before the hustle and bustle of email and text messaging. Technological communication has grown exponentially, leaving snail mail to be a thing of the past. Facebook and Twitter is the most popular form of communication right now. These social giants are changing the game of communication. Today’s communication seems to only be in the form of short spurts with hashtags or tagging. Social media has taken the complexity out of communication, it is no longer organic, but short and to the point. Today’s style of communication represents the direction society a technology is headed, towards a more efficient form of communication. Clive Thompson (2007) calls this phenomenon social proprioception, named after the physical quality of proprioception that tells a creature where its extremities are by the reception of stimuli produced within the organism. Social proprioception tells us where the nodes of our community are and provides a sense of connectedness to and awareness of others without direct communication. Technologies like Twitter enable us to have this sense even when the members of our community are not within sight. 

Source: (http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Evolution-of-Communication.pdf) (http://dailyinfographic.com/the-evolution-of-communication-infographic) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication)