It's Academic Art
This form of art uses language through the combined use of words to create meaning, and is represented by masterpieces like Homer's The Iliad.
What is Literature?
A painter wants to make a portrait feel intensely warm and sun-drenched like an Amorsolo landscape. To do this, they must deliberately adjust the saturation and value of this specific element.
What is Color?
This principle is responsible for pulling the viewer’s eyes directly to the most important part or focal point of the artwork.
What is Emphasis?
This three-dimensional form of art is beautifully represented by Napoleon Abueva's piece, Three Women Sewing the Philippine Flag.
What is Sculpture?
This element refers directly to how surfaces or objects feel, such as the rough sea waves or fluffy dog fur on canvas.
What is Texture?
Defined as the pattern and regular occurrence of elements, a standard brick wall represents its "regular" variation.
What is Rhythm?
This prominent Filipino architect designed both the Tanghalang Mariang Makiling and The National Theatre.
Who is Leandro Locsin?
This classic Edgar Rubin optical illusion uses space to force the human eye to switch between positive and negative areas.
What is Rubin's Vase Illusion?
If a design features circles of completely different sizes but keeps them all the exact same color, it uses color to achieve this specific principle.
What is Unity?
Revered as the "Father of Kundiman," this composer combined Western musical forms with local folk materials.
Who is Francisco Santiago?
These are the lines tracked by the glances, gazes, or gestures of figures in an artwork, even though no physical lines are drawn.
What are Implied Lines?
A photographer creates a pattern by capturing a shot of a brick wall where the rectangular shapes regularly repeat, but if they switch to a chess board pattern, they are creating this specific type of rhythm.
What is alternative rhythm?
To experience the architectural vision of Leandro Locsin at Mount Makiling, a visitor must enter this specific amphitheater structure.
What is Tanghalang Mariang Makiling?
Saturated colors and heavy, chaotic textures were deliberately used in this intense Galo Ocampo masterpiece to convey raw, emotional struggle over realistic landscape details.
What is the River of Life?
This principle dealing with scale and size relationships is heavily manipulated in the artwork showing a giant foot stepping over a normal-sized man.
What is Proportion?