Limbs of Indian Art & Fundamental of visual Art

Limbs of Indian Art and Fundamental of visual art is extremely important chapter for exam point of view because most of the basic questions were from this chapter. So I am going to share easy and learnable Limbs and fundamental chapter's notes. Let's start.....

INTRODUCTION :-

According to the sanskrit scholars origin of the word art is derived from the route KALA which means beautiful, sweet and soft or which give the pleasure feeling.

In Europe KALA is called an art. The origin of word art is derived from a Latin word ARS or ARTEN. These words have an origin in the roots, which means to fit, to produce or to create.

In the Indian classical literature ART and architecture have been discussed in Purans, Kautilya Shastra, Arth Shastra and an old book of Vatsyam and other religious book have explained different types of art.

SOME DEFINITION OF ART BY GREAT PERSONALITY :-

1) RABINDRANATH TAGORE -

"Man Express himself through art ".

2) ANON -

"Artist is not a special type of man but every man is special type of artists".

3) LEONARDO DA VINCI -

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a Painting that is felt rather than seen"

4) PABLO PICASSO -

"Painting is just another way of keeping diary".

5) MICHELANGELO -

"A Man point with his brain and not with his hand".

6) ELLBERT HUBBARD -

"Art is not a thing - it is a way".

FROM THERE WE CAN START THE MAIN CHAPTER

LIMBS OF ART :-

There are six Limbs of Art. When an artist is done any Painting or assessing a Painting, he must keep in mind the Limbs of Art. Also Artist must remember principles, Elements of Art.

The six Limbs of Art are -

1) Rupabheda -

"The Knowledge of Appearance".

2) Pramanam -

"Correct measurement and structure".

3) Bhava -

"Action of feeling and forms".

4) Lavanya Yojanam -

"Artistic representation or infusion of grace or outer beauty".

5) Sadrisyam -

"Similitude or Actuality".

6) Varnika Bhanga -

"Artistic manner of using art materials such as brush, colour, pencil and paint etc. Complete Painting is to be framed and hanged on a proper place.

Bharat meets Rama at chitrakuta Painting class 12 description and questions

Radha (Bani Thani) class 12 Painting's description and questions

FUNDAMENTALS OF VISUAL ART :-

There are two types of Fundamental of visual art. Elements of Art and Principles of Art.

Let's discuss both one by one.

1) Elements of Art

Elements of Art is the basic in Painting. All the Artist must know about this, that help Artist to create a better composition.

LINE - It is a progressing movement or delineation.

VERTICAL LINE - Shows height aspiration, dignity, strength and permanency.
HORIZONTAL LINE - Shows Repose, calmness, quietness, peace and balance etc.
DIAGONAL LINE - Shows calmness and depths dramatics movement, excitement, restlessness and agitation etc.
CONICAL LINE - Shows confusion, agitation, stiffness, dash etc
RADII LINE - Freedom, ambition etc
SPIRAL LINE - Power, excitement, motion, mystery etc.
RHYTHMIC LINE - Rhythm, sound etc.

FORM - Form is a shape of volume or mass. It is 3-dimensional.

Two type of Form symmetrical and Asymmetrical.

SPACE - Space is a distance between all around shape and mass.
TONE - ( LIGHT AND DARK ) - Light and Dark is the value of colour, value of the degree of light and dark, existing in colour and in black and white.
TEXTURE - Texture is the surface quality of material either visual or tactile.
COLOUR - Colours depends on the reflection and absorption of light by a given surface, which result in hue. It has a important role in human life. Everything can we see because of its colour.

TYPES OF COLOURS -

Primary colour - Colours which can't be obtained by mixing any two colours. Eg. Red, Blue and Yellow.
Secondary colour - Colours that can be obtained by mixing two primary colours. Eg. Red + Yellow = Orange . Red + Blue = violet. Blue + Yellow = Green.
Territory colour - Mixing of one primary and secondary colour. Eg. Yellow + Orange = Golden Yellow. Violet + Blue = Indigo.
Hot colours - colours which gives heat effect or maximum wavelength. Eg. Red and yellow.
Cold colours - colours which give cold effect or have minimum wavelength. Eg. Blue and Green.
Neutral colours - colours which have both effect or no effect. Eg. Black and white.

PRINCIPLES OF VISUAL ART :-

Principles of art are few important terms that we use while learning and appreciating art.

Balance - Balance refer to how the element of art relates to each other within the composition in terms of their visual weight to create visual equilibrium.
Emphasis - It is defined as an area or object within the artwork that draws attention and becomes a focal point.
Rhythm - Rhythm is a principle of design that suggest movement or action.
Proportion - It is a size of parts in relation to whole .
Stylisation - It is addition of artificial elements into an artwork to make it visually attractive.
Perspective - It represents a volume of space or illusion of distance on a flat surface in way that looks realistic and accurate as we see it in nature.
Vanishing point - It is that period in perspective where top lines and bottom lines meet at an eye level.
Foreshortening - It occur when an object appears composed when seen from a particular view point.