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LESSON 1 – THE IMPORTANCE, • Art involves Experience.

MEANING, AND FOUNDATION OF AN
WHAT IS ART APPRECIATION?
ART
- Art Appreciation is the capacity to
understand art works and experience a certain
• Art is a wide range of man's activity from
enjoyment in creating art. It deals with our encounter
expression down to creating tangible or
with the artworks and the artists and how we are
intangible things.
affected by it. By appreciating we meant to develop
artistic literacy.
• Art is a diverse range of human activities in
creating visual, auditory or performing
• Respond Appropriately and Sensitively
artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's
• Make discerning judgments
imaginative or technical skill, intended to be
• Understand History, techniques and styles
appreciated for their beauty or emotional
power.
IMPORTANCE OF ART
◦ A source of national memory, and civic vigor;
• Art is the expression of man's experience,
◦ Cultural understanding and communication;
thoughts, feelings, and observations that
◦ Create social commentary;
transforms something ordinary to
◦ To create questions.
extraordinary.

• Art is derived from the Latin word “ars”

which means ability or skills or manmade, LESSON 2 – FUNCTIONS OF ART,
and from the Italian word “ artis ” meaning PHILOSOPHY AND THE CREATIVE
craftsmanship, mastery and inventiveness. PROCESS

ART CAN...
• Can transform into something functional; WHAT IS ART FOR?
• Uplift one’s spirit;
• Allow others to experience aesthetic • Aristotle, a Greek philosopher once said that
significance, pain, sorrow, confusion, and every particular substance in the world has an
other emotional power; end or telos – which eventually translated
• Appreciate beauty. into purpose.

Life is short, Art endures. - Hippocrates, Greek • For a thing to to attain its purpose, it has to
Philosopher achieve its function.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in

the creative artist. – Albert Einstein FUNCTIONS OF AN ART

Art establishes the basic human truths which must THE CRAFT & THE FINE ARTS
serve as the touchstone of our judgment. – John F. • The difference between fine art and craft
Kennedy, US president (1917-1963)
comes down to what question most interests
the viewer.
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART • Directly functional art deals with the art that
• Art is rooted in Culture
we usually use. Such as tools, furniture, cloth,
• Art is Universal
• Art is NOT in nature accessories, and a lot more. Fine arts deals
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with our senses, emotions, and mostly a result THE CREATIVE PROCESS
of creative urge and expression.
• The cognitive process of mind includes
imagination, creativity and thinking with
DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS OF ART innovation.
• PERSONAL FUNCTION • Imagination is visualizing the impossible or
The function tries to convey the artist personal things that are not present in our senses.
feelings through his work of art.
• Creativity uses imagination to represent new
ideas and create a physical embodiment
• SOCIAL FUNCTION
which is beneficial and with value.
Connects people since art can be used for a public
display and celebration. • Expression is making known ones thoughts or
feelings.
• CULTURAL FUNCTION
Preserve, share, and transmit culture to people from • THE IDEA
one generation to another. • THE MATERIAL AND PROCESS
• ORGANIZATION AND FORM
• SPIRITUAL FUNCTION
Strengthens the artist work in terms of religious and We don't read and write poetry because it's
spiritual support to the culture. cute. We read and write poetry because we are
members of the human race. And the human race is
◦ AESTHETIC FUNCTION filled with passion. And medicine, law, business,
Uplift feelings, appreciation of beauty and enjoyment engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary
when in touch with artworks. to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love,
these are what we stay alive for.

PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART John Keating, Dead Poet Society

- ART AS MIMESIS LESSON 3 – SUBJECT AND CONTENT

According to Plato, art is an imitation of the real and OF ART
an artist is an imitator. For him, everything that we
see in this world is just a copy of the original
SUBJECT OF ART
- ART AS REPRESENTATION
According to Aristotle, art is a representation of a • Is usually anything that is represented in the
possible version of reality. artwork. It may be a person, object, scene or
event.
- ART FOR ART’S SAKE • The subject is the visual focus or the image
According to Kant, art is innately autonomous from that may be extracted from examining the
specific interest. artworks.
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• The visual focus or the image that may be • Portraiture

extracted from examining the artwork; the It became popular before the invention of the
“what”. camera; was enjoyed only by elite: kings and
noblemen.
TYPES OF SUBJECT
• Abstract
• Representational or Objective arts
a non-representational work of art.
• Non- Representational or Non- objective arts
• Abstract
CONTENT OF ART
- the meaning that is expressed and
SUBJECT OF ART
communicated by the artist or the artwork.
◦ Non-objective art do not represent anything.

Three various levels of meaning:

Representational or Objective Arts
• Factual Meaning
• Artworks that depict something that can easily
is the most rudimentary level of meaning. Extracted
recognized which is real and part of this world.
from the identifiable or recognizable forms in the
artwork.
Non—representational or Non—Objective Arts
• Conventional Meaning
◦ Artworks that have no resemblance to any real
Pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the
subject or objects or anything from nature.
artwork using motifs, signs, and symbols.
• Subjective Meaning
Abstract
It is a particular work of art that is read and
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in
consulted. Meanings that came from the viewers or
depiction of imagery in art. This departure from
audience’s experiences and circumstances.
accurate representation can be slight, partial, or
complete.
LESSON 4—METHODS IN
KINDS OF SUBJECTS PRESENTING THE SUBJECT OF ART

• Still Life
representing inanimate objects or non-living things METHODS OF PRESENTING THE ART
placed on a table or another setting to become a SUBJECT
subject in a certain artwork.
REALISM
• Landscape • Faithful representation of reality.
It depicts pictures of land forms. e.g. the volcano, the • Realists try to be as objective as possible. To
mountain, the hill, the valley, the plain, the plateau, describe as accurately and honesty as possible what
the cliff, and the like. is observed through senses.

• Nature ◦ The representation and organization of details seem

Focused view or interpretation of specific natural so natural.
elements. ◦ Realists try to be as objective as possible. To
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describe as accurately and honesty as possible what pieces of writing, poetry recitals, and art exhibitions.
is observed through senses.
FAUVISM
◦ 1900 first important art movement.
SURREALISM
◦ Henri Matisse led the movement.
• Influenced by Freudian Psychology which
◦ Tried to paint pictures of comfort, joy and pleasure
emphasizes the activities of the subconscious state of
using extremely bright, strident colors.
the mind.
• To show what’s inside a person’s mind as well as
ABSTRACTION
the appearance of his outside world.
▪ When artist becomes so interested in one phase of a
• The world of dreams and fantasy.
scene or a situation that he does not show the subject
at all as an objective reality, rather only his idea of
IMPRESSIONISM
feelings about it.
• A 19TH century art movement characterized by
▪ To move away or separate – moves away from
relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open
showing things as they really are.
composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light
in its changing qualities.
• Inclusion of movement as a crucial element of
human perception and experience. FORMS OF ABSTRACTION

EXPRESSIONISM DISTORTION
• To express the meaning of emotional experience • Misshapen condition, twisted out.
rather than the physical reality. • It is a form of emphasizing detail to the point that
• The necessity of spiritual rebirth for a man in an something is no longer “correctly” depicted.
age that was first becoming influenced by
materialism. ELONGATION
• To come forth from within the artist, rather than • Being lengthened, extension.
from a depiction of the external visual world and the
standard for assessing the quality of work of art MANGLING
became the character of the artist’s feelings rather • Cut, lacerated, mutilated, hacked or disfigured.
than an analysis of the composition.
CUBISM
SYMBOLISM • Stresses abstract through the use of a cone,
• Visible sign of something invisible such as an idea cylinder, or sphere. To show forms in their basic
or a quality. Emblem or a sign. geometrical shapes.
• It transcends the everyday run-of-the-mill sign and • The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-
assumes a new and fresher meaning. dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting
the traditional techniques of perspective,
DADAISM foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and
• A protest movement in the art formed in 1916 in refuting time-honored theories that art should imitate
Zurich, Switzerland. nature.
• To shock and provoke the public with outrageous
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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
◦ Originated in New York City after world war II.
◦ Departs from subject matter from studied precision
and from any preconceived designs.
• Abstract Expressionism was influenced by the
Existentialist philosophy, which emphasized the
importance of the act of creating, not of the finished
object.