ART APPRECIATION CHAPTER 1: Assumptions & Nature of Art
humanus
A Latin worn which means "educated".
Aesthetic Functions
- Any artwork means beauty. It is the visual spice for gracefully adorned interiors and can bring out the most elegant features of different décor elements. - It reasonably reproduced visual images that communicate through fantastic persuasions and meaningful words.
The Creation of Ideas
- Artists are impressionable persons. - They used their experiences as their basis in the making of dance, picture, a poem, or a play or a song.
3 Significant Phases
1. Creation of Forms 2. Creation of Ideas 3. Creation of the Materials
Classification of Arts
1. Visual Arts 2. Performing Arts 3. Literary Arts
Why is Art can be meaningful?
because of the colors, shapes, and depictions, it can create.
Historical Functions
- Art is an essential technique for information to be recorded and preserved. - It serves to document or reconstruct historical figure and events. - Most arts that are in Museums, for example, are filled with amazing stories about the world most excellent and most creative people who brought us the treasures.
Political Functions
- Art provides a forum for ideas that will lead to employment, prestige, status, and power. - During the election period, for example, the candidates created their artworks (poster) which expresses their propaganda, agendas, and political views about making a stable society. - A function of art in which it provides a forum for ideas, leading to employment, prestige, status, and power.
Economic Function
- Arts are emerging as a potent force in the economic life of people assumes an essential role as a direct and indirect contributor to state economies. - function of art in which it directly or indirectly contributes to state economy.
Express Values
- Arts can illuminate our inner lives and enrich our emotional world. - Through arts, the artist will be couraged to develop their creativity, challenge, and communication skills. - It also promotes self-esteem and wellness.
Physical Functions
- Buildings are artistically designed and constructed to protect their occupants and make their life inside more meaningful. - Architects, Industrial and Graphic Designers, and Interior Decorators share responsibility in building environments that balance forms and functions.
Social Function
- Man associates with others through his art performance that arouses social consciousness. - The function of art in which an artist associates himself with others through his art to arouse social consciousness.
The Creation of the Materials
- The artist uses different materials or mediums to give form to an idea.
Individual Functions
- The artists perform arts because of the passion of their respective art forms. - The function of art in which artists use it to attain a specific goal for themselves.
Creativity or Imagination
- The primary basis of art. - Art is created when an artist produces a stimulating experience that is considered by his audience to have artistic merit. - It allows the expression of the individuality of the artist.
The Creation of Forms
- There are diverse forms used by the artists in expressing their ideas. - a medium of artistic expression recognized as fine art. - This form is used to explain the physical nature of the artwork like in a metal sculpture, an oil painting, etc.
Drawing
- This form of art enhances the way we see the world around and conditions us to capture its details in a two dimensional medium. - This has been a critical element of art through out history and in the contemporary art world.
Opera
- This form of art helps to tell stories through music. - This is also performed with a full orchestra composed of the various musical instrument sections. - In this art form, singers and musicians perform a dramatic work by combining text (called a libretto) and musical score.
Photography
- This form of art is a process of creating portraits by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as electronic image sensors or photographic films.
Stagecraft
- This form of art is a technical aspect of theatrical production. - This includes constructing and arranging scenery, hanging and focusing of lighting, the design of costumes, makeup, and procurement of props, stage management and recording and mixing of sound.
Value of Arts in Educational System
- arts disciplines are fundamental to the development of the minds and spirits of the students - Arts is inseparable from education. - It educates us on how early people lived and survived.
Sculpture
- statue or other free-standing piece of art made of clay, stone, or other materials - This form of visual arts characterized as the art of representing an imagined or observed objects in hard materials such as glass, metals, or wood in three dimensions.
Architecture
- the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings. - This form of art provides us the physical structure we lived. It is a profound expression of human culture in a particular period, and it will endure and outlive us in the forms of monuments that future generations will study and strive to understand.
Painting
-This form of visual art aims to evoke an emotion from the viewers. It is practice by applying colors or other media to a surface with a brush or other objects.
Influence of Arts to Society
1. Art Promotes Communication Between Cultures 2. Art Preserves History 3. Art Changes People's Opinion 4. Preservation of feelings of Culture
Assertions:
1. Arts are worth studying because it served to connect our imaginations with the most profound questions of human existence. 2.Arts are always used because it helps to present issues and ideas to teach, persuade, and entertain people. 3. Arts are integral to every person's daily life because it helps shape our spiritual, political, economic, cultural, and social environments. 4. Arts are refreshing because it offers unique sources of enjoyment and it investigates relationships between thought and actions. 5. Arts develop students' attitudes because it teaches self-discipline, reinforces self-esteem, fosters the thinking skills and creativity and values the importance of teamwork and cooperation.
Purpose of Art
1. Create Beauty 2. Provide Decoration 3. Reveal Truth 4. Express Values 5. Commemorate Experience 6. Create Harmony
Functions of Art
1. Individual Function 2. Social Function 3. Economic Functions 4. Political Functions 5. Historical Functions 6. Cultural Functions 7. Physical Functions 8. Aesthetic Functions
Arti
A Latin word which means craftsmanship, inventiveness, mastery of form, and skill. - It includes literature, music, paintings, photography etc.
Create Harmony
An artist makes use of the composition to put an order in the diverse content of his work.
Cultural Functions
Art is an articulation and transmission of new information and values.
Create Beauty
Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, and intuitions. It is the communication of concepts that cannot be faithfully portrayed by words alone.
Commemorate Experience
Art serves to convey the personal experiences of an artist and record his impression in his work.
Reveal Truth
Artwork helped to pursue truth and attempted to reveal about how the world works. It is a kind of language that allows artists to send a message to the souls of the recipients that help change their attitudes, their sensibility, and their ethics.
Provide Decoration
Artworks are used to create a pleasing environment. It is intended to beautify things to please and amuse the viewers through its colors and patterns.
Humanities
Branches of knowledge that focuses on the human opinions, and relationships (Machlis, 2003). It is a branch of knowledge that explores on human conditions through the use of analytical, critical or theoretical methods. It is concerned on how a person expresses his/her feelings.
Creativity & Appreciation
Considered as the formal object.
Minor Arts
Describes the type of art used in everyday life that may serve a purpose especially as decoration; examples were textiles, needlework, painting on porcelain.
Facial Manifestations or Body movements
Feelings
Art
It can show ideas about the past, the present and what may happen in the future.
Humaties
It is a branch of knowledge that explores on human conditions through the use of analytical, critical or theoretical methods.
Art Appreciation
It is a way to motivate ideas and allows individual to illustrate feelings, and develop critical and innovative skills. It requires the ability to differentiate what is apparent and what is not. - It requires an ability to differentiate what is apparent and what is not.
Artwork
It is considered as the material object
Performer
It is someone who creates art that is merely trades and professions by which different people make their livings
Art
It is the process of using our senses and emotions in making creative activities (Marcos, 2010). It is a human capability to make things beautiful through the production of his/her imagination depending on the preparation, theme, medium, and values used.
Humanities
It refers to the learning of arts such as architecture, dance, literature, music, painting, theatre, and sculpture (Sanches, 2011).
Creation of Arts
It uses the senses and emotions in making creative activities. It is the capability to make things beautiful.
Classification of Arts
Its classification can be on many characteristics, including form, shape, function, use, or social context.
Representation of Humanities
Laughing, crying, clenching our fists, curling our toes, stretching, and crossing of arms
Visual Arts
The art created primarily for: - Painting - Sculpture - Architecture - Drawing - Photography
Performing Arts
The art created primarily for: - Theatre (Drama) - Music - Dance - Film - Installation Art - Opera - Stagecraft
Literary Arts
The art created such as: - Prose & Poetry - Sonnet - Novels - Short Story - Ballad - Epic - Essay
Installation Art
The fundamental nature of this form of art is the participation of the spectators. In this work of art, viewers become active and navigate the work in an environment that they can experience visually.
Performing Arts
These arts are those forms in which the artists used his/her own body, face, and presence as a medium.
Visual Arts
These arts are those forms that create works which are primarily visual (forms perceived by the eyes).
Literary Arts
These arts centered on creative writing and other composition processes which intended to read.
Film
This form of art allows us to explore the complexities of the human situation. This is used to work out our emotions, to make history comes alive, science is explained, and literary works are brought in to life.
Music
This form of art helps to express our mood and feel the way through our emotions and ideas.
Dance
This form of art is expressed through body movement which entails social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.
Theatre (Drama)
This form of art uses performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place and time.
Creativity
a characteristic of an artist that progressed in the extent of his/her life to express feelings.
Artist
comes from the French word "artiste" and the spanish artista, which means "performer"
Fine Arts
creative art, especially visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content. Examples are graphics, sculpture and paintings.
Value of Arts in Educational System
involvement in the arts has been shown to help students in their academic, personal, and social development.
Artist
most often referred as those who create within a context of the fine arts such as acting, dancing, drawing, filmmaking, painting, sculpture, writing, photography, and music. They are those who use imagination, and a skill to construct works that may be judged to have aesthetic importance.
Arts are classified into many different ways
namely; - Visual - Performing - Literary Arts
Form of Arts
posters, paintings, portraits, covers, and more
