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The Nature of Art

Art is everywhere in our daily lives and takes many forms from clothing and architecture to sculptures, paintings and more. Art serves as a form of expression and communication of emotions, personal values, and insights about humanity. The creation of art involves skill and practice to organize materials into pleasing and meaningful designs. As artists work, they think of designs and arrange materials according to their vision and idea of order to create a unique work that conveys their message. While art may resemble nature, it is man-made. Art aims to be beautiful through a harmonious arrangement of elements, though sometimes artists aim to provoke viewers with ugly subjects through ordered compositions.

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The Nature of Art

Art is everywhere in our daily lives and takes many forms from clothing and architecture to sculptures, paintings and more. Art serves as a form of expression and communication of emotions, personal values, and insights about humanity. The creation of art involves skill and practice to organize materials into pleasing and meaningful designs. As artists work, they think of designs and arrange materials according to their vision and idea of order to create a unique work that conveys their message. While art may resemble nature, it is man-made. Art aims to be beautiful through a harmonious arrangement of elements, though sometimes artists aim to provoke viewers with ugly subjects through ordered compositions.

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GE3 – Art Appreciation

THE NATURE OF ART

ART IS EVERYWHERE.

 Art exists in our surroundings. We find art in the clothes we wear, and accessories, in
the designs of our furniture, in the style of the houses we build and the vehicles we use.
We find art objects in the home and in the community in religion, in trade and in industry.
The coins we pay to the jeepney driver, the religious medal we wear around our neck-
these are relief sculpture. Paper bills and paper bills and stamps are examples of
engraving. The statues of angels and saints in our churches and cemeteries are free
standing sculpture. The multicolored- designs on the sides of and inside the jeepney are
examples of decorative patterns. In every town plaza we see a monument of some area,
a fountain of a consciously laid out garden. The buildings we pass by on our way to
school and our buildings itself are examples of architecture.

ART AS EXPRESSION AND COMMUNICATION.

 We express our emotional state by some visible signs and activities. We burst into song
when we are happy, or we dance, for it is pleasant to express joy through rhythmic body
movements. We likewise sing out our love or our despair or try to convey our deep
emotions in poetic language. Expression in the arts is not limited to the revelation of
emotions alone.
 The personal and social values of the artist and his penetrating psychological insights
into human reality are also conveyed through the art.

ART AS CREATION.

 Art as creative activity involves skill or expertness in handling materials and organizing
them into new, structurally pleasing and significant units.
 The skill does not just happen. It required through long training and constant practice.
 The word ‘art’ originated from the Latin ‘ars which means “skill”. It is equivalent to the
word techne, where technology is derived. It is also applied to craftmanship but also to
proficiency in performing any activity. Thus, medicine, agriculture and military expertise
were considered art.

ART IS A PLANNED ACTIVITY.

 As artist think of a design, select his materials and arrange them according to his design.
 Each finished product is an expression of order- the artist’s idea of order. The artist has
made the form the vehicle of his idea. Its part has been so integrated as to produce a
unique entity which communicates to all men for as long as it lasts
GE3 – Art Appreciation

ART AND NATURE

 Art is not nature. A work of art is man-made, although it may closely resemble nature.
The closest that we can get to doing this is with a camera. A photograph is only a record
of the subject or a scene.
 The plastic flowers that grace many of our shop windows and living rooms may be so
much like real flowers as to fool people into thinking they are real, but they will always be
what they usually are- artificial.

ART AND BEAUTY

 A thing of beauty is one which gives us pleasure when we perceive it. The delight that
we experience is called aesthetic pleasure. Aesthetic coming from the Greek word which
means “to perceive with the senses.”
 Our desire for beauty stems from a primordial sense of order and consistency.
 We close our eyes or tensed up when we see garish color, logical arrangements and
deformities. We stop our ears when we hear harsh, shrill, and loud noises. But our
senses quicken when we see or touch pleasurable shapes, texture and designs and
hear melodious sounds.
 Beauty is relative. What maybe beautiful to us may not be so to others. Our attitude is
usually conditioned by many factors among which are our social involvement, our
education and training and our past experiences and psychological and emotional
associations we have with the object.
 Concept of beauty change as time passes by. The prevailing idea held by one
generation is usually different from that of the previous one. An artist own concept may
change as he grows older. This accounts for differences in an artist’s own style and
expression.
 We expect every work of art to be beautiful. But it may not always be so. It is not always
an artist’s intention to present a beautiful subject or to evoke a pleasant sensation in the
viewer. Sometimes he may deliberately communicate a feeling of revulsion about things
he has observed in the human condition. Sometimes he may aim to jolt us from our
complacency by showing us the horror of deprivation, violence and war.
 Example. Francisco de Joya’s The Disaster of War and Pablo Picasso’s Guernica
 However, “ugly” the subject, it will find in the presentation a sense of order, a
harmonious arrangement of formal elements, then we can also experience aesthetic
pleasure from looking at it. Beauty in art may be the result of the successful organization
of lines, color, shapes, and spaces in order to convey an idea or emotion.

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