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Here is a 2 paragraph response analyzing the movie The Dark Knight based on the guide questions provided: The Dark Knight is about Batman trying to stop the rise of a new criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who seeks to bring chaos to Gotham City through an elaborate series of crimes and schemes. The Joker is played by Heath Ledger in a memorable and haunting performance. In terms of costumes and makeup, the Joker is made to look unhinged and psychotic with his pale white skin, dark circles around his eyes, and ever-changing outfits that often incorporate bright colors like purple to contrast his dark persona. This helps convey the unpredictable and chaotic nature of his character. The music in The Dark Knight

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Module 1

Here is a 2 paragraph response analyzing the movie The Dark Knight based on the guide questions provided: The Dark Knight is about Batman trying to stop the rise of a new criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who seeks to bring chaos to Gotham City through an elaborate series of crimes and schemes. The Joker is played by Heath Ledger in a memorable and haunting performance. In terms of costumes and makeup, the Joker is made to look unhinged and psychotic with his pale white skin, dark circles around his eyes, and ever-changing outfits that often incorporate bright colors like purple to contrast his dark persona. This helps convey the unpredictable and chaotic nature of his character. The music in The Dark Knight

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Art

Appreciation
Module 1
A. Introduction to Art Appreciation
B. Nature of Art
C. Assumptions of Art
a. Clarify misconceptions about Art
b. Categorizes work of Art by citing personal
experiences
c. Characterize the assumptions of the Arts
What is Art?
1. Leo Tolstoy
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
Leo Tolstoy

• Lives stunted in the service of Art


• should we sacrifice Morality for Art?
• should anger be Justified by Art?
If you were an Artist,
what kind of Artist would
you be? Why?
Plato

• Mimesis- Art is an imitation of an imitation


• It is an imperfect imitation of what is ideal
• Poets and artists are liars
Aristotle

• Poets and Artists are important


• Everyone needs to experience all sorts of feelings
and emotions and that is a job of Art.
ART

• the expression or application of human creative skill


and imagination, typically in a visual form such as
painting or sculpture, producing works to be
appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional
power.
• “ars”- latin, signified skilled required
Humanities
• Latin-“humanitas”
• study aspects of human society and culture.
• art, literature, music, architecture, dance and the
theatre—in which human subjectivity is emphasized
and individual expressiveness is dramatized.
Art vs. Arts

• Art means, fine art such as painting, drawing and


sculpture.
• Arts represent subjects such as commerce,
economics, philosophy, history and other such non-
science subjects
• Arts- plural form of Art
ART APPRECIATION
• It refers to analyzing the form of an artwork
to general audiences to enhance their
enjoyment of such works of art.
• It can be subjective depending on personal
preference to aesthetics and form, or it can
be based on several elements and principle
of design and also depends on social and
cultural acceptance.
Art appreciation
• The more you appreciate and
understand the art of different
eras, movements, styles and
techniques, the better you can
develop, evaluate and improve
your own artwork.
Why study art
appreciation?
➢ It enables one to critically analyze a work, along lines of
design, mastery and techniques. Most importantly,
however, art appreciation stimulates thought and
analysis, provokes an individual to look past what meets
the eye and open our mind to the views of others.
Assumptions of Art
1. Art is Universal
2. Art is not Nature
3. Art involves experience
1. ART IS
UNIVERSAL

Art has always been


timeless and X Age is not a
universal, spanning factor in
generations and
determining Art
continents through
and through
3. ART IS NOT
NATURE

Art is man’s Art, not directed by


expression of his representation of
perception of nature reality, is a
perception of reality
Artists are not expected to duplicate nature just as even scientists with their
elaborate laboratories cannot make nature
2. Art Involves
Experience

Art depends on experience, and if one is to


know art, he must know it is not as fact or
information but as experience
Common Essentials of Art
• Art has to be man-made
• Art must be creative, not imitative
• Art must benefit and satisfy man
• Art is expressed through a certain medium or
material by which the artist communicates himself
to his audiences
Creativity vs Imagination
Assignment 2

Guide questions
Instruction: Choose one movie that 1. What is it about? What is it for?
you are familiar with. This can be the 2. How are the characters costumed and
made-up? What does their clothing or
last movie that you have come across
makeup reveal about their social standing,
with or one that made the most ethnicity, nationality, gender, or age? How
impact to you. Evaluate using the do costume and makeup convey character?
guide questions provided. 3. What is the music's purpose in the film?
How does it direct our attention within the
image? How does it shape our
***Write your answer in a paragraph form, interpretation of the image?
submit it in Google classroom (2-3 4. What did you like the most in the movie?
paragraphs) why?

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