This document discusses the purpose and definition of art. It makes several key points:
1) Art can take many forms like paintings, sculptures, performances, and more. It is found in museums, galleries, streets, and other places.
2) Art expresses culture and ideals of beauty that change over time. It helps define beauty and allows us to see the world in new ways.
3) There are debates around what constitutes art - originally it referred to skilled crafts but now includes more personal and expressive works. Art involves experience and interpretation of nature through a human lens.
4) Creativity, imagination and expression are important aspects of art. Artists put their own spin on works
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This document discusses the purpose and definition of art. It makes several key points:
1) Art can take many forms like paintings, sculptures, performances, and more. It is found in museums, galleries, streets, and other places.
2) Art expresses culture and ideals of beauty that change over time. It helps define beauty and allows us to see the world in new ways.
3) There are debates around what constitutes art - originally it referred to skilled crafts but now includes more personal and expressive works. Art involves experience and interpretation of nature through a human lens.
4) Creativity, imagination and expression are important aspects of art. Artists put their own spin on works
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GEC 5 Prelims Reviewer What is the purpose of art?
INTRODUCTION TO ART - Art may be a classical
APPRECIATION masterpiece showing heroic, ideal beauty ART - Art may be an object, chosen - Can be 2-dimensional, like by an artist and placed in a paintings, drawings and prints new context - Can be 3-dimensional, like - Art may be sat upon sculptures and ceramics - Art may be gazed upon - Can be 4-dimensional, utilizing - Art may be eaten time as an intrinsic element, - It may be up or down such as in performance art, - It may be quiet or riotous or kinetic art, video art, and holy sound art - Art expresses the culture in - We find it in museums and which it is produced galleries, in the streets, in - It demonstrates the ways that fields, caves our ideals of beauty change over time What images come to mind when you - And art helps define our ideals think of an artist? of beauty within our own time - The solitary genius? - Art helps us to see the world - The painter of dreams? around us - The starving artist? - And art expresses our deepest - Many of our ideas about artists beliefs come from the modernism of - Art tells our story 20th century, when artists began - Art changes over time working more independently - The way that we, the viewer, creating works of art that were approach art changes over personal or expressive in nature time, too - The concept of avant-garde artist celebrates individuality and originality, its artist is Yayoi Kusama - But at other moments in history, artists have been considered much more as craftsmen, skilled with their hands DEFINITION & ASSUMPTIONS Assumptions of Arts ART 1. Art is universal. - The initial meaning of the word - Arts has always been timeless “art” has something to do with and universal, spanning craft. generations and continents - It comes from the ancient Latin, through and through. ars which means a “craft or Popular: two Greek epics specialized form of skill”. - Like carpentry or smithying or ● Illiad and Odyssey surgery. ● the Sanskrit - It suggested the capacity to Mahabharata and produce an intended result Ramayana from carefully planned steps or Filipino Works: method. - Ars in Medieval Latin came to ● Florante at Laura - never mean something different. It fails to teach high meant “any special from of school students the book-learning, such as beauty of love, one that grammar or logic, magic or is universal and pure astrology”. ● Ibong Adarna - has - It was during the seventeenth always captured the century when the problem and imagination of the young idea of aesthetics, the study of with its timeless lessons beauty, began to unfold PSALMS distinctly from the notion of technical workmanship, which - One can feel in communion was the original conception of with King David as he/she feels the word “art”. one with him in his - (18th century) FINE ARTS- not conversation with God delicate or highly skilled arts, KUNDIMAN but beautiful arts. - Humanities constitute one of - Or perform folk dances, are the oldest and most important still enjoyed by the ancestors means of expression while away their time in the developed by man. past. *This first assumption then about the humanities is that art has been crafted by all people regardless of origin, time, place, and that it stayed on because it is liked and enjoyed by the people continuously. 2. Art is not nature. source is due to human freedom. - Art is man’s expression of his - Each artwork beholds beauty reception of nature. It is a of its own kind, the kind that man’s way of interpreting the artist sees and wants the nature. viewers to perceive. - This distinction assumes that - In cultivating an appreciation all of us see nature, perceive of art, one should also exercise its elements in myriad, and develop his taste for different, yet ultimately valid things that are fine and ways. beautiful. 3. Art involves experience. - This allows individuals to make intelligent choices and - By experience, we mean the decisions in acquiring “actual doing of something”. necessities and luxuries, - Arts depend on experience, knowing what gives better and if one is to know art, he value for time or money while must know it not as a fact or taking into consideration the information but as experience. aesthetic and practical value. The Role of Creativity in Art Making CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION, AND - Creativity requires thinking EXPRESSION outside the box. - An artwork may be inspired by - It is often used to solve nature or other works of art, problems that have never but an artist invents his own occurred before, conflate forms and patterns due to what function and style, and simply he perceives as beautiful and make life a more unique and incorporates them in creating enjoyable experience. his masterpiece. - In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from Art Appreciation as a Way of Life another. JEAN-PAUL SATRE - A creative artist embraces originality, puts his own flavor - A famous French philosopher into his artwork, and calls it his of the 20th century own creative piece. - Described the role of arts as a - The campaign “It’s More Fun in creative work that depicts the the Philippines” used by the world in a completely different Department of Tourism (DOT) light and perspective, and the boomed popularity in 2011, but later on it was found out that it - In the same way that was allegedly plagiarized from imagination produces art, art Switzerland’s tourism slogan also inspires imagination. “It’s More Fun in Switzerland,: Arts as Expression back in 1951. In DOT’s defense, former Dot Secretary Ramon - Through expression, an artist Jimenez Jr. claimed that it was is able to explore his own “purely coincidental.” Thus, emotions while at the same creativity should be backed up time, create something with careful research on beautiful out of it. related art to avoid such - Expressing emotions is conflicts. something different from describing emotions. Art as a Product of Imagination, - Description usually destroys Imagination as a Product of Art the idea of the expression, as it ALBERT EINSTEIN classifies the emotion, making it ordinary and predictable. - German physicist who had - Expression on the other hand, made a significant and major individualizes the artist. contributions in science and humanity demonstrated that Popular Art Expressions knowledge is actually derived VISUAL ARTS from imagination. - He emphasized this idea - Creations that fall under this through his words: category are those that appeal to the sense of sight and are “Imagination is more important mainly visual in nature. than knowledge. For - Artists produce visual arts knowledge is limited to all we driven by their desire to now know ad understand, reproduce things that they while imagination embraces have seen in the way that they the entire world, and all there perceived them. ever will be to know and - Some mediums of visual arts: understand.” drawings, paintings, letterings, - Through imagination, one is printings, sculptures, digital able to craft something bold, imaging, etc. something new, and something better in the hopes of creating that will stimulate change. Imagination allows endless possibilities. FILM 4. Relationship between the audience and the performers - It refers to the art of putting together successions of still POETRY PERFORMANCE images in order to create an - Poetry is an art form where the illusion of movement. artists expresses his emotions - It focuses on it aesthetic, not using by paint, charcoal, or cultural, and social value and camera, but expresses them is considered as both an art through words. and an industry. - These words are carefully - Films can be created by using selected to exhibit clarity and one or a combination of some beauty and to stimulate strong or all of these techniques: emotions of joy, anger, love, ● motion-picture camera sorrow, and the list goes on. (also known as movie - These words, combined with camera), animation movements, tone, volume, and techniques, intensity of the delivery, add to computergenerated the artistic value of the poem. Imagery (CGI), etc. - Film making stimulates ARCHITECTURE experiences or creates one - Art is the pursuit and creation that is beyond the scope of our of beautiful things while imagination as it aims to architecture is the making of deliver ideas, feelings, or beautiful buildings. However, beauty to its viewers. not all buildings are beautiful. PERFORMANCE ARTS - Some buildings only embody the functionality they need, but - It is a live art and the artist’s the structure, lines, forms, and medium is mainly the human colors are not beautifully body which he or she uses to expressed. Thus, not all perform, but also employs buildings can be considered other kind of art such as visual architecture. art, props or sound. - Four elements: DANCE 1. Time - Dance is a series of movements that follows the 2. Where the performance took rhythm of the music place accompaniment. 3. The performer’s body - Dancing is a creative form that ● Musical allow people to freely express ● Tragedy themselves. ● Comedy - It has no rules. ● Improvisation - In art expression, dancers are APPLIED ARTS not confined to set steps and rules but are free o create and - Applied arts is incorporating invent their own movements as elements of style and design to long as they deem them everyday items with the aim of graceful and beautiful. increasing their aesthetical value. LITERARY ART - Artist in this field brings - Literary arts goes beyond the beauty, charm, and comfort usual professional, academic, into many things that are journalistic, and other useful in everyday life. technical forms of writing. ● Industrial design - It focuses on writing using a ● Interior design unique style, not following a ● Fashion design specific format and non-fiction ● Graphic design such as novels, biographies, and poems. PERSONAL FUNCTIONS OF ART THEATRE - The personal functions of art - Theatre uses live performers to are varied and highly present accounts or imaginary subjective. events before a live audience. - This means that its functions - Theatre arts performance depend on the person---the usually follow a script, though artist who created the art. they should not be confused - An artist may create an art out with literary arts. of the need for self-expression. - Elements: This is the case for an artist ● Acting who needs to communicate an ● Gesture idea to his audience. ● Lighting - An art may also be therapeutic. ● Sound effects In some orphanages and home ● Musical score for abandoned elders, art is ● Scenery used to help residents process ● Props their emotions or while away - Genre: their time. ● Drama