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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

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

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