LECTURE 2

Art Appreciation and

the Human Faculties

DR. ALLAN C. ORATE, UE

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OBJECTIVES
a. Define art appreciation.
b. Relate the study of art to the fields of philosophy and psychology.
c. Examine the human faculties as basis for the appreciation of art.
d. Analyze works of art according to four levels: perceptual elements,
representations, emotional suggestions, and intellectual meaning.
e. Make an artwork that shows the four levels of analysis.
f. Evaluate the merit or demerit of works of art based on the concept
of art as reality.
g. Apply the concept of art as reality to the Renaissance style of art,
cubism, de stilj, and ready-made art.

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READINGS
2.1 Gombrich, Ernest (1960). “Pygmalion’s Power,” excerpt
from Art and Illusion: A Study on the Psychology of Pictorial
Representation, pp. 80-83.
2.2. Orate, Allan (2000). “Art and Perception of the World,” in UE
Today, Vol. 12, No. 2., pp. 7-8 & 14.

VIDEOS
2.1. “What is art for? Alain de Botton’s Animated Guide,” (2015).
In https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlQOyt FCRI.
2.2. “What is the Treachery of Images,” in https:// www.you
tube.com/watch? v=atH QpANmHCE.

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LECTURES

2.1. Art and the Human Faculties

2.2. The Process of Art Appreciation

2.3. Art and the Perception of Reality

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 LECTURE 2.1
Art and the
Human Essence

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 Who am I?
THE BASIC QUESTION
IN THE HUMANITIES
 Who am I?
“I am a human being.”
 What is a
human being?
 THE
HUMAN
ESSENCE

Leonardo, Vitruvian Man, 1490

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THREE HUMAN FACULTIES

MIND REASON THINKING

WILL EMOTION FEELING

SENSES PERCEPTION SENSING

Eyes Sensation Seeing
Ears Hearing
Nose Smelling
Tongue Tasting
Skin Touching
Imagination Imagining
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ANALYSIS OF ART BASED ON THE
THREE HUMAN FACULTIES

LEVEL OF THE SENSES

1. PERCEPTUAL ELEMENTS
Sense-Data: Lines, Color, Shapes, etc.
2. REPRESENTATIONS
Things, People, Objects, Events

LEVEL OF THE WILL

3. EMOTIONAL SUGGESTIONS
Happy, Sad, Afraid etc.

LEVEL OF THE MIND

4. INTELLECTUAL MEANING
Ideas, Concepts, Symbolism
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 Mondrian,
Composition with
Red, Yellow and
Blue, 1924

VISUAL ELEMENTS
COLORS: Red, Yellow,
Blue, White, Black

SHAPES: Rectangles,
Square

LINES: Straight,
Horizontal and Vertical

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Amorsolo
Winnowing VISUAL ELEMENTS
Rice, 1957 COLOR
SHAPES
LINES

REPRESENTATIONS
PEOPLE:
Woman
Farmers
ANIMALS:
Chicken
Carabao
THINGS:
Trees
Nipa Hut
Sky
Clouds
Mountain
EVENTS
Winnowing
Planting
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Cooking
 Munch
The Scream
1893

VISUAL ELEMENTS
COLORS, SHAPES, LINES

REPRESENTATIONS
PEOPLE, THINGS, EVENTS

EMOTIONAL SUGGESTION
FEAR OR TERROR: Shown by the
facial expression of the woman,
and by the curving lines of red,
yellow, orange of the sky
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 Stynweck,
The Vanities
of Human
Life 1645

VISUAL ELEMENTS

COLORS, etc.

REPRESENTATIONS
THINGS, etc.

EMOTIONS SUGGESTIONS
SADNESS

INTELLECTUAL MEANINGS

CONCEPTS, IDEAS, SYMBOLS

 INTELLECTUAL MEANING: Ideas, Concepts and Symbols in Art

From the Book

of Ecclesiastes
in the Bible

MEMENTO MORI
Reflecting about
Death

Stynweck
The Vanities
of Human Life
1645
LIGHT Optimism SHELL Wealth SKULL Death DARK Pessimism
Hope, God
MUSICAL CLOCK Time
INSTRUMENTS
Beauty LAMP End of Life

HELMET Power SAMURAI Suicide

JAR Celebration

BOOK Knowledge
 DUST IN THE WIND
Composed by Kerry Livgren
Sung by The Kansas, 1977
The meaning of
the lyrics is based I close my eyes, only for a moment and the moment's gone.
on the verse from All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity.
the Bible, Genesis
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
3:19: “You are
from dust, and
into dust you Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea.
shall return.” All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see.
Dust in the wind ,all we are is dust in the wind.

Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.
 INTEGRATION
Western Ethnic
MAGKAUGNAY Folk Philippine
Joey Ayala Music Music

Lupa, laot, langit ay magkaugnay

The lyrics is about Hayop, halaman, tao ay magkaugnay
the interrelation and
interdependence of
people and all living
Ang lahat ng bagay ay magkaugnay
non-living things Magkaugnay ang lahat
in nature.
Tayo ay nakasakay sa mundong naglalakbay
Sa gitna ng kalawakan, umiikot sa bituin
Sa nagbibigay buhay sa halaman, sa hayop at sa atin

Iisang pinagmulan, iisang hantungan ng ating lahi

Kamag-anak at katribo ang lahat ng narito
Sa lupa, sa laot at sa langit.
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ACTIVITY AND
ASSESMENT

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GROUPING
Who are professional artists?
Who are tech savvy?

Who knows how to play musical

instruments?
Who have been in the teaching
profession for more than 20 years.
10 to 19 years?
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ACTIVITY
a. Group Activity: Make an artwork out of the
given materials, according to the instructions.

b. Analyze the visual elements, the representation,

the emotional suggestions and the intellectual
meanings of the artwork.

c. Share your analysis with your groupmates.

d. Write your analysis in the paper provided.

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 RUBRICS FOR ACTIVITY 2
Needs
Excellent Good Fair
CRITERIA Improvement
(10-12 points) (7-9 points) (4-6 points)
(1-3)

All members actively All members Some members did The group does
Group
participated in the participated in the not participate in not show any
Participation
activity, and the activity, but the group the activity, and the collaboration and
and
group collaborated does not show a group collaboration participation
Collaboration
harmoniously. unified collaboration. is not harmonious at all

The artwork is not The artwork is

The artwork is very The artwork looks
Aesthetic pleasing to look not pleasing to
pleasing to see, and pleasing, but does
Value and at, and many see, and all
it abides with all the not follow some
instructions instructions are instruction are
instructions. instructions.
not followed. not followed

The group analyzes The group analyzes The group analyzes The group
the artwork the artwork the artwork analyzes the
Analysis
correctly in all correctly in only correctly in only
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four levels. three levels. two levels. in only one level.
 LESSON 2.2
The Process of
Art Appreciation

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 Video 2.1

What is
art for?
 ART
APPRECIATION
 ART APPRECIATION

APPRECIATION

PERSON as WORK OF ART

spectator/viewer as object
 ART APPRECIATION
Positive Wow!
perceptual Sense-Data and Representation

emotional Feelings
intellectual Meanings

response to Communication and Reaction

the beauty Value that delights

of artworks Painting, Sculpture, Music

Wow!
or
Yak!
Which art do you appreciate most?
 LECTURE 2.3
Art and the
Perception of Reality

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ART is . . .
 talent
skill
passion
emotion
idea

ART is . . .
truth
reality
goodness
beauty
form
expression
representation
power
 Art is
reality.
What is
this?
Who is
this?
 Leonardo,
The Mona Lisa,
1501

RENAISSANCE ART

Does this
art look real?
 Picasso,
The Weeping
Woman,
1924

CUBISM

Does this
art look real?
Which art looks more real?
You see only
the front view
of the woman.
You see many
views of the
woman.
Which art looks more real?
 Mondrian,
Composition
with Red,
Yellow and Blue,
1924

CONCRETISM

Does this
art look real?
You see red,
yellow and blue.
Which art looks most real?
 Malevich,
White on
White,
1917

SUPREMATISM

Does this art

look real?
You see
white on
white.
Which art looks most real?
 Fajardo,
From Rags
to Riches
1984

READY
MADE
ART

Does this
art look real?
Judy Sibayan, Rags to Riches
 You the
Judy Sibayan, Rags to Riches object itself.
 Duchamp,
The Fountain
(Urinal), 1917
Which art looks most real of all?
 Art seen as
representational image

Art seen as abstract image

but still representational

ART AND
Art seen as form composed
REALITY of shapes, colors etc.

Art seen as
pure form

Art seen as the

object itself
 Matisse,
Portrait of
Mrs. Matisse

This is not a
blue woman!
This is a blue
painting!
What is
this?

This is not a chair.

This is a painting!

Van Gogh,
Chair with
a Pipe
 Cover of Time
Magazine, June
24, 2002.

This is not Tom

Cruise. This is a
picture!

Who is
this?
Picasso, Marie Therese Picasso, Dora Maar Picasso, Jacqueline with
Walter 1937 with Cat, 1941 Crossed Hands 1941
 Burnt-Jones
Pygmalion
1878

“A moment of complete
happiness never occurs in the
creation of a work of art. The
promise of it is felt in the act of
creation, but disappears towards
the completion of the work. For
it is then that the painter realizes
that it is only a picture he is
painting. Until then he has
almost dared to hope that the
painting might spring into life.”
Lucian Freud, from Gombrich
(1960), Art and Illusion, p. 80.
 Rene Magritte
The Treachery
of Images

Video 2.2

THIS IS NOT A PIPE

ACTIVITY AND
ASSESMENT

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GROUPING
Who are professional artists?
Who are tech savvy?

Who knows how to play musical

instruments?
Who have been in the teaching
profession for more than 20 years.
10 to 19 years?
Less than 10 years? DR. ALLAN C. ORATE, UE
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ACTIVITY

Make an artwork out of the given

materials, according to the instructions.

Cartolina
Colored Papers
Scissors
Glue

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 RUBRICS FOR ACTIVITY 2
Needs
Excellent Good Fair
CRITERIA Improvement
(10-12 points) (7-9 points) (4-6 points)
(1-3)

All members actively All members Some members did The group does
Group
participated in the participated in the not participate in not show any
Participation
activity, and the activity, but the group the activity, and the collaboration and
and
group collaborated does not show a group collaboration participation
Collaboration
harmoniously. unified collaboration. is not harmonious at all

The artwork is not The artwork is

The artwork is very The artwork looks
Aesthetic pleasing to look not pleasing to
pleasing to see, and pleasing, but does
Value and at, and many see, and all
it abides with all the not follow some
instructions instructions are instruction are
instructions. instructions.
not followed. not followed

The group analyzes The group analyzes The group analyzes The group
the artwork the artwork the artwork analyzes the
Analysis
correctly in all correctly in only correctly in only
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four levels. three levels. two levels. in only one level.