Reading Materials 1 Reading Visual Arts

MODULE 1
WHAT IS ART: INTRODUCTION and ASSUMPTION

WHAT IS ART?
Art is derived from Latin word “ars”, meaning craft or specialized form of skills. In this sense, art is
used in many varied ways. It covers those areas of artistic creativity that seek to communicate beauty
primarily through senses. Art embraces the visual arts, literature, music, and dance.
Art is the expression or application of human creative skills and imagination, typically in a visual form
such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional
power.
Humanities also refers to the Arts. Humanities come from the Latin Humanus, which means human,
cultured, and refined. To be human is to have or show qualities like rationality, kindness and
tenderness. The humanities constitute one of the oldest and most expression and developed by man.
ASSUMPTION OF ART
Art is universal
Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning generations and continents through and through. In
every country and every generation, there is always art. In art, age is not a factor in determining an art.
An art is good because it is old, but old because it is good”.
Art is Not Nature

Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature. Art is man’s way of interpreting nature. Art is made
by man, whereas nature is given around us. Artists are not expected to duplicate nature just as even
scientist with their laborate laboratories cannot make nature.
Art Involves Experience

For most people, art does not require a full definition. Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the
actual doing of something. Art depends on experience, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as
fact or information but as experience.
The VISUAL ARTS such as architecture, painting and sculpture, music and dance, theater or drama and
literature. They are branches of learning concerned with human thoughts, feelings and relations.
WHY STUDY ART?

Art intensifies and complements our own experience. Art represents people, cultures, values, and
perspective on living, but it does much more.
It constitutes one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man. It concerns
itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of sensuous medium- color, sound,
bronze, marble, words, and film.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART
We can describe the artwork based on three characteristics:
• Medium What materials did the artist use?
• Subject Matter What do you see?
• Theme What it is about?
MODULE 2
CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION AND EXPRESSION
ART APPRECIATION AS A WAY OF LIFE
• JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
o He is a famous French philosopher of the twentieth century

o Described the role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in a completely
different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom(Greene,1995)
o In cultivating an appreciation of art, one should also exercise and develop his taste for
things that are fine and beautiful.
THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN MAKING AN ART

In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another.
An artist does not imitate the lines, flaws, colors, and patterns in recreating nature. He embraces
originality, puts his own flavor into his work, and calls it his own creative piece. Creativity should be
backed with careful research on related art to avoid conflicts.
ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION, IMAGINATION AS A PRODUCT OF ART
• ALBERT EINSTEIN
o A German physicist who had made a significant and major contribution in science and
humanity.
o Knowledge is actually derived from imagination.
o “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know
and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to
know and understand.
ART AS EXPRESSION
• ROBIN GEORGE COLLINGWOOD
o An English philosopher who is best known for his work aesthetics.

o “What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but to express it.”(The
Principle of Art, 1938)
o Expressing emotions is something different from describing emotions.
DESCRIPTION vs. EXPRESSION
Description actually destroys the idea of expression, as it classifies the emotion, making it ordinary and
predictable. Expression on the other hand, individualizes.
WAYS OF EXPRESSING ONESELF THROUGH ART VISUAL ARTS
• Creations that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly in nature.
• Some mediums of visual arts include paintings, drawings, letterings, printings, sculptures,
digital imaging, and more.FILM
• Film refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an
illusion of movement.
• Filmmaking focuses on its aesthetics, cultural, and social value and is considered as both art
and an industry.
• Some Techniques Used in Films

o Motion-picture camera(also known as movie camera)
o Animation techniques.
o Computer Generated Imagery (GCI)
• Some Important Elements

o Lighting
o Musical Score
o Visual Effects
o Direction
PERFORMANCE ART
• Performance art is a live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which he or she
uses perform, but also employs other kind of art such as visual art, props, or sound.
• Four Important Elements:
o Time
o Place
o Performer/Performer’s body
o Relationship between the audience and the performer(s)
POETRY PERFORMANCE
• Poetry is an art from where the artist expresses his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or
cameras, but expresses them through words.
• It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial values that go beyond its literal meaning to
narrate, emphasize, argue, or convince. These words, combined with movements, tone volume,
and intensity of the delivery, add to the artistic value of the poem.
ARCHITECTURE
• Architecture is the making of beautiful buildings.
• Buildings should embody these three important elements-plan, construction, and design-if they
wish to merit the title architecture (Collins & Riley, 1931).
DANCE
• Dance is a series of movements that follows the rhythm of a music accompaniment.
• Dancing is a creative form that allows people to freely express themselves.
LITERARY ART
• Artist who practice literary arts uses words-not on paint, musical instruments, or chisels-to
express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers.
• Literary art goes beyond the usual professional, academic, journalistic, and other technical forms
of writing.
THEATER
• Theater uses live performance to present account or imaginary events before a live audiences.
• ELEMENTS OF THEATER
o Acting
o Gesture
o Lighting
o Sound Effects
o Musical Score
o Scenery
o Props
• GENRES OF THEATER
o Drama
o Musical
o Tragedy
o Comedy
o Improvisation
APPLIED ARTS
• Applied Arts incorporating elements of style and design to everyday items with the aim of
increasing their aesthetical value.
• Industrial design, interior design, fashion design, and graphic design are considered applied arts.

Reading Materials 1 Reading Visual Arts

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Reading Materials 1 Reading Visual Arts

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Reading Materials 1 Reading Visual Arts

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

MODULE 1

WHAT IS ART: INTRODUCTION and ASSUMPTION

Art is Not Nature

Art Involves Experience

WHY STUDY ART?

o He is a famous French philosopher of the twentieth century

THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN MAKING AN ART

ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION, IMAGINATION AS A PRODUCT OF ART

• ROBIN GEORGE COLLINGWOOD

o An English philosopher who is best known for his work aesthetics.

DESCRIPTION vs. EXPRESSION

• Some Techniques Used in Films

• Some Important Elements

You might also like