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Art is defined as a specialized craft or skill that involves creativity, imagination, and expression, resulting in aesthetic objects or experiences. Art appreciation requires developing a taste for beauty and understanding the emotional and social functions of art. Various forms of art, including visual arts, literature, and music, serve personal, social, and physical functions while reflecting cultural values across time.

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Art is defined as a specialized craft or skill that involves creativity, imagination, and expression, resulting in aesthetic objects or experiences. Art appreciation requires developing a taste for beauty and understanding the emotional and social functions of art. Various forms of art, including visual arts, literature, and music, serve personal, social, and physical functions while reflecting cultural values across time.

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Art APPRECIATION

What is ART?
• Latin ars, which means “a specialized
craft or skill”
• the ability to come up with a
deliberate result after a careful use
of materials and methods (Caslib et
al., 2018)

Why Do We Study the


Humanities?
• People have always been expressing
their “humanness” through the arts
long before they even realized it. Cave painting, Lascaux, France (cntraveller.com).
ART is the use of skill and imagination in
the creation of aesthetic objects,
environments, or experiences that can be
shared with others.
1. Subjective
2. Form and content (concept)
3. Connection between beauty and
art is the measure of quality of art.

Defining art is just like


defining life itself.
What is ART
APPRECIATION?
• Caslib et al., (2018), art is a
product of a person’s creativity,
imagination, and expression
• Each artist creates the artwork
the way he/she wants the
audience to look at it or
perceive it
• For someone to develop a
sense of appreciation for art, he
must develop first a taste for
beautiful and fine things (Caslib
et al., 2018).
“The ability to interpret or understand man-
made arts and enjoy them either through
actual and work experience with art tools
and materials or possession of these works
for one’s admiration and satisfaction. Art
appreciation therefore deals with learning
or understanding and creating arts and
enjoying them” (Ariola 2008, 5).
CREATIVITY AND ART
• To be creative is to be original.
• To be original is to come up
with something beautiful, yet
distinctively different from
other artworks.
• An artist comes up with
distinct style, techniques,
colors, and patterns, in order
to be original and creative.
ART AND
IMAGINATION
• Imagination creates a whole
new world of possibilities by
helping people create
something new, something
better, something that would
create positive changes in
the world we live in (Caslib
et al., 2018).
• As art is produced by Anita Ho (2014-2012). “Fish Harvest at Dawn” (1979). Oil on

imagination, art also inspires canvas. Private collection, Vitangcol Family.

imagination.
ART AS EXPRESSION
• However, at times, words
may not be even enough to
express them especially
when these are too
overwhelming to be kept
inside one’s self.
• Collingwood (1938) said that
expressing emotions is
different from describing
emotions.
FORMS OF ART
Visual Arts
• painting, drawing, calligraphy, digital imaging, and
sculpture

Film
• combining of still images to create an i llusi o n o f
movement; lighting, music, visual effects, direction, among
others
Architecture
• the creation of beautiful buildings; plan, construction, and
design
FORMS OF ART
Literary Art
• skill in the use of language and literary devices to create
works of lasting artistic and social value

Dance or Kinesthetic Art


• a sequence of movements that follow the rhythm of
musical accompaniment
Theater
• makes use of elements such as stage design, acting,
lighting, sound effects, musical scoring, props, and
scenery; drama, musical, comedy, and tragedy
FORMS OF ART
Applied Art
• combine elements of style and design to beautify the
objects we use every day; prints on a t-shirt, the color and
patterns on a dinner plate, and the style of a shoe

Music
• ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination,
and in temporal relationships to produce a composition
having unity and continuity (Merriam-Webster’s 11 t h
Collegiate Dictionary)
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

Art is universal. Art has always


been timeless and universal,
across generations and
continents.

Art is not nature. Art is man’s


expression of his reception of
nature.
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Art involves experience. Art
is known by experiencing.
• By experience, it meant
the “actual doing of
something” (Dudley et al.,
1960) and it also affirmed
that art depends on
experience.
• Sight, hearing, taste, smell,
and touch
ü People share common ü It goes beyond the time of our
means of expressing own existence.
their thoughts and ü It continually evolves.
feelings through arts ü Art defines time, and time
ü Art is used to call for defines art.
unity and reconciliation
ü Art is used to
communicate mutiny
and rebellion
ü Art is there to serve human needs
through functional arts.
ü Comfort, entertainment, education
ü Self-fulfilment and satisfaction
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
ON ART
Art as an Imitation
• Plato’s The Republic
• Imitate rather than lead
one to reality

Art as a Representation
• Aristotle: art is rather an
aid in revealing the truth
• a tool to experience
pleasure and as an ability
to teach its audience
things about life
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
ON ART
Art as a Disinterested Judgment
• Immanuel Kant
• when judging art, it must be noted
to go beyond individual tastes and
preferences to appreciate art
from a universal standpoint
(Caslib, et al., 2018)

Art as a Communication of Emotion


• Leo Tolstoy
• share and/or communicate his
experience to his audience or
viewer
• an instrument for social unity
PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES IN
ART
INTEGRITY
• Faithfulness to one’s principles
• A work has integrity if it follows its own truth or
values and is not swayed by other people’s motives
PROPORTION/CONSONANCE
• Balance or consistency of the elements
• Proportion for effect – emphasize a certain element
in the work
RADIANCE/CLARITY
• Has to do with meaning or impact upon the observer
• A viewer ’s attention is caught by the object
immediately as he lays his eyes on it
FUNCTIONS OF ART
Personal Function
• Why do artists make art?: choice, want, need and ability
• artists create art to satisfy their own desire to produce
work
Social Function
• art seeks or tends to express,
describe, or influence the social or
collective behavior of a people as
opposed to individual and personal
kinds of experiences (Piscos, 2014)

Physical Function
• arts can be realized through the objects
and environments that are created to fill
a utilitarian need
FUNCTIONS OF ART
DIRECTLY FUNCTIONAL ART
art that we use in our daily lives such as tools,
architectural structures, roads, bridges, buildings,
furniture, kitchen utensils, coins, bills, dress, weapons, etc.

INDIRECTLY FUNCTIONAL ART


arts that are “perceived through the senses” such as fine
arts, painting, music, sculpture, dance, literary piece,
theatrical performances, etc.
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FUNCTIONS OF
ART

Give comfort, convenience,


and happiness to humans

Helps, preserves, share, and


transmits culture of people from
one generation to another

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