ART EDUCATION

AND APPRECIATION
JEREMICH G. SERAFICA
 WHAT IS ART?

• Art is subjective and there is no universal definition of it.

• People differ in their perception of an object or thing.
FAMOUS PERSONALITIES AND THEIR
DEFINITIONS OF ART:

“Art is that which brings life in

harmony with the world.”
PLATO
FAMOUS PERSONALITIES AND THEIR
DEFINITIONS OF ART:

“Art is not what you see but what

you make others see.”
EDWARD DEGAS
FAMOUS PERSONALITIES AND THEIR
DEFINITIONS OF ART:

“Art is a lie that helps us to

realize the truth.”
PABLO PICASSO
FAMOUS PERSONALITIES AND THEIR
DEFINITIONS OF ART:

“Art is never finished, only

abandoned”
LEONARDO DA VINCI
THEREFORE,
• Art is man-made, not God made.
• Art is creative, not imitative.
• Art benefits and satisfies man – when he uses art in practical life
through artistic principles, taste, and skills.
• Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which
the artist communicates himself.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
 IMPORTANCE OF ART

• Art highlights and heightens the importance of certain events in order to

keep them memorable and pleasurable.
 IMPORTANCE OF ART

• Art enables us to get a glimpse of the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of

the people in their time and the faces in their environment.
IMPORTANCE OF ART

• Art enables us to value and appreciate

beautiful things as a consequence of our
encounter with arts.
 IMPORTANCE OF ART

• Art may influence us to change our ways and behavior as a result of the
aesthetic experience we derived from the arts.
 IMPORTANCE OF ART

• Arts are valuable sources of inspirations and aesthetic delightful

experience through the artist works of art.
 IMPORTANCE OF ART TO STUDENTS

They can develop:

• Creativity
• Identity
• Self-awareness
• Self-confidence
• Sense of well-being
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WHAT IS ART APPRECIATION AND WHY
IS IT IMPORTANT?

• Don’t just teach art but teach them to

think like an artist.
 CREATIVITY
• Are humans naturally creative?
WHAT IS ART APPRECIATION AND WHY
IS IT IMPORTANT?
• Art appreciation is:
1. The ability to interpret and understand man-made arts and enjoy them through
actual work experience with art tools and materials
2. The possession of the works of art for one’s admiration and satisfaction
3. The knowledge and understanding of the general and everlasting qualities that
classify all great arts
4. The introduction and exploration of visual and performing art forms
5. The analysis of the form of an art work to general audience to enhance their
enjoyment and satisfaction of the works of art.
WHAT IS ART APPRECIATION AND WHY
IS IT IMPORTANT?
• Art appreciation is important:
1. Imagination
2. Connect past, present, and the future
3. Introduce different places, cultures and traditions through
literature, films, visual arts etc.
4. Empathize with those suffered and endured to create an
artwork
 ART HISTORY
• Refers to the historical development and stylistic context of the objects of arts (painting,
sculpture, and architecture; minor arts like ceramics, furniture, and other decorative arts.
 BRIEF HISTORY OF ARTS
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 BRIEF HISTORY OF ARTS
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 ART CRITICISM
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 AESTHETIC
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 ART PRODUCTION
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 TYPES OF ART
• VISUAL ART
1. PAINTING
2. SCULPTURE
3. ARCHITECTURE
• PERFORMING ARTS
1. DANCE
2. MUSIC
3. THEATRE/FILM
 ART MOVEMENT
• Art movement refers to the tendency of style in art that has
a specific common philosophy or goal. It consists of group
of artists during a restricted period of time.
BASIC EXAMPLES OF ART MOVEMENT
• Cave painting – prehistoric art (around 38,000 BCE). Even if
the EXACT purpose of it is unknown, here are some theories
that might explain it:
1. Decorations
2. Way of communication
3. Religious rituals/Ceremonials
CAVE PAINTINGS
 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
• Consists of visual arts like painting, sculpture, architecture etc.
(3000 BC to 30 AD).
• The surviving art comes from tombs and monument with a great
emphasis on life after death and the preservation of the past.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
 GREEK ART
• Greek art is mainly five forms: architecture, sculpture, painting,
poetry and jewelry making.
• It absorbed influences of Eastern civilization, Roman Art and its
patrons, and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity in the
Byzantine Era, and Italian and European ideas.
GREEK ART
 CHINESE PAINTING
• Traditional painting involves the same techniques as calligraphy
and is done with a brush dipped in black ink or colored
pigments; oils are not used.
CHINESE PAINTING
 JAPANESE PAINTING
• One of the oldest and most highly refined Japanese visual arts,
encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles.
• Long history of it exhibits synthesis and competition of native Japanese
aesthetics and the adaptation of imported ideas (mainly from Chinese
painting).
• Subject matter which is regarded as the most characteristic of Japanese
painting; depiction of scenes from everyday life/narrative scenes that are
often crowded with figures and details.
JAPANESE PAINTING
 MANNERISM ART
• Also known as the late Renaissance Period (1520).
• Emphasized the principles of art and design such as proportions
• Famous artists – Leonardo Da Vinci, Raffaelo Sanzio, and
Michelangelo.
MANNERISM ART
 ABSTRACTIONISM
• Abstract means – to move away
• Abstract subjects can be represented through the following –
distortion, elongation, and mangling (cut, lacerated, mutilated or
hacked with repeated blows)
• The idea of it is the artist becomes interested in one phase of a
scene or situation that does not show any subject at all.
ABSTRACTIONISM
 SURREALISM
• It is an invented word meaning “Super Realism”
• Uses art as weapon against the evil
• Tries to reveal new and higher reality than that of daily life
• Surrealist claims to create forms/images not primarily by reason, but by
unthinking impulse and blind feeling or even accident.
• “Influenced by the Freudian psychology which emphasizes the activities of
the unconscious state of mind.”
SURREALISM
 OPTICAL ART
• This is a style of visual art that emphasize the use of
optical illusions
• They give the viewer the impression of movement,
hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or
sweating or warping.
OPTICAL ART
 PHOTOREALISM
• Genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing, and
other graphic media
• Artist studies a photograph and then attempts to
reproduce the image as realistically as possible in
another medium.
PHOTOREALISM
 ACTIVITY 1:
• Art Appreciation
• Take a picture of anything you consider a form of art. Post it on
a social media platform along with a brief caption for not more
than five sentences, defining its art type, and its importance.
 THEORIES OF ART
EXPRESSIONISM
• artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but
rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse
within a person
• distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid,
jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
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 THEORIES OF ART
FUNCTIONALISM
• Art is defined by purpose(s) that make successful art valuable. (A
definition of “chair” would normally mention that the purpose of a
chair is for sitting and a chair that cannot be sat upon has no value
as a chair. So, it seems that chairs require a functional definition.
Functionalists treat art in the same way.) A function commonly
assigned to art is to provide a satisfying aesthetic experience.
 THEORIES OF ART
FORMALISM
• Formalism describes the critical position that the most important aspect of
a work of art is its form – the way it is made and its purely visual aspects –
rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world. In 
painting therefore, a formalist critic would focus exclusively on the
qualities of color, brushwork, form, line and composition.
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 THEORIES OF ART
“OPEN CONCEPT THEORY”
• According to Weitz, that is also the nature of the concept of art.
We cannot find any common properties but we can show some
strands of similarities. This kind of concept has one crucial
feature: it is an open concept, i.e. (its conditions of application
are amendable and corrigible.)
 ACTIVITY 2
• Online Bring me Activity – From all the theories of art, choose
one theory that they like the most and provide one example of it
using a Filipino inspired artwork. Provide a brief explanation
(not more than five sentences).