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    CATALOGUE OF ART AND DESIGNS (THE

    PURPOSE AND MEANING OF EARLY


    TRADITIONAL ARTS AND SYMBOLS
    Direction: Choose one form of arts under each given visual arts that you are familiar
    with. This can be the last artwork that you come across with or the one that made the
    most impact to you. Criticize each using the guide questions provided. Write your
    answer in a separate sheet of paper.

    PAINTING,ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, DRAWING,


    PRINTMAKING, CERAMIC CRAFTS, VIDEO-ART
    DESIGN
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    VISUAL ARTS: ___________________________
    1. What is it about? What is it for?
    2. What is it made of?
    3. What is its style?
    4. How good was it?
    EARLY TRADITONAL ARTS AND SYMBOLS

    Within the world of visual art, the vague term "folk art" is of rapidly declining
    significance, for several reasons.
    First, no one can agree on what it means. This is partly because the concept of
    "folk"
    springs largely from criteria lay down by 19th century aesthetes and aestheticians,
    rather than
    from any objective characteristics.
    Second, the amount of authentic art and design produced by traditional folk artists
    nowadays is vastly exceeded by artificial "folk art".
    Third, all forms of traditionally-made arts and crafts are under threat from
    globalized culture
    A Current Definition

    "Folk art" is mostly utilitarian or decorative art created by an unaffluent social class
    of
    peasants, artisans and tradespeople who live in rural areas of civilized but not highly
    industrialized
    societies; it also encompasses nomadic groups like gypsies.
    A few such places can still be found in areas of Central and Eastern Europe, and
    doubtless
    in areas on other continents, although their number is shrinking. The term "folk art"
    may also
    encompass art produced by ethnic minorities in more developed societies, who have
    succeeded in
    preserving their beliefs and customs by living in separate communities apart from
    the mainstream
    (eg. Amish Mennonite communities)
    History/Origins of Traditional Art
    The acceptance of "folk art" as a special category did not happen until the late 19th
    century,
    and was first confined to European peasant art - the "art of the land". The intellectual and
    cultural
    climate of the time attached an exaggerated Romanticism to the simple life lived by the
    common
    people.

    Their art, in particular, hand-crafted with traditional tools, had a great appeal for the post-
    Industrial Revolution urban mainstream. This unrealistic appreciation of rural life, fuelled by
    the
    aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts Movement championed by William Morris and others, led
    to a
    consideration of "folk art" as anything non-elitist, primitive or homemade - art that
    preserved some
    kind of cultural heritage.
    In other words, "traditional art" is a term invented by 19th
    century white Christian well-
    educated urbanites to describe the quaint arts and crafts of rustic
    societies. Because the concept
    was invented by people well-versed in cultural history, they
    excluded arts from the major
    civilizations (eg. Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, Minoan, Persian,
    and so on), and from Classical
    Antiquity (Ancient Greece and Rome), and Islamic societies. These
    cultures were deemed too
    well-developed to give rise to "folk art".
    Characteristics
    The most distinctive characteristics of "traditional art" concern the materials and
    creative
    techniques used. Thus, unlike in more sophisticated art, "traditional art" tended to
    make use of
    natural substances like wood, straw, clay and so on.
    Tools tended to be fewer in number but invariably multi-purpose. Items were often
    (but not
    always) produced on a smaller scale - perhaps for reasons of portability or cost.
    (Miniature works
    are a typical specialty of "folk art".)
    In contrast to the teaching of elite art-forms like conventional painting or sculpture,
    "folk art
    skills" were inculcated widely in each generation of the community involved, albeit
    with some
    divisions of tasks between the genders, so that most people were productive

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