ART 3.

Beauty
- a branch of humanities -anything that beholds the senses and
- skilful arrangement or compositions of captivates the mind
common but significant qualities of
nature ASSUMPTIONS OF ARTS
- Etymology: 1. Art is universal.
Aryan - ‘ar’: to put together Art is always grounded in its time
Greek – ‘ars’ : skill/craft and place (Greenbalt, 2012)
Italian – ‘artis’: craftsmanship
Elements of universality:
ART vis-à-vis PHILOSOPHY Skill, creativity, spontaneity, sensory
PLATO: “Art is an imitation of an enjoyment, tension and release,
imitation.” color, shape, sound, texture, speed,
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: “We have arts image making, singing, etc.
so we won’t die of Truth.”
PABLO PICASSO: “Art is a lie that makes 2. Art is cultural.
us realize truth, at least the truth that Every culture reflects its own beliefs,
is given us to understand.” practices, ideals, and societal
JEAN SIBELIUS: “Art is the signature of temperament.
civilizations.” Art is the Vanguard of Human
PAUL GAUGUIN: “Art is either plagiarism Development.
or revolution.”
3. Art is not nature.
ESSENTIALS OF ARTS Art is man-made.
Arts must be:
1. Man-made BODY MODIFICATIONS (movies presented)
2. Creative not imitative Importance:
3. Benefit and satisfy man 1. For beauty/ aesthetic purposes
4. Expressed through a medium or material by 2. For protection/Security
which the artist communicates himself to his 3. Status
fellows 4. Ethnic group identification
5. Religious purposes
ART APPRECIATION
- ability to interpret or understand arts and enjoy ABRAHAM MASLOW’s Hierarchy of Needs
them either through actual and work experience
with art tools or possession of these works Beauty
(Ariola, 2008) Self-Actualization
Love/Belonging
- deals with the learning or understanding of and Safety
creating arts and enjoying them Physiological
Wifi- newest basic need of man kind
- Elements of Art Appreciation
1. Creativity ARTIST vs. ARTISAN
-act of turning new and imaginative ideas Artisan: skilled worker that uses hands o produce
into reality something functional/utilitarian that will
-the process of bringing something into new enhance something
-2 processes: - To make a product/money
*thinking - Entrepreneurs
*producing - Cake, furniture
2. Imagination - Ceramics/glass blowing- furniture
-understanding of representational art -upholstery
-ignites our response to the expression of - Leather works- gold leafing
emotion towards arts - Pottery- jewellery
-any kind of conscious experience: - tapestry/weaving- decorative arts
*Intellectual *imaginative *emotional (faux finishes)
Artist ELEMENTS OF ART
(Categories of Art) 1. Line
1. Fine Arts 2. Colour
a. Painting -Value
b. Sculpture -Tone
c. Drawing/Sketch -Hue (black, white)
2. Performing Arts 3. Form
a. Dance 4. Texture
b. Song 5. Space
c. Film/Stage Acting/ Musical 6. Shape
3. Photography
4. Digital Arts (Photography) FUNCTIONS/PURPOSES OF ART
5. Literature
a. Prose 1. Personal – a shared theme or experience
-legends, short stories could be felt and appreciated by a person
-novels, folktales 2. Utilitarian
b. Poetry 3. Cultural – to preserve heritage
-lines, stanzas, verses, poems 4. Social - build network, influence collective
6. Architecture behavior
a. Structural Design 5. Intellectual – Visual Arts (GRVA)
b. Landscape Architecture 6. Spiritual – deepen religious connection
c. Interior Design 7. Aesthetic
d. Civil Engineering (Horizontal)
-roads, bridges SUBJECTS OF ART (Cumming 2009)
7. Fashion
a. Design 1. Portraiture - person/animal
b. Style/Stylist 2. Historical Scenes
*Tapestry/Weaving 3. Genre Paintings: everyday life, domestic
8. Culinary Arts scenes, sentimental family relationships, etc.
a. Cooking -wedding, xmas party, fiestas
b. Baking 4. Landscape - natural sceneries
c. Beverage making/preparation 5. Still Life - collection of inanimate objects
arranged together in a specific way
*Baguio- UNESCO Creative City (2017) 6. Sacred – religious images
- United Nations Educational Scientific and 7. Non-objective Subject Imagination – no
Cultural Organization recognizable figure
8. Self-Portrait – painting, drawing, sculpture
ART PRINCIPLES (principles of design) of the artist himself
1. Rhythm: elements are repeated in a certain 9. Visionary – re-arrangement of natural
direction objects to show artistic expression
2. Pattern: repeating a motif or design many 10. Myth – images of gods/goddesses, monsters
times 11. Cityscape – buildings, transportation,
3. Balance bridges, etc.
4. Variety: varied shapes and colors 12. Wildlife – images depicting animals and
5. Emphasis their ways of life
6. Contrast 13. Optical – illusions created in black and
7. Harmony white showing movement and vibrating
8. Unity patterns
9. Visual Movement
10. Proportion FIELDS OF ART
11. Perspective: used in architecture *materials, techniques/purpose/methods
Animation, Architecture, Art Theory, assemblage,
Compare: similarities Calligraphy, Caricature, Collage, Design, Digital
Contrast: Differences Art, Drawing, Enamel, Engraving, Etching, Fresco,
*When there is contrast, there is balance. Goldsmith, Graphics, Illustration, Installation……
CATEGORIES of the SUBJECTS of ARTS

1. Representational (Realism) – recognizable

- there is concrete description
2. Non-representational – non-recognizable
- no definite resemblance

COMPOSE:
CONTENT vs. SUBJECT

SUBJECT
- literal, visible image in a work
CONTENT
- connotative, symbolic, and suggestive
aspects of the image
- communicated feelings, reaction, and
ideas connected with the subject (Ryall
2009)
- 3 Levels:
1. Factual
- the literal meaning of the work based
on the what is perceived through the
senses
- the surface meaning derived from the
recognizable forms in the artwork
and how they build the piece

2. Conventional
- meaning is based on widely accepted
interpretations that are established
through time and strengthened by
recurrent use
- acknowledged meaning of an
artwork using its motifs, signs and
symbols
3. Subjective
- meaning that influenced by the
viewer’s or audience’s personal
circumstances when engaging with
the artwork

BASIC COMPONENTS OF AN ARTWORK

Subject – ‘what’
Content – ‘why’
Form – ‘how’