Assumptions and Natures of Arts (Kinds of Arts)

Functions of arts and philosophy

Art History
- Viewers can react to what they see, interpret
the work in the light of their
own experience, and judge it a success or failure.
Creativity
- the ability to bring forth something new that has
value
-It is how you transform your imaginations and
idea into reality. How you make connections
into things around you.
-It is necessary in artmaking because it allows us
to think of unique ideas to make a unique
artwork.
Art is the expression or application of a human skill
or imagination
Philosophy - the study of the fundamental nature of
knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when
considered as an academic discipline.
Art as mimesis – Plato
Idea- ultimate reality
representational," means that the work depicts
something easily recognized by most people.
cognitivism: a work of art is about thoughts

Expression Art for arts sake - l'art pour l'art

-he is able to explore his own emotions and at expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art,
the same time, create something out of them.” and the only "true" art, is divorced from any
didactic, moral, politic, or utilitarian function
Assumptions of Art autoteles, "complete in itself"
 Art is universal – as old as human being
 Art is cultural – product of culture aid Utilitarian art is art that has function as its priority,
Cultus – inhabit, cultivate, honour and yet is still aesthetically pleasing. An example of
 Art is not nature – made by man utilitarian art would be a decorative
 Art involves experience
 Art as expression Public display - any media that has been planned
 Art as form of creation and executed with the intention of being staged in
the physical public domain, usually outside and
Visual arts: accessible to all.
- ceramics
- drawing Art is an expression made visible by a form. The
- painting expression contained in the form is an attempt to
-sculpture translate the unnamed and the unknown.
Film (digital/analog)
- Moving pictures that have been recorded Social artistry is the attempt to address or
Architecture recognize a particular social issue using art and
- Art and science of designing buildings creativity to affect change.
Literary arts
- Written word Physical (utilitarian)
Applied arts Art that has a physical function usually relates to
- Application of design to everyday objects items that can be used for a practical purpose
Performance art because of their physical structure, despite their
- Combines visual art and dramatic perform artistic appeal
Poetry Proportion and scale are principles of art that
- Composed, before an audience describe the size, location, or amount of one
Dance element in relation to another.
- Movement of body
Theater Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as
- Dramatic performance beautiful.
Telos – purpose
The personal functions of art are varied
and highly subjective.
• Functions depends on the artist who
created the art.
• An artist may create an art out of self-
expression, entertainment, or therapeutic
purpose.
Social function - when it addresses a particular
collective interest as opposed to a personal interest.
Political art is a very common example of an art
with a social function.
Music was principally used for dance and religion.
• The ancient world saw music as an instrument to
facilitate worship and invocation to gods.
• Music was essential for synchronicity of dancers.
• Music guarantees that warriors were simultaneous.
Serenade – People compose hymnsto express
feelings and emotions.
Music is also used as accompaniment to stage plays
and motion pictures
Roman Catholic world, the employment of
sculptures for religious purposes has remained vital,
relevant, and symbolic
Plato’s The Republic, paints a picture of
artists as imitators and art as mere
imitation.
Plato’s metaphysics or view of reality,
the things in this world are only copies of
the original, the eternal, and the true
entities that can only be found in the World
of Forms.
Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and
artists for two reasons:
1. They appeal to the emotion rather to the
rational faculty of men
2. They imitate rather than lead one to reality
Poetry rouses emotions and feelings and
thus, clouds rationality of people.
Aristotle considered art as an aid to
philosophy in revealing the truth.
In Aristotelian worldview, art serves
two particular purposes:
• Art allows for the experience of pleasure
(horrible experience can be made an object of
humor)
• Art also has an ability to be instructive and
teach its audience things about life (cognitive)
ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGMENT
Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Judgment,
considered the judgment of beauty, the
cornerstone of art, as something that can be
universal despite its subjectivity.
ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF
EMOTION
Leo Tolstoy, art plays a huge
role in communication to its audience’s
emotions that the artist previously
experienced.
- art is given a unique opportunity to
serve as a mechanism for social unity.
Art is central to man’s existence because it
makes accessible feelings and emotions of
people from the past and present.
The “function” of art is to fulfill the intellectual and
the emotional needs of humans.
Visual art, music, movies, plays, poetry, dance,
philosophy and novels.
These are the “psychological functions” of art. Art
fulfills the needs of our brains and bodies combined.
Personal Function Arts are vehicles for the artists'
expression of their feelings and ideas. The arts also
serve as means of expression for us
Physical functions classify whether objects are
tools or containers which function to make our lives
comfortable
Social functions are used for public display and
celebration used to affect the collective behaviour

Philosophy > theoretical from beginning to end
Art > sensuous and imaginal.
> Philosophical thought reflects its subject-matter in
concepts, in categories; art is characterised, on the
other hand, by emotional and imaginal reflection
and by transformation of reality.
PHILOSOPHY OF ARTS BY MEANS
The study of the nature of art, including concepts
such as interpretation, representation and
expression, and form. It is closely related to
aesthetics, the philosophical study of beauty and
taste. Distinguished from art criticism
The purpose of works of art may be to
communicate political, spiritual or philosophical
ideas, to create a sense of beauty (see aesthetics), to
explore the nature of perception, for pleasure, or to
generate strong emotions. Its purpose may also be
seemingly nonexistent.
Subject matter is the literal, visible image in a
work while content includes the connotative,
symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.  expressed or communicated by the artwork.
Content is the communication of ideas, feelings
and reactions connected with the subject
REPRESENTATIONAL ART
These types of art have subjects that refer
to objects that refer to objects or events
occurring in the real world. Figurative art
NON REPRESENTATIONAL
In this type of art, in order to fully grasped
the feeling, emotion, or concept behind the
artwork, you are required to have a higher
level of perceptiveness and insight.
Factual Meaning - the most rudimentary level of
meaning for it may be extracted from the
identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork
and understanding how these elements relate to one
another.
Conventional Meaning - pertains to the
acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using
motifs, signs, and symbols and other cyphers as
bases of its meaning.
Subjective Meaning - when subjectivities are
consulted, a variety of meanings may arise when a
particular work of art is read.
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art,
is the depiction in art of landscapes—natural
scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers,
and forests
A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art
depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically
commonplace objects that may be either natural
(food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or
shells) or man-made
Portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or
other artistic representation of a person, in which
the face and its expression are predominant.
Figures – The sculptors chief subject has
traditionally been the human body , nude or clothed.
The body’s form, structure and flexibility
Content in art meaning or message that is
Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of
various media of scenes or events from everyday
life, such as markets, domestic settings
Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a
moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of
events unfolding over time.