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Name: Ranah Marie N. Deanon Course & Year: BSCE – 1B
Course Facilitator: Prof. Maria F. Felarco

ANSWERS FOR LEARNING MODULE IN GE 103

ART APPRECIATION

MODULE 1
What is art: Introduction and Assumptions

Answer the following questions as precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.

1. Why is art not nature, ageless and timeless?

Art is not nature since it emerges from the imagination into the world, as
opposed to science, which emerges from the world into the mind. Since someone of
any age will create art, it is ageless and eternal. It evolves from generation to
generation, making it more advanced and accessible to everyone. Nevertheless, it
cannot be called a masterpiece. As it is acquired through long study and continuous
practice, art does require experience. It doesn't matter when Art first appears or when
it is discovered; as long as it can still be used or touched now, it hasn't aged. Art is
eternal because it is made by people.

2. Why does art involve experience?

Aside from an individual's creativity and imagination, experience is required

in order to fully use one's talent and expertise with the intention of sharing them with
others. Art is a way of expressing one's thoughts, emotions, or concepts based on
one's life experiences. As a result, painting reflects the artist's perceptions. These
moments are one-of-a-kind, and they are what drives an artist to create art. It will be
difficult to produce art without any knowledge, so you can't make something you
don't know how to do right now.
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MODULE 2
Art Appreciation: Creativity, Imagination, and Expression

Answer the following questions as precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.

1. What art field will you explore? Why?

Considering that I am a civil engineering student, I want to explore the field of
Architecture. It is designing the structures of buildings. Architects and Civil
Engineers collaborate to plan a building project, the Architect is in charge of the
design while the Civil Engineer is responsible for the physics involved in the project.
This means that in order to better understand and make the project much easier, I
should explore the fields related to my course. It uses both art and engineering. This
field of art aims to make people's lives better. Create everlasting, open, and joyful
places for all of life's events. These spaces' infinite complexity can be as diverse as
existence itself, and they must be as wise as nature in deriving from a central concept
and blossoming into a beautiful being.

2. How can you utilize the arts to express yourself, your community and your relation to
others?
The arts can be used in a variety of ways to articulate yourself, your culture,
and your relationship with others and the environment. Individuals/artists use visual
arts, photography, production art, poetry performance, architecture, dance, literary art,
and theater to articulate themselves. Art is a sensible method of expressing yourself. I
will use the arts to represent myself, my culture, and my relationships with others by
first sharing my true emotions, opinions, and concepts, and then conveying my
intentions. I will experiment with modern designs, values, and cultures to express a
love of life and its beauty and creativity. I'm going to write a poem by myself to
express how I'm feeling. I'll talk about the emotions I'm having. If I have a special
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person, I would write a song about my true feelings about him and express them
through the arts. I am capable of expressing my feelings about him.

MODULE 3
Functions and Philosophical Perspective on Art

Answer the following questions as precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.

1. Does art always have a function? Why? Support your response. Provide your own
example.
Yes. The role of art is still there, but it cannot be assigned since the function of
an art form is dependent on its meaning. The importance normally varies depending
on how the person viewing it perceives. However, knowing who the artist was and
what genre it belongs to is the simplest way to determine its purpose. Art's functions
can be classified as intimate, physical, or social. Physical processes are often the
simplest to comprehend. Architecture, crafts, and modern projects are all examples of
art for a practical purpose. Art that illustrates social situations is also carrying out
social functions.
The most daunting aspect of art to discuss is its personal purpose. The
personal purpose of art is served as art functions as healing for both the artist and the
spectator. Paintings, for example, have grown over time. Via their drawings, they
show us how people lived in the past. This is one of the reasons that paintings are
exhibited in museums due to their historical significance. Paintings now have a
particular function. Artists make paintings on a regular basis to reflect current events.
Somehow still life portraits are called art because they retain a part of the artist's
personality.

2. If an artwork ceased to have a function, will it remain an art? Why?

I suppose the evolution of the mind is a never-ending phase in the evolution of
art as a whole. The method of creating art is similar to the individual's attempt to see
the baseline limits of one's own mental road map, which is familiar to all of us, and
there seems to be no end to it. However, based on how you initiate a project, the
method of creating art may seem to have a resolution. The outcome will be
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determined by the first mark you make or the manner in which you lay down the first
sheet as intended in your head. The work's starting will determine its conclusion.
Once the conclusion of the work has strike, it will not only be destroyed, but it
will also be a new beginning for the work. We seem to be following an invisible
trend, particularly when it comes to abstract ideas and their manifestation. So the
conscious mind is attempting to exert control over the job, while the quiet mind,
which you are unaware of, is still competing and attempting to manifest something.
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MODULE 4
Subject and Content

Answer the following questions as precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.

1. What are the hurdles of accessing art in terms of its subject and content?
The difficulty in gaining access to art in terms of subjects and material stems
from the fact that art is likely to vary. Art is not as simple to explain as what some
believe. Every work of art has a profound significance or depicts variety of meanings.
Also the subject of the artwork, as well as the substance of whether it is called
art, has a vague or strange significance. We can have differing perspectives on how to
view someone's perspective, and how the audience interprets it is entirely up to them.

2. Where do artists source their subjects? Explain each briefly.

Artists are their own inspiration in the broadest way. All perceives life by their
senses, and the patterns are associated with emotions. Life lessons are often associated
with existing stuff, but they are available to be stimulated as the artist needs them.
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MODULE 5
Artist and Artisans

Answer the following questions as precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.

1. How relevant still are the awards National Artists and GAMABA, not only to the art
world, but also to the Filipino society as a whole?
The National Artist Award is the highest honor conferred on Filipino artists
whose body of work is regarded as a sublime representation of Philippine music,
dance, theater, visual arts, literature, film and television, arts, architecture, and design
by their peers and, more specifically, by their countrymen.
The National Living Treasures Award was established by Republic Law No.
7355 in 1992 (Gawad sa Manlikha ng Bayan). Implementation and awarding is
overseen by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the Philippines'
highest policy-making and organising body for culture and the arts. This meets the
UNESCO criterion for Living National Treasures.
GAMABA stands for Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan, and the award's sole
purpose is to recognize and exalt traditional folk artists, as well as to preserve their
work, talents, and crafts. Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan, or the National Living
Treasures Award (SLA), was created in April 1992 by Republic Law No. 23 July
2017.
The winner is a Filipino citizen or a community of Filipino citizens who are
engaged in a traditional art form unique to the Filipino people that has achieved such
high technological and artistic excellences that it is now widely practiced in their
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communities with the same technical degree. The National Living Treasure, or
Manlilikha ng Bayan, was awarded to the Filipino people.

2. Analyse and critique state-sponsored recognition for artist and cultural workers. What
do you think are some of the considerations that must be addressed with regard to
these?
Connection to the freedom of expression of any human artist's views,
impressions, or viewpoints has no role in its “State-sponsored recognition”.
Fortunately, throughout every social, culturally free artistic speech, the artistic
expression must bring forth into a society's culture an aesthetic appreciative
complement to that society's aesthetic appreciative, expanded, enriched,
enlightenment advancement positive Knowledge Awareness of that society’s cultural
expressions by the very essence of the notion of artistic cultural expression
independence.
That such, if the "type of art expression" degrades, ridicules, divides, or
adversely criticizes the society's aesthetic appreciative cultural life, then the
"negativity" in the form of "so-called creative expression" does not enrich, improve,
or promote that society's beautiful, healthy, positive aesthetic artistic cultural
presentation.
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MODULE 6
Elements and Principles of Art

Answer the following questions as precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.

1. What are the elements of visual and auditory art? Explain each briefly.
Elements of Art: Visual
 Line
A line is characterized as a movable point on the surface whose length
exceeds its width. Two-dimensional or three-dimensional lines may be
implicit or abstract. Continuous, torn, jagged, longitudinal, horizontal, or
diagonal lines are examples of different types of lines. Drawing is built on the
base of lines.
 Shape and Form
A flat, enclosed area of an artwork formed by patterns, textures, colors,
or an area enclosed by other shapes such as triangles, circles, and squares is
known as a shape in the visual arts. A three-dimensional composition or an
entity within a three-dimensional composition may also be referred to as a
shape. A form is an artist's way of combining art elements, design concepts,
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and media. Form is a three-dimensional feature of art that encloses space. A
type has length and width, much like a shape, but it also has dimension.
Geometric and free-form forms are both available.
 Space
In a work of art, the term "space" refers to a sense of depth or three
dimensions. It may also apply to the artist's usage of the picture plane's
location. Negative space refers to the space surrounding the primary objects in
a piece of art, while positive space refers to the space filled by the primary
objects.
 Color
Color is a set of hues with three distinct properties: hue, Chroma
(intensity), and value. When light enters an object and is reflected back into
the eye as a response to a shade occurring in the optic nerve, color is present.
The first is hue, which is the distinguishable colour, such as red, blue, or
yellow. And last component is chroma, which determines from strong and
weak colors. The color wheel, which uses primary colors, serves as a visual
illustration of chromatic scale.
 Texture
Texture refers to the forms of lines produced by the artist and is used to define
the work's surface quality. The consistency of the surface may be tactile or
purely visual. Visual surface quality defines how the eye perceives the texture
depending on visual stimuli, while tactile surface quality is mostly found in
three-dimensional creations, such as paintings, where the viewer can see
and/or experience the various textures present.
 Planes and Perspectives
Artists utilize perspective to depict three-dimensional objects in a normal and
accurate manner on a two-dimensional surface, a sheet of paper or canvas
perhaps. On a flat surface or plane, perspective may produce the illusion of
depth and distance.
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Elements of Art: Auditory
 Rhythm
Rhythm is a design theory that implies motion or behavior. Rhythm is
typically accomplished by repeating patterns, curves, colors, and other
elements. In artworks, it establishes a visual pace and sets a direction for the
viewer's eye to pursue.
 Dynamics
Dynamics is described as visual perception that flows smoothly from
one region of the formation to another, driven by line or form continuations
and color or form gradations. Open forms or shapes that are closely related to
neighbouring shapes characterize dynamic movement.
 Melody
Melody is a musical term that refers to a mixture of pitch and rhythm,
as well as other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the
background to the accompaniment's context. It is not necessary for a line or
section to be a foreground melody.
 Harmony
When the components of an artwork come together in a cohesive
manner, it achieves overall harmony in painting. Certain elements may be
replicated, but they still appear and sound as though they belong together.
Color, as well as the marks you create and the shapes you paint, can be used to
achieve unity in sculpture.
 Timbre
Timbre is usually done digitally, either by mixing sine waves (additive
synthesis) or by filtering out harmonics from more complex waves
(subtractive synthesis). Timbre composition is also important for electric
guitar players.
 Texture
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The final sound of a piece of music or a record has texture. The general
quality of the sound in a work is dictated by how melodic, rhythmic, and
harmonic materials are mixed in a composition, resulting in the texture of the
piece or record. The density, or thickness, and range, or distance, between the
lowest and highest pitches are often used to define texture.

2. What is the relevance of combined arts and hybrid art in the twenty-first century?

When various forms of art are combined to produce a new piece of art, it can
be called Allied Arts / Combined Arts / Hybrid Arts. Movies and video games are two
famous forms of Combined Arts. To deliver a final product, they both necessitate a
wide range of experience, abilities, and talents. Creating a computer game or making
a film has a huge impact on a country's economy. Artists will work with production
firms to raise money when expressing their creativity and talents. Films and video
games provides entertainment and relaxation for the people.