Mary Floradel M.

Mesana
Art Appreciation - prelims
aspirations, failures, and he supposed not to do in
the world

also an animal but unlike them, he, alone, skill pertains to profiency in doing an activity
possesses the following characteristic features:
Skill and product primarily intended to delight the
senses and produce satisfying experiences of the
1. Ability to think, learn and be educated beautiful “a thing of beauty is a joy forever”.
2. Organize things in order to accomplish
ends “ars” ability/skill
3. Has oral and written language which
• Artistic creativity that seek to communicate
enables him to communicate and preserve ideas
beauty
4. Establishes permanent institutions
5. Man is open to the world • Applies to activities that express aesthetic
6. He is endowed with human universal ideas by the use of skill and imagination
phenomenon religion or the worship of God. • Processes and products and experiences
“the use of skill and imagination in the creation of
aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences
• Immersed to a way of life of a certain place that can be shared with others.”
which is passed from one gen to the next
which is called culture.
• Lives in a society where he is capable of
discovering and learning
• Creates gadgets and tools
• Learn language, make laws, religion.
• Capable to create and appreciate work of
arts: part of nature or man-made

• Clothes and accessories

• Design of our furnitures
• The design of houses and cars
“humanus” – human and cultured • Coins
Study of: • Religious images
• Paper bills
• Ancient and modern languages • Postage stamps
• Literature • Theatrical performances
• Philosophy • Celebrations of fiestas
• History • Pictures in our cellphones
• Archaeology
• Anthropology
• Human geography
• Law
• Politics
• Religion
• ARTS
Concerns about humanity, where it records or
interprets man’s thinking, feelings, regrets,
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Expression of beauty of the environment,

If symbols used in artwork are understood, places, and people around us
then communication is established

• Burst into song when we are happy

• Dance to express joy through rhythmic body
movements
• Sing out loud our love or despair
• Deep emotions in poetic language

- To the Flower of Heidelberg

- Gloc 9 theme of Music
- Spolarium of Juan Luna - Perceived by the eyes
- Taj Mahal of India - Also called spatial arts because
artworks produced under this genre
occupy space
- Graphic (2D arts) and Plastic (3D arts)

- Expertise in handling material

Graphic arts: 2D, flat surface
- Creation happens due to need, purpose
and function • Calligraphy
- Planned activity, the artist thinks out a • Photography
design, selects his materials and • Paiting
arrange them according to his design • Drawing
• Sketching
• Commercial arts (tarp &
billboards)
• computer graphics
- Sensory, emotional, and intellectual
responses
- Landscape painting recall happy Plastic art: 3D, molded, shaped in clay,
childhood days, song may bring back a stone, metal, wood
pleasurable experience, we weill show • Sculpture
empathy to a tragic experience of a • Architecture
character in the movie • Landscape archi
• City planning
• Theater design
• Crafts and handicrafts

Nature has been a constant source of

models in art and we use art to improve or enhance Literary Arts: written mode and intended to
nature be read
Prose – sentence, paragraph,
chapters
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• Short stories
• Novels
• Essays
• Legends and myths
• Epic
Poetry – lines and stanzas
• Narrative poems
• Lyrical poems
• Dramatic poems
- includes any activity in which the artist’s
physical presence acts as a medium.
- perceive both by ears and eyes --the
artist render a performance in front of an
audience.
• Music (vocal, instrumental,
mixed)
• Dance (ethnologic, social,
theatrical and contemporary)
• Drama (tragedy, comedy,
tragicomedy, and melodrama
etc.)
Drama and Theatre Arts - is a
collaborative form of fine art that uses live
performers, typically actors or actresses, to
present the experience of a real or imagined
event before a live audience in a specific
place, often a stage.
Cinema or Film - A film consists of moving
pictures that have been recorded so that
they can be shown at the cinema or on
television. A film tells a story, or shows a
real situation.
•Personal Function
Artists have their personal reasons for
indulging in art. Arts are vehicles for the artists’
expression of their feelings and ideas. The arts also
serve as means of expression for us.
•Social Function
Art performs a function when:
1.It seeks or tend to influence the
collective behavior of people
2.It created to be seen or used
primarily in public situation
3.Provides both serious and
humorous reflection about and criticisms of
society. Through theirart, artists
seekingsocialchanges bring public
awareness to a variety ofsocial, political,
and environmental issues.
4.Collaboration and Community
Building:Artcan bring people together.
•Historical Function
•Cultural Function
•Religious Function
•Physical Function
•Aesthetic Function