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Philosophical Import of Art
Philosophical Import of Art
IMPORT OF ART
CIPRIANO A. MALLILLIN
1.Integrity
• Integrity is “present when the thing
has all that makes up its substance.”
• In Aquinas’ usage, the concept of
integrity describes an integrated
whole with nothing missing. A whole
person consists of body, mind, and
spirit.
Proportion
Taken from the French, the term "l'art pour l'art," (Art for Art's Sake) expresses the
idea that art has an inherent value independent of its subject-matter, or of any social,
political, or ethical significance. By contrast, art should be judged purely on its own
terms: according to whether or not it is beautiful, capable of inducing ecstasy or
revery in the viewer through its formal qualities (its use of line, color, pattern, and so
on). The concept became a rallying cry across nineteenth-century Britain and France,
partly as a reaction against the stifling moralism of much academic art and wider
society, with the writer Oscar Wilde perhaps its most famous champion. Although the
phrase has been little used since the early twentieth century, its legacy lived on in
many twentieth-century ideas concerning the autonomy of art, notably in various
strains of formalism.
Art as an ESCAPE
• Work that does not depict anything from the real world (figures, landscapes,
animals, etc.) is called nonrepresentational. Nonrepresentational art may simply
depict shapes, colors, lines, etc., but may also express things that are not visible–
emotions or feelings for example.
NON-
REPRESENTATIONAL
ART
1. Nature-animals, people, landscapes. These 3 are the most common inspiration and subject
matter for art.
2. History- artists are sensitive to the events taking place in the world around them. the dress, the
houses, the manner of living, the thoughts of a period are necessarily reflected in the work of the
artist.
3. Greek and Roman Mythology-these are the gods and goddess. its center is on deities and
heroes
4. Judeo -Christian tradition- religion and art, The Bible, the apocrypha, the rituals of the church
5. Sacred oriental texts-the countries of the orient, especially China, Japan, and India, have all
produced sacred texts of one kind or another, and these inspired various kinds of art. most fruitful
have been the texts and traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Animals
People
Landscape
Greek and
Roman
Mythology
Judeo-Christian
Tradition
Different Kinds of Subject
Dreams and
fantasies
Activity 1
01 02 03
Look for a Filipino Identify and Present your
contemporary art. discuss the output via power
subject, source, point presentation
type and kind of
subject used in the
artwork.