April 12, 2022

Name: JOHN PAUL G. SONSA

Subject: Art Appreciation
Activity 1

RESEARCH PAPER

What Is Art Appreciation

Appreciation of the visual arts goes beyond staring at a painting hanging on the wall of
a museum—art is in everything and everywhere you look. Opening your eyes to the world of art
is essential in understanding the world around you. Art is more than pretentious museums;
only a few enter and comprehend. Instead, art appreciation is:

*Gaining the knowledge to understand the art.

*Acquire the art methods and materials to discuss art verbally or by the written word.

*Ability to identify the movements from ancient cultures to today's contemporary art.

Learning how to appreciate art is a necessary cultural foundation enabling people to

critically analyze art, art forms, and how cultures used art. All it takes to understand the art is
just to look!

Art appreciation centers on the ability to view art throughout history, focusing on the
cultures and the people, and how art developed in the specific periods. It is difficult to
understand art without understanding the culture, their use of materials, and a sense of beauty.
Art is conveyed by the simple act of creating art for art's sake. Every person is born with the
innate desire to create art, and similar to other professions, training is essential in honing skills
to produce art. Art education broadens a person's comprehension, development, and visions of
art. Art brings an understanding of diversity, how people lived in the past, and connects the
issues concerning contemporary life and art today.

The history of the world is similarly the history of art, continually intertwined. For
millions of years, as humans roamed the earth, evolution, and environment shaped many
different cultures depending on location, weather, natural resources, and food. These cultures
formed the foundation of all art today. Art appreciation analyzes art using the methods and
materials, allowing people to make connections to the context of art and the interactions of
societies.

It is difficult to understand the art without understanding the culture.

History of Art Appreciation

This is a survey course designed to increase knowledge of art history and appreciation of
the visual arts. The emphasis is on viewing, learning, and understanding visual art through the
Elements and Principles of Design as well as the various media.

Pre-historic of Art appreciation

In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures
beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture
either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with
another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events. At this point
ancient art begins, for the older literate cultures. The end-date for what is covered by the term
thus varies greatly between different parts of the world.

Prehistoric art

Prehistoric painting of rhinoceroses in the Chauvet Cave, dated circa 35,000 BP. France
Venus of Brassempouy, dated circa 25,000

Importance of art in prehistoric period- Prehistoric art, in particular, is very important

because it gives us insight into the development of the human mind and ways. Evidence of
artistic thinking in hominids dates back 290,000 years ago; the Palaeolithic age.

Influenced the prehistoric art - Steppes people both gave and took influences from
neighbouring cultures from Europe to China, and later Scythian pieces are heavily influenced by
ancient Greek style, and probably often made by Greeks in Scythia.

Prehistoric art created- To describe the global origins of humans' artistic achievement,
upon which the succeeding history of art may be laid, is an encyclopedic enterprise.

TYPE OF PRE-HISTORIC ART APPRECIATION

Archeologists have identified 4 basic types of Stone Age art, as follows: petroglyphs
(cupules, rock carvings and engravings); pictographs (pictorial imagery, ideomorphs, ideograms
or symbols), a category that includes cave painting and drawing; and prehistoric sculpture
(including small totemic statuettes known as Venus Figurines, various forms of zoomorphic and
therianthropic ivory carving, and relief sculptures); and megalithic art (petroforms or any other
works associated with arrangements of stones). Artworks that are applied to an immoveable
rock surface are classified as parietal art; works that are portable are classified as mobiliary art.

Prehistoric art- Humans make art. We do this for many reasons and with whatever
technologies are available to us. Prehistoric art refers artifacts made before there was a written
record. Long before the oldest written languages were developed, people had become expert
at creating forms that were both practical and beautiful. The earliest art comes from the
Paleolithic era (the Old Stone Age), but it was in the Neolithic era that we see the most
important developments in human history. The way we live today—settled in cities, protected
by laws, eating food from farms—all this dates back approximately 10,000 years ago to the
Neolithic era.

Modern Art Appreciation

Modern Art - Art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away
from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had
been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture).

Neoclassicism- Movement in art, architecture, and design in Europe and North America about
1750-1850, characterized by a revival of classical Greek and Roman styles.
Romanticism- A return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of
the artist as a supremely individual creator;

Impressionism- Movement in painting that originated in France in the 1860s and had enormous
influence in European and North American painting in the late 19th century

Post-Impressionism-Broad term covering various developments in French painting that

developed out of Impressionism in the period from about 1880 to about 1905.

Fauvism-Movement in modern French painting characterized by the use of very bold, vivid,
pure colours.

Symbolism- In the arts, the use of symbols to concentrate or intensify meaning, making the
work more subjective than objective. In the visual arts, symbols have been used in works
throughout the ages to transmit a message or idea, for example, the religious symbolism of
ancient Egyptian art, Gothic art, and Renaissance art.

Degenerate Art -This term was used by Hitler and the Nationalist Socialists to describe much
modern, avant-garde art that they regarded as 'cultural Bolshevism' and an attack on the purity
of the German people.

Influenced modern art

Influences upon these movements were varied: from exposure to Eastern decorative arts,
particularly Japanese printmaking, to the coloristic innovations of Turner and Delacroix, to a
search for more realism in the depiction of common life, as found in the work of painters such
as Jean-François Millet.

Art in our history and modern time

Studying the art of the past teaches us how people have seen themselves and their world, and
how they want to show this to others. Art history provides a means by which we can
understand our human past and its relationship to our present, because the act of making art is
one of humanity's most ubiquitous activities.

Modern art example

These modern movements include Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism,

Expressionism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Metaphysical painting, De Stijl, Dada, Surrealism,
Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Op art, Minimalism, and Neo-Expressionism.

Evolution of modern art

In artistic terms, Modern Art refers to all art produced from the 1860's to the 1970's, which
comprised many distinct artistic styles. It was a time when artists sought to reject traditional
practices and values, to create art for an age that was rapidly changing, and becoming
'modern'.Hul 28, 2016

Art before modernism

There was a period of Romanticism in art before Modernism. A major characteristic of

Romanticism was its rejection of the Renaissance, but it also continued to maintain many of its
features

Origin of modern art and modern art in the Philippines

The history of Modern Philippine art is marked by the conflict between the rules and views of
the Academy and the innovative methods of the Modernists. The Academic style was
established during the Spanish colonial period and followed the rules of the Spanish, Italian and
French Academies

Modernism the same as modern art

Where Modern Art is a term used to describe an artistic movement and a period of Art History,
Modernism is the name of the philosophical movement that emerged at the same time.

Modern Art Useful In The 21st Century

Although creative arts encourage the development of creativity, innovation, collaboration,

critical thinking, communication, motivation, and self-confidence – all skills seen as essential for
the 21st Century workplace – many people still hold this

Modern Art

ClaudeMonet, la Grenouillère, 1869

Ways to Increase Your Appreciation of Contemporary Art

Galerie Michael • Nov 01, 2017