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COURSE CODE: HMN101

COURSE DESCRIPTION: ART APPRECIATION

COURSE INTENDED
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Analyze and appraise works of arts based on aesthetic value, historical context, tradition
and social relevance. Mount an art exhibit (concept development production and
postproduction, marketing, documentation, critiquing). Create their own works of art and
curate their own production or exhibit. Utilize art for self-expression and for promoting
advocacies.

LEARNING MATERIAL FOR
WEEK NUMBER:
Deepen their sensitivity to self, community and society; Discover their identity through art
with respect to their nationality, culture, and religion; develop an appreciation of the local
arts.
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I. TITLE: Art History

• Abstract or non-objective (Dadaism and Surrealism, Constructivism, De Still
Abstract Expressionism, Optical Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art)
• Photo-realism
• Installation Art (Body Art, Earth and Land Performance Art)
II. OBJECTIVES: After this lesson, you are expected to:

a. Identify different non- objective arts

b. Compare and cite examples of non-objective arts
c. Perform /make non-objective arts

III. INTRODUCTION: What draws us to enjoy a piece of art? It is different for everyone, but non-objective
art tends to have a rather universal and timeless appeal. It does not require the
viewer to have a personal relationship with the subject, so it attracts a broader
audience over many generations.

There is also something appealing about geometry and the purity of non-objective
art. Since the time of the Greek philosopher Plato (ca 427–347 BCE)—whom many
would say inspired this style—geometry has fascinated people. When talented artists
employ it in their creations, they can give new life to the simplest of forms and show
us the hidden beauty within. The art itself may seem simple, but its impact is great.

IV. CONTENTS:

Dadaism: [7]
– Created by a group of artists in Zurich, Switzerland, as a protest movement in the arts
– A response to the belief of surpassed art tradition, and the wrong doings they witness in the society upset, shock and
arouse, evoke the public with horrible, shocking art forms recital of poetry, writings, etc.
- is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design.

Characteristics of Dada art---jolly/lively and highly exploratory/speculative

Dadaism-----From French “dada”, a “hobby horse”.
Dadaism is a system of art which is per se “nonsensical” (meaningless/senseless)
Marcel Duchamp (French artist) – the popular Dadaist.

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Surrealism: [7]
– Founded in Paris by a French poet, Andre Breton
– Uses art as a firearm against bad or wrong (which is just like Dadaism, from which it emerged)
–Divulge reality into a higher level, very different from realities of day-to-day life (which is unlike Dadaism)

–Surrealism---Also known as “Super Realism”, as influenced by Freudian psychologist----which focus on the activities in
the inner the mind.
–Subjects seek to reveal things happening in the inside part of man’s unconscious mind resulting to how it looks in the
other world claiming to create a magical world of fantasy, even more nice-looking than the real through art
– Violence and cruelty – other subjects of surrealists--aims: to startle viewers, show what they believed as real true part
of human frailty.
Marc Chagall’s “I and the Village” – an example of Surrealism
Benjamin Mendoza 9Bolivian painter) – poular in reating violent and cruel surrealist paintings.
Constructivism: [9]

The Modern Industrial World--the Constructivists were on the opinion that art should have direct reflection on this facet.

Pablo Picasso’s cubist constructions (Construction 1914) – influenced Vladimir Tatlin--through which, he was able to see
in Picasso’s studio in Paris in 1913 the 3-dimensional Still Life made of scrap material--she created his own artwork, but
were wholly abstract using industrial materials.

To be substituted for its aesthetic combination – is the material formation of the object. The object is to be regarded in
holistic and thus, of no noticeable/obvious ‘style’ but just a product of an industrial order like a car, an airplane, machine,
and the like.

Constructivism: purely technical mastery and organization of materials.

Constructivism--suppressed in Russia in the 1920-- but was brought by Naum Gabo and his brother Antoine Pevsner to
the West and thus, with major influence on modern sculpture.

De Still [1]

“The Style” from the Dutch word-De Still

Simplicity and abstraction – were the concept recommended by this movement, with which the artists could communicate
a perfect idea of harmony and order-as these were created by lessening the components to pure geometric forms and
primary colors.

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Well-Known Artist in this Movement:

1. Theo van Doesburg (Painter)
2. Piet Mondrian (Painter)
3. Gerrit Reitveld (Architect)

Pop Art [12]

Pop art aim: to describe a new structure of “Popular” art marked by the imagery of consumerism, mass reproduction, the
media and popular culture from which its name derives.
Lawrence Alloway (British Curator) – invented the term Pop art (1955).
Whimsical, funny and ironic works, which both can be seen as a celebration and a critique of popular culture characteristics
by which the Pop Art artists took inspiration from advertising, pulp magazines, billboards, movies, television, comic strips,
and shop windows
With Pop Art, art mirrored the times of mass-production and quick, banal entertainment. Everyday objects like Campbell’s
soup cans and pop culture celebrities like Marilyn Monroe were transformed into art and have become icons of the
movement. But how did Pop Art emerge, who were the key players, and what were their artistic aims?
Best artists who formed the Pop Art Movement: [1]
Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warbol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein

Op Art [13]
Op Art: the short term for Optical Art (1960) a distinct style of art with 3-dimensional quality that is not seen in other
styles of art creates the illusion of movement.
3-dimensional quality is obtained through the use of precision and mathematics, stark contrast, and abstract shapes
Op Art: composed of illusion and most of the time appears to the human eye with movement and breath involvement (as
in breathing) because of its exact and accurate mathematically-based composition.
Victor Vasarely – initiated the movement with his painting "Zebra" in 1938
Op Art: exists to fool the eye makes a sort of visual pressure/stress in the viewer's mind that gives works its movement
illusion.
Op Art: not intended to represent reality. Artists do not try to show anything we know as the truth in reality. In place, it is
a sort of abstract art which the composition, movement, and shape reign.
Op Art: enfolds/embraces negative space. Op artists are likely to focus just as much on the negative space as they do the
positive it is because the illusion could not be created without both.

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CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

Photorealism [10]

Also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism coined with regard to those artists whose work deliberately dependent on
photographs which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be reproduce/recreate with precision and
accuracy.

Conceptual art, Pop art, and Minimalism and with strong interest in realism, over idealism and abstraction – art
movements from which this style/technique emerged (within the same period and context)

Machinery and objects of industry such as trucks, motorcycles, cars, and even gumball machines – the themes where most
male photorealists focused their interest.
Audrey Flack – the only female practitioner, inspires her works with greater emotionality and the transience of life.

The Photorealists used to reach success in having their audience but frequently faced by art historians as an important
new and unusual or experimental ideas style.

Minimalism [11]

– Developed in the late 1950s and early 60s during this period major change in artists of the younger generation turned
down and moved away from abstract expressionism which the artist preferred to give emphasis on the very true nature
of the medium and material resulting to the creation of the art.

So as to show or reveal the true picture naturalness (purity) and beauty of the art item, Minimalism took off all essential
forms within it.

It challenged pre-existing structures of making, viewing and understanding it as such, it has been widely associated with
conceptual art, which during the 1960s, was so absolute that it challenged pre-existing structures of making, viewing, and
understanding art.

Their artworks have been closely linked with idea about truth and honesty. Artist’s did not pretend to represent anything
other than what it was.

Some of the Popular Minimalists: [1]

Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, John McCrackers, Robert Morris

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Conceptual art

Conceptualism – one of the other movements illuminated and formed/created by pop art. Concept and sense – the most
important facet of the artwork. All the steps (planning, decisions) are done in advance and the actual making is quick,
brief, fleeting that is, if conceptual art is used by an artist. Major conceptual artists include: Jenny holszer, Damien Hirst,
Ai Wei Wei. [8]

Conceptual art places focus on the sense or concept, and set aside that reality of outside appearance, specific of the
physical aspect. Also, well-known conceptual artist: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni,
Maurizio Bolognini. [1]

Installation art

In this form of contemporary art, transformation and alteration is undertaken since the viewers interconnect with
environment or space, such that immersion happened with the work or art. Installation art is usually in large-scale using
objects, materials, conditions, light, and aural components. The works are fixed-set, short-lived, impermanent. [8]

Allan Kaprov, Yayoi, Dale Chihuly – popular installation artists [8]

Performance art

Started in 1960’s, in place of their concern with the audience entertainment, message or sense of the artwork is the core
or center. Hence, the audience is geared as collaborator in understanding/appreciation of the artwork. [8]
– a may be planned, live or recorded; recognized as temporary or impermanent artworks – not about the materials
(medium) or pattern (format0 but how specific factor/situation is accomplished through interaction, questions, concerns,
engagement, conditions. [8]

V. REFERENCES: Panisan, W.K., Bongabong, M.C.L., Boongaling, C.C.G., Trinidad, M.A.B., Art Appreciation,
Mutya
Publishing, Inc., Malabon City, 2018
2. www. visual-arts-com.history/of Art.htm/originandEvaluationof Visual Arts
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_art
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_history
5. iesa.edu/paris/news-events/art-history
6. useum.org/Neoclassism/What-is-Neoclassism
7. Sanchez, C.A., Abad, P.F., Jao, L.V., Introduction To Humanities, Rex Book Store, Manila,
Fifth Edition,
2011
8. Caslib Jr., B.N., Art Appreciation. Rex Book Store, Manila, First Edition, 2018
9.Naum Gabo@Nina and Graham Williams/Tate,London2020, tate.org.uk/art/art-
terms/c/constructivism

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10. theartstory.org/movement.photorealism
11. theartling.com/en/artzinc/minimalism-art-guide/
12. magazine.artland.com/art-movement/-pop-art/
13. Dr. Fanoga, Minerva, rubrics
https://www.thoughtco.com/nonobjective-art-definition-183222
VI. ASSESSMENT TASK:

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