Lesson 5

ART and ARTISANS

Lesson Objectives:

 1. Set apart from artisans and establish their

relationship with each other
 2. Characterize the different medium in art
production
 3. Identify and recognize notable works and
contribution of national and GAMABA artists.
 4. Define the role of various individuals in the world
of art and culture.
 ARTIST

✓ For those who created a prototype whose only value

is for artistic and visual purposes
 ARTISANS

 Those who have created something that is functional

like a furniture with some elements of aesthetic
 ARTIST vs. ARTISANS

ARTIST ARTISANS

✓ Work in the fine arts, ✓ Craftsmen who work in

including painting, textiles, pottery, glass
illustration and sculpture and other areas.
✓ Fine artists work with ✓ Craft work like jewelry,
paint, watercolor, pen glasswork, pottery or
and ink, or illustrations other functional products
✓ Focus on creating ✓ Focus on accessorizing
aesthetically pleasing and functionality more
works than aesthetics
 ARTIST vs. ARTISANS
ARTIST
✓ Work of an artist tends to
be shown in museums and
galleries
✓ All fine artists first learn to
sketch and begin with a
pencil and sketchpad to
work with an idea on
paper. Artists transfer their
visions to canvases or other
medium, and this may
mean working in oil,
watercolor and pastels
ARTISANS
✓ Sell their crafts at fairs and
shops
✓ Make practical artistic
products, such as earrings,
vases, stained glass and
other accessories, whose
knowledge of the art is
obtained by studying under
a master craftsmen and
practicing with continued
study or experience.
 ARTIST vs. ARTISANS

ARTISTS ARTISANS

✓ Sculptors take their

sketches and create 3D
products from clay, marble
or other material
✓ Illustrators might work for
a publishing or animation
company, or create original
comic books.
✓ In this modern age, “young
artist, which refers to
emerging musicians
 ARTIST vs. ARTISANS

ARTIST ARTISANS

✓ An artist’s forte is  Artists work to create

create an art for the something new,
sake of art itself, original and at times,
without any underlying provocative. They
motives-they may spend a good portion of
usually create art for their time selling and
the pleasure of promoting their items
creating. in various market
places.
 MEDIUM

 Both artists and artisans translate their experiences

into a form of art that can be perceived by other
people using a particular medium
 The material or means by which the artist
uses to portray his feeling or thought such as
a pigment in painting, a wood or stone in a
sculpture, metal steels in architecture, sound
in music, words in literature and body
movements in dance( Ortiz, et Al., 1976).

ARTIST
 Usually, an artist’s choice
is influenced by practical
considerations like the
availability of the
material, the use to which
the art object will be
placed, the idea that he
wants to communicate,
and the nature and
special characteristics of
the medium itself
ARTISANS
➢ Most of the time, the work of
sculptors for instance, almost
always respond to some leap of
imagination.
➢ There is an attempt to represent an
original, imagined design and in
process, discovers the other
possibilities that the medium offers,
imagined design and in the process,
discovers other possibilities that
medium offers, without really
knowing how his work will turn out
until it is finished
 As for the artisan, he or she merely follows the
dictates of the designer and is concerned mainly with
manipulating the material used in order to produce
the expected artwork.
 He is not free to innovate.