UNDERSTANDING ARTS

INTRODUCTION TO ARTS
AND ITS SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

PRESENTED BY L AUDIMER C. HINGADA

 OBJECTIVES

This presentation aims to:

✓ Understand the different types and subcategories of Arts
✓ Determine the importance of Arts in community and social aspects
✓ Explain the different functions of arts
✓ Integrate arts with community practices as response to SDG
promotion and achievement

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INTRODUCTION TO ARTS
AND ITS TYPES
 WHAT IS ARTS?

Art is generally understood as any activity or product done by people with a

communicative or aesthetic purpose—something that expresses an idea, an
emotion or, more generally, a world view.

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 TWO KINDS OF ARTS

▪ AESTHETIC or FINE Art

▪ PRACTICAL or UTILITARIAN Art

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 AESTHETIC or FINE ARTS

“Fine Arts” are kinds of art created primarily for aesthetic enjoyment and
intellectual purposes judged primarily for its beauty and meaningfulness. It
is more focused in form rather than function.

This kind of art includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics, architecture etc.

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 PRACTICAL or UTILITARIAN ARTS

“Utilitarian Art” is a kind of art that is made primarily with a primary

function. It is a kind of art designed to be more useful than be attractive. It is
more focused in function rather than in form.

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 DIFFERENT TYPES OF UTILITARIAN ARTS

▪ Industrial Art
▪ Applied or Household Art
▪ Civic Art
▪ Commercial Art
▪ Agricultural Art
▪ Business Art
▪ Fishery Art
▪ Medical Art

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 U.ARTS: INDUSTRIAL ARTS

Industrial Art
It is the changing or raw materials for human consumption or use.

This includes shell-craft, bamboo-craft, shoe-making, pottery-making, sheet-

metalwork, manufacture of automobile, and home and appliances sets.

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 U.ARTS: APPLIED OR HOUSEHOLD ARTS

Applied or Household Art

It refers to arts practiced in household such as flower-arrangements, interior
decoration, dressmaking, embroidery, cooking, and others.

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 U.ARTS: CIVIC ARTS

Civic Art
It refers to the civic planning and beautification in order to improve the
standards of living.

This includes beautification of parks, plazas, roads, bridges, and farms.

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 U.ARTS: COMMERCIAL ARTS

Commercial Art
Arts that were created for business propaganda in the form of
advertisements.

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 U.ARTS: BUSINESS ARTS

Business Art
Art that refers to the techniques and styles that make business, bookkeeping,
typewriting, stenography, salesmanship, and even business administration
better.

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 U.ARTS: AGRICULTURAL ARTS

Agricultural Art
Arts that aids for a better production in agronomy and other components of
agriculture. It also includes the modification of form of horticulture related
products for a better reproduction and utilization.

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 U.ARTS: FISHERY ARTS

Fishery Art
Art related to deep – shallow fishing, modification of such components for a
better production in fishery related field.

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 U.ARTS: MEDICAL ARTS

Medical Art
Art that depicts the anatomy of an organism body for a better understanding
of medical science, surgery and pathology.

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IMPORTANCE OF ARTS
 ACCORDING TO ARTIST-STRANGE-WORK.COM (2020)

Art is a way of expression, a way of joy, a way of making people understand

things which can’t be done verbally. Art provides mankind with a diverse range
of necessities and comforts. The use of art in various political and social issues
to organize campaigns and create awareness is indispensable.

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 ACCORDING TO REFERENCE.COM (2020)

Art in this sense is communication; it allows people from different cultures and
different times to communicate with each other via images, sounds and stories.
Art is often a vehicle for social change. It can give voice to the politically or
socially disenfranchised.

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 ACCORDING TO ASSOC. PROFESSOR ANGEL FERNANDEZ
OF TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE (2019)

Art forces humans to look beyond that which is necessary to survive and leads
people to create for the sake of expression and meaning.

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 THEORETICAL IMPORTANCE OF ARTS

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 “Art is very important in society because it is an essential
ingredient to empowering the hearts of people”

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 “Art integrates mind, body, soul, and spirit”

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 “Great art tells meaningful stories.”

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 “Art encourages self-expression.”

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 “Art explains world is two most powerful concepts – Love
and Death”

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 “Art is a remarkable mode of depicting culture.”

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FUNCTIONS OF ARTS
 HOW WOULD YOU INTERPRET
THE FOLLOWING IMAGES?

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 ARTS AS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION

Arts have its definite function. It serves its own function for its viewers, for the
author, as well as community.
▪ Must art communicate?
▪ Why or why should not art communicate?

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 FUNCTIONS OF ARTS

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 FUNCTION OF ARTS

Art functions can be divided into several categories, these are:

▪ Personal Functions
▪ Social Functions
▪ Physical Functions

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 PERSONAL FUNCTIONS

Arts provides way for artists to express their emotions, experiences,

worldviews, and ideas through non-verbal communication. Moreover, paves
way for a more aesthetic and creative way of communicating ideas with people
who may possibly share the same values and interests.

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 SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

Generally, arts perform social functions when it:

a) Influences Social Behavior

b) Display and Celebration
c) Social Description

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 PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS

Arts serves physical functions to make the life of human beings and members
of the society better and productive. In addition to this, physical functions of
arts can be categorized into two:

a) Container
b) Tools

Moreover, there are some precepts underlying to art’s physical functions, these
are:

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 Form and Function
Function of an artwork is determined by the basic form it takes.

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 Architecture
The form of the architecture is primarily determined by its operational
function.

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 Function and Beauty
Designs or form allows a structure/piece to accomplish its purpose
regardless of time and period.

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 Community Planning
Community planning involves the efficient organization of buildings,
roads, and spaces so that they meet the physical and aesthetic needs of
the community.

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