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- What’s the importance of investigating particular

branch of Philosophy?
ARTAPP - When learning a new language?
o
Art Appreciation - When contemplating on a sculpture?
o Can somehow sense what kind of life this artist
had.
o Reading books can make us gain more
Thursday – February 3, 2022 (First Discussion) knowledge, not just about facts but also about
the history.
Humanities and Art Appreciation
From the Ohio Humanities Council
What are Humanities?
➢ The humanities are the stories, the ideas, and the
➢ The study of how people process and document the words, that help us make sense of our lives and our
human experience. world.
➢ Subjects under the humanities umbrella: ➢ It introduces us to people we have never met,
▪ Philosophy
Meaning of Humanities and Art Appreciation
▪ Love and Wisdom
▪ Teaches critical thinking, clear writing, and logical ➢ Derived from the Latin word “humanus” refines or
analysis cultured human.
▪ An activity people undertake when they want to ➢ The humanities can be described as the study of how
understand their self and the world people process and documents the human
▪ Those who study philosophy are engage asking experience… studies about human culture.
about some of life’s questions like, what is God, o The humanities are the stories, the ideas, and
what is life, is there after life? the words that help us make sense of our lives
▪ Most practical course and our world (White, 1997)
▪ Able us to think careful, critical, and clarity, and o Gives you General Knowledge and Intellectual
examining hard issues Skills
▪ Allows discuss sensibly and write effectively. ➢ Art Appreciation is Referred to the knowledge of the
general and everlasting qualities that classify all great
▪ Literature art.
o Teaches the basic principles of visual literacy,
▪ Religion
acknowledged elements of composition and
▪ Art principle of design.
▪ Music o Can be subjective because some are referring to
▪ History their personal references.
▪ Derived from word “Historia” means enquiry or ▪ We are being though how to appreciate when
knowledge acquired from investigation, something looking at an Art.
scientific
▪ Studying Past events in the life of the present Relevance of Art Appreciations
▪ To understand where these things or objects exist, ▪ Looking at, making, and writing about art
we should know its history. develops critical thinking skills or a “Questioning
▪ Help us understand people and society. Frame of Mind”.
Understanding is difficult if we do not know what ▪ With human intellect, it directs humankind to a
they go through in the past. more meaningful action.
▪ Helps us figure out ▪ Art is not meant to be looked at only for what it is,
▪ Explains our identity right now are called our past. it is meant to stimulate thought, hence it naturally
develops critical and innovative thinking skills.
Why do the Humanities Matter? Responding to the multiple perspective.
➢ INSIGHT TO EVERYTHING ▪ Art Appreciation, therefore, allows on to
▪ By explaining the humanities, we learn how to construct meaning about what they are listening,
think creatively and critically, to reason, and to seeing, feeling, and thinking.
ask questions. ▪ It allows on to develop and open mind and
➢ UNDESRTAND OUR WORLD understand that there is more than just one
▪ Research into the human experience adds to our solution to a problem.
knowledge about our world ▪ It helps on to develop an appreciation for each
➢ BRINGING CLARITY TO THE FUTURE other and how we are all unique in our own way.
▪ Humanistic knowledge continues to provide the
ideal foundation for exploring and
understanding the human experience.
 Importance of Studying Art Appreciation ➢ For what is that expression for?
▪ Develops literacy and communication skills. ▪ Name the unnamed and unformed
▪ Helps us make sense of the world, broadens our ➢ What does art dot to do with human
experience, and understanding existence?
▪ Allows us to see ourselves and our own community ▪ Create meaning is part of our human existence.
through a difference perspective. ▪ Art allows us creating meaning takes place.
▪ Art opens new way of thinking and understanding
➢ What factors allow one to create
meaning?
What is Art History? ▪ Making meaning involves understanding our
surroundings
▪ It is the study of objects of art in their historical ▪ Art is the expression of beliefs, feelings, and
development and stylistic context- genre, design, characteristics.
format, and style. ▪ Artist is the expressor
▪ As a term, it encompasses several methods of ▪ Art acknowledges meaning
studying the visuals. ▪ Art reveals artist’s experiences.
▪ As a discipline, it is distinguished from art Criticism ▪ Art transfers
➢ Important question that art historian answer:
▪ What are key features of this styles?
▪ What meaning did the object convey? Thursday – February 10, 2022
▪ How does is function visually?
▪ Did the artist meet their goals well? Topic: Basic Assumption of Arts
▪ What symbols are involved?
▪ Does it function discursively? ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Creativity and Imagination ▪ The function of theory is to describe and explain.
▪ Theories have assumptions.
IMAGINATION CREATIVITY ▪ Assumption is a thing that is acceptable. Accepted
Thinking of Doing something Proof
something that meaningful with your ➢ Are proofs necessary to back up an assumption?
is not present imagination. ▪
Allows us to Using imagination to ➢ Does Art Experience?
▪ Use the 5 senses.
things of things unleash the potential of
➢ Is nature art in itself?
that are not existing ideas in order to
▪ Art is NOT nature.
real. create new and valuable ▪ Nature is NOT art.
ones ▪ Art is made by man and Nature is made by God.
Our focus can Our focus must be on ▪ However, nature can be enhanced by man.
be on things things that might be ➢ Is art something that is cultural?
that are possible but we can’t be ▪ Art is cultural – TRUE
▪ Art is cultural when it affects the way people live.
impossible. sure until we explore
➢ Is art a form of creation?
them further. ▪ Art is also considered as form of creation because it
▪ NOT all imaginative is also creative. is created by imagination and skills.
▪ If a people can imagine something but she/he
➢ Can art be objective?
cannot make it possible, she/he is just imaginative
▪ NO because art is SUBJECTIVE.
but NOT a creative.
▪ It cannot be measure by significance.
▪ Although we are born imaginative, CREATIVITY is
being learned.
NATURE OF ARTS
➢ Art is a diverse range of human activities
Tuesday – February 08, 2022 ➢ Art represents reality
➢ Art is an expression
Topic: Basic Assumptions, Functions, and ➢ Art serves as a means of communication of emotions
Nature of Arts ➢ Art matters
➢ Art is universal
What is Art? ➢ Art is creation
➢ Art is an expression made visible by a form.
Tuesday – February 15, 2022 What are included in the Visual Arts?

FUNCTIONS OF ART • Fine arts

• Contemporary Arts – modern art forms like collage
➢ What is the fundamental element that must be form, conceptual art, photography
considered for art to have a function? • Decorative Arts and Crafts – general, mosaic, glass
art, pottery, fashion design,
➢ 3 Categories of Functions: • Applied art areas – (Graphic design, fashion design,
interior design, tattoo art, face painting, and body
▪ Personal Function painting)
▪ What are some human needs which Art can be
use? Philosophical Perspective of Arts
▪ For Self-expression
▪ For self-gratification • The nature of art, interpretation, representation,
▪ For control expression, form
▪ For therapy • Aesthetics – the philosophical study of beauty and
▪ For religious services? taste
▪ Social Function • Plato – art as mimesis
▪ Art is closely related to every aspect of social life • Aristotle – Art as Representation, reality, Mimesis
art communicates… art has powerful as perfection
transformative and restorative effects. • Kant – Art for Art Sake, necessary satisfaction
▪ When does Art perform a social function?
The Subject of Art
▪ Influence social behavior
▪ Display and celebration - What is the subject of Art?
▪ Physical Function - Two types:
▪ Works od art that are created to perform some o Representational or Objective and
service have physical functions o Non-representation or Non-objective
▪ What does an object like a chair does?
▪ Why are buildings designed as so?
▪ The need for community planning
• Commercial – malls, markets
• Industrials – Raw materials for products,
farms, factory
▪ Function and Beauty

Lesson 3: The visual Arts

Introduction
• Onset of the visual arts industry in the 2nd half of the 20th
century
• Offering of arts subjects in the tertiary level
• National and local government support in the promotion
of visual arts

Sources of Subject of Art

The Visual Arts
• Primary Sources
• What art forms are considered as visual Arts? o witnesses/recorders with first-hand testimony of
o Ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, events; includes memoirs, autobiographies, oral
printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, histories,
film-making, and architecture
• Are applied arts included?
• Secondary Sources
o Industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, o nature (animals, people, landscape), history
o interior design, and decorative art (events), Greek and Roman mythology, the
Judaeo Christian tradition, Oriental sacred texts,
• Visual Arts – Fine Art, applied art, decorative arts, and
crafts and other works of art
• What’s the meaning of the term “artist” before the turn
of the 20th century?
o The only considered was sculpturers,
Kinds of Subject 4.) Creativity requires that we have a
a. knowledge of the idea
• Still Life b. motivation and freedom to explore
• Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes c. energy to see the process through
• Animals d. all of the above
• Portraits 5.) As a term, art history is
• Figures a. encompasses several methods of studying
• Everyday life the visual arts
• History and Legends b. distinguished from art criticism
• Religion and Mythology c. limited to relatively rich societies with
• Dreams and Fantasies sophisticated technologies
d. None of the above
6.) These are produced by countries like China, Japan,
and India and these have inspired various kinds of
arts. Most fruitful have been that of Hinduism and
Buddhism What source of art subject is characterized
by the foregoing?
a. Nature
b. Greek and Roman mythology
c. History
d. Oriental sacred texts
7.) Artists have always been intrigued by the human face
as an index of the owner's character. As an
instrument of expression, it is capable of showing a
variety of moods and feelings
a. Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes
b. Animals
c. Figures
d. Portraits
8.) Artists also draw their inspiration from
transcendental beings and events that are usually
impossible but which try to send a message that has
an important social and religious meaning.
a. History and Legends
b. Religion and Mythology
Different Levels of Meaning c. Dreams and Fantasies
d. Everyday Life
• Factual Meaning
9.) These are usually vague and illogical. Artists like the
• Conventional – flagpole or be like. surrealists have tried to depict them as well as the
• Subjective Meaning – any personal grotesque terrors and apprehensions that lurk in the
depths of the subconscious.
a. History and Legends
b. Dreams and Fantasies
QUIZES 10.) These sources provide first-hand testimony or direct
evidence concerning a topic under investigation.
a. Primary
1.) Humanities is derived from what Latin word?
b. Secondary
a. Hominae
c. Tertiary
b. Humanus
d. Both primary and secondary
c. Homos
11.) Animals, people, landscapes are the three most
d. None of the above
common inspiration and subject matter for art. What
2.) Art is not meant to be looked at only for what it is. It
source of art subject is characterized by the
is meant to:
foregoing?
a. stimulate thought
a. Nature
b. stimulate reaction
b. Greek and Roman mythology
c. stimulate mental awareness
c. History
d. all of the above
d. Oriental sacred texts
3.) History is also a part of our:
12.) A kind of subject of art that draws from the physical
a. Thoughts
environment.
b. mental attitude
a. Still Life
c. lives
b. Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes
d. character
c. Portraits
13.) The body's form, structure, and flexibility offer the 22.) Community planning includes the following except
artist a big challenge to depict in a variety of ways. a. civic center
a. Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes b. parks, places, and malls
b. Animals c. street and roads
c. Figures d. valued places
d. Portraits 23.) Many things remain the same in shape throughout
14.) These are groups of inanimate objects arranged in an the years because their functional requirements do
indoor setting - usually consisting of fruits, flowers not allow for greater variations in their form.
and leaves depicted in their natural setting. a. Function and beauty
a. Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes b. Architecture
b. Still Life c. Form and function
c. Figures d. All of the above
d. Portraits 24.) Arts perform a social function when:
15.) It is the literal meaning or the narrative content in the a. it varies from one society or another
work. b. it is developed by humans
a. Factual meaning c. display and celebration
b. Subjective meaning d. it is pass on to other people
c. Conventional meaning 25.) Which of the following is true?
d. All of the above a. Art is an expression
16.) They are often written after events by parties not b. Art matters
directly involved but who have special expertise. c. Art is a creation
a. Primary d. All of the above
b. Secondary 26.) Art is subjective because
c. Tertiary a. t cannot be measured by its significance or
d. Both primary and secondary the level of skill which it is created
17.) He said that all artistic creation is a form of imitation. b. Art is a work of humans and anything that has
a. Aristotle been created by humans is part of culture
b. Plato c. In order to experience something, you have
c. Kant to make use of your five senses, there can
d. Socrates never be appreciation of art without having
18.) It is simply the personal meaning consciously or experience it.
unconsciously conveyed by the artist using a private d. Art is not nature.
symbolism which stems from his own association of 27.) Art is universal because
certain objects, actions, or colors with past a. It can be found anywhere
experience. b. It is continuous
a. Factual meaning 28.) Which of the following is a nature of art?
b. Subjective meaning a. Art is expression
c. Conventional meaning b. Art matters
d. All of the above c. Art serves as a means of communication of
19.) Artists are sensitive to the events taking place in the emotions
world around them. The dress, houses, the manner d. All of the above
of living, the thoughts of a period are necessarily 29.) Which of the following is true?
reflected in the work of the artist. What source of art a. Art may serve the personal functions of
subject is characterized by the foregoing? control
a. Nature b. Art has been used to attempt to exert
b. Greek and Roman mythology magical control over time or the seasons or
c. History even the acquisition of food
d. Oriental sacred texts c. Art is used to bring order to a disorganized
20.) Artists have always shown a deep concern about life and disorderly world
around them. Many of them have recorded in d. All of the above
paintings their observations of people going about 30.) An artist may create out of a need for self-expression
their usual ways and performing their usual tasks. or gratification
a. History and Legends a. physical function
b. Religion and Mythology b. social function
c. Dreams and Fantasies c. personal function
d. Everyday Life d. All of the above
21.) One function of sculpture or painting is:
a. commemoration of important personages in
society
b. social description expresses or describes
social or collective aspects
c. None of the above