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ART APPRECIATION
TOPICS:
 FUNCTIONS AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ART
 SUBJECT AND CONTENT

GROUP 2
AVILA, MARIAN
CATAPANG, BEA
DE MESA, KATHRINA MAE
LAGMAN, EDUALINA
MARBAN, KYLA
MELANIO, FHERLIE MARIE
NORMANDE, FRANCYN
ROVELO, NICA

MS. KYLIE MARIE JAVIER

PROFFESOR

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TOPIC 1: FUNCTIONS AND PHILOSOPHICAL

PERSPECTIVES OF ART
 “Telos”
This important term can be translated variously as “end,” “goal,” or “purpose.”
According to Aristotle, we have a telos as humans, which it is our goal to have eudaimonia
(normally translated as “happiness,” eudaimonia also carries connotations of success and
fulfillment). This telos is based on our uniquely human capacity for rational thought.

FUNCTIONS OF ART
 Personal Functions of Art

 The personal functions of art are varied and highly subjective. This means that its
functions depend on the person-the artist who created the art. An artist may create
an art out of the need for self-expression. This is the case for an artist who needs
to communicate an idea to his audience. It can also be mere entertainment for his
intended audience. Often, the artist may not even intend to mean anything with
his work.

 Social Functions of Art

 Art communicates. Art has a social function when it addresses aspects of

(collective) life as opposed to one person's point of view or experience. Viewers
can often relate in some way to social art and are sometimes even influenced by it.

 Physical Functions of Art

 The physical functions of art are often the easiest to understand. Works of art that
are created to perform some service have physical functions.

 Other Functions of Art

 Music as an art is also interesting to talk about in relation to function. Music in its
original form was principally functional.

 Sculpture, on the other hand, is another functional art form that has long existed
for various purposes. Just like music, from the early days of humanity, sculptures
have been made by man most particularly for religion.

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 Another art form that readily lends itself to multiple functions is architecture. In
fact, architecture might be the most prominent functional art form. Buildings are
huge, expensive, and are not easily constructed and replaced.

Philosophical Perspective of Arts

 Art as an Imitation

 In the Republic, Plato says that art imitates the objects and events of ordinary life.
In other words, a work of art is a copy of a copy of a Form.

 Art as a Representation

 According to Aristotle, “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance
of things, but their inward significance.”

 Art as a Disinterested Judgement

 Kant argues that such aesthetic judgments (or 'judgments of taste') must have four
key distinguishing features. First, they are disinterested, meaning that we take
pleasure in something because we judge it beautiful, rather than judging it
beautiful because we find it pleasurable.

 Art as a Communication of Emotion

 The author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, provided another
perspective on what art is. In his book, what is Art (2016). Leo Tolstoy says that
art plays a huge role in communication to its audience's emotions that the artist
previously experienced. Art then serves as a language, a communication device
that articulates feelings and emotions that are otherwise unavailable to the
audience. In the same way that language communicates information to other
people, art communicates emotions.

TOPIC 2: SUBJECT AND CONTENT

3 BASIC COMPONENTS OF A WORK OF ART
 Subject

 It refers to the visual focus or the image that may be extracted from examining the
artwork.

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 Content

 It refers to the meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork.

 Form

 It refers to the development and configuration of the artwork.

TYPES OF SUBJECT
 Representational Art

 These types of art have subjects that refer to objects or events occurring in the real
world.

 Non-Representational Art

 The same as abstract arts.

 Non-representational art does not make any reference to the real world, whether it
is a person, place, thing, or even a particular event. It is stripped down to visual
elements that are employed to translate a particular feeling or emotion.

SOURCES OF SUBJECT
 Nature

 History

 Roman or Greek Mythology

 Judeo-Christian Tradition

 Sacred Oriental Texts

 Other works of art

KINDS OF SUBJECT
 History

 Still life

 Animals

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 Figures

 Nature

 Landscape

 Seascape

 Cityscape

 Mythology

 Myth

 Dreams

 Fantasies

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