ART APPRECIATION Art is a Phenomenon – art comprises a

broad general phenomenon: it is a

(PRELIMS)
Assumption and Nature of Art
Spolarium- Juan Luna 1884
-shows the
cruelty,injustices,sufferings,helplessness
experienced ny gladiators.
Art- a set of aspects which make something
a candidate for appreciation.
-Use of skill and creative imagination
especially in production of aesthetic objects
Adumu Dance – Maasi Tribe
-to see who can jump the highest and to
decide who gets to mary who.
ASSUMPTION OF ART
collection of human experiences
Art manifest itself- human societies will
have art even when these societies do not
demonstrate them; art will manifest
consciously or unconsciously.
Art is experienced in duality – making art
and recognizing and responding to is are
considered to be separate experiences
Green Sea- Quang Tran, 2014
NATURE OF ARTS
Imagination – Ability to form images and
ideas about things never seen or
experienced befor; Free Thinking
Creativity – responding problem with tools
and knowledge in existence
Fairy Dancing with Dandelion –Robin
Wright

Instinctual – humans creat art as a response

to our basic instincts for seeking balance,
WORKS OF ART
harmony, rhythm and our desire to
experience mystery. Visual Arts – Includes arts such as drawings,
painting,printmaking , photography, and
Motivational – used to communicate and
sculpture.
idea or emotion; a reflection of desire to
seek pleasure and entertainment. Film – revolves around the attention to
details and how films convey meaning by
Agono Petroglyphs – Agono, Rizal
cinematic means.
-Mostly symbolic representation and
Performance Arts – solo or group
associated with healing and sympathetic
performance of artists which is contingent
magic.
on the presence or absence of body
Art possesses selective value – art
Poetry – The aesthetic use of language in
enhances the survival of a species whose
creating notions and semantic content
members possess that behavior
Architecture – Creative foundations of Hip-hop and funk –
buildings and innovative structures Breaking,bounce,electric boogaloo,street
jazz,jookin,locking and popping
Dance – Human expression through
movement
Literature – written works which are FUNCTION OF ART AND PHILOSOPHY
considered to have lasting artistic merit
Beauty in art – beauty is what gives
Theater Arts – Human expression and pleasure when seen
exploration which delves deeper in
FUNCTIONS OF ART
understanding the human condition
Physical – artwork which were created
Applied Arts- concerned with making
perform some service have physical
objects with functional purposes, but which
function
aesthetic concerns are significant
Social – Art has social function when it
addresses aspects of life
EXPLORING WORKS OF ART
Personal – Artists create artwork for the
Fetus in the Womb – Leonardo Da Vinci need for self-expression or gratification
1510
Aesthetic Pleasure – Pleasures
FORM OF ART accompanies human’s perception of beauty
DANCE: Aesthetics – derives from the greek word
aesthesis which means’ sense of
Ballroom - includes waltz, Viennese,
perception”
tango,chahcha, rumba,
samba,mambo,quickstep,jive and bolero Subject Matter – Artwork resemble original
artwork in terms of expression
African-American and Traditional Jazz –
includes Charleston, swing,tap dance,
moonwalk, and boogie-boogie
SUBJECT AND CONTENT
Latin- salsa,flamenco,argentina
Representational Art – people or objects
tango,lambada,polka,east coast
look as possible to their real-world
swing,country,folkdance, and belly dance
counterparts
Professional Performance –
Abstraction – Images are made to look less
ballet,contempory dance,concert dance,
like the object they are based although they
modern dance, and tap dance
may still be recognizable
Modern- House,rave,disco, and Bollywood
Non-objective Imaging - Creates object
which are nonrepresentational images- they
do not refer to any existing forms in real life
ESSENCE OF DIGGING INTO ART HISTORY
Michelangelo di Lodovico Bunarotti Simoni
– famous by the “sistene chapel” frescoes.
It took him about four years to finish the
ceiling.
Art History – it seeks to understand
different cultures and times through the
study and analysis of art as a means of
communication
APPRECIATING ARTWORK
Ask yourself what you see – create a
specific emotional reaction for what you see
Study the history behind a piece – gain
better impression and perception of a work
through researching
ART AND ARTISAN
CREATORS OF ART
Artist – A person who makes tangible or
intangible products as an expression of
creativity and imagination
Artisan - Produces crafts which may be
acquired only for practical use
Michaelangelo Merist da Caravaggio –
Boasts of collection of paintings which are
mostly influenced bt realistic observation
and presence of lights and sceneries
The London Eye- represents a practical
structure which provides a high view of the
entirety of London
ART PRODUCTION
Pre-production – the artist focuses mainly
on the intellectual or emotional message of
the art
Production- utilizes available material in
order to procedure the desire result
Post Production – Requires the artist to add
finishing touches on the art piece
Technique – Determines the artist’s control
over the medium
Medium – material used by an artsist to
express his/her feelings or thoughts
TYPES OF MEDIUM
Visual – mediums which can be heard and
which are expressed in time
Combined- Mediums which can be both
seen and heard and which exist both in
space and time
(MIDTERMS)
EXPRESSIONS OF ART PRODUCTION
Realism – accurately and honestly as
possible what is observed through the
senses
Abstraction – the artist becomes interested
in one phase of a scene or a situation
Abstraction Distortion – manifested when
the subject misshapened or the regular
shape is twisted
Abstraction Elongation – achieved by
lengthening , protracting or extending an
aspect or feature of a subject
Abstarction Cubism- uses cone, cylinders, Mosaic- small piece of inlaid colored stones
or spheres at the expense of other pictorial or glass called tesserae to create and image
element
Stained Glass- small pieces of colored glass
Symbolism- subjects represent an idea or held together by bands of lead
concept devoid in the image but rather
Tapestry –Fabric produced by handweaving
expressed through the various elements in
colored threads upon a wrap;hung on walls
the piece
Bistre- brown pigment extracted from the
Fauvism- subjects are typically of comfort,
soot of wood and often used in pen and
joy , and pleasure
wash and drawing
Dadaism- Rejects logic,reason, and
aesthetic of capitalist societies
ELEMENTS OF ART AND DESIGN
Futurism – emphasized on
speed,technology,youth and violence, and Design- a plan or drawing prodiced to show
objects as cars,airplanes, and industrial the look and function or workings of art
cities
Line-the path of a moving point
Surrealism- its visual artworks which sought
Specific Behavior:
to express the imaginings of unconscious
mind Static – usually straight vertical or
horizontal directions
MATERIAL FOR ART PRODUCTION
Dynamic- curving, slanted,zigzag,contorted
Watercolor- pigements mixed with water
or meandering directions
and applied to fin white paper
Specific Existence:
Gouache- an opaque watercolour
Actual – physically and virtually present
Fresco- painting done on a moist plaster
surface with colors ground in water or Implied- created with visual links
limewater mixture
Shape – two dimensional area that is
Tempra- Mineral pigments mixed with egg defined in some way, perhaps with an
yolk outline or solid area of color
Pastel – Stick of dried paste made of Form- the configuration of an individual
pigment ground with chalk and component of the overall, geometric shapes
compounded with gum and water
Space- area in, around, and between the
Oil- oil paintings appear glossy and last components of the design
long; most costly material to use for
Negative Space- within a design that is void
painters
of material
Texture- The way things feel or how they Proportion- art elements to the whole and
look and feel if a person touches it to each other
Color – Appeal directly to the audience’s Variety- Obtained through the use of
emotions and stands for ideas and feelings diversity and change in increasing the visual
interest of the work
Unity – the quality of wholeness ore
PRINCIPLE OF DESIGN
oneness of the art piece
 Fundamental guidelines to aesthetic
design.
ANCIENT ART
Balance- the way art elements are arranged
to creat a feeling of stability in a work;also Art,Religion and Political Orders – Between
called as symmetry 5000BC abd 300AD
Emphasis – the artist combines the art Ancient Art - created from 30,000 BCE to
elements to stress the differences between 400AD
those elements and create more centers of
Emergence of art – covered periods such as
interest in a work
paleolithic,Neolithic, the bronze age, iron
Gradation- combining art elements by using age
a series of gradual change in those
Eygpt – depicts gods, goddesses and
elements
pharaohs
Harmony- accenting the similarities of art
Khafre Enthroned- fourth dynasty of
elements and binding the design parts into
ancient eygpt
a whole
Rosetta Stone - contains three versions of a
Rhythm- indicates movement by the
decree issued at Memphis,Eygpt
repition of elements
Greece – include much pottery, sculpture,
Types of Rhythm:
(contra
Regular rhythm- a reptition of elements
that are evenly spaced
Irregular rhythm – elements that are
repeated but not exactly
Progressive Rhythm – as elements repeat,
they increase or decrease in size
Movement – creates the illusion of action
or physical change in position