ART

OVERVIEW
❑ Meaning of art;
❑ Importance of Art;
❑ Essentials of Art;
❑ Functions of art;
❑ Assumptions of Art
❑ Basic Philosophical Perspective of Arts
❑Categories of Art
 🎨DEFINITION: ART🎨
● French word “art”
● Latin word “ars”
● Ability – human capacity
● Process – acts
● Product – completed work.
 🎨DEFINITION: ART🎨
● ….communication of certain ideas
and feelings….(Machlis, 1963)
● ….brings life in harmony….(Plato)
● ….an attitude of spirit....(John Dewey)
● ….intense mode of
individualism….(Oscar Wilde)
● ….it is a way….(Elbert Hubbard)
🎨ESSENTIALS OF ART🎨
❑ Man-made.
❑ Creative not imitative.
❑ Benefit and satisfy man
❑ Expressed through a certain
medium of material.
🎨IMPORTANCE OF ART🎨

❑ expression
❑ beautifies the world
❑ communication
 🎨FUNCTIONS OF ART🎨
1. Personal/ Individual
function 6. Political function
2. Social function
7.Economic function
3. Cultural function
4.Aesthetic function 8. Historical function
5.Religious/Spiritual 9. Physical function
Function
🎨ASSUMPTIONS OF ART🎨

1. Art is universal
2. Art is not nature
3. Art involves experience
 🎨BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVE🎨
1. Art as mimesis (Plato)
2. Art as representation (Aristotle)
3. Art for art’s sake (Kant)
4. Art as an escape
5. Art as functional
 🎨CATEGORIES OF ARTS🎨
1.VISUAL ARTS
a. Paintings 2. PERFORMING ARTS
b. Sculpture
a. Music d. Film
c. Architecture
b. Dance e. Literary
c. Theater f. Performance
Poetry
 🎨CATEGORIES OF ARTS🎨
3. DIGITAL ARTS
4. APPLIED ARTS
a.Fashion Design
b.Furniture Design
c.Interior Design
d.Graphic Design
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