strives to achieve the ideals that create the meaning of

ART: AN INTRODUCTION
life
ART
● the ability to interpret or understand man-made arts and
● Etymology
enjoy them either through actual and work-experience
○ From the Latin word ars = “skill”
with art tools and materials or possession of these works
○ Grk words artizein =to prepare; arkiskein = to put
of art for one’s admiration and satisfaction
together
○ Italian word artis = craftsmanship, skill, mastery of
THE SUBJECT OF ART
form, inventiveness, and the association that exist
● Serves as the foundation of the creation of the work of art
between form and ideas and between material and
● Comes in varieties
techniques
○ Usually anything that is represented in the artwork
○ Aryan root ar = to join or to put together.
■ May be a person, object, scene, or event
● the product of creative human activity in which
● representational/objective arts
materials are shaped or selected to convey an idea,
○ Artworks that depict something easily recognized
emotion, or visually interesting form
by most people
● suggests creative endeavors and includes an entire
○ Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, literature, music,
range of activities classified as cultural
dance, and theater arts.
● often subdivided into broad categories
● non-representational/non-objective arts
○ performing arts (theater, music and dance) creative
○ Artworks that have no resemblance to any real
activities presented before an audience, on stage,
subject
and in open places
○ Do not represent anything and they are what they
○ involve live, filmed, or videotaped presentation of
are
drama or the performance of certain skills
○ Appeal directly to the senses primarily because of
○ include acting, dancing, singing (or combinations of
the satisfying organization of their elements
these, as in musicals and opera), mime, vaudeville,
circus acts, pageantry, and puppetry
FUNCTIONS OF ART
● literary arts (poetry, essays, and novels)
● For recording appearances
● visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture,
○ Prehistoric people made images for use in rituals
printmaking, photography, design, digital art, decorative
related to the most important events in their lives:
arts, and crafts)
birth, death, and hunting --- the means of the
○ can be perceived with our eyes
group’s survival.
○ fine arts (painting, printmaking, and sculpture)
○ Works of art that show the appearance of important
○ applied arts (architecture and design)
people serve as substitutes for those people.
● For making visible the invisible
THE NATURE OF ART
○ Art can also make visible things we normally cannot
● constitutes one of the oldest and most important means
see.
of expression developed by man
○ Throughout history, people have made images of
● has been created by all people at all times
gods, angels, and demons; of events from the
● has lived because it is liked and enjoyed
distant past or the far-off future; and of what they
● made by man himself not imitatively but creatively
wished the present would be but is not.
● brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world
● For communicating
● an attitude of spirit, a state of mind --- one which
○ Art in all its forms can display wealth, power, and
demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping
prestige
of matter to new and more significant form (John Dewey)
○ Religious beliefs to worshipers
● Common essentials of art
○ A political point of view
○ Must be man-made
○ News of general interest
○ Must be creative, not imitative
○ To teach and to persuade
○ Must benefit and satisfy man an man make use of
● For delighting
art in practical terms
○ By being beautiful or charming in themselves
○ Expressed through a certain medium or material
○ By their visual intricacy and patterns in nature
by which the artist communicates himself to his
○ By frightening us with terrifying sights.
fellows
Main functions
● A valuable source of inspiration
● Personal function
● Enables a glimpse of the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs
○ People have personal reasons for indulging in art
of the people who lived in the period the artwork was
● Aesthetic function
produced and the external factors that influenced the
○ Man becomes conscious of the beauty of nature
artwork
● Social function
● Can beautify our humanity
○ Man learns to love and help each other.
● enables people to know the changing image of man as
he journeys across time, searches for the reality, and
 ○ International understanding and cooperation are
fostered and nations become more unified, friendly, CLASSIFICATIONS OF ARTS (ESTOLAS, 1995)
cooperative, helpful, and sympathetic.
● Utilitarian function Visual arts graphic arts and plastic arts
○ Man lives in comfort and happiness
○ Man’s life is enriched and nature is improved Performing arts theater, play, dance, and music
● Economic function
Literary arts short story, novel, poetry, and drama
○ It “pays a lot” to be an artist.
● Political function Popular arts film, newspaper, magazine, radio, and
○ Political programs and projects are promoted to the television
public
Gustatory art of food and beverage preparation
○ Virtues of self-discipline, industry, unity, and
the Cuisine
cooperation are inculcated.
● Historical function Decorative arts beautification of houses, offices, cars, and
○ Historical figures and events are recorded. other structures

THE SCOPE OF ART THE ORIGIN OF ART

MAJOR DIVISIONS ACCORDING TO PURPOSE (PANIZO & ● History of art began with that of humanity
RUSTIA, 1995) ○ Dates back to the time when superstitions and
beliefs in the spirits are still very common in every
Practical/u directed to produce handicrafts, embroidery, culture
seful arts artifacts and utensils for ceramics, iron and metal
the satisfaction of human crafts, and tin can ■ Indigenous art: accompanied ancient rituals
needs manufacturing and ceremonies
○ Ancient people performed dances to entertain, to
Liberal Directed towards The study of philosophy, worship their gods and goddesses, and to invoke
arts intellectual growth psychology, literature,
mathematics, and success and blessings
sciences ○ Music and poetry: chronicle the lives and works of
ancestors and the legendary origins of heroes and
Fine arts Focused towards Painting, sculpture, and gods.
creative activity for the architecture
contemplation of the ○ Tribal cultures: body paintings during ceremonies
mind and the uplift of the ○ cave paintings and drawings: ancient religious
spirit; made beliefs and visions
○ sculptures: associated with religion, with gods and
primarily for aesthetic
enjoyment through the goddesses as most common subjects
senses, especially visual ○ artworks made from durable materials: survive
and auditory longer than those made of wood
○ temples of the East and West: pertain to gods,
Major arts characterized by actual music, poetry, and
and potential sculpture goddesses, religious animals, demons, priests,
expressiveness kings, and queens

Minor arts concerned with practical interior decoration and ART AS DECLARATION OF POWER
uses and purposes porcelain art
● The power to convey immortality
● The power to change our beliefs
MAJOR DIVISIONS ACCORDING TO MEDIA AND FORMS ● The power to shock
(PANIZO & RUSTIA, 1995) ● The power to touch our emotions
● The power to awaken our senses
Plastic exist in a physical space sculpture and decorative
arts and perceived by the materials ● The power to transform the ordinary
sense of sight

Kinetic involve the element of dance

arts rhythm

Phonetic utilize sounds and words music, drama, and

arts as mediums of literature
expression

Pure arts take only one medium of sound in music and color
expression in painting

Mixed arts take more than one opera or theater ---

medium of expression combining music, poetry,
and drama