TALATURU KU

ART APPRECIATION
 Florante at Laura - never fails to show high school students the beauty of love, one
that is both pure and universal.
 Psalms - recite “We feel one with King David in his conversation with God”
 Age - is not a factor in determining art.
 Kundiman - is perform folk dances, we still enjoy the way our Filipino ancestors while
away their time in the past.
 Ibong Adarna - has always captured the imagination of the young with its timeless
lessons.
 Misconception: Artistic made long time ago.
 Art – is not directed by representation of reality, is a perception of reality.
 Paul Cezanne, - is a French painted a scene from reality entitled Well and Grinding
Wheel in the Forest of the Chateau Noir.
 Art - does not full detail but just an experience. Actual doing of something.
 A work of an art then cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In order to know what
an artwork, we have to sense it, see and hear it.
 In philosophical terms, perception of art is always a value judgment. It depends on
who perceive is, his tastes, his biases, and what he has inside.
 Political Art - is a very common example of an art with a social function.
 Personal functions - art are highly subjective and depend on the artist who created
the art.
 Architecture, jewelry-making, interior design all serves physical functions.
 In Plato’s The Republic, paints a picture of artists as imitators and art is mere
imitations.
 Art represents version of reality. In Arestotelian worldview, art serves two Particular
purposes: art allows for the experience of pleasure and art has an ability to be
instructive and teach its audience things about life.
 Emmanuel Kant - in his Critique of Judgement, considered the judgement of beauty,
the cornerstone of art, as something universal despite its subjectivity. He recognized
that judgement of beauty is subjective.
 Leo Tolstoy, art plays a huge role in communication to its audience’s emotions that
the artist previously experienced.
 Technique is the manner in which artist controls his medium to achieve the desired
effect.
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 Mediums are the mode of expression in which the concept, idea or message is
conveyed. These are the materials which are used by an artist to interpret his
feelings or thoughts.
 Visual Arts are those mediums that can be seen and which occupy space.
 Vertical line represents dignity, formality, stability and strength.
 Horizontal line represents calm, peace and relaxation.
 Diagonal line represents action, activity, excitement and movement.
 Curved line represents freedom, the natural, having the appearance of softness and
creates a soothing feeling or mood.
 Color has an immediate and profound effect on a design. Colors can affect how
humans feel and act.
 Value is the relative lightness or darkness of a color.
 Throughout the design, balance is equally distributed in order to create a feeling of
stability. This includes both physical and visual balance.
 Rhythm is the repeated use of line, shape, color, texture or pattern.
 Emphasis attracts viewers; it can be achieved through size, placement, color and use
of lines.
 Spanish colonialism lives on with the Filipino antique furniture and carving designs.
 Infusing spontaneity and improvisation adds up to the totality of the work of art.
 Expressionism is an art movement that centers on the expression of inner emotions.
Colors used are vibrant and distortion is usually used
 Social Realism an art movement which portrays social and racial injustice and
economic hardship, marked by its realistic depiction of social problems.
 A style wherein paintings are usually done outdoors is called Impressionism.
 Small pieces of colored stone or glass glued on the surface is Mosaic.
 Juan Luna’s Spoliarium won the gold medal in the 1884 Exposicion Nacional De
Bellas Artes.
 Photography is the art of creating pictures by recording light into sensitive Medium,
such as film.
 In Hindu and Buddhist mythology, apsara is a female spirit of the clouds and Waters,
or a nymph of the sky.
 Antonio Toledo designed the Manila City Hall, and the Agriculture and Finance
buildings at the Agrifina circle in Luneta.
 Batik - A technique of dyeing cloth which includes the use of removable wax to repel
the dye on parts of a design.
 Origami the art of paper folding, which started around the 17th century.
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 Aristotle claimed that humans have instincts for imitation and harmony. He described
that these instincts are “Lying deep in our nature”
 Republic Act 7356 is an Act Creating The National Commission For Culture And The
Arts, Establishing National Endowment Fund For Culture And The Arts, And For Other
Purposes.
 The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is the country’s “overall
policy making body, coordinating, and grant giving agency for preservation,
development and promotion of Philippine arts and Culture”.
 Fabian delarosa was the first mentor of Fernando Amorsolo, the first National Artist
of the Philippines who was given a posthumous ward for Visual Arts in 1972.
 Carlos Botong Francisco, in his works he turned fragments of the historic past into
vivid record of the legendary courage of ancestors of his race like the ones seen in
the City Hall of Manila.
 Komiks have brought to life memorable characters of heroism and goodness in the
works of Mars Ravelos.
 The formative years of Philippine Cinema, starting 1930s, were a time of discovering
the film genre as a new medium of art.
 The 1950s saw the first golden age of Philippine cinema, with the emergence of
more artistic and mature films, and significant improvement in cinematic techniques
among film makers.
 Indie films of the pasts have often been viewed as highly intellectual or pretentious
for its depth and ambiguity.
 Acclaimed as the Father of Philippine Impression is Antonio Molina.
 Soul-making is an alternative venue for knowing ourselves and looking into the
depths and real meaning of what we are doing for everyday life.
 The Medieval Period of music is the period from the years c.500 to 1400. It is the
longest period of music.
 The word “baroque” comes from the Portuguese word barroco meaning misshapen
pearl, a negative description of the ornate and heavily ornamented music of this
period.
 George Frideric Handel was also known for reworking pieces such as the famous
Messiah, which premiered in 1742, for available singers and musicians.
 Calligraphy is a decorative art of lettering in an ornamental style. This is particularly
well-known is East Asian arts.
 Pop Art an art movement which is centered on, or inspired from familiar images of
popular culture, such as advertisements, comics, and commercial products.
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 Mandala In Buddhism, a diagram with pictures or statues of gods in specific positions.
Mandala literally means circle.
 Abstract non-representational or non-figurative imagery. It could also be a distortion
or simplification of forms.
 Apo Wang-od is the last mambabatok or traditional Kalinga tattoo artist.
 Humanities came from the Latin word humanus meaning refined, cultured and
Human.
 ART comes from the Aryan root word AR which means to put together.
 Visual arts that are primarily seen, occupies space.
 Auditory heard, timed arts; exist in time.
 Combined/performing arts combines visual & auditory elements
 Aesthetics is the philosophical argument about the nature of beauty.
 Subjective Perspective knowledge residing in the emotions and thoughts of the
viewer) almost completely dominates our way of looking at art.
 Objective Perspective is one that focuses on the object’s physical characteristics as
the main source of information.
 A point is the simplest element of visual design which all others are based.
 The portrait bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, dated to around 1300 BCE, exemplifies
beauty and royalty.
 Imperial Portrait of Chinese Emperor Xianfeng shows realism in the likeness of the
emperor, it exalts in the patterns and colors of his robe and the throne behind him.
 Linda Berkley’s Merino Ram uses a layered approach to record in great detail the
physical anatomy of the head of the great sheep.
 Fine Art includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and new media that
are in museum collections and sold through commercial art galleries.
 Popular Culture contains the many products and images we are exposed to every
day this includes posters, graffiti, advertising, popular music, television and digital
imagery, magazines, books and movies.
 Craft is a category of art that shows a high degree of skilled workmanship in its
production.
 Style refers to a particular kind of appearance in works of art.
 Naturalistic style uses recognizable images with a high level of accuracy in their
depiction.
 Abstract style is based on a recognizable object but which is then manipulated by
distortion, scale issues or other artistic devices.
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 Georgia O’Keeffe’s Birch and Pine Trees employs abstraction to turn the painting
into a tree-filled landscape dominated by a spray of orange paint suggesting a branch
of birch leaves.
 Cultural styles refer to distinctive characteristics in artworks throughout a particular
society or culture.
 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) or the National Living Treasures Award
was institutionalized through Republic Act No. 7355.
 Ambahan is a poetic literature, made up of seven-syllable lines used to communicate
messages through metaphors and imagery.
 Alonzo Saclag acclaimed as the Master of Dance and Performing Arts as well as
Master of Native Kalinga instruments.
 Ukiyo-e, often translated as pictures of the floating world, refers to Japanese paintings
and woodblock prints that originally depicted the cities’ pleasure districts during the
Edo Period.
 Fauvism is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (which
included Henri Matisse and André Derain) which is characterized by strong colors and
fierce brushwork.
 Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around
1907-08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
 Beethoven as deaf musician remains one of the most admired composers in the
history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical
music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era
in classical music.
 Chopin as poet of the piano has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician
of his era, one whose poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was
without equal in his generation.
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky known for his ballet music of the Romantic period. He
was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression
internationally.
 Claude Debussy is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although
he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the
late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance
who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor,
and architect. He is also know fir his famous 7 davincian principles.
 T’nalak has a distinctive tri-color scheme: White for the pattern, red for relief elements
and black (or deep brown) for the background.
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 Symmetrical balance means that the work of art is the same on one side as the other,
a mirror image of itself, on both sides of a center line.
 Okir or okil is the term for rectilinear and curvilinear plant-based designs and folk
motifs that can be usually found among the Moro and Lumad people of the Southern
Philippines, as well as parts of Sabah.
 Staccato Italian for detached is a form of musical articulation. In modern notation, it
signifies a note of shortened duration, separated from the note that may follow by
silence.
 Islamic art not only describes the art created specifically in the service of the
Muslim faith (for example, a mosque and its furnishings) but also characterizes the
art and architecture historically produced in the lands ruled by Muslims, produced for
Muslim patrons, or created by Muslim artists.
 The Ifugao Bale or Native House is said to be the first pre-fabricated house in the
world, according to renowned anthropologist Otley Beyer.
 A torogan is a traditional ancestral house built by the Maranao people of Lanao,
Mindanao, Philippines for the nobility. A torogan was a symbol of high social status.
 Pis Siyabit is the prized hand woven cloth of the Tausug’s of Sulu. Usually used as
head covering, it is made from cotton or silk, square in shape and provided with
geometric patterns.
 Installation art is a modern movement characterized by immersive, larger- than-life
works of art.
 Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially
the decorative arts, known in different languages but in English it is also known as the
Modern Style.
 Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept or
idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and
material concerns.
 Dadaism was an avant-garde artistic and cultural movement prompted by the
European societal climate after World War I. It was a rejection of modern capitalism,
bourgeois culture, and wartime politics that aligned with other far- left radical groups.
 Graffiti is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without
permission and within public view.
 A curator is someone employed by a museum or gallery to manage a collection of
artworks or artefacts.
 3D art refers to any art that is created in three dimensions, rather than two-
dimensional like a drawing and this type of three-dimensional art can be made in many
different ways, including sculptures, paintings, and even photographs.
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 Fernando Amorsolo (1972) is the country’s first ever National Artist. He is known for
infusing lighting technique into his works, making most of his designs bright and
sunny.
 Guillermo Tolentino (1973) is a well-known UP School of Fine Arts professor. He
brought The Bonifacio Monument into life. He also designed the gold and bronze
medals for the Ramon Magsaysay Award and did the seal of the Republic of the
Philippines.
 Abdulmari Imao (2006) known in his sarimanok: triumphant force emanates this
sculpture the mythical brass bird appears like a shining trophy atop the Wooden fish.
 Napoleon Abueva (1976) He is not only the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture
but also is the youngest recipient of this award.