ART APPRECIATION

2ND SEMESTER, AY: 2023-2024

PRELIM NOTES

INSTRUCTOR: JAMBOY A. SEPRO, LPT

TOPIC: NATURE AND ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

NATURE OF ART

- The word “ART” comes from the ancient Latin word “ars” which means a “CRAFT” or specialized
form of “SKILL”.
- ART is anything accomplished with great skills.
- It something that is perennially around us because it stands for various purpose and uses that
reflects cultural values, expresses ideas or emotion, tells stories and communication, aside from its
aesthetic value.
- TWO CONCEPTS OF ART:

ART APPRECIATION ART HISTORY

-The knowledge and understanding
of the universal qualities that identify
all great art.
-It is a positive, perceptual,
emotional, and intellectual response
to the beauty of art work.
-It a process of identifying or
examining the qualities within art.
-It is a discipline that examines
trend movements periods in
history, it is more concerned with
large-scale artistic movements
rather that the act of creating any
piece of art.

ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
1. ART IS UNIVERSAL
-Art is a form of communication that has no language barriers. It has the ability to speak to
all people of any race, all ages, and gender no matter what the form is.
- art is boarder less, timeless and addresses human needs.
- Age is not a factor in determining art.
- ART is FOR ALL

2. ART IS NOT NATURE

-Nature is real such as birth, life and death as cycle of nature. Nature is beauty and is PERFECT
since it was designed by the God.
- This assumption discussed Art as MAN-MADE.
- It seen as the aesthetic representation of real-life situations, an expression of how man
interprets nature.
-ART is not directed by representation of reality, is a perception of realty.

3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCES

-ART engages five senses (hearing, sight, touch, taste, smell) that allows on creating
immersive experiences.
-An important aspect of experiencing art is that being personal, individual, and subjective.
 ART APPRECIATION
2ND SEMESTER, AY: 2023-2024
PRELIM NOTES

INSTRUCTOR: JAMBOY A. SEPRO, LPT

TOPIC: CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION AND FUNCTION OF ART

ARTWORK- Is the visual expression of an idea or experience of an artist, through the use of medium.

Creativity and Imagination is the primary basis of art.

• Creativity- Requires thinking outside the box. It is what we set apart from one artwork to another.
• Imagination- is not constrained by the walls of the room, but goes beyond.

FUNCTIONS OF ART
(Menoy, 2009)

• Physical Function
Works of art that were primary made to perform certain functions or service to make our lives
comfortable.
Example: Chairs, bowl, architecture/buildings, etc.
• Personal Function
Arts are vehicles for the artists’ expression of their feelings and ideas.
Example: Music

• Social Function
Man, associates with others through his performance that arouses social consciousness.
Example: choral singing, group dancing, public art exhibits and others practice.

• Economic Function
Arts are emerging as a potent force of economic life of people assumes an essential role as
direct and indirect contributor to state economies.
Example: Generating economic vitality in under-performing regions through crafts, tourism
and cultural attractions.

• Political Function
Art provides a forum for ideas that will lead to employment, prestige, status, and power.
Example: During election period, the candidates created their artworks (poster) which
expresses heir propaganda, agendas and political views about making stable
society.

• Historical Function
Art is essential technique for information to be recorded and preserved. It serves to document
or reconstruct historical figures and events.
Example: Artworks that exhibited at the Museum.

• Cultural Function
Art is an articulation and transmission of new information and values.
Example: Fort Santiago, Luneta park, and its world-renowned churches, or the Intramuros.

• Aesthetic Function
Any artworks mean beauty.
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2ND SEMESTER, AY: 2023-2024
PRELIM NOTES

INSTRUCTOR: JAMBOY A. SEPRO, LPT

TOPIC: PURPOSE OF ART

1. Create Beauty
Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions and intuitions. It is the communication of concepts that
cannot be faithfully portrayed by words alone.
2. Provide Decoration
Artworks are used to create a pleasing environment. It intended to beauty things to please and amuse
the viewers through its colors and patterns.
3. Reveal Truth
Artworks helped to pursue truth and attempted to reveal about how the world works. It is a kind of
language that allows artists to send message to the souls of the recipient that helps to change their
attitudes, their sensibility, and their ethics.
4. Expresses Values/ Emotion
Artworks illuminate our inner lives and enrich our emotional world.
5. Commemorate Experiences
Art serves to convey the personal experiences of an artist and record his impression in his work.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Creation of Art
Three Significant Phases of Art Creation:
1. The Creation of Ideas
Artist are usually impressionable persons. They used their experiences as their basis in making of
dance, pictures, a poem, play, songs, etc.
Example:
A compose may write a song on the developing romance between a man and a woman, or on
the pains of broken-hearted.
2. The Creations of Materials
The artists use different materials to give form to an idea.
Example:
A painter uses pigments in his/her painting, a sculpture uses wood, metal, and stone for his
masterpiece, and an author uses words for his stories.
3. The Creations of Forms
There are divers forms used by an artist in expressing their ideas. It is medium of artistic expression
recognized as fine art. This form is used to explain the physical nature of the artwork like in metal
sculptures, an oil painting, etc.

SELF-STUDY TOPICS:
• Study the works of Edard Munch and Vincent Van Goh
• Study the etymology of the word “Drawing”
• Study the connection of Humanities in Art Appreciation