Art Reviewer

Art is the product of man's inventiveness and creativity.

Art is derived from the Latin word Cars" which means ability or skills, to do, or manmade, and from the
Italian word artist" meaning craftsmanship, mastery and inventiveness.

Art is a universal phenomenon and is as old as human being. Every society has its own art, which is
encouraged and molded by the patronage it gets from its members. Artists

Socrates know thy self

St. Agustin

1. Plato's Theory of Imitation or "Art as Mimesis"

Plato can be considered as a great critic of literature, philosopher, thinker, educationalist and moralist.
Plato's view of reality explains that ideal is only true and arts are just imitation or copy of truth,
therefore for him literature and poetry are not true, it's imitation of the ideal.

2. Aristotle his theory in, Art as Representation

As a dedicated disciple and student of Plato in Philosophy.

Aristotle does not agree with his teacher regarding his theory
about arts and artists in that particular period. However, Aristotle
considered art as an agent Philosophy in revealing truth. For him,
the kind of imitation that art does is to aid people to the in his fundamental truths. In "Poetics" (1902),
Aristotle points out that poetry it is a literary representation. Thus, every art form like music, dance,
painting and sculpture represents possible versions of reality.

3. Art for Art Sake or L'art Pour L'art by Immanuel Kant

Being the most influential philosopher in the history of western philosophy, Immanuel Kant developed
the theory Art for Art Sake. According to Kant there is an autonomous aesthetic standard in art. In his
"Critique of Judgement". Kant recognized be universal that the judgement of beauty can despite its
subjectivity.

PREHISTORICAL ARTS Egyptian Art

 ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN ART

PHILIPPINE INDIGENOUS ARTS

ABSTRACT

GOD MADE
FUNCTION OF ART
1. Personal or Individual Function

2. Social Function

3. Economic Function
4. Political Function

5. Historical Function

6. Cultural Function

7. Religious function
8. Physical Function

9. Aesthetic Function

John Dewey - Experience occurs continuously, because the interaction of live creature and environing
conditions is involved in the very process of living.

Duley and Fallacy - There is a sense of timelessness about art which makes us feel it is not old; it does
not grow old.

Estolas - artworks express the artist's imagination, his emotions, ideas and things he wants and values in
life.

Susanne Langer - Art molds our actual life of feelings, by giving form to the world, it articulates human
nature, sensibility, energy. passion and mortality

Ernst Cassirer - Art is the enjoyment of forms.