Art appreciation reviewer

Lesson 1 and 2: ART VS ART HISTORY

ART APPRECIATION: The application of basic tools of visual
literacy in order to understand and appreciate works of art.
An art appreciator can understand something about the work of art while
understanding very little, or maybe nothing at all, about its history.
ART HISTORY: Art history is more than just critique. And the way that it
differs from art appreciation is that art history considers the meaning of works of
art in a larger social context.
Art appreciation as a way of life
❑ More often than not, people are blind to this beauty and only those who have
developed a fine sense of appreciation can experience and see the art the way the
artist did.
❑ Hence, refining one’s ability to appreciate arts allows him to deeply
understand the purpose of an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses.
The role of creativity in art
❑ Creativity requires thinking outside the box

❑ In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another.

A wok is creative...
✓ When we have not seen anything like it
✓ When it is out of the ordinary
✓ When it is not just a copy or imitation of someone’s work.
Art as a product of imagination, imagination as a product of art
❑ Imagination is not constrained by the walls of the norm but goes beyond that.

❑ Through imagination, one can craft something bold, something new, and
something better in the hopes of creating something that will stimulate change.
❑ Imagination is not constrained by the walls of the norm but goes beyond that.

❑ Through imagination, one is able to craft something bold, something new, and
something better in the hopes of creating something that will stimulate change.
❑Artists use their imagination that gives birth to reality through creation.

❑ In the same way that imagination produces art, art also inspires imagination.
Art as an expression
❑ Expressing emotions is different from describing emotions.

❑ This makes people’s art not a reflection of what is outside or external to them,
but a reflection of their inner selves.
Lesson 3-4 : Assumptions of arts
WHAT IS ART?
▧ Something that is perennially around us
▧ The word ART comes from the ancient Latin, ars which means a “craft or
specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithying or surgery” (Collingwood,
1938).
▧ Arts in Medieval Latin came to mean something different. It meant “any
special form of book- learning, such as grammar or logic, magic or astrology”
(Collingwood, 1983).
▧ The fine arts would come to mean “not delicate or highly
skilled arts, but “beautiful arts” (Collingwood, 1983)
1) ART IS UNIVERSAL
▧ TIMELESS, SPANNING GENERATIONS AND CONTINENTS THROUGH
AND
THROUGH
▧ ARTWORKS MADE LONG TIME AGO IS NOT NECESSARILY
ARTISTIC
▧ AGE IS NOT A FACTOR IN DETERMINING ART
2) Art is not nature
▧ Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature
▧ It is a man’s way of interpreting nature
▧ Art is made by man, whereas nature is given by God.
3) Art involves experience
▧ For most people, art does not require a full definition, art is just experience
▧ “actual doing of something” -Dudley1960
▧ If one is to know art, he must know it not as a fact or information but as an
experience.

Categories of arts
Visual Art – INCLUDES: Painting, Scultpure, Architecture, and new media –
digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art,
interactive art, video games, computer robotics, 3Dprinting, and art as
biotechnology.
Auditory Art- INCLUDES: Music and Literature– an art form that reflects
reality and affects man through sensible and specially organized sound sequences
consisting chiefly of tones.
Performance/ combined arts - INCLUDES: Dance, Film, and Theater– refers to
public performance events which occur mostly in the theater.
Photography- Art, application, and practice of creating durable images by
recording light.
Applied/ Decorative Arts- Fashion design, interior design, Jewelry and Ceramic
Arts, Furniture, Fabric, Stained Glass, and Tapestry Arts– application of aesthetic
designs to everyday functional objects It may also include architecture if purely
aesthetic.

3 Basic Components
Subject (What)
Content (why)
Form (How)

Subject Type
REPRESENTATIONAL
▧ also figurative art represents objects or events in the real world, usually
looking easily recognizable.
▧ a painting of a cat looks very much like a cat– it’s quite obvious what the artist
is depicting.
NON-REPRESENTATIONAL
▧ Work that does not depict anything from the real world
▧ Non-representational art may simply depict shapes, colors, lines, etc., but may
also express things that are not visible– emotions or feelings for
example.
NON-REPRESENTATIONAL
▧ This figurative or representational work from the seventeenth century depicts
easily recognizable objects–ships, people, and buildings. But artistic
independence was advanced during the nineteenth century, resulting in the
emergence of abstract art. Three movements that contributed heavily to the
development of these were Romanticism, Impressionism, and Expressionism.
Source of Subject
-Nature
-History
-mythology
-Religion
-Life Experience
Kinds of Subjects
Nature- INCLUDES: Landscape, Seascape, and Cityscape– focused view or
interpretation of specific natural elements; seas, rivers, mountains, sky, clouds
Cityscape featuring the city life.
Still Life- A collection of inanimate objects arranged together in a specific way.
Portrait- Painting, photography, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a
person with predominant face and expression.
HISTORY AND LEGENDS- Defined by its subject matter rather than style.
Usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static
subject, as in a portrait.
MYTHOLOGY- From traditional tales invented to explain a particular belief,
historical event, or fact of nature.
ANIMALS- They have been represented by artists from almost every age and
place. The earliest known paintings are representations of animals on the walls of
caves.
EVERYEDAY LIF- Scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or
recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner.
DREAMS AND FANTASIES- Dreams allowed Renaissance artists to heroize
the creative imagination and play with sensual, pagan scenes.
Content of art
CONTENT IN ART
▧ The meaning or message that is expressed or communicated by the artwork.
▧ In understanding the content of an art, it is important to note that there are
various levels of meaning: Factual, Conventional, and Subjective.
FACTUAL MEANING
▧ The most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the
identifiable o recognizable forms in the artwork and understanding how these
elements relate to one another.
CONVENTIONAL MEANING
▧ Pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, sign,
and symbols and other cyphers as bases of its meaning.
▧ Colors – black, red, white
▧ Symbolic Objects – chain, ladder, mirror
▧ Animals – Lion, Butterfly, Dog, Serpent
▧ These conventions are established through time, strengthened by recurrent use
and wide acceptance by its viewers or audience and scholars who study them.
SUBJECTIVE MEANING
▧ These meanings stem from the viewer’s or audience’s circumstances that
come into play when engaging with art (what we know, learned, experienced,
values we stand for)
▧ Meaning is multiple and varied
Lesson 5: artist vs artisan
An artist is a person who performs all forms of creative arts.
Known artist: Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo
Known art: The starry night, The Creation of Adam, The last Supper.
Artist are the most important members of the society because they help us to
envision our thought that may not be tolerated in the social and political
paradigm of our society.

Artisans are skilled workers that are involved In skill trade using their hands in
making things. An artisan is able to produce something that has a functional
value although it should not be limited to it’s use value alone.
(potter1605, waever 1524, tailor 1425,)
Artisan services are sources of blue-collar jobs which can reduce unemployment,
poverty, and social vices.
Difference: Artisans is essentially a manual worker who makes items with his
or hands, and who through skills experience and talent can create things of
great beauty as well as being functional.
An artist on the other hand is dedicated only to the creative side, making visually
pleasing work only for the enjoyment and appreciation of the viewer, but with no
functional value.
Art Movements:
Impressionism: sudden change in the look of these paintings was bought about
by a change in methodology.
Fauvism: major contributions to modern art was it was it’s radical goal of
separating color forms it’s descriptive, representational purpose and allowing it to
exist on the canvas as an independent element.
Expressionism: is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting,
originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. (directly focused on
the emotional response of the artist to the real world).
Cubism: emphasized the flat, two- dimensional surface of the picture plane,
rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective.
Dadaism: an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War 1.
(ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world)
Abstract: uses visual language of shape, form, color, and line to create
composition.

Lesson 6: Functions of art

What Is Art?
- An artwork is the visual expression of an idea or experience created with
skill.
Visual art Includes:
Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, film making,
crafts, industrial and commercial design, video ,and computer arts.

Art is communication.
Perceive: is to become deeply aware through the senses of the special nature of a
visual object.

Purpose of art
Personal function – artist create art to express personal feelings.
Social Function- artist may produce art to reinforce and enhance the shred sense
of identity of those in family, community, or civilization.
- Influence Social behavior.
- Display and Celebration
- Social description
Spiritual function- artist and craftspeople often create artworks that have
functions or purpose.
Physical functions- tools and containers are objects which functions to make our
lives physically comfortable.
- Form and function.
- Architecture
- Community planning
 Residential district
 Industrial and commercial areas
 Park, plaza, and malls
 Streets and roads.