ARTISTS AND

ARTISANS
•Ladies in the village will spend
more than three days to make
ornaments or amazing decorations
for the temple which will only be
used for a few hours.
-ROBERT HENRI

-SNOW IN NEW YORK

 THE ARTIST IN YOU
•“ART WHEN REALLY UNDERSTOOD IS
THE PROVINCE OF EVERY HUMAN
BEING.”
•“IT IS SIMPLY A QUESTION OF DOING
THINGS, ANYTHING WELL.
•“IT IS NOT AN OUTSIDE EXTRA THING.”
• “WHEN AN ARTIST IS
ALIVE IN EVERY
PERSON, WHATEVER
HIS KIND OF WORK
MAY BE, HE
BECOMES AN
INVENTIVE,
SEARCHING,
DARING, SELF-
EXPRESSING
CREATURE.”
 “HE DISTURBS,
UPSETS,
ENLIGHTENS, AND
HE OPENS WAYS
FOR A BETTER
UNDERSTANDING.”
 “WHERE THOSE
WHO ARE NOT
ARTISTS ARE
TRYING TO CLOSE
THE BOOK, HE
OPENS IT, SHOWS
THERE ARE MORE
PAGES POSSIBLE.”
•The impulse to create
is at the core of human
civilization.
“KNOWLEDGE IS THE
REAL CONTROLLING
RESOURCE AND THE
ABSOLUTELY DECISIVE
FACTOR OF
PRODUCTION” (NOT
CAPITAL, NOR LABOR)-
PETER DRUCKER
 THAT IS WHY,

•“ROBOTS OR ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE CANNOT
REPLACE MAN.”
 ARTIST
• a person who produces works in any of the
arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic
criteria.
• fine arts,
• a person whose trade or profession requires
a knowledge of design, drawing, painting,
etc.
 DECIDE: TRUE OR FALSE?

• An artist is dedicated to the

functionality of the art.
• Your goal as an artist is to survive in a
style that allows you to continue making
art.
• If you can’t survive as an artist by
selling your art solely, persevere with it.
 THE ARTIST AND HIS STUDIO

• Studio – an extension of the artist himself

• Artists fixed their relationship with their patron
as a site where negotiations and works were
made.
• Studiolo and bottlega (where work usually
happened)
Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, 1486 Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo
 OTHER PLAYERS IN THE WORLD OF
ART
• CURATOR – INTERPRETATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF
THE ARTWORKS OR COLLECTIONS THROUGH
ESTABLISHING THE SIGNIFICANCE, RELATIONSHIP AND
RELEVANCE OF THESE MATERIALS
• ABILITY TO RESEARCH AND WRITE, AN ARBITER OF
DESIGN AND LAYOUT, AND DECIDING FOR THE
DISPLAY AND HANGING OF MATERIALS FOR
EXHIBITION
• BUYERS AND COLLECTORS – FORMERLY CALLED
PATRONS
• ACQUIRE AND PURCHASE ARTWORKS
• KNOWS AND APPRECIATES ART
• CAN MAKE OR BREAK AN ARTIST’S CAREER
• CAN SHAPE THE COURSE OF A MUSEUM’S
COLLECTION
• ART DEALERS – DISTRIBUTION AND
CIRCULATION of THE ARTWORKS THROUGH
A VARIETY OF MEANS (DIRECT SALES
THROUGH GALLERIES, AUCTION HOUSES)
CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY IN LOAY, BOHOL (BUILT IN 1822)
BECAME A NATIONAL HISTORICAL LANDMARK
 ARTISAN
• 1: a worker who practices a trade or
handicraft : CRAFTSPERSON a skilled artisan
• 2: a person or company that produces
something (such as cheese or wine) in
limited quantities often using traditional
methods
 ARTISANS
• Responsible for the retention or survival of
artistic and creative production.
• Took consideration of the materials, medium,
and the principles behind the process of their
creation.
• Had a sense of how materials behaved, how
the environment, light and weather patterns
(and other intuitive principles of creation)
affected structures.
 THE COLOGNE CATHEDRAL
(MASTER MASON GERHARD RYLE STARTED THE PROJECT IN 1248 WAS
ONLY COMPLETED ROUGHLY 600 YEARS LATER)
at the Church of San Agustin in Intramuros inspect a trio of Marian images
mounted on traditional carroza carriages. The custom of displaying carroza-
mounted statues of Catholic saints during religious occasions was brought over
to the Philippines by Spanish missionaries.
 THE ARTISAN AND HIS GUILD
•Guild – a type of social fellowship, an
association structured with rules,
customs, rights, and responsibilities.
•Would include shoemakers, textile
and glass workers, carpenters,
carvers, masons, amorers, weapon-
makers
 MASTER ARTISAN

•Open to hiring apprentices who

would be under his tutelage
 APPRENTICE

• Skills qualification
• Took on a particular specialization or trade
• Commitment was on working together as a
collective
• With a lifetime commitment to a particular
trade, an artisan develops immense skill and
expertise in his craft.
 THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF ARTISANS

• Although all Artisans share core

characteristics, not all of them are the
same. In Keirsey's observations, he noted
that there were four kinds of Artisans. They
are: the Artisan Promoter (ESTP), Artisan
Crafter (ISTP), Artisan Performer (ESFP),
and Artisan Composer (ISFP).
 PROMOTERS

• live with a theatrical flourish which makes even the

most routine events seem exciting
• demand new activities and new challenges.
• Bold and daring at heart, and ever-optimistic
• Take risks
• walk close to the edge of disaster.
 CRAFTERS
• masterful operation of tools, equipment, machines, and
instruments of all kinds.
• true masters of tool work, with an innate ability to command
tools and to become expert at all the crafts requiring tool
skills.
• Even from an early age they are drawn to tools as if to a
magnet -- tools fall into their hands demanding use, and
they must work with them.
• Crafters are hard to get to know.
 PERFORMERS

• have the special ability to delight those

around them with their warmth, their good
humor, and with their often extraordinary skills
in music, comedy, and drama.
• Whether on the job, with friends, or with their
families, they are exciting and full of fun.
 COMPOSERS

• in tune with their senses, and so have a sure grasp of

what belongs, and what doesn't belong, in all kinds
of works of art.
• have an exceptional ability to work with subtle
differences in color, tone, texture, aroma, and flavor.
• often put long, lonely hours into their artistry but they
are just as impulsive as the other Artisans.
 ARTIST AND ARTISAN
• An artist refers to the making of tangible or
intangible products as an expression of
creativity and imagination for purely
aesthetic reasons.
• An artisan, though spurred by the same
impulses, produces crafts, which, though they
may be acquired only for decoration, are
designed to be practical.