THE ARTISAN AND THE GUILDS

• Have you ever wondered why some examples of artistic and

creative production have survive to this day?

• Museums are packed with numerous artifacts and interesting

objects from all over the world that have srvived centuries for us
to all to see.

• Magnificent structures that are often appreciated not only for

their historical significance but more so for their aesthetic
characterisitics that render them unique.
• Perhaps what made the difference was the materials, medium,and
the principles behind the process of their creation.

• Another contributory factor is the emergence of technology and

kowledge in managing and conserving all of these objects and
structures, enabling te retention of the integrity of the artwork and
the artist in terms of the design and overall aesthethic.
• Consider the gothic cathedrals and other megastructures
that were built all over Europe during the middle ages.

• Craftsmen and builders in the past did not have

sophisticated terminologies and principles that architects
and engineers abide by today

• What they had was a sense on how materials behaved, how

the environment, light, and weather patterns affected
structures, and other intuitive principles of creation.
• In Germany, it is but one of the many examples of early
Gothic architecture. The accountant was that master
mason Gerhard Ryle started the project in 1248 but was
only completed roughly 600 years later, claiming the
records as one of the longest construction projects to
date.
• These guilds were prevalent during the middle ages
particularly during the thirteenth to fifteenth century, where
towns had formalized groups of artisans or craftsmen who
took on a particular specialization or trade

• Guilds were a type of social fellowship, an association

structured with ruler, customs, rights, and responsibilities.

• a particular trade, an artisan develops immense skill and

expertise in hiscraft
• This brought to light various ways of thinking about transferring
knowledge and skills by visualizing and articulating the
principles, process, and tricks of the trade both in words and in
print through manuals and publications.

• The printed publications were done cheaply and did not have
the same thoroughness as with handbooks and manuals of
biblical proportions.
• In the visual arts, an example of an artist strongly
influenced by this was

• Albrech Durer
• born in 1471
• his father was a goldsmith
• he also published quite a nuber of books treatises
• his works were written in the first person singular format
• Although the timeline is a bit skewed, the culture of artisans
became prevalent in the Philippines as well, particularly
during the spanish colonial period.

• During the propagation of faith, spanish friars commisioned

a lot of artisans to carve, paint and engrave images for
churches and public sites .
The church of the most holy trinity in Loay, Bohol,
• One example of a spanish architecture that has been documented
is the church of the most Holy Trinity in Loay, Bohol in 1822.

• One key example that illustrated the systematization of art

instruction a combination of sorts of the guild and the art school
was the establishment Damian Domingo of the academia de
Dibujo known as the best tipos del pais painter this scchool
specialized in teaching the miniaturismo style of painting alkong
with the tenets of classical european painting.

• Eventually other schools emerged teaching other genres such as

bodegones( still life) and paisajes (landscape)
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