ART APPRECIATION
WHAT IS ART?
The term ART derives from the old Latin, which implies a “craft or specialized sort of expertise, as carpentry or
smithing or surgery” (Collingwood, 1938).(Collingwood, 1938).
The Subject of Art
In any art form- be it painting, music, sculpture, architecture, o dance that serves as the FOUNDATION OF THE
CREATION of the work of art.
The subject of art is VARIED.
Usually anything that is represented in the artwork. (person, object, sense, or event.
Presented in 2 ways:
1. Representational/ objective art
Artworks that depict something that is easily recognized. The subject is clear/ identified. Ex. Painting,
Sculpture, Graphic Arts, Literature, Theater Arts.
2. Non- representational/ non- objective art
Artworks that has no resemblance of any real subject. Do not represent anything & they are what they are.
Appear directly to the senses primarily because of the satisfying organization of their sensuous and expressive
elements. Ex. Music, Architecture, Abstract Art, Non- figurative arts Etc.
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
1. Art Is Universal
Timeless, transcending generations and nations through and through.
Misconception: Artistic created long time ago.
Age is not a factor in determining art.
Literature has contributed crucial terms of art.
lliad and the Odyssey are the two Greek Epics that one’s being taught in school.
The Sanskrit compositions Mahabharata and Ramanaya are also classics in this domain.
2. Nature Is Not Art, and Art Is Not Nature
In the absence of a depiction of reality, art may be thought of as a perspective of reality.
In the Philippines, it is fairly uncommon for some viewers of local films to express their dissatisfaction with
the films' realism by stating that they are unrealistic. They argue that local movies are based on a set of
formulas that are detrimental to the content and fidelity to reality of the films they produce
'Well and Grinding' is a painting by French artist Paul Cezanne that depicts a situation from reality.
The Chateau Noir's Forest has a wheel, and it is located there.
3. Art is a result of personal experience
It is not a comprehensive guide, but rather an experience. The actual act of accomplishing something.
For others, reaching this point without having a good definition of art might seem bizarre and bizarre. For
the majority of people, art does not need a comprehensive definition. Art is nothing more than a sensory
experience.
FUNCTIONS OF ART
I. Aesthetic Function: Any artwork means beauty. It is reasonably reproduced visual images which
communicates through fantastic persuasions and meaningful words. Appreciate and Develops Humanity in us
o Ex. Mona Lisa The Golden Stairs (Edward Burne – Jones)
II. Utilitarian Function: Shelter, clothing, entertainment, landscapes, etc.
Necessities
Anything that gives us comfort o Ex. Combs Buttons Cooking Pots
III. Cultural Function: Preserve Cultural background
Ex. Graffiti and Cultural Dances (Tinikling)
IV. Social Function
Civic and Graphic Arts o Unity Cooperative
Help Sympathetic
Ex. Advertisement Editorial Cartoons
ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART
ELEMENTS
There are six integral components in the creation of a design: lines, colors, texture, and shape.
LINES
Verticality is associated with dignity, formality, stability, and strength.
Horizontal axis represents quiet, tranquility, and relaxation. Vertical axis represents activity.
Action, activity, enthusiasm, and movement are represented by the diagonal.
It has the look of softness and generates a relaxing sensation or atmosphere. It represents freedom, the
natural world, and the ability to be creative.
COLOR
Color has an immediate and significant impact on the design of a piece of artwork. Colors can influence
how individuals feel and behave.
Warm Colors: RED, ORANGE, and YELLOW
Cool Color: BLUE, PURPLE, and GREEN
FORM/SHAPE
Whatever something is in terms of its form, outline, or arrangement.
Squares, circles, ellipses, ovals, rectangles, and triangles are all possible shapes.
SPACE
It can either increase or decrease visual space.
Open, uncluttered environments are preferred. Crammed and overburdened.
TEXTURE
The appearance or feel of an object's surface.
Reflects lighter than a rough surface, making the color more vibrant as a result of the reflection.
Rough surface
Absorbs more light, giving the appearance of being darker.
VALUE
Tone (the degree to which a color is bright or dark)
Shade (the degree to which a color is light or dark)
Tint (A pale or faint variation of a color)
There are five fundamental principles that underpin an engaging design.
Balance
Parts of the design are evenly placed across the space to generate a feeling of solidity. It's possible to have
both bodily and visual equilibrium.
Rhythm
Using line, form, color, texture or pattern repeatedly is what patterning is.
Emphasis
The most personal component of a design is the way it is highlighted. This is the aspect that draws in
viewers. It may be created using several elements like as size, positioning, color, and line use.
Proportion and scale are important considerations.
It is the comparative connections between components in a design that are measured in terms of their
size and proportion
Unity
Is the use of uniform usage of lines, color, and texture across a design project.
ARTS AND ARTISANS
Painting, sculpture, dance, music, and poetry are examples of art practitioners who use their imagination to
produce or develop indirectly utilitarian arts with aesthetic value. Artists include those who paint, sculpt,
dance, and write.
A craftsman, such as a carpenter, a carver, a plumber, a blacksmith, a weaver, an embroider, and so on, who
creates directly utilitarian and/or ornamental arts is known as an artisan.
FAMOUS PERSONALTIES OF ART AND THEIR WORKS
1. LEONARDO DA VINCI
Born: 04-15-1452, Vinci, Italy
Profile: Painter, Architect, Sculptor, Inventor, Military Engineer, and Draftsman.
Died: 05-2- 1519, Amboise, France
Quotes: “He who thinks little, errs much”
Famous Works: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man
2. VINCENT VAN GOGH
Born: 03-30-1853 Zundert, Italy
Profile: Painter
Died: 07-29-1890 Amboise, France
Famous Works: The Starry Night, Sunflowers Irises
3. MICHAELANGELO
Born: 4-6-1475, Michael Angelo, Italy
Profile: Painter, Architect, Poet
Died: 2-18-1564, Rome, Italy
Quotes: “Genius is eternal patience.”
Famous Works: David, Creation of Adam, St. Peter’s Basilica
4. CLAUDE MONET
Born: 11-14-1840, Paris, France
Profile: Painter, Philosopher
Died: 12-5-1926, Giverny, France
Quotes: “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.”
Famous Works: Water Lilies Impresion, Sunrise Rouen Cathedral Series
5. FRIDA KAHLO
Born: 07-06-1907, Mexico City, Mexico
Profile: Painter
Died: 07-13-1954, Mexico City. Mexico
Quotes:” I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
Famous Works: The Two Fridas, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace And Hummingbird, The Broken Column
6. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
Born: 11-15-1887, Wisconsin, USA
Profile: Painter
Died: 03-06-1986, New Mexico, USA
Quotes: “The days you work are the best days.”
Famous Works: Black Irises III, Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue, Radiator Building Night- New York
7. EDGAR DEGAS
Born: 7-19-1834, Paris, France
Profile: Painter, Sculptor
Died: 9-27-1917, Paris, France
Quotes: “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Famous Works: The Absinthe Drinker, The Dance Class, The Bellelli Family
8. EDVARD MUNCH
Born: 12-12-1863, Adalsbruk, Norway
Profile: Painter
Died: 1-23-1944, Oslo, Norway
Quotes: “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them and thatis eternity. “
Famous Works: The Scream, The Day After, The Dance of Life
9. JACKSON POLLOCK
Born: 1-28-1912, Wyoming, USA
Profile: Painter
Died: 8-11-1956, NY, USA
Quotes: “The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
Famous Works: The Number 5, The Number 11, The Number 31
10. PABLO PICASSO
Born: 10-26-1881, Malaga, Spain
Profile: Painter, Sculptor,
Ceramicist, Stage Designer, Poet and a Playwright.
Died: 4-8-1973, Mougins, France
Quotes: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Famous Works: Guernica, The Young Ladies of Avignon, The Weeping Woman
11. GUSTAV KLIMT
Born: 7-14-1862, Baumgarten, Austria
Profile: Painter
Died: 2-6-1918, Vienna, Austria
Quotes: “Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.”
Famous Works: The Kiss Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, The Virgin
12. HENRY MOORE
Born: 7-30-1898, Castleford, Unite Kingdom
Profile: Sculptor
Died: 8-31-1986
Quotes: “One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for
it.”
Famous Works: Reclining Figures, King and Queen, Bird Basket
13. SALVADOR DALI
Born: 5-11-1904, Figueras, Spain
Profile: Painter, Draftsman
Died: 1-23-1989, Figuerras, Spain
Quotes: “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
Famous Works: The Persistence of Memory Swans, Reflecting Elephants, Premonition of Civil War
14. PAUL CEZANNE
Born: 1-19-1839, Aix-en, France
Profile: Painter
Died: 10- 22-1906, Aix-en, France
Quotes: “We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
Famous Works: The Bathers, The Card Player Series Jug, Curtain and FruitBowl
15. DIEGO RIVERA
Born: 12-8-1886, Guanajuato, Mexico
Profile: Painter
Died: 11-24-1957, Mexico city, Mexico
Quotes: “I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso. “
Famous Works: The Man at the Crossroad, The Card Player Series, The History of Mexico
PHILIPPINE ARTS AND CRAFTS: A CHRONOLOGY
According to the Philippine Art Period Timeline, the history of Philippine art is described in detail.
Pre-colonial art was created before the arrival of the Spanish explorers.
Period of Spanish colonial art
American colonial art
Post-colonial art period
Contemporary Art period
SOULMAKING
Soul-making is a nontraditional method of getting to know oneself and delving into the depths and true
significance of what we do in our daily lives. It encourages the development of our inner artist while also
assisting us in communicating with others, understanding culture, and embodying tolerance and peace. It
opens the door to a plethora of different intelligences and expressions.
SOUL-MAKING is the process of creating and deriving meaning through art. For a person to make sense of
language and draw meaning from words, it is necessary to take into consideration semantic and grammatical
principles.
ART FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHY
Art as a kind of emulation
Plato's The Republic portrays artists as mimics, and art as nothing more than a collection of imitations. He
believes that the things that exist in this world are simply copies of the original, the eternal, and that authentic
beings can only be discovered in the World of Forms, according to his metaphysics or perspective of reality.
Art is nothing more than a copy of another's work. In the World of Forms, a painting is just a copy of nature,
which in turn is an imitation of reality in the actual world.
Art as a means of communication
In agreement with Plato, Aristotle, on the other hand, saw art as a tool to help philosophy in the pursuit of the
truth.
Art is a representation of a version of reality. Aristotelian philosophy holds that art has two distinct purposes:
it allows for the enjoyment of pleasure, and it has the power to be instructional, teaching its audience valuable
lessons about life and its surroundings.
Art as a kind of unbiased evaluation
Kant's Critique of Judgment asserted that the judgment of beauty, which he regarded to be the foundation of
art, was something universal, despite the fact that it was susceptible to subjectivity. In his understanding of
beauty, he acknowledged that it is subjective.
Art as a means of conveying emotional content
Tolstoy believed that art has a significant function in communicating feelings that the creator has previously
experienced to an audience via communication. Emotions are communicated via art
PSYCHOLOGY OF COLORS
o RED (PHYSICAL)
Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, 'fight or flight’, stimulation, masculinity,
excitement
Negative: Defiance, aggression, strain
o BLUE (INTELLECTUAL)
Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm
Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.
o YELLOW (EMOTIONAL)
Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity
Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide
o GREEN (BALANCE)
Positive: Harmony, balance, refreshment,universal love, rest, restoration,reassurance, environmental
awareness, equilibrium, peace
Negative: Boredom, stagnation, blandness,enervation
o VIOLET
Positive: Spiritual awareness, containment,vision, luxury, authenticity, truth,quality
Negative: Introversion, decadence,suppression, inferiority.
o ORANGE
Positive: Physical comfort, food, warmth,security, sensuality, passion, abundance, fun
Negative: Deprivation, frustration, frivolity,immaturity
o PINK
Positive: Physical tranquility, nurture, warmth,femininity, love, sexuality, survival ofthe species.
Negative: Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia,emasculation, physical weakness
o GRAY
Positive: Psychological neutrality
Negative: Lack of confidence, dampness, depression, hibernation, lack ofenergy.
o BLACK
Positive: Sophistication, glamour, security,emotional safety, efficiency, substance.
Negative: Oppression, coldness, menace,heaviness.
o WHITE
Positive: Hygiene, sterility, clarity, purity,cleanliness, simplicity, sophistication, efficiency.
Negative: Sterility, coldness, barriers,unfriendliness, elitism.
o BROWN
Positive: Seriousness, warmth, nature, earthiness,reliability,support.
Negative: Lack of humor, heaviness, lack ofsophistication.
