ART APPRECIATION
AN INTRODUCTION
TERMS AND CONCEPTS
HUMANITIES:
• refers to ARTS – architecture, painting, sculpture, music, dance,
theater/drama, and literature. These are branches of learning
concerned with human thought, feelings, and relations.
ART:
• It. “artis” – craftmaship, skill, mastery…
• Ary. “ar” – join, put together
• Gr. “artizein/arkiskein” - prepare
NATURE OF ART
The oldest and most important means of expression
A product of man’s need to express himself
It is concerned with the communication of certain ideas and
feelings
Art is that which bring life in harmony with the beauty of the world
Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind
FOUR ESSENTIAL OF ART
v IT MUST BE MAN-MADE
v IT MUST BE CREATIVE, NOT IMITATIVE
v IT MUST BENEFIT AND SATISFY MAN
v IT IS EXPRESSED THROUGH A CERTAIN MEDIUM
OR MATERIAL BY WHICH THE ARTIST
COMMUNICATES HIMSELF TO HIS FELLOWS
IMPORTANCE TO PEOPLE’S LIVES
Purpose, Expression, Judgment
Sources of inspiration, and aesthetic and delightful experiences
We get a glimpse of the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of the
people
Temporal and Spatial dimensions
Art transform us into highly-cultured, dignified, and respectable
persons
Art beautifies our humanity
ART APPRECIATION
The ability to interpret or understand man-made arts
It deals with learning or understanding and creating arts and
enjoying them.
Thus, Arts are called Humanities: they bring out the good and the noble
in us, we come to know the changing image of man, his search for
reality, and strives to achieve the ideals that create meaning for life
SUBJECT OF ART
A SUBJECT OF ART IS USUALLY ANYTHING THAT IS REPRESENTED
IN THE ARTWORK – PERSON, OBJECT, SCENE, OR EVENT.
Representational/Objective Non-Representational
Artworks that depict
something easily recognize Artworks that have no
resemblance to any real subject,
by most people (i.e. painting, they do not represent anything-
sculpture, graphic arts, they are what they are
literature, and theatre arts)
SUBJECT OF ART
SOCIAL
CULTURAL ART AESTHETIC
UTILITARIAN
Functions of Art
• AESTHETIC: MAN BECOMES CONSCIOUS OF THE BEAUTY OF
NATURE; ART IS BENEFICIAL TO US, WE LEARN TO USE, LOVE
AND PRESERVE THEM FOR OUR ENJOYMENT AND
APPRECIATION
• UTILITARIAN: IT ENRICHES MAN’S LIFE ENABLING HIM TO LIVE IN
COMFORT AND HAPPINESS; IT IMPROVES NATURE AND
PROPAGATES AND CONSERVES NATURAL RESOURCES
Functions of Art
• CULTURAL: ART TRANSMITS AND PRESERVES SKILLS AND
KNOWLEDGE FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER. IT BURDENS
ONE’S CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND MAKES MAN MORE
CIVILIZED AND HIS LIFE MORE ENDURING AND SATISFYING.
• SOCIAL: MAN LEARNS TO LOVE AND HELP EACH OTHER, IT FOSTERS
COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING.
Scope of Art
Arts are classified into two major divisions (Pazino & Rustia, 1995):
According to Purpose: arts are classified into practical arts or
useful arts, liberal arts, fine arts, major arts, and minor arts
According to Media & Forms: arts include plastic arts, phonetic
arts, kinetic arts, pure arts, and mixed arts
According to Purpose
• PRACTICAL/USEFUL ARTS: DIRECTED TO PRODUCE
ARTIFACTS AND UTENSILS FOR THE SATISFACTION OF
HUMAN NEEDS
• LIBERAL ARTS: DIRECTED TOWARD INTELLECTUAL GROWTH
(IE. PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, LITERATURE, MATH AND
SCIENCES)
According to Purpose
• FINE ARTS: FOCUSED TOWARDS CREATIVE ACTIVITY FOR THE
CONTEMPLATION OF THE MIND, AND THE UPLIFT OF THE
SPIRIT (I.E. PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE)
• MAJOR ARTS: CHARACTERIZED BY ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL
EXPRESSIVENESS SUCH AS MUSIC, POETRY, SCULPTURE
• MINOR ARTS: CONCERNED ON PRACTICAL USES AND PURPOSES
SUCH AS INTERIOR DECORATION, PORCELAIN ART
According to Media & Form
• PLASTIC ARTS: DEVELOPED THROUGH SPACE AND
PERCEIVED BY THE SENSE OF SIGHT (I.E. SCULPTURE AND
DECORATIVE MATERIALS)
• KINETIC ARTS: INVOLVE THE ELEMENT RHYTHM (DANCE)
• PHONETIC ARTS: DIRECTED TOWARD SOUNDS AND WORDS
AS MEDIA OF EXPRESSION (MUSIC, DRAMA,
LITERATURE)
According to Media & Form
• PURE ARTS: TAKE ONLY ONE MEDIUM OF EXPRESSION
LIKE SOUND IN MUSIC AND COLOUR IN PAINTING
• MIXED ARTS: TAKE MORE THAN ONE MEDIUM SUCH AS
THE OPERA WHICH COMBINES MUSIC, POETRY, AND
DRAMA
Origin of Art
ART is viewed as a
reflection of creative and
ingenuity and
inventiveness within a
culture. It is seen not only
in terms of its styles and
craftsmanship but its
functional interaction with
all the elements that
constitute human life and
culture
ACTIVITY: COLLAGE-MAKING
•BEAUTIES IN NATURE
•BEAUTIES IN ART OR MAN-MADE THINGS
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
REPRESENTATIONS/WORKS OF ART
MEDIUM/S
FORMS/STYLES
METHOD/S
PREPARE A QUESTIONNAIRE
(15-20 QUESTIONS WITH CHOICES)
GROUP ACTIVITY
