ART APPRECIATION

Module 1

What is ART? Art represents reality.

➔ Art is the expression of an idea or Representation is the use of signs that

experience made visible by a form stand in for and take the place of
created with skill. something else. It is through representation
➔ Art is a language that artists use to that people organize the world and reality
express feeling, belief, and character through the act of naming its elements.
that everyday words cannot
express. Signs are arranged in order to form
➔ Ideas are conveyed that go beyond semantic constructions and express
describing and telling and often are relations. Art often depicts objects or
not easily distilled. scenes from the world. So, there is a sense
➔ To view art, you must perceive the in which art represents the mind’s eye or
piece. what the imagination perceives.
➔ To become deeply aware through
the senses of the special nature of a Art is an expression.
visual object.
The expression contained in the form is an
What is the NATURE of Art? attempt to translate the unnamed and
the unknown. Intrinsic to our existence as
★ Art is a diverse range of human human beings is our quest to create
activities in creating visual, auditory meaning, and art allows that process to
or performing artworks, expressing take place. Making meaning involves
the author’s imaginative or technical understanding our surroundings and
skill, intended to be appreciated for marking our experiences.
their beauty or emotional power.
★ In their most general form these Art serves as a means of communication
activities include the: of emotions.
❖ Production of works of art
❖ Criticism of art The purpose of works of art may be to
❖ Study of history of art communicate political, spiritual or
❖ Aesthetic dissemination of philosophical ideas, to create a sense of
art beauty, to explore the nature of perception,
for pleasure, or to generate strong
emotions. Art is an act of expressing
feelings, thoughts, and observations of
human conditions. A fundamental purpose
common to most art forms is the underlying
intention to appeal to, and connect with, What is the IMPORTANCE & ORIGINS of
human emotion. the Nature of Art?

➢ Art is created to express personal

Art matters.
feelings.
➢ Art is produced to reinforce and
The arts matter because they allow us to enhance the shared sense of
express ourselves and illustrate the identity of those in a family,
world around us in a different light, community, or civilization.
helping us to gain understanding of people ➢ Art may be created to express
and society, and give hope while living in spiritual beliefs about the destiny
this world. Art matters because it illustrates of life controlled by the force of a
higher power.
the human experience.
➢ Artists and craft-people constantly
invent new ways to create
Art is universal. functional art (industrial designers,
architects, jewelry makers, etc.)
Literally, art can be found in every corner ➢ Art was used as a form of visual
of the world. Art is everywhere and it is instruction (education) such as
embedded into the way of life of the symbols painted on signs.
people. Exclusivity is out of bounds when
we speak of arts because it is for everyone. Traditionally, art is divided into 7 forms:
1. Painting
Art is the true Esperanto, an artificial 2. Architecture
language, the one form of culture that is 3. Sculpture
genuinely beyond national limitations. Art 4. Literature
knows no barriers; not even language is a 5. Music
barrier in understanding it. 6. Performing
7. Film
Art is creation.
● Visual Arts (architecture, ceramics,
It is the combination of already existing drawing, filmmaking, painting,
material elements into new forms which photography, and sculpting)
become the realization of a preconceived ● Literary Arts (fiction, drama, poetry,
idea. Both hut and picture rose in the and prose)
imagination of their makers before they ● Performing Arts (dance, music, and
took shape as things. The material of each theater)
was given already in nature; but the form, ● Culinary Arts (cooking, chocolate
as the maker fashioned it, was new. In its making, wine making)
essence and widest compass, art is the
making of a new thing in response to a What are the DIFFERENT ASSUMPTIONS
sense of need. The very need itself creates, of Art?
working through man as its agent.
★ Assumption is a thing that is
 accepted as true or as certain to 6. Art is subjective. Henceforth, it
happen, without proof. cannot be measured by its
significance or the level of skill with
Some assumptions about art are: which it is created. “Beauty is in
the eye of the beholder” means
1. Art has been created by all people that every individual has his/her
at all times around the world and own perception and/or interpretation
it lives because it is well-liked or about the subject. It would never be
enjoyed. Naturally, arts linger on the same for every individual.
particularly if it is popular and loved
by everyone. CLASSIFICATIONS OF ART:

2. Art involves experience. In order to 1. VISUAL ARTS

experience something, you have to - Drawing, painting, architecture,
make use of your five senses. sculpture, ceramics, photography,
Hence, there can never be conceptual art
appreciation of art without having
experienced it. DYK?

3. Art is not nature; nature is not art. Salvator Mundi, painted by Leonardo Da
Art is made by man and nature by Vinci in the duration of 10 years, is the
God. However, nature can be most expensive painting of all time, being
enhanced by man. The enhanced sold at 400M.
beauty and artistry of nature, then,
can be classified as an art. Why is it expensive? Since it is the only
copy in the world, the one who owns it
4. Art is cultural. Art is a work of can attain bragging rights.
humans and anything that has been
created by humans is part of culture. The Statue of David, by Michelangelo, is
Art becomes cultural when it depicts the most famous sculpture in the world.
people’s way of life, religious
practices, mores and traditions, etc.
2. LITERARY ARTS
- Prose, poetry, drama, folktales,
5. Art is a form of creation. Art is
myths and legends, comics
something that is created with
imagination and skill and that is
3. PERFORMING ARTS
beautiful or that expresses
- Dance, music, theater, opera, mime,
important ideas or feelings. As it is
magic, circus
said, man is the creator of art. No
art can be created without man,
who uses his/her imagination and DYK?
creativity to produce art. The
person who creates art is called an Dance is the oldest of all the arts /
artist. earliest form of art. Each country has its
own well-known dance, showcasing and
highlighting their culture. supermarkets.

Examples: tinikling (PH), dragon dance ★ Sweet, Salty, Sour

(China), ballet (Italy & France)
6. ELECTRONIC ARTS
4. APPLIED ARTS - film/cinema, animation, video games
- Industrial design, commercial arts,
decorative art, fashion, packaging
Eadweard Muybridge discovered
persistence of vision by photographing
DYK? each movement of the horse in 11 frames
to show how they have all 4 leafs off the
Industrial Art is anything connected to ground when galloping.
the design of an object for mass
production (i.e., packaging). Thomas Edison unveiled a new type of
recording camera which they called a
Commercial Art are things that are used kinetograph in 1890, which is widely
for personal use (i.e., glasses). recognized as one of the world's first
motion picture cameras.
Decorative Art are objects you use for
decoration (i.e., furniture, tiles).

5. CULINARY ARTS
- Gastronomy

DYK?

Fruits and nuts were the first diet of

man.

Lightning caused man to discover fire,

which led man to discover cooking and
make weapons that can be used against
animals. This welcomed animal protein in
the diet.

Pottery opened doors to different kinds

of cooking, which improved man’s eating
manners. This also influenced people to
stay at one place, creating a community.

Then comes agriculture, drying, usage

of spices, fermentation, preservation,
storage of food, instant food, and