Introduction to Art Appreciation

Lesson 1: Introduction to Art Appreciation

• This lesson introduces the definition of humanities and art and discusses the importance of art appreciation.
• Students should clarify misconceptions, characterize assumptions, and understand the importance of art appreciation.

The Origin and Meaning of Humanities

• Humanities became a secular study in universities during the Renaissance in the early 15th century.
• The term "humanities" comes from the Renaissance Latin expression "studia humanitatis," including grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy in Latin and Greek classics.
• Today, humanities also encompass literature, language, philosophy, geography, history, religion, music, and art.
• Humanities constitute one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by humans, dealing with aspects of society and fostering social justice and equality.
• Humanities teaches us to reason about being human and question the world, bringing out the best in people.
• Studia Humanitatis, or the Study of Humanitas, refers to culture, refinement, and education.

Meaning of Art

• Art lacks a universal definition, being subjective and varying based on individual perception.
• Art is everywhere, evident even before written records of civilization on caves.
• The Paleolithic Period(Old Stone Age) is an ancient cultural stage with the use of stone tools.
• The Galloping Wild Boar is found in the cave of Altamira, Spain. It was discovered in 1879.
• The painting dates back to the Upper Paleolithic Age.
• Early cave paintings prove prehistoric men used instruments to record interests and thoughts.
• Art, a diverse range of human activities, creates visual, auditory, or performed artworks to express imaginative or technical skill intended for appreciation and beauty.
• The earliest documented art forms are visual arts, including fields like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.
• Architecture is often included in the visual arts.
• The meaning of art changes throughout history in multicultural settings and faces constant challenges with new movements.
• Art is derived from the Latin word "ars," meaning ability or skill. - J.V. Estolas
• Art comes from Italian word "artis," meaning craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and associations between form and ideas, material and technique. -A.Tan
• Art expresses mankind's need to express himself. -F.Zulueta.
• Art brings life in harmony with the world. -Plato
• Art is a life that helps us to realize the truth -Pablo Picasso
• Art is never finished only abandoned -Leonardo Da Vinci.
• Art is the realization in external form of a true idea, traced back to a natural love of imitation characterizing humans. -Aristotle
• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. -Edgar Degas
• Common essentials of art include being man-made, creative (not imitative), beneficial and satisfying, and expressed through a medium to communicate with others.

Importance of Art

• Art is important in daily life, serving a purpose and means of expression.
• Art highlights the significance of events to make them memorable and pleasurable.
• It enables glimpses into the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of past people and their surroundings.
• Encounters with art enable increased valuing and appreciation of beautiful things.
• Art can influence changes in how we think and behave due to its aesthetic impact.
• It serves as inspiration and provides aesthetically pleasing experiences.

Meaning and Importance of Art Appreciation

• Art appreciation is the ability to interpret and understand man-made arts through work experience with art tools and materials.
• It entails possessing works of art for personal admiration and satisfaction.
• Art appreciation signifies an understanding of general and everlasting qualities in all great arts.
• It involves the introduction and exploration of visual and performing art forms.
• It signifies analysis of an artwork's form to enhance broader audience enjoyment and satisfaction
• Art appreciation helps make sense of the world and provides a broader understanding of the environment.
• Appreciation depends on aesthetics, form, elements, principles of design, social, and cultural acceptance.

Assumptions of Art

• Assumptions mean a thing is accepted as true or certain, even without formal proof.
• Assumptions can clarify misconceptions.
• Three assumptions include: art is universal, art is not nature, and art involves experience.

Art is Universal

• Art exists in every country.
• Literature has provided key works.
• Age is not a determining factor.
• Jose Rizal and Francisco Balagtas' works endure in the Philippines, teaching love and capturing imagination.
• Art is crafted by people regardless of origin, time, and place.

Art is Not Nature

• A key characteristic of art is that it is not nature.
• Art is man's expression of nature's reception. It's man's way of interpreting nature, made by man, not given.
• The story of the blind men and the elephant illustrates this.
• Art is based on the individual's subjective experience of nature and artists are not obliged to copy nature.

Art Involves Experience

• Art is "actual doing of something”.
• Art is based on experience not fact.
• An important aspect entails a personal, individual, and subjective experience.
• Every experience is accompanied by emotion.

Lesson 2: Art Appreciation: Creativity, Imagination, and Expression

• Differentiate if the subject is art or nature.
• Characterize artistic expression based on personal experiences with art.
• Discuss the importance of creativity, imagination, and expression.

Art Appreciation as a Way of Life

• It takes a human's amazing capacity to create.
• Art is a way to communicate, cause a reaction, and connect people.
• “The role of art as a creative work is to depict the world in a completely different light and perspective” – Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Artwork expresses an artist's perception.
• Development of appreciation allows one to see the art how the creator did.
• Appreciation of art allows intelligent choices.

The Role of Creativity in Art Making

• Creativity requires people to think outside the box and is what sets apart one artwork from another.
• The Philippines tourism slogan allegedly plagiarized Switzerland's tourism slogan.
• Creativity should be backed with careful research on related art to avoid such conflicts.

Art as a Product of Imagination, Imagination as a Product of Art

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
• Imagination goes beyond the norm and help create something new that will stimulate change.
• Art does not need to be real, but imagination that gives birth to reality.

Art as Expression

• "What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it. Through expression, he is able to explore his own emotions and at the same time, create something beautiful out of them." - Robin George Collingwood
• Expressing emotions makes people's art a reflection of their inner selves.

Visual Arts

• Appeals to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature.
• Other artistic disciplines that involve a visual aspect include performance arts, theater, and applied arts.
• Paintings, drawings, letterings, printing, sculpture, digital imaging are mediums of fine arts.

Film

• Film refers to putting together successions of still images to create movement.
• Filmmaking focuses on its aesthetic, cultural, and social value and it is created with these techniqes: motion-picture camera, animation techniques, computer-generated imagery (CGI) and more.

Performance Art

• A live art where performers use the human body, visual art, props, or sound.
• It's intangible, which means it cannot be bought or traded as a commodity.

Poetry Performance

• Expresses emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but through words that exhibit clarity and beauty, and to use words' emotional, musical, and spatial values beyond their meaning to emphasize or convince people.

Architecture

• Architecture is the pursuit and creation of beautiful buildings that embody the functionality they need, structure, lines, forms, and colors are not beautifully expressed.

Dance

• Series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment, allows people to freely express themselves, dances steps and rules are free to create their own moments.

Literary Art

• Use words to express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers, writing in a unique style, may include both fiction and non-fiction.

Theater

• Theater utilizes live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience with a script.

Applied Art

• Applied arts incorporate style and increased aesthetic value of everyday items.

Lesson 3: Functions and Philosophical Perspectives on Art

• Identity the different functions of art.
• Explain and discuss the basic philosophical perspectives on art.
• Realize the function of some of art form in daily life.

Let's Get Down to Business

• Aristotle claimed every substance has a telos (“purpose”), which links function.
• A thing needs to achieve its purpose with its function to obtain fulfillment and happiness.
• Telos and function are tied to things’ identity.

Functions of Art

• Question of purpose of art.
• Distinctive art forms comes with distinctive functions.

Personal Functions of Art

• Varies with the artists intent, from self-expression, entertainment, or therapy when used to process their emotions.

Social Functions of Art

• Have social roles if it addresses a particular collective.
• Conveys protest and common interests.
• Performance art rouses emotion toward a particular goal.

Physical Functions of Art

• Artworks crafted to serve physical purposes.
• Serve physical functions as to architecture, jewelry making, and interior design.

Other Functions of Art

• Music was intended to facilitate worship to invocation to the gods.
• Essential to synchronize dancers.
• Is also used for stage plays, motion pictures, expressions that are meant to show human's feelings serenade.
• Sculpture is also for religious purposes.

Philosophical Perspectives On Art

• The Greeks saw that beauty can’t be described, beauty is viewed in an artwork.

Art as an Imitation

• Imitators and mere imitation is what the Greek artist show.
• Plato rejected subject in the curriculum and banning of artist.

Art as a Representation

• Philosophy in revealing the truth is how aristotle presents it to the world.
• Represents possible versions of reality.

Art as a Disinterested Judgment

• Considered judgment of beauty by Immanuel Kant.
• Subjectivity was questioned.

Art as Communication of Emotion

• Tolstoy said, "art plays a huge role in communication."

Lesson 4: Subject and Content

• Clues that mediate between the artwork and the viewer, allowing the viewer to more easily comprehend what he is seeing.
• Subject is the visual or the image.
• Content is the meaning.
• Form is the development and configuration of art.

Types of Subjects

• Representational art refers to objects that reference objects in the real world(figurative art).
• Non-representation does not refrence real world whether it's a person, thing, place, or event.
• Abstract exists in a spectrum.

Sources and Kinds of Subject

• Common and frequent sources include nature.

Contend in Art

• Refers to the meaning or significance, of feeling, impacted by a work of art.

Lesson 5: Artists and Artisans

• The goal of this lesson is to be able to outline the emergence of artists and artisans and classify the practices of artists in term of medium and technique.
• The emergence of artists in the development of culture led to the differing cultures in which it existed.
• The presence of this objects (art, literature, infrastructure) was experienced in a great a number of ways: adornment in tools and other surfaces, visual features and the design/plan for architectural structures etc.
• The real controlling resource and the absolutely decisive factor of production is knowledge.

The Artist and the Guilds

• Museums have an array of artifacts and remarkable objects.
• Their materials had a significant impact.
• The Gothic cathedrals lasted.
• The Cologne Cathedral was one of the numerous buildings with early Gothic Architecture.

The Artist and His Studio

• Big developments occurred during the Middle Ages and to the Renaissance Period.
• These resulted in a wider array of artworks, but was in forms of style and techniques.
• Artist studio dates back from the Renaissance.

Other Players in the World of Art

• terrain was the artist.
• Museum and galleries, auctions houses ets. are among the other players.
• As the artist traverses, the world of art is becoming increasingly complex.

Medium and Technique

• Medium is mode of expression, idea is conveyed.
• Technique shows familiarity.

Awards and Citations

• Most common measures for artist includes.
• Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan: citizen engaged in the art.

Lesson 6: Elements and Principles of Art

• Elements are the aspects of an artwork that can be isolated from each other.

Line

• It is one-dimensional that defines borders.
• Horizontal and vertical lines - calming.

Shape and Form

• Shape and line are connected by there defining space.

Space

• Depth real, simulated.
• Three dimension: simulated technique includes three–dimensionality can be attained..

Color

• It enhances the appeal of an artwork and affects viewers.

Intensity

• Refers is the brightness or fullness.

Texture

• A element in art that's touches to be felt whether implied.

Plane and Perspective

• Transforms the way pictorial, three-dimensional..

Elements of Art: Auditory

• rhythm, dynamics, melody, harmony, timbre, and texture..

Principles of Art

• Principles of art impact the elements
• Balance: in relation of each other:

Combined or Hybrid Art

• Integrates the accepted culture, as it experiments.