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Art Appreciation 4. Practical Function - For Nature and Functions of Arts everyday use (ex. furnaces) Aesthetics - A branch of philosophy 5. Psychological Function - dealing with beauty and the beautiful Evokes and conveys emotions and especi...

Art Appreciation 4. Practical Function - For Nature and Functions of Arts everyday use (ex. furnaces) Aesthetics - A branch of philosophy 5. Psychological Function - dealing with beauty and the beautiful Evokes and conveys emotions and especially with judgements of taste feelings. concerning them. 6. Religious Function - Use for Science - Deals with the exact worship principles about beauty (proportion, balance, rhythm, etc) 7. Social and Political Function - Symbol of people’s unity. Greek Golden Ratio - Use to measure perfect beauty The Artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad Amber Heard - 91.85% accurate to spectrum of activities related to the Greek Golder Ratio creating art, practicing the arts Kim Kardashian - 2nd most and/or demonstrating an art. beautiful face. The Artisan is a skilled craft worker ! Art is also a science whose subject who makes or creates material matter is the description and objects partly or entirely by hand. explanation of the arts, artistic These objects may be functional or phenomenon, and aesthetic strictly decorative, for example, experience that includes experience furniture, decorative art, sculpture, that includes psychology, sociology, and many more. and history of the arts and essentially related aspects such as The curator is a manager or marketing, business etc. ! overseer. Traditionally a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage Man is basically GOOD institution. -Confucianism Nature of the Arts Functions/Importance of Arts 1. Art is a CREATION 1. Aesthetic Function - Expresses - An act of re-ordering or beauty in many ways. combining of already existing materials to form a new 2. Didactic Function - meant both object. This involves planning to entertain and to instruct. creativity and cooperation. 2. Art is an 3. Communicative Function - EXPRESSION/COMMUNICATION Conveys ideas and beliefs. - An artist's way of communicating; his emotions, values, and hidden realities. Art Appreciation 3. Art is an EXPERIENCE - What an artist gains after Animals having been involved or exposed to certain realities in life. 4. Art is ARTIFICIAL - A duplication of the natural world. Nature: Natural, evanescent, disorderly, subject of art. Art: Artificial, unrepeatable, Still Life could be improved, object of art. Two Kinds of Response Sensory - Stimulate the senses Intellectual - Stimulates the mind Subject/s in Art Portrait > It refers to PERSONS, OBJECTS, SCENE, EVENTS described or presented in an art. 2 Types: 1. Representational / Objective Arts - Arts with subject 2. Non-Representational / Non-Objective Arts Everyday Life - Arts without subject Most Used SUbjects in Art Landscapes Art Appreciation History Figures (Animation or Cartoons are part of Legend figure art) Dreams and Fantasies Myth Subject - refers to the object in the art Content - refers to the meaning of the art 3 Levels of Meaning in Art Religion 1. Factual -the literal meaning (ex. Landscapes) 2. Social/Conventional/Cultural - has a meaning for a group of people (ex. Rizal’s Monument) 3. Subjective/Personal - with personal meaning to the artist (ex. Starry Night) Art Appreciation using basic skills, in rendering an Mediums of Art artistic work or carrying out a scientific mechanical operation. Medium refers to the materials or means which the artist uses to Abstraction objectify his feelings or thought Abstract means to move away or separate. Abstract art move from Classification of Arts (according showing things as they really are. to medium) Abstract art, also called nonobjective art or 1. Visual or Space Arts nonrepresentational art, painting, > those whose mediums can sculpture, or graphic art in which the be seen and which occupy space. portrayal of things from the visible world plays no part. a. 2-dimensional art (painting, drawing, photography) b. 3-dimensional art (sculpture, architecture, landscaping) Distortion 2. Auditory Arts Any change made by an artist > those whose medium, can to the size, shape or visual character be heard and which are expressed in of a form to express an idea, convert time (eg. music and literature) a feeling or enhance visual impact. It involves stretching, 3. Combined Arts lightening, shortening, squeezing, > those whose medium can be melting and twisting an object from both seen and heard, and which its original appearance to a new, exist in both space and time (eg. strange, surreal appearance. dance, movies, opera, and drama) Styles in Art Art Style - the combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era. Art Technique - the method of procedure (with reference to practical or formal details), or way of Art Appreciation Elongation It refers to paintings that feature figures that are painted with their forms elongated much more than they are in reality. It is a form of abstract art that often depicts the stretched forms of people or objects in nature. Symbolism It was created as a reaction to art movements that depicted the natural world realistically, such as impressionism, realism, and naturalism. Mangling Art that mutilates by cutting, slashing, or crushing to injure severely, disfigure, ruin or spoil a Fauvism subject. Uses pure, brilliant color aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas. Cubism Emphasizes the flat, two-dimensional surface of the Dadaism picture plane, rejecting the Developed in response to the traditional techniques of perspective, horrors of WW1, the dada movement foreshortening, modeling and rejected reason, rationality and order chiaroscuro, and refuting of the emerging capitalist society, time-honoured theories that art instead favoring chaos, nonsense should imitate nature. and anti-bourgeois sentiment. Created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. Art Appreciation Expressionism Is an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. (vivid, jarring, violent, or scary) Futurism Emphasizes the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life. February 20, 1909 when paris newspaper Le Figaro published a Impressionism manifesto by the italian poet nd An attempt to accurately and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. objectively record visual reality in His goal of discarding the art terms of transient effects of light and of the past and celebrating change, color. In music, it was to convey an originality, and innovation in culture idea or effect through a wash of and society. sound rather than a strict formal structure. (there’s sunlight) Surrealism Represented a reaction Pointillism against what its members saw as the Using this technique, he destruction wrought by the created huge compositions with tiny, “rationalism” that had guided detached strokes of pure color too European culture and politics in the small to be distinguished when past and that had culminated in the looking at the entire work but horrors of World War I. (dreamlike) making his painting shimmer with brilliance. Art Appreciation Art Noveau Realism Characterized by intricate Sometimes called naturalism, linear designs and flowing curves on it is the attempt to represent subject natural form. matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements. Elements of Design The elements of art are the building blocks of all art. Every piece of art ever created includes one or more of Neo-Classicism these elements. Emphasizing on antiquity and formality Line -> A mark made upon a surface. Should be longer than its width Types: a. Diagonal - Progress/movement b. Vertical - stability and power c. Horizontal - calm and rest Qualities: jagged, curved, straight, Baroque/Rococo dotted, thick, thin, broken, dark, Use of heavy ornaments, light design and movements Shape -> Eclosed lines; areas of eclosed space that are 2-dimensional. Categories: Geometric - mathematical (circles, square, triangle) Organic - comes from nature, like Romanticism clouds and leaves Art that highlights drama in human life. Art Appreciation Color Space -> Area that an artist creates in an artwork; the artist places things in a way to use space wisely like using positive (the space occupied) or negative (empty space) space to make the work interesting. Red - color of passion, rage, aggression, and love. Yellow Orange - the color of the appetite Blue - peace, calmness, and infinity. Green - Fresh/Refreshing Form -> It is the 3-dimensional version of shape. Placement - objects that are placed higher on the page to make them appear further Linear Perspective - Objects that are drawn which seem to disappear toward a vanishing point Overlapping - placing one object in front of another to make one appear closer. Value Texture -> It refers to the lightness and Artists recreate an illusion of darkness of areas in an artwork. texture. It is the way something feels or looks like it feels. Art Appreciation pattern to make the work of art Principles of Design seem active. >> Is how we use the elements of design. 1. Emphasis / Center of Interest - The focal point in an artwork. 2. Contrast >> When you use things in a work 5. Rhythm that are very different from each >> It is created when one or more other like dark and light elements of design are used repeatedly to create a feeling of organized movement. 4. Repetition >> Repeating shapes, lines, and objects in a work. It works with Art Appreciation 6. Balance >> It is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space. 7. Movement >> It’s the path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art, often to focal areas. 8. Variety >> It’s the use of several elements of design to hold the viewer’s attention and to guide the viewer’s eye through and around the work of art.