GEC 4 – Art Appreciation (Prelims) PDF

GEC 4 – ART APPRECIATION MISCONCEPTION –wrong idea or inaccurate data/idea. WHAT IS ART? - Misinterpretation. -Incorrect or inaccurate idea due to FAULTY PLATO – art is that brings life in harmony w/ THINKING. the bea...

GEC 4 – ART APPRECIATION MISCONCEPTION –wrong idea or inaccurate data/idea. WHAT IS ART? - Misinterpretation. -Incorrect or inaccurate idea due to FAULTY PLATO – art is that brings life in harmony w/ THINKING. the beauty of the world. JOHN DEWEY – An attitude of spirit, a state KEY CONCEPTS & CHARACTERISTICS OF of mind, one that demands for its own MISCONCEPTIONS: satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping of matter  Incorrect Understanding – represents to new and more significant form. a flawed grasp of a concept or subject OSCAR WILDE – Art is the most intense  Widespread – commonly held by large mode of individualism that the world has groups of people known.  Persistent – can be difficult to correct, ELBERT HUBBARD – Art is not a thing – it is even when presented w/ facts or a way. evidence, because they are often deeply ingrained. 4 COMMON ESSENTIALS OF ART:  Based on Assumptions – often stem 1. Art must be man-made from assumptions or incomplete 2. Art must be creative and not imitative information, leading to conclusions that 3. Art must benefit and satisfy man seem logical but are actually wrong. 4. Art is expressed through certain medium or material. DIFFERENT MISCONCEPTION: 1. Art believes that someone is an artist 3 ASSUMPTIONS OF ART and others are not 1. Art is universal 2. Art is only good for rich 2. Art is not nature 3. Art is unchanging 3. Art involves experience 4. Art is not useful and not practical 5. Art is only visuals ART IS UNIVERSAL 6. Art has no money - Art is everywhere, art has no limit, 7. Art is not helpful rises above cultures, races, and civilization. Timeless because it goes ART beyond the time of our own existence. - rooted in the 13th century French word art which means skills as a result of ART IS NOT NATURE LEARNING or PRACTICE. - Man-made, creation of man utilizing - Latin word “ars” meaning the ability or his thoughtful skill and artistry practice skills. - Art is ARTIFICIAL, because it is just an imitation of reality & nature. ABILITY – the human capacity to make things - Constant transformation of change, it of beauty and things that stir us; it is does not change by itself unless CREATIVITY. manipulated by its creator. PROCESS – art encompasses acts ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE - Depiction of our experience. PRODUCT – Art is the completed work - Through the immersion in arts, we can (tangible or intangible) find conviction and assertation. - We can only appreciate art if we spend time to look at it, listen to it, touch it, and feel its presence. ART APPRECIATION AS A WAY OF LIFE WHY STUDY HUMANITIES? JEAN-PAUL SARTE – the role of art as a 1. We can be connected to PLACES we creative work that depicts the world in a have not visited, understand the completely different light and perspective & past/history which has significance to the source is due to HUMAN FREEDOM. the present. Makes us encounter GREAT MINDS AND HEARTS of ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ART MAKING human history. - A creative artist does not simply copy 2. Studying what humans have FOUND or imitate another artist’s work. He VALUABLE OR GOOD throughout the embraces ORIGINALITY, puts his own time. flavor into his work and calls it his own 3. We experience CONNECTION creative piece. between CULTURE & COMMUNITY through different art exposures IMAGINATION – one able to craft something (museum, concerts) bold, something new and something better in 4. We increase our respect for cultural hopes of creating something that will and individual differences through a stimulate change. It all starts in the human knowledge of achievements and of mind. world civilization. 5. We gain a global perspective through CREATIVITY – act of a person through the knowledge of world cultures. imaginary, makes something new such as a 6. Able to build up your career, focus on product, a solution, or a work of art. your life, minimize frustration, be able to work as part of an effective team. EXPRESSION – the process of making known one’s thoughts or feelings. PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART: ALBERT EINSTEIN – “Imagination is more 1. ART AS MIMESIS – PLATO important than knowledge” - AN IMITATION OF THE REAL that has an imitation of the ideal. ROBIN GEORGE COLLINGWOOD – what - The things in this world are only a copy an artist does to an emotion is not to induce of the original, the eternal and true it, but express it. entities can only be found in the WORLD OF FORMS. HUMANITIES AND ARTS: PLATO was suspicious for 2 reasons: 1. Humanus – Humanitas – Humanity 1. They appeal to the emotion rather to - Refers to the quality of being a human; the rational faculty of men huma; civilized; cultured. 2. They imitate rather than lead one to 2. Branch of Learning reality. - Refers to the study of the arts. - ART IS DANGEROUS because it only “Artwork and its formal object are provides a PETTY REPLACEMENT for CREATIVITY AND APPRECIATION” the real entities. BRANCHES OF ARTS: 2.ART AS REPRESENTATION – - History ARISTOTLE - Philosophy - the aim of art is not to represent the - Literature outward appearance but their INWARD - Religion SIGNIFICANCE. - Languages - art is representing POSSIBLE - Music VERSIONS OF REALITY  - MYRIAD possibilities of reality - experience of pleasure - ability to be instructive and teach its audience about life. 3.ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGEMENT – IMMANUEL KANT - can be UNIVERSAL despite its SUBJECTIVITY - every subjective judgements are based on some universal criterion. 4.ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION – LEO TOLSTOY - art communicates emotions - as a purveyor of MAN’S INNERMOST FEELINGS ANND THOUGHTS, art is given a unique opportunity to serve as a mechanism for social unity. FUNCTIONS OF ART: ARISTOTLE – every particular substance in the world has an end (or telos – purpose/function) TELOS ~ FUNCTION – for a thing to reach its purpose, it also has to fulfill its function. EUDIMONIA – life of fulfillment and happiness RATIONALITY – sensibility & ability to make decisions based on intelligent thinking. - The TELOS and the FUNCTION of a thing are both RELATED to that thing’s IDENTITY. - A human being’s capacity for thinking, his supposed function w/out this function, the human being ceases to be a human being. FUNCTIONS OF ART:  An inquiry on the function of art is an inquiry on what art is for “WHAT IS IT FOR?”  In function, different art forms come w/ distinctive function. Some art are more functional than others.