Art Assumptions, Scope, and Limitations PDF
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This document outlines various aspects of art, including its assumptions, scope, and limitations. It delves into the nature of art, its purpose, and classifications of arts. The document explains how experience impacts artists and the function of art forms in both a personal and cultural context.
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Defining Art: Assumptions, Scope, More one experiences and Limitation something, they express this in the realm of arts Art 5. Art and Nature exis...
Defining Art: Assumptions, Scope, More one experiences and Limitation something, they express this in the realm of arts Art 5. Art and Nature exists in delight and serves its Nature brings comfort and ease purpose of giving us a reason to to people, that is the art it brings sustain for living. to us Something created by an artist 6. Art as Beauty based on his thoughts, “Beauty is in the eyes of the experiences, imagination, etc. beholder” Creative activity that expresses “If you could only borrow my imaginative or technical skills eyes, then you would see how Product of a body of knowledge, beautiful that person is” most often using a set of skills The concept of beauty is relative, one may find beauty and others Six Notions of Art may not 1. Art is Everywhere Beauty may be based on Likened to the situation that as an perception individual opens his eyes and until he goes back to bed, art Classification of Arts exists and persist 1. Traditional Arts 2. Art as Expression and “Do It Yourself” art Communication Practiced to serve a useful One expresses themselves, they purpose send or communicate their ○ Architecture feelings through the appropriate ○ Sculpture means of art or art forms ○ Painting 3. Art as Creation ○ Literature Art - Latin term of ‘ars’ means ○ Musi skill ○ Performing He or she needs to be ○ Film or well-versed in seeking avenues photography to express themselves skillfully 2. Liberal Arts 4. Art and Experience In the sense of a learned “Experience is the best teacher” skill rather than specifically One feels, sees, and the fine arts experiences, the consequences ○ Grammar and put them together in a piece ○ Logic of work ○ Rhetoric ○ Arithmetic ○ Geometric 2. Functions - purpose, role, and ○ Music meaning of an artwork ○ Astronomy 3. Value - essence, importance, or worth of an artwork Three Classical Branches of Art 1. Painting Classification of Functions of Arts 2. Sculpture 1. Motivated (Functional) Art 3. Architecture - Art that performs its purpose 2. Non-Motivated Understanding Works of Art and (Non-Functional) Art Functions of Arts - Art that cannot perform its purpose Understanding the Works of Art - ‘Art in preservation’, - There could be countless criteria ‘hoarded art’, ‘buried art’ that an onlookers or an ordinary audience may use Value of Arts Four Planes of Analysis of Arts 1. Aesthetic Value 1. Semiotic Plane - Importance of the artwork - Visual elements, about its beauty techniques, and medium - Artistic worth of something of the artworks than its practical value 2. Iconic Plane 2. Economic Value - The image itself, including - Creative talents, skills, or the subject matter and artworks, converted into style money or business 3. Contextual Plane - Historical, economic, Functions of Arts political, and cultural 1. Personal Function context of the artwork - This means the artist 4. Axiological Plane expresses their thoughts - Values and views of life influenced by their expressed by the artist, surroundings. and the viewers’ value - Conceptualization - an system artwork is viewed, interpreted, and FORMS, VALUE, and FUNCTION understood differently; 1. Forms - groups or perceived in two contexts categorizations of an artwork (a) for the artist and (b) 4. Cultural/Religious/Historical for their art Functions 2. Physical or Utilitarian Function - That commemorates important - The artwork serves events that are part of traditional various physical purposes practices for usefulness and comfort 5. Educational Function - Created to perform some - Procedure to express one’s service feelings 3. Social Function - Refer to experiences, symbols, - Collectively address and signs illustrating knowledge spiritual, political, and not in given words cultural or historically significant events Forms of Arts a. Spiritual Function 1. Fine Arts - primarily for aesthetic b. Political Function enjoyment through auditory and c. Cultural/Historical visual Function a. Painting - It also influences the way b. Literature we think 2. Practical Arts - intended for a. Pictorial forms - putting practical use or utility across a message through a. Sculpture the landscape b. Architecture b. Satire(Caricature) - “to 3. Performing Arts - involves ridicule” to send a movements, gestures, and message of awareness speaking and change a. Dance i. Cartoons - promote b. Singing and instill good c. Music values d. cinema/film ii. Editorial Cartooning - install awareness to people c. Propaganda - powerful means to persuade people’s minds d. Advertising Art - affect the buying behavior of people
