Understanding Art Lesson-1 PDF

Lesson I Understanding Art How art can meet some human needs? Modified by: Arth Joshpine C. Baltazar, LPT Describe it! ▪Beauty ▪Happiness and Hope ▪Identifying and understanding oneself ▪Grief and healing ▪Remembering and mark-mak...

Lesson I Understanding Art How art can meet some human needs? Modified by: Arth Joshpine C. Baltazar, LPT Describe it! ▪Beauty ▪Happiness and Hope ▪Identifying and understanding oneself ▪Grief and healing ▪Remembering and mark-making ▪Raising awareness ▪Culture and togetherness What is Art and Humanities?  “Humanus” (Latin) Humanities meaning human, cultured, and refined HUMANITY  ARTS ❑human creative skills (e.g., artisans) ❑Importance: It is indeed important in our lives. ❑Art, like love, is not easy to define. ❑It is an activity that provides the beauty and pleasure. It is also made from one’s skill as well as one’s feelings and emotions.  BEAUTY Though we have different, notions of beauty, still beauty is the common denominator when we are talking about appreciating forms of art. BEAUTY BEAUTY There are 2 ways of considering beauty… Relative Absolute “beauty is in the vs “beauty is in the eye of the thing itself” beholder”  Consideration of beauty is subjective Relative and depends on the person looking at the Beauty thing. In this way, it is said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”  It considers the view that a thing is Absolute beautiful by virtue of itself. Beauty is Beauty objective and resides in the thing regardless of the people looking at it. Art as an expression of feelings How can art meet some human needs?  Happiness and Hope There is something about art that mirrors the soul of those willing to confront it. In a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age. There is a wide range of properties of art why it gives a sense of joy and hope to its audience. These are examples:  Happiness and Hope ❑ When paintings are placed in a daunting environment such as hospitals; ❑The experience and process of creating art itself; ❑ And identifying oneself with the properties of an artwork Happiness and Hope Identifying and Understanding the self Art can serve as a powerful tool to help us communicate and relay our confusion. Even psychological interventions use art as therapy to aid in processing some sensitive experiences. Identifying and understanding the self  Grief and Healing Throughout the years, artists have interpreted these shared human experiences in different ways, which also help us process our grief. Some may use art as a tool to express pain and process it in therapy. Nonetheless, it plays an important role in making grieving somehow dignified. Remembering and Mark-making The monument of Rizal in Luneta Park is one example of a type of art that helps u s remember. Without the tangible characteristic of art, we will not be able to sustain our nationalistic values well enough. Remembering and Mark-making Remembering and Mark-making  Raising Awareness In the Philippines, many socially-concerned artists have emerged in the age of modernism portraying politicians and the governments system in their most hateful actions. Raising Awareness Culture and Togetherness Lastly, forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions. Culture and Togetherness  Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, to inspire and to motivate