AA-Module 1 Lesson 1-4 (3) PDF

 INTRODUCTION -------------- LEARNING OBJECTIVES ------------------- 1. define art from their own concept; 2. appraise the level of creativity; 3. analyze the assumptions of art based fro their own observation and concept; 4. create a photo essay reflecting the content of their artwork...

 INTRODUCTION -------------- LEARNING OBJECTIVES ------------------- 1. define art from their own concept; 2. appraise the level of creativity; 3. analyze the assumptions of art based fro their own observation and concept; 4. create a photo essay reflecting the content of their artwork; 5. discuss the philosophical views of art; 6. explain the impact of a chosen artwork in their everyday lives; 7. determine the function of different artworks; 8. analyze and discuss the subject and the meaning of selected artwork; 9. analyze the content of a chosen Filipino artwork; Lesson 1 ======== 1. Art has to be man-made. 2. Art must be creative. 3. Art must benefit and satisfy man. 4. Art is expressed through certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his audience. #### Art Appreciation as a way of life #### The Role of Creativity in Art Making #### When can we say a person is creative? 1. **Art is Universal and Timeless.** Art is everywhere, wherever men have lived together, art has sprung up among them as a language charged with feelings and significance. Art has no limits and it rises above cultures, races, and civilization. 2. **Art is Not Nature.** Art is man-made, it is a creation of man utilizing his thoughtful skill and artistry, which undergoes process and planning. Art that is created by God is divine, and art that is created by man is superficial or temporary. Art is made by man, whereas nature is a given around us. 3. **Art Involves Experience.** Art is a depiction of our experiences. It demands taking part. It does not require full detail, just an experience - "Actual doing of something." All art works depends on experience, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as fact or information but as an experience." We can only appreciate art if we spend time to look at it, touch it, and feel its presence. 4. **Art is a product of imagination; imagination is a product of art.** "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." -- ***Albert Einstein*** 5. **Art as expression.** "What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but to express it. Through expression, he can explore his own emotions and at the same time, create something beautiful out of them." -- ***Robin George Collingwood***  ACTIVITY 2 --------------------------------- ### Motivated Functions of Art 1. **Social Function** - Art is considered to have a social function if and when it addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a personal interest. a. ***For Communication***- Art, at its simplest, is a form of communication. b. ***For Entertainment***- Art may seek to bring about a particular emotion or mood, for the purpose of relaxing or entertaining the viewer. c. ***For social inquiry, subversion, and/or anarchy***- While similar to art for political change, subversive o art may seek to question aspects of society without any specific political goal. In this case, the function of art may be simply to criticize some aspect of society. 2. **Cultural Function**- Art helps preserve, share, and transmit culture of people from one generation to another. Art is also used to reinforce the religious or spiritual support of a culture. Ritualistic and symbolic functions. In many cultures, art is used in rituals, performances and dances as a decoration or symbol. 3. **Psychological and healing purposes**. Art is also used by art therapists, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists as art therapy. ### Non-motivated Functions of Art 1. ***Personal Function***. It is used to provide comfort, happiness and convenience to human beings. An artist may create an art out of self- expression, entertainment, or therapeutic purpose. 2. ***Aesthetic Function***. Art becomes influential for man to be aware of the beauty of nature. When there is real feeling of appreciation to nature's beauty and manifested through appreciation and enjoyment when in contact with the artwork, then we can consider it as aesthetic function.  ACTIVITY 1 ------------ 1. **Art is mimesis (Plato)** According to him, art is an imitation of the real that was imitation of the ideal. 2. **Art as representation (Aristotle)**. Aristotle agreed with Plato that art is a form of imitation. However, Aristotle considered art as an aid to philosophy in revealing the truth and that the aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance. 3. **Art for art's sake (Immanuel Kant)**. Art has its own reason for being. Kant's critique of judgment considered the judgment of beauty, the cornerstone of art, as something that can be universal despite its subjectivity. a. #### "I like this painting." b. ***"This painting is beautiful."*** 4. **Art as an expression of emotion**. According to Leo Tolstoy, art plays a huge role in communication to its audience's emotions that the artist previously experienced. In the same that language communicates information to other people, art communicates emotions. 5. **Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time**. ***Thomas Merton***, a spiritual writer believed that through engaging ourselves in art, we can know more about the real "us" and if we put ourselves in that chosen art and work passionately in it - thus we lose ourselves and tend to lose our inhibitions and therefore can fully express ourselves. It has been said that the art we choose to hang on our walls is a visual representation of who we are and what we believe in. The resonance of art is deeply personal and what works for one person might do the opposite for another. Lesson 3 ======== 1. ***Nature*** is a common subject used by artist particularly by visual artists. 2. ***History.*** Another subject commonly used in making artworks is history. 3. ***Greek Mythology.*** 4. ***Religion.*** Religion as a subject was frequently used specifically during the medieval ages. 5. ***Culture**.* Today, contemporary artists make use of life experiences and culture as a subject of their artworks. 1. **Realism.** Through this method, an artist attempts to describe accurately what is observed through his senses. He selects, arranges and changes details to express his ideas. Poetry and drama were influenced by realism. Along the process of selecting and presenting his subject, the artist cannot avoid to be influenced by his emotions and ideas. It is in novels that realism achieved greatness. Examples of novels that were influenced with the ideas of realism are ***Mga Kukong Liwanag*** by Edgardo Reyes and ***Dilim sa Umga*** by ***Efren Abueg***. 2. **Abstraction.** This method allows the artist to move away or separate. Abstract art moves away from showing thing as they are. It is the opposite of realism. There are five types of abstract art: a. ***Distortion*.** The subject is in misshapen condition**.** b. ***\ Elongation*.** The subject is lengthened for protraction or extension. c. ***Mangling.*** The subject is either cut, mutilated, lacerated, or hacked. d. ***\ Cubism.*** The subjects are shown in geometrical shapes.  ***e. Abstract expressionism*.** This is characterized by great verve and large canvases and a deliberate lack of refinement in the application of paint. It uses typically strong color, heavy impasto, uneven brush strokes and rough textures. 3. **Symbolism.** The subject might simply be an emblem or sign of an idea or quality. In poetry and painting, symbol has a freer development. It goes beyond the ordinary sign and assumes a new meaning originating from a personal and unique association form in the mind of the poet or painters. An example of a poem is **"Crossing the Bar"** by Alfred Tennyson. Above are the 4. **Dadaism.** It is a process movement in arts formed by group of artists and poets in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. The French word ***"dada"*** means hobby horse and it was deliberately chosen to refer to nonsensical subject. It was a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. It embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics. It was more of a protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto. 5. ### Futurism ### Surrealism ### Expressionism  **Lesson 4** 1. The ***factual level*** is the most basic level because it may be extracted from the identifiable forms in the artwork such as the lines, colors and shapes in a painting; the lyrics and form of a song or the words and form of a poem. These elements and basic rudiments of any artwork interplay to convey a message. 2. The ***conventional level*** pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motif, signs and symbols and other cyphers as bases of its meaning. These conventions are established through generations and strengthened by recurrent use and is widely accepted by its viewers or audience and scholars who study them. 3. When we talk about the ***subjective level***, a variety of meanings may arise that stems out from a viewers' or audience's circumstances that come into play when engaging in art such as our own interpretation and understanding based from our knowledge, learning, experiences and values we carry. 1. ***Semiotic*** contains the name of the artist, title of the work, year of the work was created, dimension or size, medium or technique, location of the work, whose collection or gallery. This is like a credit line that lists important facts about a work of art. 2. ***Iconic*** contains subject: the type, the kind and the source and how the artist describes the subject. 3. ***Contextual*** contains the meaning of the work, symbols, ideas and concepts. The work of art may contain references and allusions, direct or indirect, to historical figures and events as well as to religious, literary, and philosophical ideas and values, which are part of the meaning of the work. ### Iconic ### Contextual  ACTIVITY ----------