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**LESSON 1** **ART** - Came from the Aryan word "Ar" which means "to put together" and Latin "Ars" which means "skill" - Encompasses visual, literary, musical, and performance arts - Expresses aesthetic value by use of skill and imagination **HUMANITIES** - Came from the Latin wo...

**LESSON 1** **ART** - Came from the Aryan word "Ar" which means "to put together" and Latin "Ars" which means "skill" - Encompasses visual, literary, musical, and performance arts - Expresses aesthetic value by use of skill and imagination **HUMANITIES** - Came from the Latin word "Humanus" which means "refined", "cultured", and "human" - Studies the construct of man---its frailty and its Improvement - Investigates human quest for answers about the questions and concerns in life - Understands expressions of man's feelings and thoughts and recognizes creative expressions - Emphasizes dignity and worthiness of man - Aims to shape human values and subjective energies (behavior, attitude, and aspirations **IMPORTANCE OF HUMANITIES** - Man gains an Understanding of himself - Man understands his natures - Man is provided with a measure of his own passion and desire - Man develops to be a complete and social man - Man\'s behavior is regulated **KINDS OF ARTS** - **Fine Arts or Aesthetic Arts (Major Arts)** - **Utilitarian Arts or Practical Arts (Minor Arts)** - They are intended to be used in practical settings, but they must also possess artistic qualities - **Functional Art** -- refers to art that we use in our daily lives such as tools, architectural structures, roads, bridges, buildings, furniture. Kitchen utensils, coins, bills, dress, weapons, etc. - **Indirectly Functional Art** -- refers to the arts that are "perceived through the senses "such as fine arts, painting, music, sculpture, dance, literary piece, theatrical performances and the like. **FUNCTIONS OF ART** - **PERSONAL FUNCTION --** This function serves the personal interests, motivations, and expressions of the artist. It fulfills the function of the arts to satisfy the personal views of the artist who created the artwork. - **PHYSICAL FUNCTION** -- This function aims to satisfy man's physical needs. Artworks that can be used in everyday life fulfill its physical function. - **SOCIAL FUNCTION --** This function addresses a particular collective interest or makes people aware of the social issues around them. - **AESTHETIC FUNCTION --** an artwork functions aesthetically when it becomes instrumental for a man to be cognizant of the beauty of nature and where the real feelings of joy and appreciation to nature's beauty are manifested through appreciation and enjoyment when in contact with the artwork. It also aims to make the artwork beautiful to most people. - **CULTURAL FUNCTION --** art serves as an aperture towards skills, knowledge, attitudes, customs, and traditions of different groups of people. Art helps, preserves, shares, and transmits culture of people from one generation to another. - **POLITICAL FUNCTION --** art serves as an aid to a campaign about politics or a political agenda. - **RELIGIOUS FUNCTION** -- these are artworks created and used for/in religious activities that fulfills their religious function. - **ECONOMIC FUNCTION** -- art is consumable for the masses and it helps the economic gains of artists **BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF ART** - Art has been created by all people, at all times, in all - countries, and it lives because it is well-liked and - enjoyed. - Art involves experience; there can never be - appreciation of art without experience. - Art is not nature; nature is not art. Art is made by - man. - Art is everywhere. - Art is man's oldest means of expression. - Art is an expression and communication. **ART FORMS/WAYS OF EXPRESSING ONESELF THROUGH ART** **VISUAL ARTS** - Those that appeal to the sense of sight. **FILM** - Refers to the art of putting together successions of frames or images in **PERFORMING ARTS** - Performing art is a live art and the artist's medium is mainly the human body which he or she uses to perform, but also employs other kind of art such as visual art, props or sound. **LITERARY ARTS** - Artists who practice literary arts use words to express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers. It also focuses on writing using a unique style, not following a specific format or norm. **ARCHITECTURE** - This is the art of making beautiful buildings. However, not all buildings are beautiful. Some buildings only embody the functionality they need but are not beautifully expressed. Buildings should embody these three important elements -- plan, construction and design -- if they wish to merit the title architecture. **DANCE** - A kind of performance art wherein series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment. **POETRY PERFORMANCE** - A form of art wherein both literary art and performing art combine through poems being performed in front of an audience. **THEATER** - Uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience and on a stage or drama space. **APPLIED ARTS** - Artists in this field bring beauty, charm and comfort into many things that are useful in everyday life (industrial design, interior design, fashion design). **LESSON 2** **PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF ART** - Aristotle claimed that every particular substance in the world has an end, or telos in Greek, which translates into "purpose". - Every substance, defined as formed matter, moves according to a fixed path towards its aim. - This telos, according to Aristotle is intricately linked with function. - For a thing to reach its purpose, it also has to fulfill its function. **ART AS AN IMITATION** - In Plato's The Republic paints the picture of artists as imitators and art as mere imitation. - In his description of the ideal republic, Plato advises against the inclusion of art as a subject in the curriculum and the banning of the artists in the Republic. - The things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal and the true entities that can only be found in the world of forms. - Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and artist for 2 reasons: - They appeal to the emotions rather than to the rational faculty of men. - They imitate rather than lead one to reality. - For Plato art is dangerous because it provides a petty replacement for the real entities that can be only attained through reason. - According to him, all arts are imitative in nature. Plato wrote in - The Republic that '' ideas are the ultimate reality'' - Things are conceived ideas before they take practical shapes. - Socrates just like Plato claimed that art is just an imitation of imitation. - Aristotle, Plato's most important student in philosophy, agreed with his teacher that art is a form of imitation. - However, in contrast to his mentor's disgust, Aristotle conceived of art as representing possible versions of reality. - For Aristotle, all kinds of art do not aim to represent reality as it is but to provide a vision of what might be or the many possibilities in reality. **ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGEMENT** - Immanuel Kant considered the judgment of beauty the cornerstone of art, as something that can be universal despite its subjectivity: and therefore, art is innately autonomous from specific interest. - For Kant, every human being, after perception and the free play of his faculties, should recognize the beauty that is inherent in a work of art. - This is the kind of universality that a judgment of beauty is assumed by Kant to have. Therefore, Kant claims that in order to judge art based on its inherent beauty, rather than letting one's judgment to be tainted with his/her own interests. - According to Leo Tolstoy, art place a huge role in communication to its audience emotions that the artist previously experienced. - Tolstoy is fighting for the social dimension of art. This means that art serves as a mechanism of cohesion for everyone. - In the same that language communicates information to other people, art communicates emotions. - As purveyor of man's innermost feelings and thoughts, art is given a unique opportunity to serve as a mechanism for social unity. - Art is central to man's existence because it makes accessible feelings and emotions of people from past to present. **LESSON 3** **THREE BASIC COMPONENTS OF ART** **SUBJECT** - the visual focus or the image that maybe extracted from examining the artwork; the "what" **CONTENT** - the meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork; the "why" **FORM** - the development and configuration of the artwork- how the elements and the medium or material are put together; the "how" **TYPES OF SUBJECTS** **REPRESENTATIONAL ART** - These types of art have subjects that refer to objects or events occurring in the real world. - Also termed figurative art because the figures depicted are easy to make out. - Ex. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa - For the average viewer, oftentimes representational art is less intimidating to appreciate since elements are more recognizable and the information is more directly communicated. **NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART** - Art forms that do not make a reference to the real world, whether it is a person, place, thing or even a particular event. - It is stripped down to visual elements, such as shapes, lines and colors that are employed to translate a particular feeling, emotion and even concept. **ABSTRACT ART** - Abstraction: filtering/distilling certain characteristics to be left with what is integral. - Some even say that all types of art feature some sort of abstraction in one way or another, since all artists filter in a way even the most realistic or representational artworks. **SOURCES OF SUBJECT** - **Nature** - **History** - **Greek and Roman mythology** - **Religion** - **Historically significant events** - **People** **CONTENT IN ART** - The meaning or message that is expressed or communicated by the artwork. - In understanding the content of art, it is important to note there are various levels of meaning. **THREE LEVELS OF MEANING** - **Factual Meaning -** most rudimentary, what can be extracted from the identifiable. - **Conventional Meaning -** pertains to acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, themes and symbols. - **Subjective Meaning -** varied different meanings an individual can derive due to his personal nature, background etc. **LESSON 4** **WHAT IS AN ARTIST?** - An artist is a person who performs all forms of creative arts. The specialty of an artist is that he is able to create art for the sake of art itself without needing any ulterior motives. It is believed that through art the artist can create a change in society. **IMPORTANCE OF ARTIST** - Artist are most the important members of the society because they help us to envision our thoughts that may not be tolerated in the social and political paradigm of our society. "Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to the generations of the world." (Leonardo da Vinci) **WHAT IS AN ARTISAN?** - An artisan is a worker who practices a trade or a craft. It is synonymous to craftsman. An artisan organizes themselves into guilds, and these became prevalent during the Middle Ages. Each guild had a specialization or trade like shoemakers, textiles, ad glassworkers, carpenters, carvers, masons, armors, and weapon makers among others. - Guilds were a type of social fellowship, an association structured with rules, customs, rights and responsibilities. - With lifetime commitment to a particular trade, **IMPORTANCE OF ARTISAN** - Artisan through their skills make and install things that can be used at homes, offices and industries. Help fix things for individuals, businesses, governmental and non-government organizations. - Artisan services are sources of blue-collar jobs that can reduce unemployment, poverty, and social vices. They enable people who are not financially buoyant or academically sound to be useful to themselves, their families and the society by learning vocational and technical skills. **ARTIST VS ARTISAN** - An Artist is dedicated only to the creative side, making visually pleasing work only for the enjoyment and appreciation of the viewer, but with no functional value. - On the other hand, an artisan is essentially a manual worker who makes items with his or her hands, who through skill, experience and talent can create things of great beauty as well as being functional. **LESSON 5** **MANAGER** - A gallery owner or manager chooses and presents art for sale. Since galleries may specialize in specific areas, a gallery owner or manager's responsibilities include managing both the creative and business sides of running an art gallery, as well as organizing art exhibitions private sales and loaning out art. **CURATOR** - Is in charge of a collection of exhibits in a museum or gallery and is responsible for assembling, cataloguing, managing, presenting and displaying artworks, cultural collections and artifacts. **ART DEALERS** - A person or company that buys and sells works of art with the aim of making profit. **ORDEN NG PAMBANSANG ALAGAD NG SINING (ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTISTS)** - The Order of National Artists is the highest national recognition bestowed upon Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of arts in the country that is architecture and other allied arts, broadcast arts, dance, film, literature, music and visual arts. - The order is administered conjointly by the National Commission for Culture and Arts and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and is presented by the President of the Philippines upon the recommendation of the two institutions. **FERNANDO AMORSOLO** - The renowned painter is the very first recipient of this award and was given title "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art" in 1972 as a National Artist for Visual Arts. **PRIVILEGES OF ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTISTS** 1. The rank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the President of the Philippines. 2. The insignia of National Artist and a citation. 3. A lifetime emolument and material and physical benefits comparable in value to those received by the highest officers of the land such as: a. A cash award of One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P 100,000.00) net of taxes, for living awardees. b. A cash award of Seventy-Five Thousand Pesos (P 75,000.00) net of taxes, for posthumous awardees, payable to legal heir/s. c. A monthly life pension, medical and hospitalization benefits. d. Life Insurance coverage for Awardees who are still insurable. e. A state funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. f. A place of honor, in line with protocolar precedence, at National State functions and recognition at Cultural events. **GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN** - Began as project of the Philippine Rotary Club Makati-Ayala in April 1992 and was institutionalized through the Republic Act No. 7355 to acknowledge folk and indigenous artists who, despite the modern times remain true to their traditions, giving credit to those who have dedicated their lives to forge new paths and directions for future generations of Filipino artists. - The award tied with a program that ensures the transfer of their skills to new generations and the promotion of the craft both locally and internationally. - The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the highest policy making and coordinating body for culture and the arts of the State, is tasked with the administration and implementation of the said award. - Through GAMABA Committee and an Ad Hoc Panel of Experts, the NCCA conducts the search for the finest traditional artists of the land, adopts a program that will ensure the transfer of their skills to others and undertakes measures to promote a genuine appreciation of and instill pride among our people about the genius of the Manlilikha ng Bayan. **GAWAD MANLILIKHA NG BAYAD (GAMABA)** **GINAW BILOG** - A Hanunoo Mangyan poet who is considered a master of the Ambahan Poetry. **LANG DULAY** - A T'boli traditional weaver of "tinalak" or T'boli cloth made of colorful abaca fabrics. **EDUARDO MUTUC** - An artist from Apalit Pampanga who has dedicated his life to creating religious and secular art in silver, bronze and wood. **ART PRODUCTION PROCESS** **PRE-PRODUCTION** - A process of preparing all the elements involved in the creation of an artwork. - This involves making an outline of what is to be accomplished, why it needs to be more efficient with his/her time since the artist has some sort of a game what he/she is about to do. **PRODUCTION PROCESS** - Using the game plan in the previous process, the artist is now ready to manipulate his/her medium and the elements that come with it to be able to execute an artwork. **POST-PRODUCTION** - Happens when the artwork has been completed. - The artwork is allowed to set, to be modified, to be displayed, transported or to promoted.