Lecture 2: Art Appreciation and the Human Faculties

LECTURE 2 Art Appreciation and the Human Faculties UE. DR. ALLAN C. ORATE Prepared by Dr. Allan C. Orate DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLA...

LECTURE 2 Art Appreciation and the Human Faculties UE. DR. ALLAN C. ORATE Prepared by Dr. Allan C. Orate DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C.  OBJECTIV a. Define art appreciation. ES b. Relate the study of art to the fields of philosophy and psychology. c. Examine the human faculties as basis for the appreciation of art. d. Analyze works of art according to four levels: perceptual elements, representations, emotional suggestions, and intellectual meaning. e. Make an artwork that shows the four levels of analysis. f. Evaluate the merit or demerit of works of art based on the concept of art as reality. DR. to g. Apply the concept of art as reality ALLAN theC. UE. DR. ALLAN C. ORATE, UE READING 2.1 Gombrich, Ernest (1960). “Pygmalion’s Power,” excerpt from Art and SIllusion: A Study on the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, pp. 80-83. 2.2. Orate, Allan (2000). “Art and Perception of the World,” in UE Today, Vol. 12, No. 2., pp. 7-8 & 14. VIDEOS 2.1. “What is art for? Alain de Botton’s Animated Guide,” (2015). In https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlQOyt FCRI. 2.2. “What is the Treachery of Images,” in DR. ALLAN C. https:// www.you tube.com/watch? v=atH UE. DR. ALLAN C. ORATE, UE LECTURE S 2.1. Art and the Human Essence 2.2. The Process of Art Appreciation 2.3. Art and the Perception of Reality DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. ORATE, UE  LECTURE 2.1 Art and the Human Essence DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C.  Who am I? THE BASIC QUESTION IN THE HUMANITIES UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Who am I? “I am a human being.” UE. DR. ALLAN C.  What is a human being? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  THE HUMAN ESSENCE Leonardo, Vitruvian Man, 1490 ??? UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN C.  THREE HUMAN FACULTIES MIND REASON THINKING WILL EMOTION FEELING SENSES PERCEPTI SENSING Eyes ON Seeing Ears Sensation Hearing Nose Smelling Tongue Tasting Skin Touching Imaginati Imagining on UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN C.  ANALYSIS OF ART BASED ON THE THREE HUMAN FACULTIES LEVEL OF THE 1. SENSES PERCEPTUAL ELEMENTS Sense-Data: Lines, Color, Shapes, etc. 2. REPRESENTATIONS Things, People, Objects, LEVEL EventsOF THE WILL 3. EMOTIONAL SUGGESTIONS Happy, Sad, Afraid LEVEL etc. OF THE MIND 4. INTELLECTUAL MEANING UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLA  Mondrian, Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue, 1924 VISUAL ELEMENTS COLORS: Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Black SHAPES: Rectangles, Square LINES: Straight, UE. DR.Horizontal ALLAN C. and DR. ALLAN C. Amorsol o VISUAL Winnowi ELEMENTS COLOR ng Rice, SHAPES 1957 LINES REPRESENTAT IONSPEOPLE: Woman Farmers ANIMALS : Chicken Carabao THINGS: Trees Nipa Hut Sky Clouds Mountai n EVENTS UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN Winnowi C.  Munch The Scream 1893 VISUAL ELEMENTS COLORS, SHAPES, LINES REPRESENTATI PEOPLE,ONS THINGS, EVENTS EMOTIONAL SUGGESTION FEAR OR TERROR: Shown by the facial expression of the woman, and by the UE. DR.curving ALLANlines C. of red, DR. DR. ALLAN ALLAN C. C.  Stynwec k, The Vanities of Human Life 1645 VISUAL ELEMENTS COLORS, etc. REPRESENTATIONS THINGS, etc. EMOTIONS SUGGESTIONS SADNESS INTELLECTUAL MEANINGS CONCEPTS, IDEAS, SYMBOLS UE. DR. ALLAN C.  INTELLECTUAL MEANING: Ideas, Concepts and Symbols in Art From the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible MEMENTO MORI Reflecting about Death Stynweck The Vanities UE. DR. ALLAN C.  LIGHT SHELL SKULL Death DARK Optimism Wealth Pessimism Hope, God MUSICAL CLOCK Time INSTRUMENT S LAMP End of Beauty Life HELMET SAMURAI Power Suicide JAR Celebration BOOK Knowledge UE. DR. ALLAN C.  DUST IN THE WIND Composed by Kerry Livgren Sung by The Kansas, The meaning of the lyrics is 1977 I close my eyes, only for a moment and the based on the moment's gone. verse from All my dreams pass before my eyes, a the Bible, Genesis 3:19: curiosity. “You are from Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the dust, and wind. into dust you shall return.” Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea. All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see. Dust in the wind ,all we are is dust in the wind. UE. DR. ALLAN Now, C. don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN C.  ACTIVITY AND ASSESMENT DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C. GROUPIN GWho are professional artists? Who are tech savvy? Who knows how to play musical instruments? Who have been in the teaching profession for more than 20 years. 10 to 19 years? Less than 10 years? DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C.  ACTIVITY a. Group Activity: Make an artwork out of the given materials, according to the instructions. b. Analyze the visual elements, the representation, the emotional suggestions and the intellectual meanings of the artwork. c. Share your analysis with your groupmates. DR. ALLAN C. d. Write UE. DR. ALLAN C. your analysis in theORATE, paper UE  RUBRICS FOR ACTIVITY 2 Needs Excellent Good Fair CRITERIA Improvement (10-12 points) (7-9 points) (4-6 points) (1-3) All members All members Some members The group actively participated in did not does Group participated in the activity, but participate in not show any Participation the activity, and the group does the activity, collaboration and the group not show a and the group and Collaboration collaborated unified collaboration is participation harmoniously. collaboration. not harmonious at all The artwork is The artwork is The artwork looks The artwork is not pleasing to Aesthetic very pleasing to pleasing, but not pleasing look at, and Value and see, and it does not follow to see, and all many instructions abides with all some instruction are instructions are the instructions. instructions. not followed not followed. The group The group The group The group analyzes the analyzes the analyzes the analyzes the Analysis artwork artwork artwork artwork correctly in all correctly in only DR.inALLAN correctly only C. correctly in four levels. three levels. two ORATE, levels. UEonly one level.  LESSON 2.2 The Process of Art Appreciation DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C.  Video 2.1 What is art for? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  ART APPRECIATION ?? UE. DR. ALLAN C. ?? ? ?  ART APPRECIATION APPRECIATION PERSON as WORK OF spectator/ ART UE. DR.viewer ALLAN C. as object  ART APPRECIATION Positive Wow! perceptual Sense-Data and Representation emotional Feelings intellectual Meanings response to Communication and Reaction the beauty Value that delights of artworks Painting, Sculpture, UE. DR. ALLAN C. Music  Wow! or Yak! UE. DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Which art do you appreciate most? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  LECTURE 2.3 Art and the Perception of Reality DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C.  ART is... ? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  talent skill passion emotion idea ART truth reality goodness is... beauty form expression representati on UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Art is reality. UE. DR. ALLAN C.  What is this? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Leonardo The Mona Lisa 1501 STYLE Renaissance Art Does this art look real? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Picasso, The Weeping Woman, 1924 STYLE Cubism Does this art look real? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Which art looks more real? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  You see only the front view of the UE. DR. ALLAN C.  You see many views of UE. DR. ALLAN C. the  Which art looks more real? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Mondrian, Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue, 1924 STYLE De Stijl Or Plastic Art New Plastic Art Neoplasticism Concretism Does this art look UE. DR. ALLAN C. real?  You see red, yellow and UE. DR. ALLAN C. blue.  The style was the complete reliance on design and the elimination of all feelings and emotions. Being real is something should not be represented with the thing itself.  Which art looks most real? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Malevich, White on White, 1917 STYLE Suprematism Does this art look UE. DR. ALLAN C. real? Suprematism Art that is consist of basic geometric form that focused on spiritual purity, often painted in monochrome. The purer, the more truthful.  You see white on UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Which art looks most real? UE. DR. ALLAN C.  The painting of Malevich, White on White is the most real because it presents art on its purest form.  Duchamp, The Fountain (Urinal), 1917 UE. DR. ALLAN C.  Which art looks most real of all? UE. DR. ALLAN C. Art seen as the object itself.  Art seen as representational image Art seen as abstract image but still ART AND representational REALITY Art seen as form composed of shapes, colors etc. Art seen as UE. DR. ALLAN C. pure form  What is this? This is not a chair. This is a painting! Van Gogh, Chair UE. DR. ALLAN C. with a  Rene Magritte The Treachery of Images Video 2.2 THIS IS NOT A PIPE UE. DR. ALLAN C.  ACTIVITY AND ASSESMENT DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C. GROUPIN GWho are professional artists? Who are tech savvy? Who knows how to play musical instruments? Who have been in the teaching profession for more than 20 years. 10 to 19 years? Less than 10 years? DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. DR. ALLAN ORATE, UE C.  ACTIVITY Make an artwork out of the given materials, according to the instructions. Cartolina Colored Papers Scissors Glue DR. ALLAN C. UE. DR. ALLAN C. ORATE, UE  RUBRICS FOR ACTIVITY 2 Needs Excellent Good Fair CRITERIA Improvement (10-12 points) (7-9 points) (4-6 points) (1-3) All members All members Some members The group actively participated in did not does Group participated in the activity, but participate in not show any Participation the activity, and the group does the activity, collaboration and the group not show a and the group and Collaboration collaborated unified collaboration is participation harmoniously. collaboration. not harmonious at all The artwork is The artwork is The artwork looks The artwork is not pleasing to Aesthetic very pleasing to pleasing, but not pleasing look at, and Value and see, and it does not follow to see, and all many instructions abides with all some instruction are instructions are the instructions. instructions. not followed not followed. The group The group The group The group analyzes the analyzes the analyzes the analyzes the Analysis artwork artwork artwork artwork correctly in all correctly in only DR.inALLAN correctly only C. correctly in four levels. three levels. two ORATE, levels. UEonly one level.