ART APPRECIATION

HUMANITIES AND ART DEFINITION

MAN
• It is also an animal but possesses the following characteristic features: o Ability to think,
learn, and be educated o Organize things in order to accomplish ends o Has oral and
written language which enables him to communicate and preserve ideas
o Establishes permanent institutions o Man is open to the world o He is endowed with
human universal phenomenon religion or the worship of God
• It is immersed in a way of life of a certain place which is passed from one generation to
the next. This is known as culture
• Man lives in a society where he is capable of discovery and learning
• He can create gadgets and tools
• He can learn a language, make laws, and follow a religion
• He is capable to create and appreciate work of arts: part of nature or man-made

HUMANITIES
• It encompasses all discipline which aim to make students “human” • It is derived from a
Latin word “humanus,” which means human and cultured
• Those significant achievements of human race which illuminates and illustrates the
distinctive characteristics of man as a rational being
• Humanities includes the study of ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy,
history, archaeology, anthropology, human geography, law, politics, religion, and arts.
• The concerns about humanity, where it records or interprets man’s thinking, feelings,
regrets, aspirations, failures, and he supposed not to do in the world

WHY STUDY HUMANITIES?

• To equip students with a culture that is necessary to complete his being

• For students to live happily beyond the things that satisfy using the practicalities of life
• To equip students with a culture that is necessary to complete his being
• For students to live happily beyond the things that satisfy using the practicalities of life
• It is served to provide the students with certain skills and values through arts: painting,
sculpture, architecture, photography, dance, drama, and cinema • Aim to shape
students’ subjective energies (his feelings, attitudes, and aspirations) in accordance
with a particular view of the social world

ART
• It is derived from a Latin word “ars” which means ability or skill
• It is a skill that pertains to the proficiency in doing an activity
• Skill and product which are primarily intended to delight the senses and produce
satisfying experiences of the beautiful
o “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
• It covers those artistic creativity that seek to communicate beauty primarily through the
senses of humans and generations
• It applies to activities that express aesthetic ideas by the use of skill and imagination in
the creation of objects, environment, and experiences
• Art defines as “the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects,
environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.”
 ASSUMPTION AND NATURE OF ARTS

ART
• A set of aspects which make something a candidate for appreciation (George Dickie, Art
and Aesthetic, 1969).
• It is the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of
aesthetic objects

INSTINCTUAL
• Humans create art as a response to our basic instinct for seeking balance, harmony,
rhythm, and our desire to experience mystery
• It is the expression of the human imagination and the need to communicate with others
• It means for ritualistic and symbolic functions

MOTIVATIONAL
• It is used to communicate and idea or emotion; a reflection of desire to seek pleasure
and entertainment
• It is used as an agent of confrontation for change, transgression, subversion and
sometimes anarchy
• It is motivated by propaganda and commercialism

ART POSSESSES SELECTIVE VALUE

• Art enhances the survival of a species whose members possess that behavior

ART IS A PHENOMENON

• Art comprises a broad general phenomenon experienced by the creators of the art
• It is a collection of human experiences

ART MANIFESTS ITSELF

• Human societies will have art even when these societies do not demonstrate them
• Art will manifest consciously or unconsciously
ART IS EXPERIENCED IN DUALITY

• Making art and recognizing and responding to it are considered to be separate experiences

NATURE OF ARTS

ART IS EVERYWHERE

• We find art in the clothes and accessories we wear, in the design of our furniture, the
design of houses and the cars we use, coins we pay to the jeepney driver, religious
images, paper bills, and postage stamps
• We can also find art in theatrical performances, celebrations of fiestas, and pictures on
our cellphones.
 ART AS EXPRESSION AND COMMUNICATION

• We burst into song when we are happy, we dance to express joy through rhythmic
body movements, we sing out load our love or despair, we convey our deep emotions
in poetic language
• If the symbols used in the artwork is understood by the audience, then communication
has been established

ART AS CREATION

• It involves expertise in handling materials and organizing them into new one
• Creation happens due to need, purpose, and function • Planned activity, the
artist thinks out a design, select his materials, and arrange them according to his
design

ART AS AN EXPERIENCE

• Sensory, emotional, and intellectual responses is involved in experiencing art

• A landscape painting recalls happy childhood days, a song may bring back a
pleasurable experience, we will show empathy to the tragic experience of a character in
the movie
 ART AND NATURE

• Nature has been a constant source of models in art, and we use art to improve or enhance
nature

ART AND BEAUTY

• It is the expression of beauty of the environment, places, and people around us

IMAGINATION

• It is the ability to form images and ideas about things never seen or experienced before
• It is an underlying factor in creating knowledge itself

ASPECTS OF IMAGINATION

• It helps provide the ability to think of something that does not currently exist but may
be possible to develop
• It helps develop mental images
• It explains events or activities by providing reasons rather than causes
• It fosters the ability to create work that would explain human life and how to advance it

IS IMAGINATION CREATIVITY AS WELL?

• While most people would interchangeably use imagination and creativity, they are not
necessarily interconnected. While imagination is free thinking independently and
outside of the box, CREATIVITY is responding to a problem with the tools and knowledge
in existence. Hence, it is considered as "thinking inside the box."
 FUNCTIONS OF ART AND PHILOSOPHY

BEAUTY IN ART

• Beauty is what gives pleasure when seen (according to St. Thomas Aquinas)
• Beauty should not be limited to visual appeal alone

FUNCTIONS OF ART

PHYSICAL FUNCTION

• The artwork which was created to perform some service have physical functions
• Houses and other buildings are constructed to protect their occupants and all other
inside them
• Paintings serve to protect walls and ceilings
• Sculpture serves as columns of some buildings
• Dance form of exercise (Zumba)
• Music is a form of therapy (Mozart Effect)

SOCIAL FUNCTION

• The art has social function when it addresses aspects of life

• Art performs a function when: o It seeks or tend to influence the collective behavior of
people
o It created to be seen or used primarily in public situations
o It provides both serious and humorous reflection about the criticisms of society.
Through their art, artists seeking social changes bring public awareness to a
variety of social, political, and environmental issues.
o Collaboration and Community Building: Art can bring people together

 Social Function of Arts

o Influencing Social Behavior
o Display and Celebration
o Social Description
• Example: Goya’s Disaster of War
o An art in protest against man’s inhumanity to man
 PERSONAL FUNCTION

• Artists have their personal reasons for indulging in art

• Artists create artwork for the need for self-expression or gratification
• Artists create artwork to communicate a thorough point or provide aesthetic experience
• Arts are vehicles for the artists’ expression of their feelings and ideas. The arts also
serve as means of expression for us
• Example: The Sick Child by Edvard Munch o Edvard’s mother died when he was very
young and soon after when he became 14 his sister also died. And so, he wanted to
show that importance of a person’s life

HISTORICAL FUNCTION

• Paintings, sculptures, architectural works and other art forms serve to record historical
figures and events
• Examples:
o Taj Mahal – India
o Pyramid of Egypt
o Our Lada of EDSA Shrine
o Rizal Monument
 CULTURAL FUNCTION

• An art that forms a part of a country’s material culture

• Examples
o Material Culture – tangible
o Non-Material Culture – intangible
• Examples:
o Ifugao’s Ulog House
o Tausug’s/Badjao’s
o Bahay Tiyakad

RELIGIOUS FUNCTION
• All art forms evolved from religion
• ExamplesX
o Images of Gods and Goddesses
o Paintings and Sculptures
o Churches and Mosque
o Images of Saints

AESTHETIC PLEASURE

• “The value of arts lies in the pleasure that humans derive from them" (Graham (2005),
Philosophy of the Arts)
• The pleasure accompanies human's perception of beauty
• The natural sight of beauty sensationalizes the sense
AESTHETIC FUNCTION

• It is derived from the Greek word “aesthesis” which means 'sense of perception'
• In medieval times, it was defined as the 'philosophical study of art'
• Artworks serve to beautify
• Paintings serve to decorate houses and other buildings
• Sculpture to decorate churches
• Props and costumes in dramas and stage plays
 S Sbbbbbzbvbb dbb xxz REASON WHY PEOPLE PURSUE ART

1. Audiences seek art for aesthetic experience; they expect artworks to function
2. Artists are interested in having audiences
3. Artists inherently work to function as sources of aesthetic experience

MORRIS WEITZ
• Art can be expansive
• Art must be open to the permanent possibility of radical change, expansion, and novelty
• Art cannot be defined

SUBJECT MATTER

• In terms of expression, artwork may resemble original artwork.

• The audience may be reminded of one aspect of another existing work of art by an
artwork.
• Even if it imitates other works of art, art is art for the sake of art.

SUBJECT AND CONTENT

• Subject – these are objects, person, situation, or event depicted by the artist
• Content – it is what the artist expresses or communicates on the whole of his artwork;
meaning of the artwork; it reveals that artists’ attitude towards the subject

REPRESENTATION ART

 As much as possible, people and items resemble their real-world counterparts.

 They are easily distinguished

ABSTRACTION

 The images may still be recognizable, but they are altered to look less like the source
material

NON-OBJECTIVE IMAGING

 It creates nonrepresentational pictures of objects that have no resemblance to any real-

world forms.
 Since subjects are focused primarily on aesthetic components rather than actual items or
persons, they may be challenging for the viewer to recognize

SUBJECT MATTERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MEANING

1. Factual Meaning
o Literal statement or the narrative content in the artwork
o It can be directly apprehended because the objects presented are easily recognized
2. Conventional Meaning
o Special meaning that the certain object or color has for a particular culture or
group of people
3. Subjective Meaning
o Personal meaning consciously or unconsciously conveyed by the artist using a
private symbolism which stems from his own association of certain objects, actions,
or colors with past experiences