Art Appreciation

MR. OSCAR JR. T. DON

MS. RITZI M. CASTRO
SORSOGON STATE COLLEGE-
SORSOGON CITY CAMPUS
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 LECTURE 1
Introduction to
Art Appreciation

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FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES

FIELDS OF LEARNING

Sciences HUMANITIES

Language History ART Philosophy

Art ART
Creation APPRECIATION
Artist Spectator
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Practice Theory
 HUMANISTIC DISCIPLINES

HISTORY
Human events happening in the world
LANGUAGE
Written and oral forms of human communication
PHILOSOPHY
Human reason concerning reality
ART
Human appreciation of beautiful objects and
human creativity by which these objects are made
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 ASSUMPTIONS OF ARTS
ART IS UNIVERSAL
- Art is present in every part of the globe and in every period time.
- In every country and in every generation, there is always art.

ART IS NOT NATURE

- Art not being nature, not even attempting to simply mirror nature.
- Art is always a creation of the artist, not nature.
- Art is made by man, whereas nature is a given around us.

ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE

- without experience, there is no art. The artist has to be foremost, a
perceiver who is directly in touch with art.
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 LITERATURE
ART FORM
DANCE
SONGS
VISUAL ARTS
THEATER

ART WORKS PRODUCT OR

RESULT

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THE SEVEN MAJOR ARTS

PAINTING
Visual
SCULPTURE
ARCHITECTURE
MUSIC
Performing
DANCE
DRAMA
Linguistic LITERATURE
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Leonardo,
The Mona Lisa,
1501

PAINTING

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 Michelangelo,
David,
1501

SCULPTURE

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 ARCHITECTURE
St. Peter’s Basilica, 1547-1667, Vatican
MUSIC

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Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake
Ballet

DANCE

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DRAMA
LITERATURE

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Picasso,
The Weeping
Woman,
1924
Amorsolo,
Winnowing
Rice, 1956

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 Mondrian,
Composition
with Red,
Yellow and
Blue, 1924

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Rodin,
The Thinker,
1879-89

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Tolentino,
Lualhati,
1963

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 Duchamp,
The Fountain
1917

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Dali, The PersistenceDR.
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Memory, 1931
 Van Gogh,
Starry Night, DR. ALLAN C. ORATE, UE
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Kandinsky, Color Composition
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Cave Painting, Chauvet France, 35,000 BC
 KAMA
SUTRA

Art or
pornography?
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 What
do you
see?

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Walt Disney,
Mickey Mouse

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 Amanda
Regina
Orate,
Doraemon

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Picasso,
The Bull

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Warhol, Large
Coca Cola,
1962
Amorsolo,
San Miguel

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 Rhea Regis
Feminist Arrest
2009
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 FUNCTIONS OF ART
PERSONAL FUNCTIONS OF ART
- The personal functions of art are varied and highly
subjective. This means that its functions depend on the
person – the artist who created the art.
- An artist may create an art out of the need for self-
expression. This is the case for an artist who needs to
communicate an idea to his audience.
- It can also be mere entertainment for his intended
audience. Often, the artist may not even intend to mean
anything with his work.
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF ART
- Used for public display and celebration, used to affect
the collective behavior.
- Art is considered to have a social function if and when
it addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a
personal interest. Political art is a very common example of
an art with a social function.
- Art may convey message of protest, contestation, or
whatever message the artist intends his work to carry.
Often, art can also depicts social conditions.
PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS OF ART
- Utilitarian
- The physical functions of art are the easiest to spot and
understand. The physical functions of art can be found in
artworks that are crafted in order to serve some physical
purpose.
EXAMPLE:
- A Japanese raku bowl that serves a physical function in a
tea ceremony is an example.
- Architecture, jewelry-making, and even interior design
are all forms of arts that have physical function.
 PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART

ART AS AN IMITATION
- art is an imitation of another imitation.
- For PLATO, art is dangerous because it provides a petty replacement
for the real entities that can only be attained through reason.

ART AS A REPRESENTATION

- ARISTOTLE considered art as an aid to philosophy in revealing truth.

- ARISTOTLE conceived of art as representing possible versions of
reality.

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ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGEMENT
- IMMANUEL KANT recognized that judgement of beauty is subjective.
However, Kant advanced the proposition that even subjective
judgements are based on some universal criterion for the said
judgement.

ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION

- For LEO TOLSTOY, art plays a huge role in communication to its
audience’s emotions that the artist previously experienced.
- Art then serves as a language, a communication device that
articulates feelings and emotions that are otherwise unavailable to
the audience.
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What is
art for?

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 ESSAY ASSIGNMENT

“What is art for me?”

In your own opinion
and your own words.
Not less than 437 words,
in yellow paper handwritten or
short bond paper computerized.
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