EVALUATING THE ARTS

• Assumptions of the Arts:

  • Universal
  • Cultural
  • Art involves experience
  • Art as an expression
  • Art as a creative process
  • Art as an imitation
  • Art as devotion
• An art work is universal because:

  a. Everybody can be an artist or a creator regardless of time, age, nationality, race, religion, gender, academic or artistic background, etc.

  b. Everybody can relate to the subject matter and themes of an artwork. The art work is created by artists and appreciated by audiences.
• Art is cultural because: a. It promotes a culture. b. It is not natural.
• Art involves experience because the artists out of their direct and vicarious experiences create art

  works.
• Direct experiences are experiences directly perceive by

  the senses of the perceiver.
• A sense object is any object that has an effect on one or all our senses.
• Vicarious experience on the other hand, means that the artists experience the sense object in a second-hand manner through a story from a person who has a direct experience, a movie, a play, a poem, a painting, etc.
• Direct and vicarious experiences serve as:

  a. stimulus to have an idea to create

  b. inspiration to create an art work

  c. motivation to continue creating an art work
• Art involves experience because academic and artistic experiences are also involved in art creation.
• Albay Visual Artists:

  1. Cesar Gueta - Puno
  2. Victor Silva - Three Dancers
  3. Jaried Millare - The Net of Fisherman Ben
  4. Jan Aldrin Belisario - his exposure to music trainings from top Philippine musicians is evident in his well-organized and very technical compositions
• Art involves experience because creating an art work is already an experience in itself.
• Art involves experience because the artist and the audience delve into arts to learn. As the saying goes, experience is the best teacher.
• Art as an expression because artists express a universal idea or

  theme.

  Example: Prof. Millare’s Burak kan Burabod
• Art as an expression because it expresses a particular culture like Prof. Millare’s De Pruta, an oil on canvas that shows the culture of a simple happy farmer after harvest.
• Art as an expression because artists express a significant

  experience. It may be a simple birthday party of your loved

  one like Prof. Millare’s another oil on canvas, Nikki.
• Art as an expression because artists promote an advocacy like the promotion of Bicol local cultures, folk literatures and

  languages.

  Example: Prof. Millare's Mga Agi-Agi
• Art as an expression because it is used to release an emotion.

  Example: Prof. Millare’s Jetanok, expressing danger, anger and

  anxiety because of its very bright colors and rough texture
• Art as a creative process. Any given process is composed of three stages: the pre-production, production and post-production. This shows that an art work is a conscious decision of the artists to use their body, mind and intelligence to undergo laborious endeavor.
• Post-production Stage is the Audience Stage. This is the stage where the audience matters; where the audience as part of the creative process, makes comments, suggestions, or criticisms about the art work that the artists may or may not consider.
• Pre-production Stage is the conceptualization stage. It answers the questions: what to create, why create, who will create, to whom it shall be created to, and how much will be the creation.
• Art as a creative process is also a form of communication because the elements of communication are present in creating art works:

  Sender - the artists

  medium - art form

  message - content of the artwork

  receiver - the audience feedback - criticisms by the audience
• Art as an imitation

  • probably the oldest assumption of what an art is based on western thinking
  • ancient people to understand themselves, their environment, higher beings, the Supreme Being, learn to imitate what their senses perceive
  • even now, this assumption or concept of art is still applied
• Art as devotion

  1. because it is a creative process, the artists need to devote their time, energy, life, everything to the process and the finish product
  2. in India, specifically artists-devotees under the Vaishnava Sampradaya disciplic succession, where they perceive the Absolute Truth as the Supreme Person, who has form, qualities, and activities create artworks as an offering with love and devotion to God in the form of His deity
  3. Example: Muya kong magin si Hesus by Richard D. Madrilejos
• Art forms may refer to the creative medium used or the way the subject and the content of the art is being communicated to the audience.
• Art forms or forms of arts are based on the Sub-commission on the Arts of the National Commission for Culture and The Arts (SCA-NCCA) of the

  Republic of the Philippines.
• Art Forms:

  1. Architecture and Allied Arts
  2. Film
  3. Dance
  4. Theater Arts
  5. Literary Arts
  6. Music
  7. Visual Arts
• Architecture and Allied

  Arts

  1. Architectural Design
  2. Interior Design
  3. Landscape Architecture
  4. Urban Design
  5. Environmental Planning
• Architectural Design - the art and practice of designing and

  constructing buildings.
• Interior Design - is the art or

  process of designing the interior decoration of a room or building.
• Landscape Architecture - the art and practice of designing the

  outdoor environment, especially

  designing parks or gardens together with buildings and roads
• Urban Design is defined as:

  • arrangement and design of buildings, public spaces, transport systems, services, and amenities
  • making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric
• Environmental Planning

  Based on the REPUBLIC ACT No. 10587 "Environmental Planning

  Act of 2013″ Section 4, Environmental Planning is defined as:

  1. urban and regional planning, city planning, town and country planning, and/or human settlements planning,
  2. multi-disciplinary art and science of analyzing, specifying, clarifying, harmonizing, managing and regulating the use and development of land and water resources, in relation to their environs, for the development of sustainable communities and ecosystems.
• Urban Planning - this art form uses creative and scientific ways to plan everything (solid waste, fuel storage management, emergency management, energy savings, water waste/ water management, and recycle program management) to serve as an umbrella for the people and nature
• Film

  1. Mainstream Film
  2. Independent Film
• Mainstream Film

  1. Caters to a wider audience, the masses
  2. Genres – romance, action, comedy, and romantic comedy
  3. Mood is light-hearted
  4. Purpose - to entertain, to ease stress
  5. Biggest production companies – Star Cinema, Regal Films, Viva Films, GMA Films
• Independent Film

  1. Alternative Cinema/ Low-budgeted film
  2. Forms – short films, documentaries, experimental films, animations
  3. Themes – exploring poverty, sex, and oppression
• Critically acclaimed independent Filmmakers in the Philippines are Kidlat Tahimik, Lav Diaz, Raymond Red, Brillante Mendoza, Alvin Yapan, and Kristian Cordero.
• Dance

  1. Folk
  2. Ballet
  3. Contemporary
  4. Jazz
• Folk - dance that is based on the way of life of indigenous communities like the natives of Cordillera as researched by the National Artist for Dance, Ramon Obusan
• Ballet - serves as the foundation for western dance. It requires strong technique, athleticism but with grace.