Art Appreciation

• Color is one of the basic elements of art, and it can evoke emotions and create visual interest.
• The three foci of study in Humanities are Visual Arts or Fine Arts, Auditory or Temporal Arts, and Combined or Performing Arts.
• Visual Arts or Fine Arts are the arts that appeal to the sense of sight and can be seen, including Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.
• Auditory or Temporal Arts are the arts that appeal to the sense of hearing, including Instrumental and Vocal.
• Combined or Performing Arts are the arts with the used of two or more other arts, for example, visual and auditory, and could be appreciated in the actuality of experience, including Literature, Drama/Theater, and Dance.
• Humanities came from the Latin term humanus, which means human, cultured, and refined.
• The subject matter of Humanities is all about us humans.
• The attributions of Humanities are refined (improved, with good qualities) and cultured (enlightened, learned, distinction), both giving esteem and value to us humans.
• Humanities emphasizes the dignity and worthiness of man and recognizes creative expressions.
• Humanities is a subject or a course that highlighted or giving importance to mankind (humans) through the arts.
• Art is derived from the Latin word Ars, meaning ability, talent, or skill (of the person), implying something deeper than what a person can come up with or a work of art or an art work.
• A work of Art (Art Work) is an activity that involves both imagination and skill in accomplishing an outcome, and each work of art is evidently the expression of an artist’s personal thoughts and feelings.
• Art is not just a product of a person’s creation but the very disclosure of man’s personal and social values conveyed through the arts.
• Appreciation is the ability to both judge (i.e. to criticize unfavorably) and to give value (i.e. to understand the worth or importance).
• Criticism is still an appreciation, as long as there is a portion or iota of this kind of judgment, appreciation is not totally eliminated and subsists even in the light of criticism.
• Judgment in art appreciation provides the answer to the question: How is it good or beautiful?
• Organization of Mediums which become the Elements in a work of art provides the answer to the questions: How is the work of art put together? Or how did the artist organize the medium used?
• The subject of a work of art provides the answers to the questions: What do we obviously see? What is it about? Or what did the artist make?
• Artistic techniques vary according to different periods and cultures, and works of art do not admit comparison because they are supposed to be unique and original.
• Each new experience contributes to the maturity of our judgment and to a deeper understanding of art.
• Understanding a work of art involves considering the subject, function, medium, organization of mediums which become the elements, mood, and judgment.
• Some say there is no fundamental ground for agreement in art appreciation.
• Mood of a work of art provides the answer to the questions: What is the personality or temper (mood) and individuality of the art work? This brings up the matter of style of the artist.
• According to them, the criteria to determine the excellence of the works of art depend on the individual feelings and opinion, often stated as "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder".
• They claim that true art is the expression of the personality and spontaneity of the individual, and that tastes are relative and personal.
• Function of a work of art provides the answer to the questions: What is the work of art for? What did the artist want to show in his work?
• Others argue that standards of appreciation are possible to achieve since successive experiences reveal to us the insight of beauty and the meaning of art, building up in our mind a kind of measurement or standard by which we evaluate our own experiences and pass judgment on the works of arts.
• Medium of a work of art provides the answer to the questions: What is the work of art made of? Or what did the artist use to his work?
• Aesthetics - It is the branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of beauty and artistic taste.
• Grotesque - It refers to a very ugly or comically distorted figure, creature, or image.
• Horror Vacui - It is the filling of the entire surface of a space or an artwork with detail.
• Pathetic - An aesthetic value that defines complete pity and sadness, a maximum state of misery; purely glooms.
• Art criticism - It is responding to, interpreting meaning, and making critical judgments about specific works of art.
• Picturesque - Visually attractive, especially in color.
• Minimalism - It is an art style that thrives on simplicity in both content and form, and seek to remove any sign of personal expressivity.
• Sublime -An aesthetic value that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation; purely delights.
• F. Landa Jocano - He affirmed that a Filipino worldview to be understood properly, it must be seen, evaluated, and appreciated in its cultural context.
• Ganda - It is about the "totality of the person," both his pagkataong panlabas (physical appearance) and his pagkataong panloob (social behavior).