Arts Appreciation (GE105)

• Humanities


  Branch of knowledge explored through analytical, critical, and theoretical methods, focusing on the human condition, arts, and relationships
• Art


  Multifaceted and evolving concept that defies a singular definition, a dynamic and deeply human endeavor that serves various purposes and holds different meanings, a matter of personal interpretation and cultural context, the conscious creation of something beautiful or meaningful using skill and imagination
• Ars (Latin)


  Ability or skill
• Artis (Italian), Arti (Latin)


  Craftmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the association that exists between form and ideas, between materials and technique
• Artiste (French), Artista (Spanish)


  Performer (someone who creates art that is merely trades and professions by which different people make their livings)
• Purposes of art


  • Communication of certain ideas and feelings
  • Expression of altitude of spirit and state of mind
  • Fulfilling a shaping of matter to new and more significant form
  • Product of man's need to express himself
  • Accompanied by some intensity of emotion
  • Opening up the stream of subconscious
  • Intending to personally touch every person
  • Stimulating thought and conversation between its viewers
  • Expressing something that we ourselves feel unable to express or convey
• Types of art

  • Fine arts (graphics, plastic, and building)
  • Minor arts (everyday, useful, applied, and decorative arts)
• Art


  An original record of human needs and achievements, a process of using our senses and emotions in making creative activities, a human capability to make things beautiful through the production of their imagination depending on the preparation, theme, medium, and values used
• H.W Janson: 'We cannot escape viewing works of art in the context of time and circumstance, whether past or present. How indeed could it be otherwise, so long as art is still being created all around us, opening our eyes almost daily to new experiences and thus forcing us to adjust our sights?'
• Art (11th to 17th century Western culture)


  Anything done with skill as the result of knowledge and practice
• Humanities includes the learning of arts such as architecture, dance, literature, music, painting, theater, and sculpture (Sanches, 2011)
• Art is concerned with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of medium, color, sound, bronze, marble, words, and film
• Art is the altitude of spirit and state of mind
• Art is the product of man’s need to express himself
• Art opens up the stream of subconscious
• Art intends to personally touch every person
• Art stimulate thought and conversation between its viewers
• Art express something that we ourselves feel unable to express or convey
• Art usually refes to the fine arts (graphics, plastic, and building) and minor arts (everyday, useful, applied, and decorative arts)
• Arts is original record of human needs and achievements
• Art is the human capability to make things beautiful through the production of their imagination depending on the preparation, theme, medium, and values used
• 11th to 17th century: Western culture: Art is anything done with skill as the result of knowledge and practice
• During the Romantic Period of the 18th century: As a reaction to the enlightenment and its emphasis on science, empirical evidence, and rational thought.
• Nature was glorified and spirituality and free expression was celebrated
• Basic Components of a Work of Art

  • Subject
  • Content
  • Form
• Subject – visual focus or the image that maybe extracted from examining the artwork. The form of the artwork. Sees as the “what”
• Representational art – objects or events occuring in the real world. (Figurative Art)
• Non-Representational art – does not make a reference to the real world. Stripped down to visual elements such as shapes, lines, and colors. Translating a particular feeling, emotion, and even concept.
• Abstract Art – departure from reality.
• Abstract Art – departure from reality. But the extent of that depature determines whether it has reached the end of the spectrum. A complete severance from the world
• Sources of the Subject

  • Nature
  • History
  • Greek and Roman Mythology
  • Gothic Churches
• 18th century: Period of Enlightenment
• Nature – from plants to animals. The qualities of bodies of water. The terrain of landmasses. Perceivable cycles and changing of seasons.
• Greek and Roman Mythology – episodes that transport the viewer to heroic encounters of Achilles and Aeneas. Warnings about man’s folly like the vanity of Icarus. The wit and cunning of Odysseus. The beauty of Aphrodite. The athleticism of Myron
• Gothic Churches – soaring heights (ceilings). Volume (flying buttresses and ribbed vaults). Light (bright stained-glass windows, airy and pleasant interiors)
• Content – meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork. Sees as the “why”
• Content -       Why was the artwork created in the first place?
• Form – sees as the “how”
• How was the artwork created in the first place?
• Art Movements

  Avant-Garde Movement

  Modern Art Movements (Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism)