Week 2 & 3 lessons

• Assumptions of Art

  • Art is Universal
  • Art is not Nature
  • Art involves Experience
• Art transcends cultures, races, and civilizations.

  Art is Universal
• • Art in many forms communicate different emotions
  • Art is used to call for unity and reconciliation
  • Art can also be used to communicate mutiny and rebellion

  Art as a means of Communication
• • Art is timeless because it goes beyond the time of our existence.
  • It continually evolves.
  • Art defines time and time defines art.

  Art is Timeless
• • Art is artificial because it is just an imitation or even appropriation of reality or nature.
  • There’s always something in nature that we cannot get and transform into art.
  • Art can never be natural because nature is evanescent inconstant transformation or change, and yet art is permanent, it does not change by itself, unless manipulated by its creator.
  • Art is not nature because it is limited.
  • Nature is too grand to be grasped in one pigment.
  • Nature can provide the model, resources, and the medium.
  • Art can never compete with nature.

  Art is not Nature
• We can only appreciate art if we spend time to look at it, listen to it, touch it, and feels its presence.

  Art involves Experience
• Functions of Art

  1. Indirectly Functional
  2. Directly Functional
  3. Aesthetic Function
  4. Utilitarian Function
  5. Social Function
  6. Cultural Function
• Two general classifications of art:

  1. Indirectly Functional
  2. Directly Functional
• • Arts that are perceived through the senses like fine arts but do not have practical use.
  • Used to preserve and document relevant events and details of our culture
  • Used to inform, educate, and entertain people.

  Indirectly Functional
• Arts we use in our daily lives such as tools, architectural structures, roads, bridges, buildings, furniture, kitchen utensils, coins, bills, dress, weapons, etc.

  Directly Functional
• when it makes humans aware of nature’s beauty

  Aesthetic Function
• when art is utilized to give comfort, joy, and convenience

  Utilitarian Function
• when art is utilized to connect people

  Social function
• when art is used to preserve culture

  Cultural Function
• Subject is the thing, person, event, and landscape depicted by the artist in an artwork.
• is generally defined as an art practitioner such as a painter, sculptor, dancer, and choreographer who practices indirectly-functional arts with aesthetic value using imagination.

  Artist
• Is a craftsman such as a carpenter, carver, weaver,and blacksmith who produces directly functional arts.

  Artisan
• Is useless if a person does not transform an idea into a real form or object. The artwork concretizes an experience. Hence, imagination is the mind in action.

  Imagination
• 8 Modes of Imagination

  1. Effectuative Imagination
  2. Intellectual Imagination
  3. Imaginative Fantasy
  4. Empathy
  5. Strategic Imagination
  6. Emotional Imagination
  7. Dreams
  8. Memory Reconstruction
• Combines information together to synergise new ideas

  Effectuative Imagination
• Is utilized when considering and developing hypotheses from different pieces of information

  Intellectual Imagination
• Creates and develops stories, pictures,poems, stage-plays, and building of the esoteric

  Imaginative fantasy
• Is a capacity we have to connect to others and feel what they are feeling

  Empathy
• Is the ability to recognize and evaluate opportunities by turning them into mental scenarios, seeing the benefits, identifying the types and quantities of resources required for taking actions

  Strategic Imagination
• Is concerned with manifesting emotional dispositions and extending them into emotional scenarios

  Emotional Imagination
• Are unconscious forms of imagination made up of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur during certain stages of sleep

  Dreams
• Is the process of retrieving our memory of people, objects, and events.

  Memory Reconstruction