Art Appreciation

• Art is an expression or application of human creative skill and imagination
• Art produces works to be appreciated for beauty or emotional power
• In most cases, visual forms of arts are: paintings, statues, and sculptures
• Art Appreciation is made beyond language
• Art Appreciation expresses thoughts and feelings
• Art Appreciation is an extension of personality
• Art Appreciation is a form of communication
• Function of arts are: Personal Function, Social Function and Spiritual Function
• Personal Function therapeutically appealing to our senses
• Personal function means understanding of onself
• Personal Function is the expression of oneself
• Social Function echoes beliefs, values, and identity of a culture
• Social Function presents as a form of entertainment such as music, Literature, and visuals to provide enjoyment and pleasure
• Social Function supplies a non-verbal form of communication to convey emotions, ideas, and messages.
• Spiritual Function represents God, Jesus, saints, Gods and Goddesses, or other spiritual entities.
• Spiritual Function enhances spiritual experiences used in religious rituals or ceremonies
• Spiritual Function expresses devotion and love towards the divine serving as an act of personal or communal worship.
• Imagination is express in a non-grammatical ways that are not tied to the formality of spoken or written language.
• Purposes of Arts are: Motivated, Non-motivated, Communication, Entertainment, and Propaganda or Commercialism
• Motivated is the intentional and conscious actions on the part of the artist or creator.
• Motivated enhances mode of communication
• Motivated brings about changes such as political change, to comment on an aspect of society, to convey a specific emotion, and to sell a product
• Non-motivated are integral to human beings, transcend the individual, and do not fulfill a specific external purpose.
• Non-motivated are basic human instinct for harmony, balance, and rhythm
• Non-motivated is the creativity beyond human nature and utility
• Communication is an intent or goal directed toward another individual.
• Illustrative arts such as scientific illustration are a form of art as communication
• Entertainment is the seeking to bring about a particular mood or emotion to entertain the viewer.
• Arts industries such as Motion Pictures and Video Games bring entertainment
• Propaganda or Commercialism subtly influences popular conceptions or moods.
• The purpose of art in propaganda or commercialism is to manipulate the viewer into a particular emotion or response toward a particular idea, person, or object.
• Roles of arts are: Beauty, Happiness and Hope, Identifying and understanding self, Grief and healing, Remembering and Mark-making, Raising awareness, Culture and togetherness
• Beauty is appreciated both externally and internally
• Happiness and Hope are seen in animate inanimate things around us.
• Identifying and Understanding self is when a person is filled with complex ideas, emotions, wants, likes, and personalities.
• Grief and healing expressed human suffering and darkness in their themes.
• Most humanistic products of art in grief and healing were made after World War II
• Remembering and Mark-making is a trigger to a person’s knowledge or memory
• Raising awareness is educating about specific topics to increase awareness and understanding
• Culture and Togetherness is a close cooperation among individuals fosters a sense of belonging and mutual support