Prelims: ART APP

• THE IMPORTANCE, MEANING AND ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
• WHY ART IS IMPORTANT?

  1. Art is a form of expression - Art can reflect who you are as an individual and what you stand for without you having to say it.
  2. Art helps you cope with anxiety and depression - Art can also be helpful for people whose anxiety or depression keeps them from talking about their feelings with other people.
  3. Art helps to develop necessary soft skills – Soft skills are particularly important in the field of art as they contribute to an artists’ overall effectiveness, collaboration, and success.
• WHAT IS ART?

  The word “art” is rooted in the 13th century French word art, which means skill as a result of learning or practice, and the Latin word ars, meaning ability or practical skills.
• ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

  1. Art is universal
  2. Art is not nature
  3. Art involves experience
• BASIC PHILOSOPHYCAL PERSPECTIVES OF ART

  1. PLATO

  Art as mimesis – According to him, art is an imitation of the real that was an imitation of the ideal. Art is an imitation of imitation.
• WHAT IS FORM OR IDEAS?

  In Plato's philosophy, Forms (also known as Ideas) are abstract, non material entities that represent the ultimate reality. These Forms exist in a separate, higher realm, distinct from our the physical world we perceive with our senses.
• Original Form (Idea): Plato believed that the highest reality consists of abstract Forms or Ideas. These are perfect and unchanging archetypes for everything we see in the material world.

  
  

  First Imitation (Physical World): The physical world that we perceive through our senses is considered by Plato as a mere imitation of the Forms.

  
  

  Second Imitation (Art): Art, according to Plato, is another level of imitation. Artists create representations of the imperfect physical world, which is already an imitation of the ideal Forms.
• 2. ARISTOTLE

  Art as representation – According to him, the aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.
• 3. IMMANUEL KANT

  Art for art’s sake – According to him, art has its own reason for being. It implies that an art object is best understood as an autonomous creation to be valued only for its success as it organizes color and line into a formally satisfying and beautiful whole.
• CATEGORIES/CLASSIFICATIONS OF ART

  1. VISUAL ARTS (2D, 3D)

  a. Painting

  b. Sculpture

  c. Architecture

  
  

  2. PERFORMING/COMBINED ARTS

  a. Music

  b. Dance

  c. Film

  d. Theater

  e. Literary

  f. Performance Poetry

  
  

  3. DIGITAL ARTS

  4. APPLIED ARTS
• FUNCTIONS OF ART

  1. Personal Function
  2. Social Function
  3. Cultural Function
  4. Aesthetic Function
  5. Spiritual Function
• THE SUBJECT OF ART

  The subject of art is the matter to be described or to be portrayed by the artist. The subject of art is varied. This may refer to any person, object, scene, or event. In general. the subject of an artwork is anything under the sun.
• TWO KINDS OF ART AS TO SUBJECT

  1. Representational Art - They are those art that depict (represent) objects that are commonly recognized by most people.
  2. Non-representational Art - They are those arts without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation). This kind of art is nonobjective because it has no recognizable objects. It is abstract in the sense that it does not represent real objects in our world.
• INTENT:

  Representational art tends to communicate through recognizable imagery, while non-representational art often communicates through the arrangement and manipulation of visual elements.
• SOURCES OF THE SUBJECT OF ART

  1. Nature
  2. History
  3. Greek and Roman Mythology
  4. Religion
  5. Sacred Oriental Texts
• THE CONTENT OF ART

  The content of art is the meaning, message, and/or feeling imparted by a work of art. This is not the same thing as the subject matter the work depicts.
• THREE LEVELS OF MEANING

  1. Factual Meaning - The literal statement or narrative content in the work that can be directly apprehend because the objects presented are easily recognized.
  2. Conventional Meaning - Refers to the special meaning that the certain object or color has for a particular culture or group of people when it is shown in an artwork.
  3. Subjective Meaning - Refers to the individual meaning deliberately and indistinctively expressed by the artist using a personal symbolism that stems from his own alliance with the certain objects, actions, colors with past experiences.
• KEEPING ART

  1. National Museum Complex (Manila)

  • National Museum of Fine Arts
  • National Museum of Anthropology
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • Natural Planetarium

  2. Ayala Museum (Makati City)

  A museum that focuses on Filipino culture and history.

  
  

  3. Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Manila)

  Houses a collection of modern and contemporary Filipino visual arts.

  
  

  4. Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex (Pasay City)

  CCP Museum of Contemporary Art