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• Art Appreciation?

  ➢It is the ability to interpret or understand man-made arts and enjoy them through actual and work-experience with the tools and materials or possession of these works of art for one’s admiration and satisfaction.
• FUNCTIONS OF ARTS

  • beauty
  • happiness and hope
  • identity and understanding the self
  • grief and healing
  • remembering and mark-making
  • culture and togetherness
• BEAUTY

  • One of the innate qualities that “pretty art” can give is that it makes our dull, lifeless walls come to life.
• HAPPINESS AND HOPE

  • In a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age.
• IDENTITY AND UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

  • Art can serve as a powerful tool to help us communicate and relay our confusion.
• GRIEF AND HEALING

  • Artists have interpreted these shared human experiences in different ways, which also help us process our grief.
• REMEMBERING AND MARK- MAKING

  • Art has helped us remember and shaped our landscape.
• CULTURE AND TOGETHERNESS

  • Forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions.
• MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ARTS

  • Art must be perfect
  • drawing and painting go hand in hand
  • more colors are always better
  • small canvases over big canvases
  • painting is easy
  • quantity equals quality
• ASSUMPTION ABOUT ARTS

  -Art is Universal

  -Art is not Nature

  -Art involves experience

  -Art is cultural

  -Art is a form of Communication
• The role of art as a creative work is to depict the world in a completely different light and perspective.” – Jean Paul Satre
• Imagination is more important than knowledge- Albert Einstein
• Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities- Robert E. Franken
• Three reasons why people are motivated to be creative:

  1. need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation

  2. need to communicate ideas and values 3. need to solve problems
• WHEN CAN WE SAY THAT SOMETHING IS CREATIVE?

  • When we have not seen anything like it
  • When it is out of the ordinary
  • When it is not just a copy or imitation of someone’s work
• EXPRESSION- to explore his own emotions and at the same time, create something beautiful out of them.” – Robin George Collingwood
• Film refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion of movement.
• Performance art is a live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body that he or she uses to perform,
• Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.
• Art is the pursuit and creation of beautiful things while architecture is the making of beautiful buildings
• Dance is a series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment.
• Theater uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience.
• Applied art is incorporating elements of style and design to everyday items to increase their aesthetical value.
• FORMALISM and STYLE

  • Basically gives importance to the formal qualities
• ICONOGRAPHY

  • Focuses on the subject matter primarily over form.
• CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES

  • From the term itself, context becomes an important factor in criticizing artworks.
• BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  • Considers the life and context of the artist.
• SEMIOTICS

  • From the Greek word “sema”, which means sign
• PSYCHOANALYSIS

  • In psychoanalysis, one is concerned about the unconscious mind in relation to the artist, the viewer, and the cultural context it is involved in.
• AESTHETICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

  • Individual notion of what is considered acceptable, beautiful or attractive in works of art are in part influenced by psychological factors.
• ANNUNCIATION 1472
• ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST 1513
• starry night 1889
• irises 1889
• the potato eaters 1885
• le reve 1932
• old guitarist 1904
• weeping woman 1837
• guernica 1937
• the scream in 1893