ArtApp(Y1S2 - PreLim)

• 2 General Fields of Learning:

  Sciences – deals with natural, physical phenomena

  Humanities – deals with human phenomena
• THINKERS (whose thoughts Basis of Method in the Humanities)

  
  

  Socrates (469–399BC) - “Know thy self”

  
  

  Augustine (352-420AD) - “Withdraw into yourself truth dwells in the inner man.”

  
  

  Thales of Miletus (620-546BC) - “A scientist tends to know everything about the world that he forgets to know anything about himself.”

  
  

  Confucius (555–479BC) - “The Great Sage” WiseMan
• “Art as a Humanistic Discipline”

  Latin: Humanitas English: Humanity

  Divinitas – gods in the state of perfection in heaven.

  Humanitas – people in the state of culture in civilized society.

  Barbaritas - savages in the state of nature for survival.
• Ancient(800BC)

  Cosmocentric View - A vision of reality that places the highest importance or emphasis in the universe or nature (cosmos).

  Protagoras - Man is the measure of all things

  Geocentrism – Man is at the center of the universe.
• Miedieval(300AD)

  Theocentric View –God as the central aspect of exist

  Scholasticism – Man is created in the image god. Man is at the center of creation
• Renaissance(1400)

  Anthropocentric View - human-centered, it is the ethical belief that humans alone possess intrinsic value.

  Humanism - Nothing is more wonderful than man.
• Modern(1600) 

  Scientific– technocentric View

  • a value system that is centered on the progress of technology and its ability to control and protect the environment.
  • Man is part of nature.
• Postmodern(1960) 

  Electicview - conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights in to a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.

  Man is a piece of everything.
• Humanistic Discipline

  History - human events happening in the world.

  Language - written and oral forms of human communication.

  Philosophy - human reason concerning reality.

  Art - admiration of human-made objects and the human creativity (art creation) by which these objects are made.

  “Art” - Latin: “ars”, skillful production or performance.
• 2 types of art

  Liberal art (Major art): associated to artist who make art related to fine arts as a professional and academic. (Artist: architects, sculptors, and painters).

  Servile art(Minor art):related to making crafts and are considered as minor art.(Artisans: stonecutter,etc.)
• Western Concept of Art

  Academic - only schooled people are artist

  Elitist - meant for the higher social class

  Hierarchical - There is a lesser and higher form of art -liberal art and servile art ,high and low art, major art and minor art / craft, fine art and practical art, folk art, indigenous art, popular art.
• Western Classification of the arts

  Major art - Made by artist and primarily concerned with the form of beauty.

  Minorart (Craft) - made by artisans and concerned with functionality and usefulness of human-made objects(artifacts).
• Visual

  -Painting

  -Sculpture

  -Architecture

  
  

  Performing

  -Music

  -Dance

  -Drama

  
  

  Linguistic

  -Literature
• 7 major arts in western civilization -Painting, Sculpture, Literature, Architecture, Theater, Film, and Music.
• Minor Arts: Crafts

  -Ceramics -Weaving -Sewing -Handicraft-Carpentry -Masonry -Stonecutting -Gardening -Cooking
• The humanities and the Filipino Personhood (Pagkatao) Covar’s Filipino Anthropology

  
  

  Katauhan: Biological, born as a human being, act of being human, “Personality”.

  
  

  Pagkatao: Cultural, Process of becoming human, “Personhood”.

  
  

  “Madaling maging tao; mahirap magpakatao."

  
  

  Pagpapakatao - the process by which one becomes a human being.
• The Jar and the Filipino Personhood

  Labas - ulo and dibdib

  Loob - isip and damdamin

  Lalim - kaluluwa and budhi
• Labas ng Pagkatao - katawan(Physical)-skintone (light,dark), height (tall,short), ilong (matangos,pango) , dibdib (malapad,malaki).

  
  

  Loob ng Pagkatao - kalooban (Espiritual, Emotional, and Moral), Isip (Matalino), ugali, asal(mabuti).

  
  

  Lalim ng Pagkatao - kaluluwa (spiritual - anito (banal))
• Non-Dualistic Relation of Terms

  Labas Loob

  Malapad ang noo Matalino

  Salubong ang kilay Matapang o galit

  Malagkit ang tingin Umiibig

  Maduming bibig MAsamang magsalita

  
  

  Lalim

  Malinis ang kaluluwa Matuwid na budhi
• Non-Dualistic Relation of Filipino Psychology

  Labas Loob

  Hipo Dama

  Pigil Timpi

  Dinig Ulinig

  Tawa Tuwa

  Saya Ligaya

  Sarap Ginhawa
• Forms of Alienation

  1. Alienation from community
  2. Alienation from from our source of cultural energy: thinking in borrowed form sand the economics of dependency.
  3. Alienation from our race: The dona victorina syndrome
  4. Alienation from the indigenous: denigrating the local
  5. Alieantion from the land
  6. Alienation from being filipino
  7. Alienation from sustainable living
• Artand the Human Essence

  3 human Faculties

  Mind Will Sense

  Reason Emotion Perception Sensation Thinking Feeling Libog

  Talino Damdamin Sensing
• Analysis of Art Based on the 3 Human Faculties

  
  

  Level of the SENSE

  Perceptual Elements: Lines, Color, Shapes, etc.

  Representations: things, people, objects, events

  
  

  Level of the WILL

  Emotional Suggestions: Happy, Sad, Afraid, etc.

  
  

  Level of the MIND

  Intellectual Meaning: Ideas, Concepts, Symbolism
• Art and the Perception of Reality -Art is talent, skill, passion, emotion, idea, truth, reality, goodness, beauty, form, expression, representation, power. Art is reality.
• Art and Reality

  -Art is seen as representational image.

  -is seen as abstract image but still representational.

  -seen as form composed of shapes, color,etc. Art is seen as pure form.

  -Seen as the object it self