Prelim

• Classifications of Art


  • Fine Arts
  • Visual Art
  • Performing Art
• Fine Arts


  • Create works that are primarily visual in nature, more on aesthetic and beauty
  • Examples: sculpture, architecture, drawing
• Visual Art


  • Art forms that express their message, meaning, and emotion through visual means
  • Examples: painting, sculpture, photography, digital art
• Performing Art


  • An artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants
  • Examples: Dancing, singing, music, opera, theatre
• Aspects Art is based on

  • Personal experience
  • Own understanding
  • Meaning of Art
  • Human Nature
• Basic Assumptions, Functions and Nature of Arts

  1. Art is an expression made visible by a form

  2. Art has been always created by all people, in all countries and it lives because it is well-liked and enjoyed

  3. Art involves experience

  4. Art is not nature; nature is not art. Art is made by man and nature by God. However, nature can be enhanced by man. The enhanced beauty and artistry of nature can be classified as art

  5. Art is cultural. Art is a work of humans and anything created by humans is part of culture

  6. Art is a form of creation

  7. Art is subjective
• Nature of Arts


  • A diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory, or performing artworks, expressing the author’s imagination and skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power
  • Art represents reality
  • Art is an expression
  • Art serves as a means of communication of emotions
  • Art matters
  • Art is universal
  • Art is creation
• Philosophical Perspectives in Art

  1. Art as an imitation: Plato's view of artists as imitators and art as mere imitation

  2. Art as Representation: Aristotle's view of art as a form of imitation and an aid to philosophy in revealing the truth

  3. Art as Disinterested Judgement: Immanuel Kant's consideration of the judgment of beauty as universal despite its subjectivity

  4. Art as Communication of Emotion: Leo Tolstoy's belief that art communicates the artist's emotions to the audience
• In viewing art, there are clues that mediate between the artwork and the viewer, allowing the viewer to more easily comprehend what he is seeing
• Art makes accessible feelings and emotions of people from the past and present
• Clues that mediate between the artwork and the viewer


  • Allow the viewer to more easily comprehend what he is seeing
• Three basic components of a work of art

  • Subject
  • Content
  • Form
• Subject in art


  The visual focus or the image that may be extracted from examining the artwork; the "what"
• Representational Art


  Types of art with subjects that refer to objects or events occurring in the real world
• Representational Art


  • Leonardo DaVinci’s Mona Lisa depicts a woman
• Non-Representational Art


  Art forms that do not make a reference to the real world, stripped down to visual elements like shapes, lines, and colors to convey feelings, emotions, and concepts
• Non-Representational Art


  • Wassily Kandinsky's "Composition VII" consists of geometric shapes, lines, and colors arranged in a complex and non-representational manner
• Representational art


  Portrays recognizable subjects
• Non-Representational art


  Focuses on abstract forms and concepts
• Content in art


  The meaning communicated by the artist or the artwork; the "why"
• Content in art


  • Van Gogh's Starry Night interpreted as expressing the artist's emotional state
• Levels of Meaning in Art

  • Factual Meaning
  • Conventional Meaning
  • Subjective Meaning
• Factual Meaning


  The rudimentary level of meaning extracted from identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork
• Conventional Meaning


  The acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, symbols, and other cyphers as bases of its meaning
• Subjective Meaning


  Meanings that arise from the viewer's circumstances when engaging with art, often multiple and varied
• Form in art


  The development and configuration of the artwork - how the elements and the medium or material are put together; the "how"
• To understand art, it involves research and has a complex of intellectual, emotional, and sensory signification
• Art has a horizon of meanings
• Four planes of analysis in art

  • Basic Semiotic Plane
  • Iconic Plane
  • Context
• Art


  Has complex of intellectual, emotional and sensory signification
• Art


  Has horizon of meanings
• Four planes of analysis

  • Basic Semiotic Plane
  • Iconic Plane
  • Contextual Plane
  • Evaluative Plane
• Other players in the world of art

  • Critics
  • Director/assistant
  • Curator
  • Buyers
  • Collectors
  • Dealers
  • Museum
  • Gallery
• Art Production Process


  1. Preproduction (the planning)

  2. Production/Medium Manipulation (the making)

  3. Postproduction/Exhibition (the finish product/audience showing)
• Medium


  • First decisions artists and artisans make when embarking on a new project
  • Can range from traditional materials (clay, wood, metal, oil paint) to more contemporary options (digital media, recycled materials) based on the artist's preference, skills, and desired outcome
• Technique


  Techniques employed by artists and artisans vary widely depending on the medium and the style of artwork they aim to create
• Curation


  Involves selecting, organizing, and presenting artworks in a cohesive and meaningful way to communicate the artist's vision or narrative effectively
• Elements of Arts


  • Line
  • Shape
  • Form
  • Space
  • Color
  • Value
  • Texture
• Line


  Most basic element of art
• Shape


  Closed space defined by other elements of art such as lines, colors, and textures