art app lesson 1-2

• Plato: 'Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world'
• Noyes: 'Art is the medium by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows'
• Collins & Railey: 'Art is anything made or done by man that affect or moves us so that we see or feel beauty in it'
• Nature of Arts


  • Beautiful Obra Maestra
  • Can be Best Selling
  • Can be Ground Breaking
  • Has a symbolic meaning
  • Is inherently beautiful
• Art is universal 


  A universal phenomenon as old as human being. Every society has its art and it is molded by patronage it gets from its members
• Art is cultural 


  Influences society by changing opinion, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time
• Art as Experience


  The creation of arts must be something of personal and knowledgeable value
• JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: 'A famous French philosopher of the twentieth century, described the role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom'
• Creativity requires thinking outside the box. It is often used to solve problems that have never occurred before, conflate function and style, and simply make life a more unique and enjoyable experience. In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another.
• A creative artist does not simply copy or imitate another artist's work. He does not imitate the lines, flaws, colors, and patterns in recreating nature. He embraces originality, puts his own flavor into his work, and calls it his own creative piece.
• ALBERT EINSTEIN - German physicist Albert Einstein who had made significant and major contributions in science and humanity demonstrated that knowledge is actually derived from imagination.
• Visual Arts


  Creations that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature. Artists produce visual arts driven by their desire to reproduce things that they have seen in the way that they perceived them.
• Film


  The art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion of movement.
• Performance Art


  A live art where the artist's medium is mainly the human body which he or she uses to perform.
• Poetry


  An art form where the artist expresses their emotions through words, rather than using paint, charcoal, or camera.
• Architecture


  The art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction, the making of beautiful buildings.
• Dance


  A form of expression, a series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment.
• Literary Art


  Artists who use words-not paint, musical instruments, or chisels to express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers.
• Theater


  Uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events to a live audience.
• Applied Arts


  Incorporating elements of style and design to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetical value.
• Personal functions of art


  • Self-expression
  • Entertainment (for creator and audience)
• Social function of art


  Addresses broader societal concerns rather than personal interests
• Social function of art


  • Political art conveying messages of protest or social commentary
• Physical function of art


  Going beyond pure aesthetic expression and serving practical purposes, enhancing usability or fulfilling specific needs in various fields
• IMMANUEL KANT - In his writing "Critique of Judgement," he considered the judge of beauty to be universal despite its subjectivity.
• Art as a Representation Aristotle, Plato's most important student in philosophy, agreed with his teacher that art is a form of imitation.
• ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION - Art serves as language, a communication device that articulates feelings and emotions unavailable to the audience.
• SUBJECT - the visual focus or the image that may be extracted from examining the artwork

  CONTENT - the meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork.

  FORM - the development and configuration of the artwork-how the elements and the medium or material are put together.
• Representational art


  Types of art that have subjects that refer to objects or events occurring in the real world. Often termed figurative art, because the figures depicted are easy to make out and decipher.
• Non-representational art


  Art that does not make a reference to the real world, whether it is a person, place, thing, or even a particular event.
• Abstract art


  • Emphasizes shapes, colors, and textures to evoke emotions or convey ideas, rather than attempting to accurately portray reality.
• Erwin Panofsky


  A German art historian and cultural theorist who made significant contributions to the fields of art history and iconography. He is best known for his methodological approach to the interpretation of art, particularly in the analysis of symbols and iconography.
• Factual meaning


  Pertains to the most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the identifiable forms in an artwork and understanding how these elements relate to one another.
• Conventional meaning


  Pertains to the acknowledge interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs and other cyphers as bases of its meaning.
• A variety of meaning may arise when a particular work of art is read.