ArtApp (Midterm - Y1S2)

• Theories of Art:

  • Imitationism
  • Institutional Theory
  • Action Theory
  • Aesthetic Functionalism
  • Aesthetic Hedonism
  • Expressionism
  • Formalism
  • Representationism
• Idealist Theory of Art

  Imitationism
• It is the philosophy of beauty which answers the questions, "What is beauty?" or 'What is the essence ofbeautiful things?", and the philosophy of art which answers the questions, "What is art?" or "What is the essenceof art?".

  Imitationsim by Plato
• "Beauty is in the eve of the beholder."

  Relative (subject)
• "Beauty is in the thing itself."

  Absolute (object)
• The Imitationism by Plato suggests three (3) types of world: World of Being, World of Becoming, and World of Art.
• it is unchanging and eternal. It is the universal form of any idea in metaphysical form. It is the idea of beauty. A demiurge or philosopher is responsible in the making of the world being and world of becoming.

  The world of being is the reality
• The world of art is the imitation or illusion of what is seen from the physical thing. These could be a painting of a physical chair, cat, house, or even a drawing of a woman, man, trees, forests, and stars. Artists are accountable for the creation of the world of art.
• Cosmological - concerns the structure of the Physical Universe. The sound of the universe is the soundof music."There is geometry in the humming of the strings; there is music in the spacing of the spheres.""The eyes are made for astronomy, the ears for the harmony, and these are sister sciences." Music is the imitation of cosmic sound. Human music imitates the music of the spheres.
• mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher

  Pythagoras
• Epistemological - concerns the Nature of Human Knowledge

  "Gymnastics is for the body, as music is for the soul."

  The physical body pertains to a strong body and health while the spiritual soul pertains to the intelligent

  soul/mind and knowledge.

  Plato
• "Singing is praying twice over." - Augustine

  Theological Theory of Music
• Definition of Art Based on Imitationism

  The imitation of the appearances of people, things, events

  Painting Sculpture
• Definition of Art Based on Imitationism

  The imitation of the sounds of the universe

  Music
• Definition of Art Based on Imitationism

  The imitation of movements of animals, nature, or things

  Dance
• Definition of Art Based on Imitationism

  The imitation of life through language

  Literature
• Definition of Art Based on Imitationism

  The imitation of life through action and dialogue

  Drama
• Art is an image, an appearance, a copy, or a reproduction of things, people, objects, or events.


  Representation theory of art
• Art that contains a representation.

  Figurative Art
• CHANGING the physical appearance of nature, like a natural marble that turns into a sculpture by carving and cutting

  Physical Alteration
• ENHANCING the appearance of nature, like a forest that becomes a garden by arranging and trimming the plants, or a woman beautifying herself by putting cosmetics on her face

  Selective Modification
• COPYING nature according to the CHOICE of the artist, but the resulting image is still recognizable, like in the style of representation in cubist and fauvist art

  Perceptual Interpretation
• Definition of Art According to Representationism

  
• "Art is putting mirror up to nature."

  "All the world is a stage, and men and women are merely players."

  William Shakespeare
• "When painting has reached divinity (shen), there is an end of the matter."

  Chieh Tzu Yuan
• The drawing of forms which answer to natural form.

  Chinese art
• Representational Icon of religious images

  Christian art
• Fabian de la Rosa and Fernando Amorsolo have shown only the aspect of beauty, idyllic and exotic rural sceneries, and forms of light and shadow for tourism purposes.

  Romantic Realism in the Philippine Art
• Art is the combination of perceptual elements. Art is non-figurative because it does not contain any

  representation.

  Formalism
• "To appreciate art, we bring with us nothing from life.", What is essential in art is only the "significant form."

  Clive Bell (1881-1964)
• "Artists need to look at nature and things only as forms made up of sphere, cylinders, cones."

  Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
• Wassily Kandinsky (1881-1964) - Concerning the Spiritual in the Arts, 1923

  "Every work of art is the child of its age.... It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated."

  "Art is born from the inner necessity of the artist in an enigmatic, mystical way through which it acquires an autonomous life; it becomes an independent subject, animated by a spiritual breath."

  
• Categories of Kandinsky's Paintings

  Impressions - paintings which retain some naturalistic representation.
• Categories of Kandinsky's Paintings

  Improvisations - Painting which convey deep emotions inspired by events of a spiritual type.
• Categories of Kandinsky's Paintings

  Compositions - Purely formal paintings done carefully over a period of the time after preliminary studies.

  • These are Kandinsky's most complicated works
• Kandinsky's Painting

  
• Purely Formal Music (Form of Classical Music)

  Cantata (sung [vocal] music). These are lyrics and may be accompanied by sounds of instruments.

  Music becomes representational because of the lyrics.
• Purely Formal Music (Form of Classical Music)

  Sonata (instrumental music). These are only sounds of musical instruments
• The transfer of the artist's expression of emotions and ideas into an art.

  Expressionism
• "Art is the creation of symbolic forms expressive of human feelings"

  Susanne Langer