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• Art is derived from the Latin word "ars" meaning "ability" or "skill." It covers those areas of artistic creativity that seek to communicate beauty primarily through the sense. Art embraces the visual arts, literature, music and dance.
• Art


  A highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts — artworks — that express the author's imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power
• The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or objects in fields like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.
• Architecture


  Often included as one of the visual arts; however, it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential, in a way that they usually are not in another visual art, like a painting
• Art may be characterized in terms of

  Mimesis (its representation of reality), expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities
• There is no single set of values or aesthetic traits for visually identifying a work of art
• Form of a work of art or design


  All of its visible elements and the particular way these come together as a whole
• Elements of form


  • Material or medium used
  • Color and how it is used
  • Use of line
  • Texture or surface
  • Composition
  • Scale or dimensions
  • Duration
• Content


  The subject matter of a work of art or design, revealed though the formal properties of the work and may be evident on a number of levels
• Aesthetics


  The branch of philosophy dealing with beauty or the beautiful, especially in art, and with taste and standards of value in judging art
• Aesthetics consists of the sense of beauty and is characterized by love of beauty. It is concerned more with pure emotion and sensation and less with pure intellect.
• The quest for beauty is inherent in every individual.
• Art is everywhere and very much a part of our lives. We find art in the clothes we wear, the furniture and furnishings, style of houses and vehicles, art objects in the home and in the community, in religion, in trade, and in industry.
• Examples of art found everywhere

  • Coins, medals and pendants (relief sculptures)
  • Paper bills and postage stamps (engravings)
  • Statues of angels or saints (free-standing sculptures)
  • Murals, frescoes, mosaics
• Aesthetics


  The sense of beauty
• Aesthetics


  • Characterized by love of beauty
  • Concerned more with pure emotion and sensation and less with pure intellect
  • Devotion to beauty as found in art and in whatever is attractive in the world around us
• Any study of beauty be it natural or man-made, can be called aesthetic
• The quest for beauty is inherent in every individual
• Artworks


  • Vermeer, J. (1665). Girl with a Pearl Earring.
  • Magritte, R. (1964). The Son of Man.
• Art


  Everywhere, very much a part of our lives, cannot be denied even if we want to
• Art in everyday life

  • Clothes we wear
  • Furniture and furnishings
  • Style of houses and vehicles
  • Art objects in the home and in the community, in religion, in trade, and in industry
• Types of art objects

  • Coins, medals and pendants (relief sculptures)
  • Paper bills and postage stamps (engravings)
  • Statues of angels or saints (free-standing sculptures)
  • Multicolored design on the inside the jeepney (decorative arts)
• All these things are part of human efforts to lessen the drabness and tedium of everyday living and transform the environment into more interesting place to live in
• Art as expression and communication

  • Intense emotions compel the person to unburden the self or share the feeling with others
  • Reveals emotional state, personal and social values, and psychological insights into reality
• Art as expression and communication

  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalism of Carol Guzy depicting Kosovar refugee
  • Group of women performing a contemporary dance
  • Beyonce in her Run the World (Girls) music video depicting women empowerment
• Art as Creation


  • Humans have been led by an innate craving for order to create objects that are delightful to perceive
  • Combining and reordering already existing material so that new object is formed
  • Involves skill or expertness in handling materials and organizing them into new, structurally pleasing, and significant units
  • Acquired through long training and constant practice
  • A planned activity
• Art and Experience


  • An artist has an experience that he/ she wants to communicate
  • The artist expresses the self -- that of creating the art object or form
  • The artist's gratifying experience of having accomplished something significant
  • Onlookers and listeners have sensory, emotional and intellectual responses
• Artistic experiences


  • Sensory response (delight or joy in many forms of art using merely our senses)
  • Emotional response (recognition of a familiar situation presented as the subject of the work)
  • Intellectual response (delight of the mind to some works of art whose unique arrangements of elements apart from the subject matter, stimulate the intellect more than they do the emotions)
• Art is not nature. A work of art is made by human beings
• The desire for the beauty and order around in another basic human need
• What we call beauty is relative. Our concepts of beauty also changes over time and beauty varies among cultures
• Artworks


  • Munch, E. (1895). The Scream
  • Picasso, P. (1995). Garçon à la pipe
• Importance of Art


  • Artworks are valuable sources of inspiration and aesthetic experiences
  • We commemorate certain occasion with paintings, songs, dances and dramatic plays to heighten their importance and keep records of such events
  • Through the artist's work, we get a glimpse of the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of the people in their time and the forces of their environment that influenced their works of art
  • We value beautiful things as a consequence of our encounter with the arts
  • Out of the aesthetic experience we derive from arts, we may be influenced to change our ways. They may transform us into highly cultured, dignified and respectable human beings
• Assumptions of Art


  • Art has been created by various people, at all places and time. Art exist because it is liked and enjoyed
  • Art does not grow old
  • Art is something to be seen or heard
  • Art is the product of human's imaginations and skill in doing things
  • Nature is artful. Its beauty and artistry could be enhanced
• Work of Art


  • An activity that involves both imagination and skill in accomplishing it
  • Creates aesthetic feelings or experiences which delight and satisfy our desire for beautiful things
• Guidelines in understanding a work of art


  • What did the artist make? What is it about? (Subject)
  • What did the artist want to show in the whole of the artwork? What is it for? (Function)
  • What is the artwork made of? (Materials/mediums and elements)
  • How are the materials and elements put together or organized? (Organization)
  • What are its mood, temper and personality? (Style)
  • How good is it? (Judgment)
• Visit an online museum, one local museum and one foreign museum
• Research one foreign and one local artist. Write their biography and list at least three of their artworks. Paste the picture of the artists and the artworks that they have created. Explain their paintings by answering the questions about title/name, year created, dimension, and content.