Module 1

• Art Latin word "Ars" which means skill
• ART IS A WAY TO COMMUNICATE IDEAS
• Art is a diverse range of human activity and resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas
• Personal Function

  • Every artist has their personal reasons for indulging in art.

  • Others do their thing because of their passion for their respective art forms.
• Social Function

  • As a social being and how he associates with his fellow beings.

  • Individuals and their society are dynamically related.
• Economic Function

  • Several people believe that venturing into the arts is not lucrative. However, this belief is invalidated by these facts.

  • For example, Carlos "Botong" Francisco sold his artwork "Camote Digger" at Php 22,192,00. At the same time, Fernando Amorsolo was able to sell his art piece "Lavanderas" at Php 21,500,00.
• Political Function

  • Political figures use art as a platform to promote their programs and advocacy.

  • For example, Imelda RomualdezMarcos, the former first lady and patroness of the arts, became Metro Manila's governor, and through the arts, she was able to promote her political programs.
• Historical Function

  • Architectural works, sculptures, paintings, and other art forms serve to record historical figures and events.
• Cultural Function

  • Buildings, furniture (chairs, tables, etc.), clothes, and the like form part of the country's material culture.
• Religious Function

  • Almost all art forms, if not completely, originated from religion.

  • For example, many people in olden times worshiped their gods in songs and dances.
• Physical Function

  • Houses and other buildings are constructed to protect their occupants and all others inside them.
• Aesthetic Function

  • Artworks serve to beautify. The capacity of artwork to elicit pleasure or displeasure when appreciated or experienced aesthetically is its purpose.
• Performing Arts

  • This classification consists of an art form that refers to public performance events that occur mainly in the theater.

  • It moves in time and space and usually involve a group of people.
• Media Arts

  • The Standards define media arts as “a unique medium of artistic expression that can amplify and integrate traditional art forms (literature, painting, sculpture, and music) by incorporating the technological advances of the contemporary world.
• Visual Arts

  • Unique expressions of ideas, beliefs, experiences, and feelings presented in well-designed visual forms.

  • Refers to creative art that is intended to be appreciated by sight.
• Literary Arts

  • It is both oral and written work characterized by expressive or imaginative writing, nobility of thoughts, universality and timeliness.
• • An Art Movement is a distinct artistic style, technique, or trend that maps a particular period of cultural development in the history of art.

  • Grouping artists of similar interests or styles into Art Movements is mainly a characteristic of Western Art.

  • Art Movements are essentially a 20th century development when there was a greater variety of styles than at any other period in the history of art.
• • Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches.

  • Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life.
• • Post Impressionism was not a formal movement or style. The Post Impressionists were a few independent artists at the end of the 19th century who rebelled against the limitations of Impressionism.

  • They developed a range of personal styles that focused on the emotional, structural, symbolic and spiritual elements that they felt were missing from Impressionism.
• • Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907– 08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

  • They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.
• Fauvism is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (which included Henri Matisse and André Derain) from around 1905 to 1910, which is characterised by strong colours and fierce brushwork.
• Expressionism refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist's inner feelings or ideas.
• • Dadaism or Dada was a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. The movement was, among other things, was a protest against the barbarism of the War.

  • Dadaists believed existed an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art.
• • Surrealism was the 20th century art movement that explored the hidden depths of the 'unconscious mind'. The Surrealists rejected the rational world as 'it only allows for the consideration of those facts relevant to our experience’.

  • They sought a new kind of reality, a heightened reality that they called 'surreality', which was found in the world of images drawn from their dreams and imagination.
• • Pop Art an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.

  • Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s.
• • Contemporary art refers to art— namely, painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, and video art— produced today. • This time period typically refers to the second half of the 20th century and onwards into the 21st century
• NOT CONFINED ONLY IN MUSEUMS

  • Contemporary art is not confined to museums but can also be found in galleries, art schools, side streets, and public spaces like train or bus stations, shopping centers, or parks.
• IT IS SOMETHING ACCESSIBLE

  • Since artists post their works online, but some only intend to display their works in a particular setting and for a given span of time.
• CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS ARE SELF-TAUGHT

  • Many contemporary artists are self-taught and did not have formal education.

  • They are more flexible in using different kinds of materials.
• ORIGINALITY IS NOT AN ISSUE

  • An artist can get another artist's work and add to it, redesign, or interpret it using other materials.
• NEW MEDIUMS ARE WELCOME

  • Some contemporary artists employ the help of fabricators, carpenters, electricians, or welders in "constructing" their artworks.
• PROCESS OF MAKING IS ESSENTIAL

  • What is essential to contemporary artists is the process of art-making. • It is the experience, for example, of dipping one's hands into a pail of paint and making markings on a flat surface that matters to the contemporary artist.