art app L2

• Humanities


  Subjects such as literature, language, history, and philosophy
• Three famous philosophers


  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Immanuel Kant
• Plato's view on art


  • Art is an imitation
  • Art is threatening
• Subject of art


  What the work represents, could be a person, object, scene or event
• Immanuel Kant's view on art


  • Art is for art's sake
  • Beauty does not rest on the properties of the objects or things but rather on the manner in which people respond to these objects or things
  • Taste can be both subjective and universal
• Types of art based on subject

  • Representational or objective art
  • Non-representational or non-objective art
• Subjective taste


  Does not focus on the properties of the object itself but rather on the pleasure one experiences as he responds to it
• Representational or objective art


  • Sunflowers by Van Gogh
• Universal taste


  Non-aesthetic and the artwork is appreciated for what it is because of the mastery of the artist
• Non-representational or non-objective art


  • Composition 8 by Kandinsky
• For Kant, beauty is a question of form, and color is not important
• Subjects of representational art


  • Still life
  • Portraiture (portrait)
  • Landscapes, Seascapes, Cityscapes
• Aesthetics


  The philosophical study of beauty and taste
• Non-representational or non-objective art


  Art without any reference to anything outside itself, abstract in the sense that it doesn't represent real objects in our world
• Functions of Art


  • Functional art
  • Non-functional art
• Non-representational art


  • The Cow by Doesburg (1918)
• Functional art


  Aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian (practical/useful) purposes
• Sources of subject in art

  • Nature
  • People
  • History
  • Legends
  • Religion
  • Mythology
  • Dreams and Fantasy
  • Technology
• Non-functional art


  Paintings, sculptures and all manner of fine art
• Naturalism


  Realistic portrayal of physical characteristics

  It is base on context.
• Artist


  A person who exhibits exceptional skills in the visual and/or performing arts
• Realism


  Realistic portrayal of subject matter and content, depicting everyday life, working class, urbanization and industrialization, social issues (base on form)
• Artisan


  A craft worker who makes or creates objects of great beauty by just using his hands
• Abstraction


  Moving away from reality, presenting the subject differently from how it really is
• Painting


  The application of pigment to a surface, a two-dimensional art form
• Dadaism was a reaction to the senseless slaughter of the trenches of WWI, declaring war against war by countering the absurdity of the establishment's descent into chaos with its own kind of nonsense
• Sculpture


  A three-dimensional art form, the sculptor creates a solid form using molding, carving, welding, casting and assembling
• Architecture

  The most functional of all the art forms, involves creating designs for buildings and infrastructure
• Music

  The art of sound expressed through a song, through the use of instruments of a combination of both