Art Appreciation (Lesson 1)

• What is Art?(1)

  is a visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination; The term art encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation
• What is Art? (2)

  is an outlet of expression, usually influenced by culture and driven by human creative impulse; Major constituents arts include literature - including poetry, novels and shorts stories, and epics; Performing arts among them music dance, opera, opera, theatre, and film; Visual arts including drawing, painiting and sculpting; Some arts combine a visual element with performance (e.g film) and the written word (e.g comics)
• Physical 


  are often easily to understand; this works of art created to perform some service have physical functions
• Social


  it addresses aspects of collective life as opposed to one person's point of view or experience
• Personal


  the personal function of arts are the most difficult to understand, they used this arts to control its viewers and this arts is highly subjective
• Characteristics of Arts (1)


  Art is about experience
• Characteristics of Arts (2)


  Art is uniquely individual
• Characteristics of Arts (3)


  Art is reflects a society culture
• Characteristics of Arts (4)


  Art is produce by all people and speaks to us at our most human levels of feelings and understanding
• Characteristics of Arts (5)


  Art is always about something
• Relevance and Significance of arts 


  Arts can help us to understand our history, our culture, our lives, and the experience of others in a manner that cannot be achieved through other means; it can also be a source of joy, a source of inspiration and reflection
• Art Appreciation


  it is a kind of intellectual and fair-minded understanding of art; appreciation of visual arts goes beyond staring at a painting on the wall of a museum art is in essential in understanding around you art is more than pretentious museums; only a few center to comprehend; instead art appreciation is
• Art Appreciation (1)


  Gaining knowledge to understand art
• Art Appreciation (2)


  Acquire the arts and methods and materials to discuss art verbally or written word
• Art Appreciation (3)


  Ability to identify movements from ancient culture to today's contemporary art
• What is Art? (3)

  art comes from the Latin Language "ars" which means skills or craft; art is also the expression of ideas and emotions through a physical medium, like painting, sculpture, film, dance, writing, photography, or theatre
• How art can meet the human needs?

  Art can meet the human needs by providing emotional expression, fostering communication and connection, supporting self-discovery and self-exploration, promoting healing and therapy, offering aesthetic pleasure and enjoyment, encouraging reflection and contemplation, and preserving cultural identity
• 7 PROPOSED FUNCTIONS OF ART

  Beauty

  Happiness and Hope

  Identity and Understanding the Self

  Grief and Healing

  Remembering and mark making
• Beauty


  the connotation of beauty is a debatable topic, but let us talk about the prettiness and the aesthetic value of art; one of the innate qualities that "pretty art' can give is that it makes our dull, lifeless walls come to life
• Happiness and Hope


  there is something about art that mirrors the soul of those willing to confront it, in a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age; there is a wide range of properties of art why it gives a sense of joy and hope its audience;
• (Happiness and Hope) these are examples;

  b) the experience and process of creating art itself

  c) the bliss of looking at a piece of imagery evoking a happy memory: e.g the painting of a do;

  d) direct words from typography and graphic messages that are so relatable as if the author has read your mind and feelings; and

  e) identifying oneself with the properties of an artwork: a homage of something; works addressing diaspora; displacement, and other social issues
• Identify and Understanding the Self


  today's generation, being the "me" generation is also sometimes tagged as "anxious generation"; a lot of social issues evidently reflect this struggle is for identity: gender issues, disconnectedness brought on social media, regionalism, and even mental health issues
• Grief and Healing 


  many of us are poignant and humanistic products of art were made after the world war II; twentieth century art mostly expressed human suffering and darkness and its themes
• Remembering and markmaking


  art can be used to help us understand the past by providing a visual representation of events that occured; the artist can also use color and composition to create a story that can be interpreted in different ways; art can also help us to remember historical events by portraying them in a way that is visually representing
• Markmaking


  describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork; it can be loose and gestural or controlled and neat