Art: Chapter 1

• Humanities


  The learning of arts such as architecture, dance, literature, music, painting, theatre, and sculpture
• Humanities


  Branches of knowledge that focuses on the human opinions, and relationships
• Humanities


  Concerned on how a person expresses his/her feelings through facial manifestations or body movements
• Humanities

  Explores on human conditions through the use of analytical, critical, or theoretical methods
• Humanities


  The study on how an individual documented and processed his/her experiences particularly in connecting to others
• Art Appreciation


  A way to motivate ideas and allows individuals to illustrate their feelings when they viewed an artwork
• Art Appreciation


  Develops critical and innovative skills in thinking and teaches essential qualities in listening, observing, and responding to multiple viewpoints
• Art


  The process of using our senses and emotions in making creative activities
• Artist


  Someone who creates art that is merely trades and professions by which different people make their livings
• Artist


  • Uses imagination, and a skill to construct works that may be judged to have aesthetic importance
  • Creativity is a characteristic that progressed in the extent of his/her life to express feelings
• Creation of Art

  1. Creation of Ideas

  2. Creation of the Materials

  3. Creation of Forms
• Functions of Art

  • Individual Function
  • Social Function
  • Economic Functions
  • Political Functions
  • Historical Functions
  • Cultural Functions
  • Physical Functions
  • Aesthetic Functions
• Purpose of Art


  • Creativity or imagination is the primary basis of art
  • Art is created when an artist produces a stimulating experience that is considered by his audience to have artistic merit
  • Art allows expression of the individuality of the artist
  • Through artistic endeavors, we can share what is important to us with others and can learn about the values of feelings of those sharing art with us
• Aesthetic Functions


  Any artwork means beauty. It is visual spice for gracefully adorned interiors and can bring out the most elegant features of different décor elements. It reasonably reproduced visual images which communicate through fantastic persuasions and meaningful words
• Purpose of Art


  Creativity or imagination is the primary basis of art. Art is created when an artist produces a stimulating experience that is considered by his audience to have artistic merit. The artwork is the visual expression of an idea or experience of an artist, through the use of a medium
• Purposes of Art


  • Create Beauty
  • Provide Decoration
  • Reveal Truth
  • Express Values
  • Commemorate Experience
  • Create Harmony
• Create Beauty


  Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, and intuitions. It is the communication of concepts that cannot be faithfully portrayed by words alone. The Artist has considered nature as the standard of beauty
• Provide Decoration


  Artworks are used to create a pleasing environment. It is intended to beautify things to please and amuse the viewers through its colors and patterns
• Reveal Truth


  Artwork helped to pursue truth and attempted to reveal about how the world works. It is a kind of language that allows artists to send a message to the souls of the recipients that help change their attitudes, their sensibility, and their ethics
• Express Values


  Arts can illuminate our inner lives and enrich our emotional world. Through arts, the artist will be encouraged to develop their creativity, challenge, and communication skills. It also promotes self-esteem and wellness
• Commemorate Experience


  Art serves to convey the personal experiences of an artist and record his impression in his work
• Create Harmony


  An artist makes use of the composition to put an order in the diverse content of his work
• Classifications of Art

  • Visual Arts
  • Performing Arts
  • Literary Arts
• Visual Arts


  • These arts are those forms that create works which are primarily visual (forms perceived by the eyes)
• Visual Arts


  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Drawing
  • Photography
• Painting


  This form of visual art aims to evoke an emotion from the viewers. It is practice by applying colors or other media to a surface with a brush or other objects
• Sculpture


  This form of visual arts characterized as the art of representing an imagined or observed objects in hard materials such as glass, metals, or wood in three dimensions
• Architecture


  This form of art provides us the physical structure we lived. It is a profound expression of human culture in a particular period, and it will endure and outlive us in forms of monuments that future generations will study and strive to understand
• Drawing


  This form of art enhances the way we see the world around and conditions us to capture its details in a two-dimensional medium. This has been a critical element of art throughout history and in the contemporary art world
• Photography


  This form of art is a process of creating portraits by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as electronic image sensors or photographic films
• Performing Arts


  • These arts are those forms in which the artists used his/her own body, face, and presence as a medium
• Theatre (Drama)


  This form of art uses performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place and time
• Music


  This form of art helps to express our mood and feel the way through our emotions and ideas. Based on a study, different types of music may be suitable to different moods though classical music is still recommended as the most calming music option
• Dance


  This form of art is expressed through body movement which entails social interaction, or presented in a spiritual or performance setting
• Film


  This form of art allows us to explore the complexities of the human situation. This is used to work out our emotions, to make history comes alive, science is explained, and literary works are brought into life
• Installation Art


  The fundamental nature of this form of art is the participation of the spectators. In this work of art, viewers become active and navigate the work in an environment that they can experience visually. It also has the capacity of passing on particular information about any significant event around the world and interactively represents documentary issues
• Opera


  This form of art helps to tell stories through music. This is also performed with a full orchestra composed of the various musical instrument sections. In this art form, singers and musicians perform a dramatic work by combining text (called a libretto) and musical score
• Stagecraft


  This form of art is a technical aspect of theatrical production. This includes constructing and arranging scenery, hanging and focusing of lighting, the design of costumes, makeup, and procurement of props, stage management and recording and mixing of sound
• Literary Arts


  • These arts centered on creative writing and other composition processes which intended to read. These include prose and poetry (e.g., novels, short stories, sonnet, ballad, epic, and essay)
• Arts are inseparable from education. When early humans drew images on the walls of the caves, the artworks have been the means of recording human experiences and of making sense of the world