Art App - Midterms

• Art


  The expression and application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form (painting or sculpture), producing works to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power
• Art Appreciation


  The study and understanding of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture), and other forms of expression. It involves learning about the elements and principles of art, as well as the historical and cultural context in which works of art were created
• Art Education


  The study of the elements and principles of art or design and their proper application to all things made by man
• Humanities


  Includes the study of all languages and literatures, the arts, history, and philosophy
• Aesthetics


  Set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art
• Aesthetics


  A branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty, and good taste
• Beauty


  The sensual quality / qualities in a thing or idea which excites one's immediate admiration, pleasure or satisfaction for itself rather than for its uses
• Humanities


  Main Objective: To focus the attention on the life and achievement of man
• Civilization


  The totality of man's achievements from the dawn of history to the present
• Humanities


  Main Concern: Importance of the human being and his feelings
• Humanities


  Meaning: Records of man's quest for answers to the fundamental functions he asks about himself and about life
• Humanities


  Purpose: Serve to provide students with certain skills and values through the arts. Furthermore, it provides an appreciation of what is "the true, the good, and the beautiful" concepts which may vary from age to age, from country to country
• Sciences


  Studies dealing with the external world of man and the facets of man's being that can be subjected to observation, measurement, and experimentation
• Nature


  Evanescent; always recreating itself
• Aristotle's teaching regarding the imitation of art


  • Art aims at imitating nature
  • Imitation is natural to man
  • It is natural for man to delight in works of imitation
• Art as creation


  • Man is led by the innate craving for order to create objects that are delightful to perceive
  • Creation - act of combining or re-ordering already existing materials so that a new object is formed
  • Art - creative activity that involves skill or expertness in handling materials and organizing them into new, structurally pleasing, and significant units
  • Skill - acquired through long training and constant practice
• 3 Major Experiences in Artistic Activity


  • Experience that the artist wants to communicate
  • Act of expressing these experiences
  • Artist's gratifying experience of accomplishment upon completion
• Art as experience


  • Another kind of experience associated with art — what onlookers or listeners undergo when perceiving the work of art
  • The perception may evoke an experience similar or related to what the artist tried to express
• Art as beauty

  • Basic Human Need: Desire for beauty and order around us
  • Beauty - gives pleasure when perceived
  • Aesthetic Pleasure - the delight experienced when viewing an artwork
  • Aesthetic - Greek; to perceive with the senses
• Beauty in art may be the result of the successful organization of lines, colors, shapes and spaces in order to convey an idea or emotion
• Art


  • An expression of life, beauty, harmony, and truth
  • Either the creation of useful things for human needs or the arrangement of elements meant for mental contemplation and spiritual relaxation
• Purpose of art


  To create something meaningful, beautiful, or interesting to man
• Aristotle: 'Art is the right reason for doing things'
• Plato: 'Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world'
• John Dewey: 'Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind'
• Charlton Noyes: 'Art is the medium by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows'
• Collins and Riley: 'Art is anything made or done by man that affects or moves us so that we see or feel beauty in it'
• Arthur Dow: 'Art is a way of life, of doing, of thinking, of feeling, of making choices. It is living in a fine way'
• Margarette Mathias: 'Art is man's response to his experiences with his environment through materials'
• Vicente Dizon: 'Art is an expression with a particular combination of mediums to satisfy the senses, to express human imaginations, emotions and intellect, and make use of them in practical life through the use of artistic principles, taste and skill'
• Essential requirements of art


  • Art must be man-made
  • It must benefit and satisfy man
  • It must be expressed through a certain medium or material
• Divisions of art according to purpose

  • Practical or Useful Arts - when human activity is directed to produce things (artifacts and utensils) which cope with human needs
  • Fine Arts - products of human creative activity that expresses beauty in different ways and media, for the contemplation of the mind and the relaxation of the spirit
  • Liberal Arts - considers intellectual efforts
  • Major Arts - characterized by their actual and potential expressiveness
  • Minor Arts - connected with practical uses and purposes
• Subject of the art


  • Any person, object, scene or event described or discussed by the artist in the artwork. It is whatever is represented in a work of art
  • Object depicted by the artist
• Objective (Representational) Arts


  Has a subject. Examples: painting, sculpture, literature, theater arts, graphic arts
• Non-Objective Arts


  Do not present descriptions, stories or references to identifiable objects or symbols. They appeal directly to the senses because of the satisfying organization of their sensuous and expressive elements
• Ways of representing the subject

  • Realism - Realistic. It is the portrayal of things in life or reality without idealizing them
  • Surrealism - Super-realism. Attempts to show the inside of a man's mind as the appearance of his outside world
  • Abstraction - when the subject is not presented as an objective reality but only the feeling or idea of the artist is shown
  • Expressionism - an art which the artist is more concerned with expressing his emotional reaction to an object or situation
  • Symbolism - an emblem that assumes a new meaning originating from a highly personal and unique association in the mind of the creator
  • Cubism - use of cubes or geometrical figures to represent the object
  • Fauvism - use of color
• Content of the art


  • It is what the artist expresses or communicates on the whole of his artwork
  • Function - practical usefulness
• Functional Arts


  • Have obvious purpose. Examples: architecture, weaving, furniture making, and a few other crafts
• Line


  • The contour, profile or outline of an object which determines its shape or form
  • A geometrical figure which is made by the movement of a point
• Types of lines


  • Straight Line - vertical, horizontal, inclined or oblique, broken or zigzag, and parallel or perpendicular
  • Curved Lines - vary from the simplest to the most elaborate or intricate irregular curved lines