ART APPRECIATION

• Art appreciation


  A course that develops students' ability to appreciate, analyze and critique works of art
• Grading system


  • 60% Final Grade
  • 40% Midterm Grade
• Chapter 1: Assumptions and Misconceptions on the Nature of Art
• Learning outcomes


  • Clarify the misconceptions about art
  • Characterize the assumptions of the arts
  • Differentiate art from nature
• Learning Activity 1.1


  1. List down all the skills that you have since you were a child

  2. Based on the list, spot the most important skills that lingers up to this moment even if you failed to accomplish this before

  3. Try to express it in your simple and easy way

  4. Create a story and upload it in your TikTok account
• Assumptions of art


  • Universal: Every society has its own art
  • Art is available to everyone
  • Addresses human needs
  • Art is timeless
  • Cultural: Art defines culture
  • Art is an articulation and transmission of new information and values
  • Experience: The creation of art must be something of personal and knowledgeable value
• Assumptions and nature of arts


  • Has purpose: To express an emotion, convey a message, or simply to create something beautiful
  • Perception of reality: Art often reflects the artist's personal interpretation of their experiences and the world around them
  • Not nature: Nature provides the medium, resources, and models to create an artwork, but the artwork itself is a human interpretation and representation of reality
• One misconception of art is the belief that someone is an artist and the rest are not
• Art


  Derived from a latin term ars which means skill, talent or ability
• Creativity


  A metacognitive skill, a form of divergent thinking that allows us to generate relationship, integrate concepts, elaborate information brainstorm issues with fluency, flexibility and originality
• We appreciate art because art gives us pleasure
• Appreciation


  Listening to music is a form of appreciation that makes us enjoy and provides a panacea of our day's tedious work
• Imagination


  Allows us to be creative, in order to create scientific inventions and aesthetic innovations
• Art


  An expression of feelings and emotions
• Craft


  A form of work with the use of available materials
• The third misconception is the belief that art and craft have interchangeable meaning
• Humanities


  The field that provides human beings opportunity to think critically and creatively, in order to understand the values and cultures of the world and to bring clarity to the future
• Subjects in humanities


  • Philosophy
  • History
  • Religion
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Language
  • Music
• Elements of art


  • Line
  • Shape
  • Value
  • Form
  • Space
  • Texture
  • Color
• These elements are all seen in nature
• Nature is not art but its source
• Art is made by man no matter how close it is to nature
• Art genres


  • Fine arts (painting, drawing, carving)
  • Verbal arts (literature, oratory)
  • Non-verbal arts (fine motor skills, gross motor skills)
  • Mixed arts (advertisement, theater, drama, opera, song and dance, performing arts, cinema)
• Art history begins with the emergence of human beings whose imagination propels an expression of great legacies that human civilizations have witnessed
• Prehistoric periods


  • Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
  • Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic)
  • New Stone Age (Neolithic)
• Paleolithic art


  • Small sculptures and monumental paintings, incised designs, and reliefs on the walls of caves
  • Portable art (figurines or decorated objects carved from stone, bone, or antler, or modeled with clay)
  • Stationary art (cave paintings)
• Paleolithic art concerned itself with either food (hunting scenes, animal carvings) or fertility (Venus figurines)
• Mesolithic period, humans developed cave paintings, engravings, and ceramics to reflect their daily lives
• The Vézère Valley contains prehistoric sites and decorated caves
• Prehistoric periods


  • Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
  • Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic)
  • New Stone Age (Neolithic)
• Paleolithic art


  • Concerned with food (hunting scenes, animal carvings) or fertility (Venus figurines)
  • Predominant theme was animals
  • Humans are either completely absent or stick figures
• Mesolithic period


  • Humans developed cave paintings, engravings, and ceramics to reflect their daily lives
  • They were nomadic and built temporary houses
  • Wood, bone, and flint were the materials of their tools
  • They fished using dugout canoes
• Mesolithic art


  • Reflects the change to a warmer climate and adaptation to a relatively sedentary lifestyle, population size, and consumption of plants
  • Represented by rock paintings or petroglyphs, displaying scenes from everyday life, such as hunting and fishing
• Mesolithic tools


  • Composite devices manufactured with small chipped stone tools called microliths and retouched bladelets
• Neolithic period


  • Humans began to settle into agrarian societies
  • They had enough spare time to explore religion, measurement, the rudiments of architecture, and writing and art
• Types of Neolithic art


  • Weaving
  • Architecture
  • Megaliths
  • Pictographs
  • Statuary, Painting, and Pottery
• Weaving


  Creating textiles by interlacing two distinct sets of yarns or threads at right angles, often using plant fibers
• Neolithic weaving technology was highly developed around 7,000 BP
• Megaliths


  Large stone structures, such as Stonehenge, built during the Neolithic period
• Pictographs


  Images, signs, or symbols created to express some idea or information, used by many cultures including ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Native Americans