ART APPRECIATION

• Appreciation


  Recognizing or understanding that something is valuable or important
• Art appreciation


  Recognition of the good qualities and understanding of art
• Art


  Comes from the ancient Latin "ARS" which means a "craft or specialized form of skill, like or carpentry
• Art is universal
• Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning generations and continents through and through
• Art is not nature


  Art is man's expression of his reception of nature. Art is man's way of interpreting nature
• Art involves experience


  Unlike fields of knowledge that involve data, art is known by experiencing. A work of art cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it
• Art as a skill or mastery

  The term art is used to simply refer to skill or mastery that is manifested in the outstanding product of an endeavor
• Art as a process or a product of a creative skill


  Art is a process because it involves arranging the aesthetic elements in an artistically interesting and appealing manner
• Art as a universal language


  The language of an art is direct. Each art form has its own elements: Literature, Music, Theater
• Art as a representation of reality


  Art is a reflection or mirror of a reality
• Musical period the dominance of the church initiated the expression of spiritual truths
• Renaissance period - the value ascribed to the material world was shown in more defined and realistic rendition of the human body in the visual arts
• Modern period - characterizes the idealistic search for the truth and the realization that is not attainable, thus relativity is accepted as an unavoidable truth
• During the Old Stone Age, people lived in caves and manifested their artistry through drawings and sketches
• Functions of art


  • Motivated Functional (e.g. Architecture, weaving, furniture-making)
  • Non-motivated Non-Functional (e.g. Painting, sculpture, music and the theater arts)
• Social functions of art

  Photography, as an art form, delivers this kind of function by taking photos of subjects in conditions that people do not normally take a look at or give attention to
• Physical functions of art

  The physical functions of art can be found in artworks that are crafted in order to serve some physical purpose
• Other functions of art

  • Music
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Art as an imitation

  In Plato's metaphysics or view of reality, the things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the World of Forms
• Poetry rouses emotions and feelings thus clouds rationality of people

  Art is just an imitation of Art is imitation. A painting is just an imitation of nature, which is also just an imitation of reality in the World of Forms
• Aristotle's view on art

  Every particular substance in the world has an end, or TELOS in Greek, which translates into purpose. Every substance, defined as a formed matter, moves according to a fixed path towards its aim. A seed is bound to become a full grown plant. A cocoon can look forward to flying high when it
• Components of a work of art

  • Subject - The visual focus or the image that may be extracted from examining the artwork
  • Content - The meaning that is communicated to the artist or the artwork
  • Form - The development and configuration of artwork and how elements and the medium or material are put together
• Representational art


  It represents objects or events in the real world usually looking easily recognizable. Common examples of representational art are portraits and still life as long as these "represent"
• Non-representational art


  Art forms that do not make a reference to the real world, whether it is a person, place, thing or even a particular event. It is stripped down to visual elements such as shapes, lines, and colors that are employed to translate a particular feeling, emotion and even concept
• There is no clear-cut divide between non-representational and abstract art, rather, they exist in a spectrum
• Sources of subject in art

  • Nature
  • History
  • Greek and Roman Mythology
  • Judeo-Christian Mythology
  • Sacred Oriental text
• Kinds of subject in art

  • Animals
  • History
  • Figures
  • Landscapes
  • Seascapes
  • Cityscape
  • Myth
  • Fantasies
  • Dreams
• Some of the most recognizable art in the Philippine history

  • Young Women in the Rice Field by Fabian Dela Rosa (1902)
  • Fruit Pickers Under the Mango Tree by Fernando Amorsolo (1937)
• Factual meaning in art


  The most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the identifiable or recognizable form in the artwork and understanding how these elements relate to one another
• Conventional meaning in art

  Pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs and symbols and other cipher bases of its meaning. These conventions are established through time strengthened by recurrent use and wide acceptance by its viewers or audience and scholars who study them
• Subjective meaning in art

  When subjective opinions are consulted, a variety of meanings may arise when a particular work of art is read. These meanings stem from the viewers or audiences' circumstances that come into play when engaging with art (What we know, What we learned, What we experienced, What values we stand for)
• Line


  A point moving at an identifiable path-it has length and direction
• Horizontal and vertical lines

  • Horizontal lines are normally associated with rest or calm. Landscapes often contain these elements
• Diagonal and crooked lines


  • Convey movement and instability, although the progression can be seen. Crooked or jagged lines, on the other hand, are reminiscent of violence, conflict, or struggle
• Curved lines


  • They allude to softness, grace, flexibility, or even sensuality
• Shape


  Refers to two dimensions: height and width
• Form


  Refers to three dimensions: height, width, and depth
• Categories of shapes


  • Geometric (e.g. squares, triangles, cubes, circles, spheres, cones)
  • Organic (e.g. foliage, irregular and asymmetrical shapes found in nature)
• Space


  Related to shape and form, it is usually inferred from a sense of depth, whether it is real or simulated