Appreciatetion of arts

• Humanities


  The study of how humans have expressed themselves through the arts
• Humanities


  • Explores human conditions
  • Records of man's experiences, values, and sentiments
  • Branch of knowledge
• Why study Humanities


  • Helps us recognize mental values
  • Fosters understanding across barriers
  • Introduces us to new people, places, and ideas
  • Appraises the value of creativity
• Art


  • The process and product of skillful making
  • Result of man's manipulation of talent and materials
  • Can take many forms such as posters, paintings, portraits, covers, etc.
  • Shows meaning, love, boredom, and creativity
• Art appreciation


  • Motivates ideas and allows individuals to illustrate their feelings when viewing an artwork
  • Ability to differentiate what is apparent and what is not
• Three significant phases/process of creation

  1. Creation of ideas

  2. Creation of materials

  3. Creation of form
• Indirectly functional arts


  • Tools
  • Roads
  • Bridges
  • Buildings
• Directly functional arts


  • Fine arts (painting, music, sculpture, dance, literary piece)
• Four artistic functions


  • Aesthetic function
  • Utilitarian function
  • Social function
  • Cultural function
• Art is both directly and indirectly functional
• Art is universal and timeless
• Art is not nature, it is man's expression and interpretation of nature
• Art involves experience, the actual doing of something
• De Gustibus non disputandum est (matters of taste are not matters of dispute)
• Classification of arts


  • Visual arts
  • Graphic arts
  • Performing arts
  • Literary art
  • Popular art
  • Gustatory art of the cuisine
  • Decorative art
• Quiddity (Essence)


  Visual art as painting and sculpture relied on the subjective judgement and perception of the beholder
• Creativity


  • Limitless
  • Dreams and fantasies as subject of art flourish during the period of the surrealist movement
• Artists


  • Salvador Dali
  • Joan Miro
• Subjects of art


  • Objective
  • Non-objective
• Objective art


  All paintings and sculptures that represent description, stories and eventualities
• Non-objective art


  Have no concrete objects or symbols
• Ways of presenting the subject

  • Abstraction
  • Cubism
  • Distortion
  • Fauvism
  • Pointillism
  • Realism
• Abstraction


  Visual art, without attempting to represent external reality, aims to achieve its effect through shapes, colors, forms and texture
• Cubism


  The manner or style in visual art using simple geometric shapes, interlocking
• Distortion


  Art twisting, stretching, or deforming
• Fauvism


  The style of painting which stresses the vivid expressions
• Pointillism


  Manner or style of presenting the visual art by using tiny dots
• Realism


  Movement style of representing familiar things as they actually are. Subject appears naturally
• Medium of visual arts

  • Acrylic
  • Drawing
  • Encaustic
  • Engraving
  • Fresco
  • Intaglio
  • Etching
  • Drypoint
  • Engraving
  • Mosaic
  • Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Stained glass
  • Tempera
• Acrylic


  A medium in painting which uses paintings
• Drawing


  The initial of fundamental sketch of painting
• Encaustic


  Application of a mixture of hot beeswax, resin, and ground pigment
• Engraving


  Process of decorating metal grave
• Fresco


  Application of earth pigments mixing with water
• Intaglio


  Process wherein the artist engraves or increases an image into the surface
• Etching


  Printmaking technique that uses chemical action to produced incised lines in a mental printing
• Drypoint


  A design is drawn in a plate with a sharp, pointed needle-like instrument
• Engraving


  Printmaking technique
• Mosaic


  Decoration of a surface with small, variously colored pieces of material
• Painting


  Bewildering range of types of paint and types of support