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ART APPRECIATION
Module 2
JORDAN S. TABUCALDE
Instructor I
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
OVERVIEW
Vision
Mission
⬗ WPU commits to develop quality human resource and green technologies for a
dynamic economy and sustainable development through relevant instruction,
research and extension services.
This course will equip you a broad knowledge of the practical, historical,
philosophical and social relevance of the arts in order for you to understand
arts.
This course aims to develop your genuine appreciation for Philippine arts by
providing you opportunities to explore the diversity and richness and your
rootedness in Filipino culture.
Grading System
LECTURE LABORATORY
Weight for Lecture Subject / Laboratory 75.00% 25.00%
LEARNING OUTCOMES
PRE-TEST
Test – I IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Identify the term as defined or describe.
__________1. This is one of the aspects of art that directly correlates with its
composition and presumed finality of the artwork.
__________2. It is usually inferred from a sense or depth, whether it is real or
simulated.
_________3. This element renders the art object tactile.
_________4. In this type of perspective, the viewer is cooking at a scene from
above or below. As the same suggest, it makes use of the three vanishing points, each
corresponding to each axis of the scene.
_________5. One of the elements that enhances the appeal of an artwork.
_________6. Refers to the unusual size relations of visual elements, deliberately
exaggerating the immensity or minuteness of an object.
_________7. These line communicate stability and firmness.
_________8. Lines, shapes, colors, and elements may appear in an artwork in a
recurring manner.
_________9. This refers to the direction of the viewing eye as it goes through the
artwork, often guided by areas or elements that are emphasized.
_________10. This principle refers to the distribution of the visual elements in
view of their placement in relation to each other.
Test-II enumeration
Direction: Enumerate the different elements of visual and Auditory art.
Elements of visual arts Elements of Auditory arts
1. 7.
2. 8.
3. 9.
4. 10.
5. 11.
6. 12.
1. What is/are the function of state sponsorship in the field of arts and culture through
the National Artists Award and the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA)?
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DISCUSSION
In the advent of technology, it is remarkable what has now been made possible. This
notion is contested by what are arguably the most resilient qualities of man, which is
his creativity and imagination.
The Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England) of the Neolithic Era or New Stone Age
Artists even created places and spaces where communities may gather. There are
numerous monuments and memorials that are plotted over the world such as the
infamous Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. There are others like the
cave paintings that have an aura of mystery like the Pyramids of Giza, or have
alluded comprehension like the Stonehenge.
The cologne Cathedral between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900, Koln, Germany
Museums are packed with numerous artifacts and interesting objects from all over the world
that have survived centuries for us all to see.
Magnificent structures that are often appreciated not only for their historical significance but
more so for their aesthetic characteristics that render them unique, become tourist
destinations for those who wish to explore and see the remarkable facade, interior, and even
the minutest of details up close.
Consider the Gothic cathedrals and other megastructures that were built all over Europe
during the Middle Ages. Craftsmen and builders in the past did not have sophisticated
terminologies and principles that architects and engineers abide by today. Yet, they fulfilled
overlapping roles such as the draftsman, architect, engineer, and even as the builder.
Detail of the stained glass windows of Cologne Cathedral, Koln, Germany (2015)
These guilds were prevalent during the Middle Ages particularly during the thirteenth to
fifteenth century, where towns had formalized groups of artisans or craftsmen who took on a
particular specialization or trade: shoemakers, textile and glass workers, carpenters, carvers,
masons, armorers, and weapon-makers, among others.
Guilds were a type of social fellowship, an association structured with rules, customs, rights,
and responsibilities.
A master artisan or craftsman would then be open to hiring apprentices who would be under
his tutelage and instruction. In these guilds, artistry and technology flourished under one
roof. In the context of the cathedral construction site, the master mason oversaw the work by
numerous men of varying artistic proclivities and skills, from the smiths (metal work),
carpenters, carriers, and glaziers (stained glass artists). among others.
The Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Loay, Bohol, locally referred to as Santisima Trinidad Parish
Project Kisame is a collective endeavor amongst enthusiasts and advocates who aimed to
promote this art form through documentation, engagement, and appreciation of surviving
ceiling paintings in more than 60 churches in the Philippines. Technology and heritage
conservation occupied a substantial part of this project.
One example of a Spanish architecture that has been documented is the Church of the Most
Holy Trinity in Loay, Bohol. Built in 1822, the ceiling paintings were rendered trompe l'oeil
style depicting biblical scenes. In 2003, it became a National Historical Landmark.
It was therefore unfortunate that this church was one of those heavily damaged during the
devastating earthquake that rattled Bohol in 2013.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, “Artist’s Studio” (from Sketchbook), 1854-55. Black ink on off-white wove paper.
Giff of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King and Sybill A. Walk (1970). Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Today, artist studios have been a place of interest for the public. It is interesting where creativity
manifests itself, especially since an artist’s studio is an extension of the artist himself.
There were those whose work stations were segmented into two, the studiolo and the bottega; the
latter is where the work usually happened. Apprentices studied under masters, assisting with menial
task or the preparation of the painting surfaces. In the seventh century, these demarcations became
lose, eventually merging together.
An example of a multi-level platform, where different players in what we call an art world
can engage, interact, and flex their art muscles, is the international art fair like the Art Basel
in Hong Kong.
It is important to note that with the complexity of the art world, players are no longer limited
to those who undertook formal instruction in either (or both) production and/or study of art.
Take for instance administrative or managerial roles, both of which can exist in either
institutional or non-institutional scenarios. These roles may be broken down to working
boards (board of trustees); directors and assistant directors; managing curators; and other
posts whose interest is the management and operations of museums, galleries and other art
spaces.
For independent artists, those outside the wing of a gallery as a "stable artist," sometimes
require the assistance of an artist manager in order to manage their career and sometimes to
help them in promoting themselves to the art world as well.
A curator, on the other hand, is one of the most elusive of roles to pin down. Institutional
curators are typically affiliated with museums and galleries, while independent or freelance
curators have the leeway to move around various projects, platforms, and art spaces in a
multiplicity of terms.
If curators are the hardest to define, it is buyers and collectors who are probably the easiest
to qualify. Often they are construed as one and the same, but separately taken, buyers are
those who initially assess and survey the artwork that collectors are interested in.
In addition, art dealers are those whose direct hand is in the distribution and
circulation of the artworks through a variety of means, such as direct sales, through galleries,
and the more recent player in the Philippines, auction houses.
As the art world is seen as a socio-economic network, it is important to note the major
difference between museums and galleries.
The most substantial demarcation that separates one from the other is the ethics that
admonishes museums from entering into the more market aspect of the art world.
Production Process
The process of creating an artwork does not necessarily follow a linear progression. One of
the things that one must accept is the fact that the arts have an anarchic dimension to it,
allowing it to fully harness its creative potential.
At present, there are 66 awardees of this prestigious honor across different art forms. Some
of the honors and privileges that a national artist awardee receives are the following: (1) the
rank and title, as proclaimed by the President of the Philippines; (2) a medallion or insignia
and a citation that will be read during the conferment; (3) cash awards and a host of benefits
(monthly life pension, medical, and hospitalization benefits, life insurance coverage); (4) a
state funeral and burial at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery); and (5) a place of
honor or designated area during national state functions, along with recognition or
acknowledgment at cultural events. The most recent conferment was in 2016.
The Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or the National Living Treasures Award was created in
1992 under the Republic Act No. 7355.
It was first conferred to three outstanding artists in music and poetry back in 1993.
They are Ginaw Bilog, a master of the Ambahan poetry; Masino Intaray, a master of
various traditional musical instruments of the Palawan people; and Samaon Sulaiman, a
master of the kutyapi and other instruments.
This artists’ practice may fall under the following categories: folk, architecture, maritime
transport, weaving, carving, performing arts, literature, graphic and plastic arts, ornament,
textile or fiber art, pottery and other artistic expressions of traditional culture.
Some of the incentives accorded to the awardee are the following: (1) a specially
designed gold medallion; (2) an initial grant of P100,000 and a $10.000 monthly stipend for
life (this was later increased to P14,000); (3) benefits such as a maximum Cumulative
amount of $750,000 medical and hospitalization benefits; and (4) funeral assistance or
tribute fit for a National Living Treasure.
2. How relevant are the awards of National Artist and GAMABA, to the art world, to the Filipino
society as a whole?
3. Analyze and critique state-sponsored recognition for artist and cultural workers. What do you
think are some of the considerations that must be addressed with regard to these?
Direction: Identify and define the different individuals and groups in the world of
art. Give at least five (5) players of it. 2pts each
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Assessment
Test I-Fulfill me.
1. 4.
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2. 5.
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3. 6.
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Test III-Essay type.
2. How can Awards and citations contributes to the life of artist? What are the
advantages of it?
Ans.
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DISCUSSION
Museum
Museum, institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the primary
tangible evidence of humankind and the environment. In its preserving of this
primary evidence, the museum differs markedly from the library, with which it has
often been compared, for the items house in a museum are mainly unique and
constitute the raw material of study and research. In many cases they are removed in
time, place, and circumstance from their original context, and they communicate
directly to the viewer in a way not possible through other media. Museums have been
founded for a variety of purposes: to serve as recreational facilities, scholarly venues,
or educational resources; to contribute to the quality of life of the areas where they
are situated; to attract tourism to a region; to promote civic pride or nationalistic
endeavor; or even to transmit overtly ideological concepts. Give such a variety of
purposes, museums reveal remarkable diversity in form, content, and even function.
Yet, despite such diversity, they are bound by a common goal; the preservation and
interpretation of some material aspect of society’s cultural consciousness.
As institutions preserve and interpret the material evidence of humankind,
human activity, and the natural world, museums have a long and varied history,
springing from what may be an innate human desire to collect and interpret and
having discernible origins in large collections built up by individuals and group
before the modern era.
Through all these things we can come to know how people of ancient times
lived, what they used and what things they made. Therefore, museums are also called
storehouse of history.
Types of Museums
Museums can have divided into following categories:
Fine Arts: they contain all types of paintings, drawings, sculpture,
architecture etc.
Historical Museums: These museums illustrate historical events or period,
personalities etc. they have weapons, statues, artifacts made of stones and
other material.
Science and technology: it contains all things which are representative of
the evolution of history, science, and technology such as fossils of dinosaurs.
Museum-house: it is located in the birthplace of a famous person such as
Sabarmati Ashram, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkars’ home, Tipu sultan Palace etc.
Archaeological museum: it contains all the objects related to history.
General Museum: They contain more than one subject and therefore these
museums are called multidisciplinary museums.
Your choice
Direction: Follow the given instruction below (30pts)
a. Choose one (1) among the types of museums.
b. Why did you choose that particular museum?
c. Collect some of the pictures that can be found in your chosen museum.
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Pictures here!
Direction: Make a short video clip that content a collection of art inside your home.
Time allotment (2-3 minutes). 50pts
Assessment
Test-I. Modified TRUE or FALSE.
Direction: Answer the following statement. Write YES if the statement is true, NO
if it is false. Underline the possible wrong answer and replace it with correct answer.
2 pts each.
_____1. Museum differs markedly from the library.
_____2. The word museum has classical origins. In its Spanish form, mouseion, it
meant “seat of the Muses”.
_____3. General Museum contain more than one subject and therefore these
museums are called interdisciplinary museums.
_____4. Museums are buildings in which we see many things of artistic, cultural,
historical, traditional and objects of scientific interest.
_____5. The word museum was revived in 18th-century.
_____6. In 675 the collection, having become the property of Elias Ash mole, was
transferred to the University of Oxford.
_____7. Historical museums illustrate historical events or period, personalities etc.
they have weapons, statues, artifacts made of stones and other material.
_____8. They contain all types of paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture etc.
these museums called general museum.
_____9. Historical museums contain more than one subject and therefore these
museums are called multidisciplinary museums.
_____10. Museums can have divided into five categories.
Q2. What are the possible consequences if there are no museums existed?
Answer:
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DISCUSSION
2-3. Shape and Form- these two are related to each other in the sense that
they define the space occupied by the object of art. Shape refers to two dimensions:
height and width, while form refers to three dimensions: height, width, and depth.
Even if shapes are part of a bigger picture, each can be identified by breaking the
visual components apart and making distinctions based on what we know and what
we have seen. Two categories can be used as a broad distinction:
a. Geometric- these shapes find origin in mathematical positions. As such,
its translation and use are often man-made. These shapes such as
squares, triangles, cubes, circles, spheres, and cones, among others.
b. Organic- organic shapes are those readily occurring in nature, often
irregular and asymmetrical. The design of the vase in figure 55 is
foliage, a sample from a series that made use of morning glories.
4. Space- related to shape and form is space. It is usually inferred from a sense
or depth, whether it is real or simulated. Real space is three-dimensional like
what has been previously mentioned, sculptures are a perfect example of
artworks that bear this element.
In the middle of the AT&T Plaza at the Millennium park in the Loop Community area
in Chicago, the iconic “Cloud Gate” occupies a considerable space. Shaped like a
bean, hence its other referent, the public sculpture was unveiled in 2004. The dent in
the middle offers a gap in which people can pass through and gaze at the sculpture in
a different perspective.
However, not all works are sculptures. In two- dimensional artworks they
maybe implied.
a. Positive and negative space- usually identified with the white space is
the negative space. The positive space, on the other hand, is the space
where shadow is heavily used.
b. Three-dimensional space- can be simulated through a variety of
techniques such as shading. An illusion of three- dimensionality can be
achieved in a two- dimensional work.
5. Color- color is perhaps one of the elements that enhances the appeal of an
artwork. Its affect has range, allowing the viewer to make responses based on
memory, emotion, and distinct, among others. This element is a property of
light, as it is reflected off the object. Color is not intrinsic to an object and
without light, one cannot perceive color.
An upshot of this color theory is the creation of color wheel.
All in all, color presents a multitude of possibilities the affects how work of art are
taken in by the viewer. Just taking a look at fiery and passionate reds of the clouds
and the sky in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” would bring oneself to ask: (Edvard
Munch, “The Scream”
6. Texture- like space, texture can be either real or implied. This element in
an artwork is experienced through the sense to touch (and sight). This
element renders the art object tactile. (Frans Pourbus the Younger,
Margherita Gonzaga, Princess of Mantua.” Oil on canvas
A point of view may also be construed as normal (view standing up), low (view from a
lower angle), or high (view Looking down on a scene) depending on the position the
viewer takes.
1. Rhythm
Often associated to the terms beat, meter, and tempo, rhythm is the
element of music that situates it in time. It is the pulse of the music.
Beat is the basic unit of music while tempo refers to its speed
(beats/second). Beats can be organized into a recognizable recurrent
patter, which is called the meter.
Classical terms are used to refer to the variations in tempo, some of which are:
Largo-slowly and broadly
Andante-walking pace
Moderato-at moderate speed
Allegro-fast
Vivace-lively
Accelerando-gradually speeding up
Rallentado-gradually slowing down
Allargando-getting slower, broadening
Rubato-literally “robbed time,” rhythm is played freely for expressive
effect
2. Dynamics
The elements of music that refers to the loudness or quietness of music
is dynamics. Classical terms are used to refer to the different levels
pertaining to this:
Pianissimo [pp]- very quiet
Piano [p]-quiet
Mezzo-piano [mp] moderately quiet
Mezzo-forte [mf]-moderately loud
Forte [f]-loud
Fortissimo [ff]-very loud
When composers indicate an increase, or decrease in loudness, they use the terms
crescendo for the former; and decrescendo or diminuendo for the latter.
3. Melody
Melody refers to the linear presentation (horizontal) of pitch. By
horizontal, it means that in musical notation, it is read in succession
from left to right. Pitch is the highness or lowness of musical sound.
4. Harmony
If melody is horizontal, harmony is vertical. It arises when pitches are
combined to form chords. When several notes are simultaneously
played, refers to a chord.
PRINCIPLES OF ART
These principles will provide explicit ways in which these elements are used,
how they interact, and how they inform he overall composition of the artwork to
assist the artist in conveying his intention. It is the principles of art that influence the
effect achieved by the elements, and the linkages of other principles. These principles
are: balance, scale and proportion, emphasis and contrast, unity and variety,
harmony, movement, rhythm, and repetition and pattern.
1. Balance
This principle refers to the distribution of the visual elements in view of
their placement in relation to each other. (Isamu Noguchi. “Cube.”)
b. Asymmetrical- the elements are not the same (or the same
weight) on each side, putting the heaviness on one side.
c. Radial- there is a central point in the composition, around which
elements and objects are distributed.
Proportion, on the other hand, is the size of the components, or of objects in relation
to one another when taken as a composition or a unit. This can also refer to values
such as amounts or number of elements or objects in the composition. (Leornardo da
Vinci, “Vitruvian Man” 1490)
Proportion:
a. Natural- relates to the realistic size of the visual elements in the artwork,
especially for figurative artworks. When it is the accuracy in relation to the
real world that the artist is after, this is now referred to as the principle of
scale.
b. Exaggerated- refers to the unusual size relations of visual elements,
deliberately exaggerating the immensity or minuteness of an object.
c. Idealized- most common to those that follow canons of perfection, the size-
relations of elements or objects. Which achieve the most ideal size-relation.
Variety, on the other hand, is the principle that aims to retain the
interest by allowing patches or areas that both excite and allow the eye to test.
7. Harmony
Like what is hinted above, unity and variety is related to the principles
of harmony, in which the which the elements or object achieve a sense
of flow and interconnectedness.
8. Movement
This refers to the direction of the viewing eye as it goes through the
artwork, often guided by areas or elements that are emphasized. These
focal points can be lines, edges, shape, and color within the work of art,
among others.
9. Rhythm
This is created when an element is repeated, creating implied
movement. Variety of repetition helps invigorate rhythm as depicted in
the artwork.
Let’s do it
Direction: Draw an example of hybrid art and dissect what art forms are combined
therein. Add extra sheet for this activity. 100 Pts.
Assessment
Test-I Identification
Direction: Identify the following statements. Write your correct answer in the space
provided before the number
Test-II enumeration
Direction: Enumerate the different elements of visual and Auditory art.
Elements of visual arts Elements of Auditory arts
1. 7.
2. 8.
3. 9.
4. 10.
5. 11.
6. 12.
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