Art Appreciation: Prepared By: Ms. Edielyn D. Gonzalvo

Art Appreciation
PREPARED BY:
MS. EDIELYN D. GONZALVO
Course Outline
 Part I: INTRODUCTION
 Part II: SUBJECT AND CONTENT
 PART III: ART HISTORY
 Part
IV: ELEMENTS AND PINCIPLES OF THE
ARTS
 PART V: THE ARTIST AND HIS MEDIUM
 PART VI: ART IN TODAY’S SOCIETY
Part I: INTRODUCTION
 Humanities and the Arts

 Why Study Humanities?
 Fundamental Principles of the Humanities
 Nature of Arts
 Functions of Art
 Art: As Viewed by Philosophy
 Artists and Artisans
 The Arts forms
 Appreciating the Arts
Humanities and the Arts
 Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (1490)

Why Study Humanities?
 Camefrom the Latin word “humanus” which

means, human, cultured and refined.
 Contains the records of man’s quest for
answers to the fundamental questions he often
asks about himself and the world he lives in.
 Studieshow people process and document the
their experience as their way of understanding
and recording their world.
Fundamental Principles of the
Humanities
 Human nature is inherently good.
 Individuals are free and are capable of making choices.
 Human potential for growth and development is virtually
unlimited.
 Self-concept plays an important role in growth and development.
 Individuals have an urge for self-actualization.
 Reality is defined by each person.
 Individuals have a responsibility to both themselves and to
others.
Nature of Arts
 Comes from the Aryan root “ar,” which means to join,

o put together. The Latin term “sars, artis,” mean
everything that is artificially made or composed by
man.
 Refers to the skillful arrangement or composition of
some common but significant qualities of nature such
as sound, colors, lines, movements, words, stone, and
wood, to express feelings, thoughts, imaginations, and
dreams in an amazing, meaningful and enjoyable way
(Adams, 2002).
Functions of Art
 Functional art forms

 form of arts that makes man’s life better.
 Examples are architecture, weaving and furniture
making
 Non-functional art forms

 serve purposes far beyond mundane survival
functions
 Examples are painting, literature, music, dance
Functions of Art
All art forms have the following functions:

 The human need for expression
 The social need for display, celebration,
and communication
 The physical needs for functional objects
Art: As Viewed by Philosophy
Aesthetics
The philosophical study off beauty and
taste.
Concerned with the nature of art and
used as basis for interpreting and
evaluating individual works of art
(Aesthetics, n.d.).
 Plato
 The physical world is a copy of a perfect, rational,
eternal and changeless original (Forms or Ideas).
 Art is an imitation of physical thing which are in
turn imitation of the Forms.
2 ideas of the arts:
 Art is imitation
 Art is dangerous
 Aristotle
 Considered art as imitation or a representation of
nature.
 Emphasized poetry and said that poets imitated 3
things:
 Things and events which have been or still are;
 Things which are said to be seen and are probable; and
 Things which essentially are.
 Immanuel Kant
 Wrote “Observations on the Feelings of the
Beautiful and the Sublime”
 Taste can both be subjective and universal
2 kinds of aesthetic responses:
 Beauty results in pleasure if there is order, harmony and
symmetry and
 Beauty leads to a response of awe that overwhelms the
viewers of the art
Artists and Artisans
 Artist
 A person who exhibits exceptional skills in the visual
and/or the performing arts
 What an artist creates has been defined as a formal
expression of the considered human experience.
Michaelangelo Fernando Amorsolo

Artists and Artisans
 Artisan
 A person who is in a skilled trade that involves making things by
hand.
 Focuses particularly on the technique and medium of the craft and
through experience hone their skills enabling them to reach the
expressive levels of an artist.
Paete’s Woodcarver Albay’s Ceramic maker Pangasinan’s Basket weaver

The Arts forms
 Painting
 Best described as the application of pigment to a
surface.
 Two-dimensional art form.
The Arts forms
 Sculpture
 Three-dimensional.
 The sculptor creates a

solid form using molding,
carving, welding, casting
and assembling.
 Some of the popular
medium are clay, wood,
stone, metal, ice, glass
and plastic.
The Arts forms
 Architecture
 The most functional of all the art forms.
 It involves creating designs for buildings and
infrastructures.
The Arts forms
 Music
 The art of sound
expressed through a
song, through the use off
instruments or a
combination of both.
 It should express rhythm,
harmony and melody that
is soothing or appeals to
the state of its audience.
The Arts forms
 Dance
 The art of body movements that is
tuned to a musical piece.
 Body movements should be graceful
and in rhythm with the accompanying
musical piece.
The Arts forms
 Literature
 The art of using words to express thoughts, ideas
and feelings.
 It takes the form of poetry, novel, short story,
essay, epic, legends, etc.
The Arts forms
 Theatre
 The performance of a drama.
 Actors perform on stage in front of a live audience.
 Dialogues
may be recited, sang or eliminated
(pantomimes).
 Referred to as combined or performing arts.
Appreciating the Arts
 Give a good description of the artwork based on knowledge of

art elements and materials.
 Analyze the artwork in terms of what the artist wants his work
to represent and their (learners) subjective reaction to the
works which includes their thoughts and feelings.
 Perceive the artwork in the context of its history.
 Give meaning to the artwork based on description, analysis,
and context.
 Judge the artwork as to whether it is good or bad based on the
learner’s perception of it and its aesthetic and cultural value.
Activity 1
 Gaze at the picture of the painting
for a few seconds, then answer the
following questions:
 What do you think is the painting all
about?
 Why do you think did the artist created
this painting?
 Did this painting affect your thoughts
and feelings? In what ways?
 Was the artist successful in conveying
his message to you? Why?? Why not?
 What title can you give to the painting?
Why?
Part II: SUBJECT AND CONTENT
Sources of Subject
Ways of Presenting the Subject
Art Subject Defined
 Subject
 Refers to what the work represents. Sunflowers
by Van
Gogh
 Representational or Objective arts
 Artworks that have subjects
 Non-representational or non-objective arts

 Artworks that do not have subjects
Composition 8
by Kandinsky
Sources of Subject
Nature
The most popular
source of
subjective art.
Claude Monet, Poppies, (c.1876,

MuseeD’Orsay Paris, oil on canvas)
Sources of Subject
People
Human subjects
whether real or
imagined are the most
interesting.
Fredrick Hart. Statue for Vietnam Memorial,

Washington, DC, 1984, Bronze, life size
Sources of Subject
 History
 Depicts real events
which are verifiable
facts that occurred in
the past to
commemorate events
or to teach history.
The Making of the Philippine Flag;

Fernando Amorsolo
Sources of Subject
 Legends
 Basedon legends present
to viewers of the art
something tangible even
when unverified
Malakas at Maganda
Excalibur
Sources of Subject
Gautama Buddha
 Religion
 Based on sacred texts to convey
beliefs.
 Mythology
 Based on stories of the gods and
goddesses of Ancient Greece, Rome,
Celts, Norse and the Egyptians.
Perseus with the
head of Medusa
Sources of Subject
 Dreams and Fantasy
Son of Man; Magritte
 Based on the
unconscious.
 Technology
 The modern era like
cityscapes, airplanes,
cars, ships, motorcycles
and robotic technology
Ways of Presenting the Subject
 Naturalism
A style and theory of
representation based
on the accurate Venus of Willendorf
depiction of detail.
 Realism
 This
depicts the artist’s
attempt of portraying the
subject as it is.
 themost popular way of
presenting art subjects.
Potato Eaters by Van Gogh

 Abstraction
 Moves away from reality and from
presenting the subject as it really
is.
 Abstract means “to move away or
to separate from.”
 Distortion
 Figures have been so arranged that its

proportions differ significantly from
reality.
Elongation
 The subject is stretched vertically and/or some parts lengthened to
give the impression of thinness.
Mangling
 Subjectsare shown as cut, lacerated, mutilated or hacked with
repeated blows.
Cubism
 Presented through the use of figures: a cone, cylinder, sphere,
triangle, square, cube, and circle in place of real pictorial elements
Elongation Mangling Cubism

 Symbolism
 Symbol means a visible
sign of something
invisible such as an
idea or quality.
Mona Lisa
 Fauvism
 Literally means wild
beasts.
 Fauves did not express
ethical, philosophical or
psychological themes but
painted pictures of
comfort, joy and pleasure.
 Dadaism
 Dada is a French for
hobby horse
 It does not follow the
traditions and principles
in art.
 Futurism
 Works that capture the
speed and force of the
modern industrial
society.
 Highlight the
technologies of modern
life.
 Surrealism
 It is an invented word
for super realism.
 It emphasized the
activities of the
unconscious mind.
 Expressionism
 Depictsthe emotions
aroused by objects
and events.
 Subjects involve
chaos, sadness,
tragedy and defeat
Part III: Art History
Review
Long quiz on September 04,

2019.
Preliminary examination and
checking on September 09,
2019
Activity 2
 The students are to pick a candy. Each candy
represents a certain work of art and the student
should identify the following:
 Art form
 painting/ sculpture/ architecture/ music/ dance/ literature/ theatre
 Subject
 Objective/non-objective; if objective, what is the subject?
 Source of the subject
 nature/people/history/legends/ religion/ mythology/ dreams and fantasy/
technology
 Way of presenting the subject
 naturalism/ realism/ abstraction / symbolism/ fauvism/ Dadaism/ futurism/
surrealism/ expressionism / abstraction; if abstraction what kind?
Distortion / elongation/ mangling/ cubism

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Art Appreciation

 Humanities and the Arts

 Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (1490)

 Camefrom the Latin word “humanus” which

 Comes from the Aryan root “ar,” which means to join,

 Functional art forms

 Non-functional art forms

All art forms have the following functions:

Michaelangelo Fernando Amorsolo

Paete’s Woodcarver Albay’s Ceramic maker Pangasinan’s Basket weaver

 The sculptor creates a

 Give a good description of the artwork based on knowledge of

 Non-representational or non-objective arts

Claude Monet, Poppies, (c.1876,

Fredrick Hart. Statue for Vietnam Memorial,

The Making of the Philippine Flag;

Potato Eaters by Van Gogh

 Figures have been so arranged that its

Elongation Mangling Cubism

Long quiz on September 04,

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