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Chapter IV. Visual Art
Creations that fall under this category are those that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in
nature.
Some Mediums of Visual arts include:
Painting, drawings, letterings, printing, sculptures, digital imaging, and more...
FILM
Film refers to the art of putting together succesions of still images in order to create an illusion of
movement.
Filmmaking focuses on:
Aesthetic, cultural, and social value and is considered as both an art and an industry.
Techniques:
Motion-picture camera(movie camera)
Animation techniques
Computer Generated Imagery(CGI)
Aims:
To deliver ideas, feelings, or beauty to its viewers.
Elements:
Lighting, musical score, visual effects, directions and more...
Example:
Metro Manila Film Festival
PERFORMANCE ART
Performance art is a live art and the artists medium is mainly the human body which he or she uses to
perform, but also employs other kind of art such as visual art, props or sound.
Elements:
Time- where performance took place.
The performer’s or performer’s body
Relationship between the audience and the performers
POETRY PERFORMANCE
Poetry is an art form where the artists expresses his emtions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but
expresses them through words.
These words are selected to:
Exhibit clarity and beauty
Stimulates strong emotions of joy, anger, love, sorrow and etc...
Use a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial values
Narrate, emphasize, argue, or convince
Combined with movements, tone, volume, and intensity of the delivery.
ARCHITECTURE
Art is the pursuit of beautiful things while Architecture is the making of beautiful buildings. However not all
buildings are beautiful. Some buildings only embody the functionality they need but the structure, line, forms
and colors are not beautifully expressed.
Elements:
Plan, Construction and Design
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DANCE
Dance is a series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment. It is a creative form
that allows people to freely express themselves. It has no rules. Dancers are not confined to set steps and rules
but are free to create and invent their own movements as long as they deem them graceful and beautiful.
Medium:
Body
LITERARY ART
Artists who practice literary arts use words to express themselves and communicate emotions to the
readers. Literary art goes beyond the usual professional, academic, journalistic, and other technical forms of
writing.
Include both Fiction and Non-fiction such as novels, biographies and poems.
Example:
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
THEATRE
Theatre uses a live performers to present accounts or imagery events before a live audience. They Follow
a script.
Elements:
Acting, Gesture, Lighting, Sound Effects, Musical Score, Scenery and Props. Script is the minor element.
Similar to performance art.
Genres:
Drama, musical, tragedy, comedy, and imrovisation.
APPLIED ARTS
Applied arts is incorporating elemnts of style and design to everyday items with the aim of increasing
their aesthetical value. Artists in this field bring beauty, charm, and comfort into many things that are useful in
everyday life.
Example:
Industrial Design, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Graphic Design
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Chapter V. Functions of Art
Many philosophers have argued that arts serves no function and that is exist for its own sake.
Jose Garcia Villa a Filipino artists who shared his belief that there is something about the essence of art that
transcends the human occupations and usefulness. Just like architecture and most applied arts.
Purposes of Art:
To Create Beauty
To Provide Decoration
To Reveal Truth
To Immortalize
To Express Religious Values
To Record the Commemorate Experience
To Create Order and Harmony
Personal Functions of Art:
Varied and highly subjective, this means that its functions depend on the person – the artist who created
the art.
For self expression, entertainment or therapeutic.
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Social Function of Art:
Art is considered to have a social function if and when it adresses a particular collective interest as
opposed to a personal interest.
Political Art is a very common of an art with social function. Art may convey a message of protest,
contestation, or whatever message the artist intends his work to carry.
Physical Functions of Art:
Can be found in artworks taht are craftedin order to serve some physical purpose.
Example:
Raku bowl- tea ceremony, Architecture, jewelry making and interior design.
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Chapter VI. Philosophical Importance of Art
ART AS AN IMITATION
Plato(2000) in his masterpiece, the Republic, particularly paints a picture of artists as imitators and art
as mere 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.
2 reasons:
They appeal to the emotion rather than to the rational faculty of men
They imitate rather than lead one to the reality.
ART AS A REPRESENTATION
Aristotelian Worldview, 2 Purposes:
Art allows for the experience of pleasure.Entertainment(Comedy).
Art also has an ability to be instructive and teach its audience things about life, it is cognitive as well.
ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGEMENT
Immanuel Kant wrote the “Critique of Judgement”, kant considered the judgement of beauty, the
cornerstone of art, as something that can be universal despite its subjectivity. Art is innately
autonomous from specific interests.
There is something in the work of art that makes it capable of inciting the same feeling of pleasure and
satisfaction from any perceiver, regardless of its condition.
ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION
Leo Tolstoy defended the production of the sometimes truly extravagant art, like operas despite of the
extreme poverty in the World. For him, art plays a huge role in the communication.
Art serves a language a communication device that articulates feelings and emotions that are otherwise
unavailable to the audience.
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Chapter VII. Subject Type
TYPES OF SUBJECT
The subject of art is the matter to be described or to be portrayed by the artist. This
may refer to any person, object, scene or event
Representational Art - these types of art have subjects that refer to objects or events occuring in the
real world. Often, it is also termed figurative art, because as the name suggests, the figures depicted are
easy to make out and decipher. They are those arts which depict (represent) objects that are commonly
recognized by most people. They attempt to copy, even if in a subjective manner, something that's real. It
uses “form” and is concerned with “what” is to be depicted in the artwork.
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Examples:
A. Still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace
objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking
glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on) in an artificial setting.
B. Portraiture (portrait) is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of
a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant.
C. Landscapes, Seascapes, Cityscapes
Non-representaional Art – does not make a reference to the real world, whether it is a person, place,
thing or even a particular event. It is stipped down to visual elements such as shapes, lines, and colors
that are employed to translate a particular feeling, emotion, and even concept. They are those arts
without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation). It is nonobjective because it
has no recognizable objects. It is abstract in the sense that it doesn’t represent real objects in our world.
It uses “content” and is concerned with “how” the artwork is depicted.
SOURCES OF SUBJECT
Nature – from plants to animals; the qualities of bodies of water and the terrain of landmasses; and even
the perceivable cycles and changing of seasons.
Artists:
o Vincent van Gogh (he saw art and nature as inseparable). In a letter to his brother Theo, he
wrote”...if I felt no love for nature and my work, then I would be unhappy.”(Van Gogh Museum,
1882)
o Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cẻzanne, and JMW Turner (landscapes and seascapes)
o Fernando Amorsolo and Fabian de la Rosa gained prominence from their painted rural; scenes
such as women in the fields gathering harvest.
o Jan van Kessel the Elder who did numerous still lives and small-scale, higly detailed studies, and
scientific illustrations of flowers, insects, shells, fruits, garlands and bouquets.
Greek and Roman Mythology – from episodes that transport the viewer to heroic encounters of Achilles
and Aenas; warnings about man folly like the vanity of Icarus;the wit and cunning of Odysseus; the beauty
of Aphrodite and the Athleticism of Myron; from narrations in literature, the gods and goddesses whose
fates are seemingly as tragic as those men. Example: Discobolus by Myron
Judeo-Christian Tradition – stems from a belief in lone creator of the universe. Guided by a host of Styles
and Techniques,various media and art forms were also experimented with: paintings, frescos, church
architecture, sarcophagus, icons and other carvings, vestments, tapestry, illuminated manuscripts, and
other sacred scriptures among others. Example: Sistine Chapel by Michael Angelo.
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