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    The document discusses different philosophical perspectives of art and categories of art. Plato saw art as mimesis or imitation, while Aristotle saw it as representation of inward significance. Kant viewed art as having its own autonomous reason for being valued. Some see art as an escape that transforms the artist. Others see art as functional and meant to enrich lives. The categories of art discussed include visual arts like painting and sculpture, performing arts like music and dance, digital art, and applied arts like fashion design and graphic design.

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    Philosophical Perspectives of

    Art
    Plato
    1. Art as mimesis

    According to him, art is an imitation of the real that was


    animitation of the ideal. Art is an imitation of an imitation.
    Aristotle
    2. Art as representation

    According to him, the aim of art is not to represent


    theoutward appearance of things but their inward
    significances.
    Immanuel Kant
    3. Art for art’s sake
    According to him, art has its own reason for being. Itimplies that
    an art object is best understood as an autonomous creation to be
    valued onlyfor its success as it organizes color and line into a
    formally satisfying and beautifulwhole.
    4. Art as an escape
    The ceremony of doing or creating art touches the deepest realms
    of themind and the sacred dimension of the artistic creative
    process. The sacred level of art notonly transforms something into
    art but also transforms the artist at the very core of his orher
    being.
    5. Art as functional

    Arts serves a function. Art is meant to be used, to


    enrich lives to bespiritually potent, to educate, to
    support or protest existing power structures, to
    entertain,and so on.
    CATEGORIES/ CLASSIFICATIONS

    OF ART
    1.Visual Arts (2D, 3D)
    a. Painting- It is the application of pigment (color) on any flat two-
    dimensional surfaces.

    b. Sculpture-It is the carving, modeling, casting, contracting, and


    assembling of materialsand objects into primarily three-dimensional
    works of art.

    c. Architecture- It is the art and science of planning, designing, and


    constructing buildingsand nonbuilding structures for human shelter
    or use (3D)
    2. Performing/Combined Arts
    a. Music- is an art form and cultural activity whose
    medium is sound organized in time.

    b. Dance- is the movement of the body in a rhythmic


    way, usually to music and within agiven space for the
    purpose of expressing an idea or emotion.
    c. Film-also called movie or motion picture, it is a series
    of still images that when shown in a screen creates an illusion
    of moving images.

    d. Theater- is a collaborative form of art that uses life


    performers, typically actors oractresses, to present the
    experience of a real or imagined event before the
    live audience in a specific place often a stage.
    e. Literary-is concentrating the writing, study or content of
    literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form.

    f. Performance poetry- is poetry specifically composed for


    or during a performance before an audience rather than on
    print mostly open to improvisation
    3. Digital Art- it is the art that is made with the assistance of
    the electronic devices, orintended to be displayed on a
    computer, which is the most important elements in digitalart.
    4. Applied Arts-are the application of design and decoration
    to everyday objects to make them aesthetically pleasing.

    a. Fashion design-it is the art of applying design,


    aesthetics, and natural beauty to clothing and its
    accessories.
    b. Furniture Design- it is a specialized field where function
    and fashioned collide.

    c. Interior design- it is enhancing the interior of a building to


    achieve a healthier andmore aesthetically pleasing
    environment for the people using the space
    d. Graphic design- it is an artistic process of
    effective communication. Designerscombine words, images,
    and symbols to create a visual representation of ideas.

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