Art Perennially around us

Latin (ARS) – craft(Specialized form of skill) – Collingwood

Symposium (Plato) That beauty the object of any love truly progresses
Scott One moves through life, one locates better, more beautiful objects to desire
Ars Medieval Latin – something different (any special form of book-learning; grammar/logic, magic/astrology
Fine Arts Not delicate or highly skilled arts but beautiful arts - Collingwood
3 Assumptions of ART
Art is universal Age is not a factor of determining art “ Art is not good because it is old, but old because it is good” Dudley et.al. 1960
Art is not nature Art is man’s way of interpreting nature
Well and grinding wheel in the inspired by a real scene in a forest around Chateau Noir
forest chateau Noir(Paul Cezanne)
Art involves experience Art does not require full definition “Actual doing of something” – Collingwood
Degustibus Non Disputandum est Matters of taste are not matter of dispute
Collin and Rilley Not even photographs or sketches of nature though captured by or drawn by man are works of art
Jean Paul Sartre Described role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in completely different light and perspective
Role of Creativity in Art Making What sets apart one artwork from another
Albert Einstein German Physicist – Knowledge - actually derived from imagination, while imagination embraces the entire world
Imagination Not constraint by the walls of norms but goes beyond
Art as Expression Artist does to an emotion is not induce it but express it – Robin George Collingwood (Principles of Art 1938)
9 Expressions of ART
1. Visual Arts Those that are appeal to the sense of sight and mainly visual in nature – Desire to reproduce things that have seen
2. Film Art of putting together successions of still images (EX. motion picture camera, Animation techniques, computer-generated imagery
3. Performance Art Live art and the artist’s medium is mainly human body
4. Poetry Performance Artist expresses his emotions not by using paint, charcoal or camera but through words
5. Architecture Making beautiful buildings
6. Dance Series of movements that follows a rhythm of music accompaniment
7. Literary Art Use words not paint, musical instruments or chisels, express themselves and communicate emotions to the reader
8. Theater Live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience
9. Applied Arts Incorporating elements of style and design to everyday items
Aristotle “every particular substance in the world has an end
Telos (purpose) in Greek END – intricately linked with function
Eudaimonia Fulfillment and Happiness
3 Functions of ART
1. Personal Function Varied and highly subjective
2. Social Function When it addresses to a particular collective interest – convey a message contestation (Picture of poverty)
3. Physical Function Easiest to spot and understand – found in artworks that are crafted in order to serve some physical purpose
4 Philosophical Perspective on Art
1. Art as an imitation (Plato’s Master Piece – The Republic) – Picture of artists as in imitators and art as a mere imitation
2. Art as representation Aristotle – considered art as an aid to philosophy in revealing truth
Aristotelian world view, ART serves 2 Purpose ( 1. Art allows for the experience of pleasure, 2. Art also has an ability to be
instructive and teach its audience things about life)
3. Art as disinterested Judgment (Immanuel Kant – wrote “ Critique of Judgement”) - considered judgement of beauty, the cornerstone of art as
something that can be universal despite its subjectivity
4. Art as a communication of (Tolstoy book “What is ART”) production of something truly extravagant art like operas “ Plays a huge role in
emotion communication to its audience’s emotions that the artists previously experienced”
Subject (WHAT) Visual focus or image that may be extracted from examining the artwork
Content (WHY) Communicated by the artist or the artwork
Form (HOW) How elements or medium or materials put together
Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa artist? Ex. Of representational Art – Based on a real person – Figurative ART
Abstract Ex. Of non-representational Art - does not make any reference to the world
Non-representational Art Stripped down to visual elements such as shapes, lines colors
Goya’s El Tres de Mayo Captures the death of Madrilenes, the local insurgents during the Peninsular War
Creation of Adam Michelangelo , Adam is figured with and aged God
Robert Henri’s “The Art Spirit – Art when really understood is the province of every human being
1923”
Peter Drucker’s “Post Capitalist The real controlling resource and the absolutely decisive factor of production is neither capital not land nor labor
Society – 1993”
Gothic Cathedrals Build over Europe during middle ages
Guilds Type of social fellowship, association structured with rules, customs, rights and responsibilities
Master Artisan Would open to hiring apprentices who would under his tutelage and instruction
Tipos del Pais Water color paintings that showcased the different local inhabitant of the country in different garbs
Letras y Figuras Illustrates the letters of one’s name or surname
Bodegones Still life
Paisajes landscape
3 Production Process
1. Pre-production Artist always begins with an idea that he wants to express or communicate
2. Production Birth their idea when material manipulation is already underway
3. Post- production Most drawn out; once an artwork is finished, it will be decided on how it will be circulated not only in the art world but the
many publics
Medium Aspect of art that directly correlates with its composition
mode of Expression in which concepts, idea or message is conveyed
Technique Reason why art history is described by a seemingly limitless example of being manipulated
Anna Clines “ The evolving Role of Exhibitions act as a catalyst of art and ideas to the public
the exhibitions and its Impact on
ART and CULTURE – 2012”
Paula Marincola’s “What makes a Exhibitions are strategically located at the nexus of where artists, their work, the arts institution and many other different
great exhibition” - 2006 intersect.
National Commission for Culture NCCA
and the Arts
1992 – Republic Act No. 7355 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan – National Living Treasure Awards created?
3 Outstanding Artists in Music and Poetry in 1993
1. Ginaw Bilog Master of the Ambahan Poetry
2. Masino Intaray Master of various traditional musical instrument of the Palawan People
3. Samaon Sulaiman Master of kutyapi and other instruments
GAMABA Under the qualification of Manlilikha ng bayan
Citizen engaged in any traditional art uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have reached such a high level of technical and
artistic excellence