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Module Art App Chappy 2

The document outlines key objectives and assumptions of art. It discusses how art is: 1) Universal and important to human expression and culture. Art immortalizes human achievements. 2) Distinct from nature in that art is human-made using skills and imagination, while nature is divinely created. 3) Requires experience to understand and appreciate, as reactions to art are subjective and emotional. One's judgment of a work depends on personally experiencing it. It then covers how art involves creativity, imagination, and explores subjects through various forms that impact the work's meaning and content. Learning activities ask readers to reflect on encounters with art and what kind of artist they may be.

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Module Art App Chappy 2

The document outlines key objectives and assumptions of art. It discusses how art is: 1) Universal and important to human expression and culture. Art immortalizes human achievements. 2) Distinct from nature in that art is human-made using skills and imagination, while nature is divinely created. 3) Requires experience to understand and appreciate, as reactions to art are subjective and emotional. One's judgment of a work depends on personally experiencing it. It then covers how art involves creativity, imagination, and explores subjects through various forms that impact the work's meaning and content. Learning activities ask readers to reflect on encounters with art and what kind of artist they may be.

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CHAPTER 2

Objectives
 Characterize the assumptions of the arts
 Clarify misconceptions about art; Differentiate art from nature
 Categorize works of art by citing personal experiences
 List down their most striking encounters with art and explain why they think each
encounter is an experience.
As we see, hear, or feel any artwork, we realize that something in that artwork is
also a part of our experience, because art is the transmission of feelings the artist has
experienced or the expression of the inexpressible emotion of the artist.
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
1) Art is Universal. Art exists because it is important to people’s lives. It is the
oldest and most important means of expression developed by men and women in
any culture. Art immortalizes human beings and their marvelous achievements.
Literature and history provide us with all evidences about the timelessness and
universal value of art and its unique contribution to humankind.
2) Art is not Nature. In understanding this assumption, we should first see the
meaning of the two terminologies.
Art is made by individuals using their skills, craftsmanship, creativity and
imagination. It is far different from nature. An individual may consider nature as
an inspiration to create an artwork.
Nature- Divine model, work of God, or God made.
We are often caught in a dilemma or situation wherein we get confused if we can
consider nature as art. Art and nature are two different things, art is not nature and
nature is not art. Art is human-made and nature is God-made/ God given.
3) Art involves Experience. All art requires experience. Experience is the actual
doing of something. One can never experience art just by hearsay alone. One
cannot judge a song or painting not unless he heard or saw it in an actual sense.
No one can speak of pains and hurt from a failed relationship, the heightened
emotions of falling in love not unless he experienced it for himself. The first and
last demand of art is experience.

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Two Characteristics of Experience:
1. Experience of art is subjective. Our judgment of art is highly personal
and individual. Any claim that a person experiences with art is better than
others prove to be impossible. Not everybody will agree with our own
experience with art.
2. Art experience is accompanied by emotional response. Initial
reaction in such experience of art is inevitable. We may either like or
dislike it. We can say that it’s beautiful or it’s not good at all. Others will
say it’s frustrating, and some will say it’s great. For this reason, our
reaction to arts differs from one another.
4) Art is cultural. Art contributes to the understanding of past and present cultures.
Through art, people learn about their culture’s values and strengthen their
culture’s identity. Through art, the people feel proud of their customs, traditions,
and beliefs because they give sense of belonging.

5) Art as Expression. Art is an expression of an individual, making known his


thoughts or feelings. It means that the work of art reflects the artist’s personality,
background or even personal circumstances. Expression is an avenue for the artist
to explore more about his emotion and creating something beautiful out of them.

NATURE OF ARTS: CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION


 The role of creativity in art making
 Creativity- requires thinking outside the box. It is often used to solve
problems that have never occurred before, mixed function and style, and
simply make life a more unique and enjoyable experience. In art,
creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another.
 Art as a production of imagination
 Imagination- “is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is
limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embrace
the entire world, and all there ever will be know and understand.”

- Albert Einstein

SUBJECT, FORM, AND CONTENT

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Works of art have subject, form and content. We often identify a work by
its subject: a landscape painting, a sculpture of a young woman, a lithograph of a cat.
In art, the definition of the subject is referring to the main character, object, or anything
else that is presented as the main focus in the work of art.  
Form (or design), is the visual organization of the art work -how the artist has
used line, shape, value, color, etc. 
Content is the impact or meaning of this work.

A horse's head is the subject of both works (below). However, the artists have
used form very differently. Picasso's painting (left) has gestural lines, high value contrast,
and exaggerated proportions to create a highly emotional content. Conversely, the
harmonious rhythms and more naturalistic proportions in the ancient Greek sculpture
create a very different feeling. The differences in content were created by the differences
in form, not the subject matter. The decisions you make regarding form (type of line and
shape; selection of value and color; size of the work; type of balance, etc.) shape the
work's impact and meaning.

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LEARNING ACTIVITIES
A. Let’s Get started
In the first column of the table below, list down your most striking encounters with arts.
On the second column, explain why you think each encounter is an experience.
My Encounter with Arts Why?

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B. Let’s Work on this
Direction: Answer the following questions as precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.
1. If you were an artist, what kind of artist would you be? Why?

2. Why does art involve experience?

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