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Overview

This course shows the principles of art as they are seen in familiar works of art, and as they related to
everyday problems, such as house design and decoration, store decoration, and costume design. In
this course you will experience different activities that will widen your knowledge about the wonderful
creation of art in our daily living. You will work on your own and open your mind for new information and
work your bare hand for new application that you will learn.
This course pack contains five modules which include the following:
Module 1: Aesthetics and the Importance of Good Taste to Art
Module 2: Two Kinds of Design and Harmony
Module 3: Proportion and Balance
Module 4: Rhythm and Emphasis
Module 5: Solving an Art Problem

Each modules contains of several lessons composed of introduction, activity, analysis,

abstraction, application, and closure.

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Table of Content
Title Page
Overview
Table of Content
Module 1: Aesthetics and the Importance of Good Taste to Art
Lesson 1: Aesthetics
Lesson 2: Branches of Philosophy
Lesson 3: The Importance of Good Taste

Module 2: Two Kinds of Design and Harmony

Lesson 1: Structural and Decorative Design
Lesson 2: Harmony and the Aspects of Harmony

Module 3: Proportion and Balance

Lesson 1: Aspects of Proportion
Lesson 2: Balance

Module 4: Rhythm and Emphasis

Lesson 1: What is Rhythm?
Lesson 2: What is Emphasis?

Module 5: Solving an Art Problem

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Aesthetics and the

MODULE
Importance of Good
1 Taste to Art

Get ready as you enter in the world of art

that will change your perception and
understanding on how art works in your daily life
but of course before anything else you might
wondering what is art and the importance of good
taste in art so through this learning module you
can find out the answer you search by reading,
applying or doing the tasks given that will be a big
help for your to test your knowledge in art and its
importance.

This module contains the following lesson:

Module Outcomes: Lesson 1: Aesthetics
Lesson 2: Branches of Philosophy
• Analyze and determine Lesson 3: The Importance of
the importance of good Good Taste
taste and Aesthetics to
Art.
• Define Aesthetics.
• Define Art.
• Identify the main
branches of philosophy.
• Explain the importance of
good taste in the field of
art.

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Lesson 1: Aesthetics

Learning Outcomes:
1. Define Aesthetics and its important;
2. Define what is Art?; and
3. Explain aesthetics inside your home.

Aesthetic concern what is considered beautiful. In pop culture, an aesthetic is all about the
overall style of something which is you are valuing the beauty either be in surroundings, people,
dresses, house, and other things. Look to your surroundings especially inside your house is it pleasant
to your eyes? Do you appreciate the beauty of it? So, aesthetic is being seen. This aesthetic need to
know for us to know how we can give beauty to our environment either on home, school, office and
others. Now let’s begin and start collecting beauty out of this lesson.

ACTIVITY

DIRECTION:Look at the picture below, Describe each picture by your own interpretation.

1. 3. 5.

2. 4. 6.

ANALYSIS

After you do the activity, let us try to check your work by answering the following questions:
1. What interpretation did you do?
2. How did you arrive on that interpretation?

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3. Is the pictures given are familiar to you, what picture is pleasant to your eyes and not
pleasant to your eyes?
Now, since you figure out each picture meaning to say you already have an idea about aesthetic
and how it works in your daily life not just in your home but also in the environment and in your own
self. You appreciate the beauty you see that even in a single form you can differentiate the value of art.
From the start you open your eyes in the morning you already finding beauty in which sometimes you
want all the things to be organize and must maintain the cleanliness and orderliness in your own home
because it is affecting your mood so in that situation you already valuing beauty. Through the activity it
is clear that you are ready to go further about the aesthetic and how to value art.

ABSTRACTION

Aesthetics is one of the two main branches of value theory in philosophy. It is a study of value
in art either about beauty, and its opposite, ugliness. Some philosophers conceive of aesthetics as
applying solely to the arts or to artistic experience.
The term “aesthetics” first appeared in a book by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735, yet philosophical
discussions of beauty extend back thousands of years. Commentaries on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ music can
be found in both ancient Greek and ancient Chinese sources.
In the West, the most influential writer on aesthetics has been the German philosopher
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Kant laid out two pillars in Western aesthetics. First, he distinguished
aesthetic pleasure from other forms of pleasure. Aesthetic pleasure is not some other types of
pleasure in disguise: for example, art is not the sublimation of food, sex, warmth, companionship, or
some combination of other existing pleasure. Second, Kant argued that aesthetic emotions are
‘disinterested’; when we experience an aesthetic pleasure, there are no utilitarian or ulterior motives
underlying this experience. A mother’s appreciation of the beauty of her daughter cannot be regarded
as a purely aesthetic appreciation, since her experience is apt to be tainted by parental pride. In
summary, Kant believes that “aesthetic emotions serve no practical purpose”.
In music, Kant ideas were developed and extended by the famed Austrian music critic Eduard
Hanslick(1825-1904). In VomMusikalisch- Schonen(on the beautiful in music) (1854) Hanslick
proposed a highly influential view that would later prove to be compatible with a core concept in
cognitive science. He challenged the prevailing beliefs that music somehow represents or expresses
feelings. He proposed that sensation is imaginatively interpreted by the listener, and that this aesthetic
contemplative process then leads to possible emotions. In short, aesthetic judgementprocedes and
leads to aesthetic feelings.
Also the difficulty of answering the question: WHAT IS ART? Is a major one in aesthetics. The
term has to cover a vast variety of media, from the plastic arts of painting and sculpture, to music,
literature and the performing arts of dance, opera, and theater. It can even be expanded to certain
performance sports like ice-skating, water ballet, diving and gymnastics.
The most uncontroversial and agreed upon definition is that art is anything that is artificial, that is
anything that human’s make which is not simply something that exists in nature. According to Marshall
McLuhan (The Medium is The Message) claimed that “art is anything we can get away with.”
As a whole, after reading the above statement there is nothing uncontroversial about aesthetics
including the very definition of art. Still the rumination and analyses of philosophers who think about

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these issues have consistently enhanced the enjoyment of those who love the arts because they
highlight multiple features of the aesthetic experience.

APPLICATION

To be able to open more idea and understand clearly the aesthetics and art try to watch the
following video presentations about aesthetics and art given to you.

Before watching the video recordings, be guided by the following:

1. Analyze the role of aesthetic in day to day life.
2. Determine the role of aesthetic in everyday life.
3. Relate your own experiences after you watch the video about aesthetics.
4. Be observant and focus on the key points given in the video.

• Module 1 video clip 1 and 2: What is Aesthetics and its Role?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lpGjbHs0qco&feature=share
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RikhjpvDv5c&feature=share

After watching the video earlier, explain the meaning of aesthetic and art in your own
understanding and what is the role of it in your daily life and give an example. It can be presented using
concept map or a chart depends on your preference.

Wonderful! You accomplish the task given. Hoping you absorb and digested our first lesson.
Hope you continue doing great and relax your mind and be ready to the next journey. Congratulations!

Lesson 2: Branches of Philosophy

Learning Outcomes:
1. Differentiate the branches of philosophy;
2. Illustrate the branches of philosophy; and
3. Explain the relationship of branches of philosophy in aesthetic.

In this lesson you will get information about how aesthetics interrelates with the other main
branches of philosophy. In which you will look back to your experiences which are you didn’t notice that
those experience is being describe the following branches of philosophy.

ACTIVITY
Before you proceed try to answer the following questions to exercise your mind about our
lesson. You just need to answer yes or no in each question by checking the column of yes and no.

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Questions YES NO
1. Did you go to the art museum and relate the artwork you see in your experiences?
2. Did you try to go beyond the story of the artwork you see?

3. In the music, when you are listening did you feel the lyrics and feel the rhythm in
the song?

4. Did you experience to cry while listening to the music?

5. Is there any chance that you want to experience the experiences of the leading role
in the movie you watch?
6. Is there any chance that you daydreaming especially to the science fiction and
fantasy stories you read?

ANALYSIS

After you answer the following questions, let’s try to examine closely your answer on each
question.
1. What do you observe in each questions?
2. Where did most of your responses fall in the checklist? More of Yes or more of No?
3. If more of yes, how did you feel about those experiences?
4. If more of No, how did you feel under those circumstances?

So based on the activity you already relate your daily living in the different branches of
philosophy while of your answer are all no then you are not familiar to the different branches to
philosophy and how it is connected to your daily life, however if your answer are some of yes and no
you didn’t analyze deeply the relation of philosophy in your daily life. So, in this lesson you will now
familiar to the different branches of philosophy and how it happen to the everyday life of human being.

ABSTRACTION

OTHER MAIN BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Metaphysics
2. Epistemology
3. Ethics and Political Philosophy

Metaphysics
- It is a branch of philosophy that inquires about the being or reality things. Aesthetics
interrelate with metaphysics when one inquires about the ontological status of the work of
art.
- For instance, back in the 5th century BC, the Greeks of ancient Athens interpreted aesthetics
as a search for what made an object beautiful. For Plato the paintings, mosaics, sculptures,
lyric poetry, epic poetry are all beautiful bit not Beauty Itself. How it happened? We all know
that the artist make artwork involving their own self so those art piece were made because
of them they show their secret reality or feelings through art pieces which are something that

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is not itself visible or tangible like the Ideal universal and eternal Form (eidos)of Beauty
Itself.
- In the middle Ages, theologian/philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinas made beauty one of
the transcendental properties of God. Thus God being infinitely beautiful created the world in
which his beauty would be manifested both in the natural world and in the human artistic
creations that imitated the natural world. Consequently, the artist attempted to imitate the
natural world in order to reveal the supernatural world beyond it.
- Not every piece of music tells a story or depicts a natural phenomenon. About the time of
the invention of photography, artists, critics and public alike began to realize that the work of
art had never been a mere imitation or copy of nature
- Aestheticians focused on the art object itself, and not on any alleged subject, as art became
less and less representational and more and more divorced from both natural and
supernatural beings. The shift from the artist’s subject to the artistic object by aestheticians
bring us to the relationship between aesthetics and epistemology.

Epistemology
- The mysteriousness of the reality of the artistic object gets clarified when we stop looking for
the supernatural or natural origins of the work and concentrate on the international object of
the work. Problems such as how a work of art such as a play, opera, dance or orchestral
piece might exist in multiple manifestations or performances and yet remain a single work of
art also alleviated when we consider that the notation of the work allows the presentation of
the artistic object to a variety of audiences or viewers.
- The work of art exists between the materials used by the artist or the performers and the
consciousnesses of the audience or viewers. Without the pattern of recognition aptitudes of
our minds there would be no work of art.
- If the artwork is the phenomenal object and not the natural materials from which it
comprised, what is the relationship between art and truth? There are severalcontenders for
the criterion of truth in art. Some aestheticians claim that the deliberate intention of the artist
is the basis of the true interpretation of the work of art. The later say that appreciation of
artistic from independent of any reference to a subject or the emotions or intentions of the
creator of the artwork is the aesthetic experience usually we are appreciating the information
we receive from the artwork about history.
- The truest about the work is the artist may not be conscious of what she is intending in the
work, the work many not in fact successfully reflect the intentions of the artist and it doesn’t
make any difference anyway because the meaning of the art work may have been irrelevant
to the worth of the work aesthetically.
- Another contender for the truth of a work of art comes from the Expressionists. For them the
aesthetic experience is primarily the emotions that the work of art evokes in its audience,
readers or viewers. The artworks evoke a wide spectrum of emotions in us from terror,
horror, sadness, nostalgia, anxiety, to awe, wonder, compassion, empathy, love, and
reverence can hardly be denied.
- David Novitz(1998) points out that there are three basic kinds of knowledge claims we can
make about the arts, all of which are distinguished by their objects: a.) to know or believe
about the art object itself and whatever imaginary or fictional worlds might be connected to
that object; b.) art concern what we know or believe to be an appropriate or warranted
emotional response to the artwork; and c.) art concerns the sort of information art can
provide about the world.

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Ethics and Political Philosophy

- The relationship between Aesthetic and Ethics is intriguing because the artist/composer has
always had an ambiguous relationship with society. On the one hand she is called upon to
promote the revered ethical values of a society and on the other feared as a bohemian
incendiary threatening the moral core of a culture.
- Again, the pursuit would say that expecting art works either reinforce ethical or cultural
values or to denigrate the same is a major category mistake. Aesthetic values have nothing
to do with moral values. Since however art cannot be extracted fully from the historical
contexts of not only the societies within which the artists’ work but also from classical
aesthetic theories that associated art with beauty and alleged obligations of the human
community to pursue beauty on the world and in the character of persons, the philosophy of
art has attempted to show the relationship between art and moral and political values.
- This brings us to one final consideration that many would have considered to be the most
prominent concern of aestheticians. What makes a work of art a good work of art? There’s
no deficit of art critics out there trying to guide our weekend plans at the gallery, theater or
recital hall. Aestheticians have conflicted over the very possibility of a single universal
aesthetic standard for judging the myriad works and genres of art over the millennia as
either good or bad art.

APPLICATION

To be able to open more idea and understand clearly the aesthetics and art try to watch the
following video presentations about aesthetics and art given to you.

Before watching the video recordings, be guided by the following:

1. Analyze the different branches of philosophy.
2. Observe the connection of philosophy to the art.
3. Relate the different branches of philosophy in your own experiences in everyday life.
4. Be observant and focus on the key points given in the video.

• Module 1 video clip 3: What is Philosophy and its Branches?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HmjGF2pX5_U&feature=share

After watching the video earlier, explain the relationship of branches of philosophy in your daily
life and give an example. It can be presented using concept map or a chart depends on your
preference.

Wonderful! You accomplish the task given. Hoping you absorb and digested our second lesson.
Hope you continue doing great and relax your mind and be ready to the next journey. Congratulations!

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Lesson 3: The Importance of Good Taste

Learning Outcome:
1. Explain the importance of good taste in the field of art.

When beauty is expressed in our surroundings, it becomes a part of our life and our personality.
It is not a tiling to be set apart for occasional enjoyment, but should be sought in everything we do, and
in everything we select. Beauty is not determined by the cost, but by the quality of the objects which are
chosen. People who like the effect of richness should know how to appreciate the restraint that marks
the difference between the rich and the gaudy, while those who like simple things should realize that
there is a point where plainness becomes monotonous and unimaginative. Training will show where
merely a variation in proportions, or the addition of some simple note of contrast will result in a quality
and beauty which might otherwise be lacking. In this lesson you will gain the context and foundational
knowledge about the importance of having good taste in art. And you will determine that having good
taste is can affect your daily living. How? And Why? Then read and absorb the lesson for you to be
open minded of happenings of having good taste in art.

ACTIVITY
Before you continue try to answer the presented chart below.

Good Taste
in Art

ANALYSIS
Let us now try to decipher your answer on the activity above.
1. How did you arrive to the description you give in the activity above?
2. What are your criteria use to describe why having good taste is related to art?

After you answer the chart you already explain the relation of good taste to art. So, I think it is
not difficult to you to analyze the information that you will read and you can answer the following tasks
that are given. Understand the information given and relate it to your day-to-day life. That will change
your preference you think right but you will see that it is essential and you can use for lifelong even
wherever you go and whatever you do.

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ABSTRACTION
“Good taste, in the field of art, is the application of the principles of design to the problems in life where
appearance as well as utility is a consideration.”

This includes the selection and the arrangement of all our belongings our communal as well as
our personal possessions. For the sake of economy as well as beauty it is of the greatest importance
that every individual should understand and apply these principles of art. Since the appearance of the
things which we acquire causes us to enjoy some of them permanently whereas others give us no
pleasure, it is at once a responsibility and an advantage to be able to judge discriminately.
The idea is all too prevalent that art is decoration and that an object must be ornamented if it is
to have "art quality." This idea must be abandoned before a person can have a true appreciation of art.
The person who hasthis appreciation gains perfect satisfaction from an object which is undecorated if it
is beautiful in shape and color. When decoration is used it should be simple. Over-decoration is one of
the worst of faults.
Taste is molded, to a very large extent, by the things
which surround one, and the family taste is trained by the
objects selected by the homemaker. There is, therefore, a
distinct obligation in the home to set the highest
possiblestandards of beauty. This is becoming widely
recognized, and there is an ever growing demand for
information which will help people to become more
intelligent consumers. Since art is involved in most of the
objects which are seenand used every day, one of the great
needs of the consumer is a knowledge of the principles Figure 1: This living room present a good
which are fundamental to good taste. It has been said that standards of beauty for a family, it shows the
good taste is doing unconsciously the right thing, at the right application of the principles of order and
time, in the right way. Unfortunately, very few people are beauty. And shows well color combination and
born with this rare gift, but it is comforting to know that with relief the simplicity of the walls and furniture.
study one can consciously apply the principles, until the wished-for time is reached when the right thing
is done unconsciously.
Too often it is thought that art means drawing and
painting only, and the fact that pictures are but one of many
kinds of art expression is often overlooked. "I'm no artist. I can't
even draw a straight line." How many times that has been said!
As a matter of fact the man who can draw the straightest line
may not have a particle of artistic ability, and the one who
cannot draw may be an artist in one of the best senses of the
word. The woman who selects beautiful furnishings for her
home or the clerk who chooses the right hat and dress for a
customer has done a piece of work that calls for much the
same kind of knowledge as the man who designs and paints a
picture. These are all questions of art, or design, and the only
Figure 2: This room shows a poor taste in the real difference is in the materials used. This is easily
selection of color and the furniture uses which recognized when the meaning of design is clearly defined.
didn’t jive the combination of color and furniture.
A living room that make the owner irritable “Design is the selecting and arranging of materials, with
because of inappropriate decorative object.
two aims, order and beauty.”

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One man uses an ordinary piece of canvas and some paints, and people cross continents to
see his picture; another man starts out with the same materials and the result is a worthless daub.
What is the difference? It is just the difference in the qualities of order and beauty. Similarly, one
milliner will take buckram, silk, and a flower or two, and produce a "creation"; another, who has the
same technical ability in constructing a hat, but no appreciation of design, will take the same materials
and produce an ugly hat. This interest in order and beauty is not confined to the artist. For instance,
one may say that he is not really concerned with art, because he never intends to make a hat, a dress,
or a table. This may be true, but he is likely to select such things and perhaps help someone else select
them, and after they are purchased they have to be related to other things. Solving these problems of
purchasing and arranging requires the same knowledge of the principles of art as goes into the creation
of objects. The original idea,and the actual process of making are all that the purchaser does not have
to supply. How much would it mean to everyone who selects articles of clothing and home furnishings
to be able to do so according to the right principles, so that he will be satisfied to live with these things
until they are actually worn out. Homemakers, who are planning to furnish their homes, or to rearrange
those already furnished are anxious to have an art basis for the selection of the new things. Women
wish to know what colors and styles are becoming or unbecoming; salesmen want to tell people
confidently, with reasons, that certain patterns and colors in wall papers, draperies or rugs are good or
bad, where particular colors and patterns are good, and how they should be combined. All such
problems call for good taste and can be solved by the application of five fundamental art principles to
the structure of objects and their decoration. These principles, which can be used as a measuring stick
to judge taste are: (1) harmony, (2) proportion, (3) balance, (4) rhythm, and (5) emphasis.

APPLICATION

To be able to open more idea and understand clearly the importance of good taste in your home
and daily living watch the video given.

Before watching the video recordings, be guided by the following:

1. Analyze the details given in designing home.
2. Observe the principle of order and beauty in the video.
3. Picture out your own home design in future.
4. Be observant and focus on the key points given in the video.

• Module 1 video clip 4,5, and 6: House Design

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UK8fk4IPOs8&feature=share
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w67uflAzrbA&feature=share
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IhkLyDsj9y4&feature=share

On a short bond paper, post a picture of your ideal interior design and explain why you choose this
interior design and try to explainhow it reflects your personality in 2 paragraphs.

Great job! You finish the module for the first week of our course. Hoping you do well on the proceeding
modules to get more information and widen your knowledge about arts in daily living.

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Module Summary:
• Aesthetics is one of the two main branches of value theory in philosophy. It is a
study of value in art either about beauty, and its opposite, ugliness. Some
philosophers conceive of aesthetics as applying solely to the arts or to artistic
experience.
• Other main branches of Philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics and
political philosophy which give wide information about the relation of art to it and in
daily living.
• The man who can draw the straightest line may not have a particle of artistic ability,
and the one who cannot draw may be an artist in one of the best senses of the word.
• Taste is molded, to a very large extent, by the things which surround one, and the
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for thetaste is trained
Tasks Given:by the objects selected by the homemaker.
• “Design is the selecting and arranging of materials, with two aims, order and beauty.”

Considerations 5points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Organization Sequence of Sequence of Sequence of Sequence of Sequence of

of Information information is information is information is have information has information is
(Grammar) logical, well- logical and several errors and few errors and so difficult to
ordered, and easy to follow. too easy to follow. easy to follow. follow and
interesting. Work has one Work has three or Work has five or unclear.
Work has no or two spelling four spelling errors six spelling errors Work has
spelling errors errors and/or and/or grammatical and/or seven or more
and/or grammatical error. grammatical spelling errors
grammatical error. error. and/or
error. grammatical
error.
Design (Clarity Graphic Graphic Graphic organizer Graphic Design of
and work organizer is organizer is is attractive, organizer is graphic
quality) attractive, attractive, uniform and well- presentable. organizer is
uniform and uniform and designed. Several Most graphics sloppy. Major
well designed. well-designd. graphics improvement are improvements
The organizer No more than improvement are needed. are needed
has balance two graphic needed.
and uses up all improvements
space are needed.
available.

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