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Lesson 1: Assumptions and Nature of Art  Art is innate

- The beauty of nature is and silent. It is
 Art is Universal
given. It doesn't ask for attention since it is
- It transcends cultures, races,
naturally part of it, while it is true that
and civilizations. As long as human
beauty in art demands human attention for
beings exist, art is feasible, alive and
it leads us to its valuation.
dynamic.
 Art Involves Experience
 Art as a Means of Communication
- Art is a representation of our experiences.
- People share a common means of
It demands involvement. The only way to
expressing their thought and feelings
find conviction and affirmation in art is
that is through arts like music, dances,
through immersion to the arts. We can only
literary pieces, decorative arts, paintings
appreciate art if we spend time to look at it,
and drawings, sculptures and others. These
listen to it, touch it and feel its presence.
forms of art are utilized to establish and
strengthen communication.
Lesson 2: Expressions, Purposes, and Function
 Art is Timeless
of Arts
- Timeless because it goes beyond the time
of our own existence. Timeless because it Art Expressions
continually evolves. Classical music, for
1. Visual Art - paintings, drawings, lettering,
instance, never fades and goes out of style. It
printing, sculptures, digital imaging, and
continually invades our time – listened and
more
appreciated by many. It remains strong
2. Film - focuses on its aesthetic, cultural, and
because it became a witness, a company, a
social value and is considered as both an art
reflection and journal of our forefathers'
and an industry
young lives.
3. Performance Art – a live art and the artist’s
medium is mainly the human body
 Art Addresses Human Needs
4. Literary works & Poetry - art form where
- Because it addresses needs of people from all
the artist expresses his emotions not by
over the world. Through directly functional
using paint, charcoal, or camera, but
and indirectly functional arts, we are
expresses them through words
provided with a variety of offerings -
5. Architecture - designing and constructing
comfort, entertainment and education,
buildings
which would somehow lead us to self-
6. Dance - series of movements that follows the
fulfillment and satisfaction.
rhythm of the music accompaniment
7. Theater - live performers to present
 Art is not Nature
accounts or imaginary events before a live
- Because art is man-made. It is a creation of
audience
man that may reflect a profound skillfulness
8. Applied Arts - elements of style and design
and craftsmanship. It undergoes process
to everyday items with the aim of increasing
and planning: a result of study and
their aesthetic value
research.
Subject and Content “Imitation, then, is one instinct of our nature.
Next, there is the instinct for ‘harmony’ and
o Subject refers to the visual focus or the
rhythm, meters being manifestly sections of
image that may be extracted from
rhythm. Persons, therefore, starting with this
examining the artwork.
natural gift developed by degrees their
o Content is the meaning that is
special aptitudes, till their rude
communicated by the artist or the artwork. improvisations gave birth to poetry.” –
Aristotle

Functions of Arts
Representational Non-Representational o Non-Motivated Functions
Arts object or events Arts does not make a - Basic human instinct for harmony, balance,
occurring in the real reference to the real rhythm
world world
- Experience of the mysterious
Factual Content - Experience of the imagination
- the most rudimentary Battle of the Waterloo - Ritualistic and symbolic functions
level of meaning for it
may be extracted from o Motivated Functions
the identifiable or - Communication
recognizable forms - Entertainment
in the artwork and - Political Change
understanding how - Free zone
these elements relate - Social inquiry, subversion, and anarchy
to one another. - Social causes
- Psychological and healing purpose
Conventional Content
- and other cyphers as - A fitness indicator
bases of its meaning.
Acknowledged
interpretation of the What makes an art aesthetic?
artwork using motifs,
signs, symbols. These Aesthetic Analysis
conventions are  Aesthetic analysis is a careful investigation
established through of the qualities which belong to objects and
time. events that evokes an aesthetic response.
 The aesthetic response is the thoughts and
Subjective Content
- consulted, a variety feelings initiated because of the character of
of meaning may The Scream these qualities and the particular ways they
arise when a are organized and experienced perceptually.
particular work of art  What do we actually see? How is what seen
is read. These organized? And, what emotions and ideas are
meanings stem from evoked as a result of what has been observed?
the viewer’s or
audience’s
circumstances that
come into play when
engaging with art
What makes something beautiful? size, font color, etc.)
Design Principles and Elements
Value of Judgement
1. Emphasis - defined as "importance or
 Deciding whether an object or experience is
value given to a part of the text-based
be considered art is a matter of finding it to be
content". (make the text bold, italicized,
either attractive or repulsive.
heavier weight, enlarged, darkened or
lightened)
2. Appropriateness - how fitting or suitable
How do you decide is an art piece has value?
the text is used for a specific audience,
Linked Emotions purpose, or event
3. Proximity - how near or how far the text
 Emotions that partially embodied in our elements are from each other. When two
physical reactions. These unconscious things are closely related, bring them close
reactions may partly control, or at least together
reinforce, our judgement in the first place 4. Alignment - lining up text or graphics on
that the landscape is sublime. a page. Left or right edges, or center-lines
May be Culturally Conditioned to some extent line up on a common position
5. Organization - conscious effort to
 Evaluations of beauty may well be linked to organize the different text elements in a
desirability, perhaps even to sexual page. Ensures that while some text elements
desirability. are separated from each other, they are still
Partially Intellectual and Interpretative somehow connected with the rest of the
elements in the page
 a complex negotiation of our senses, 6. Repetition - consistency of elements,
emotions, intellectual opinions, will, desires, unity of the entire design. Repeating some
culture, preferences, values, subconscious typefaces within the page
behavior, conscious decision, training, 7. Contrast - Juxtaposition and differences
instinct, sociological institutions, and other of subjects. (color, size, texture)
factor.

Lesson 4: Artist and Artisan

Lesson 3: Text, Visual, Audio, & Motion
Text Media - Any "human-readable sequence
of characters" that can form intelligible words" Artist
(Rouse, 2015) o An artist is dedicated only to the creative
Types of Text side, making visually pleasing work only
Hypertext - serve to link different electronic for the enjoyment and appreciation of the
documents and enable users to jump from one viewer, but with no functional value.
to other in a nonlinear way o Artist is an art practitioner such as painter,
sculptor, choreographer, dancer, musician,
Plaintext or Unformatted Text - fixed-sized etc. who produces or creates indirectly
characters having essentially the same type of functional arts with aesthetic value using
appearance imagination.
Formatted Text - appearance can be changed
using font parameters (bold, underline, italic, font
  a place of honor or designated area
during national state functions, along
Artisan
with recognition or acknowledgement
o An artisan on the other hand, is essentially a at cultural events.
manual worker who makes items with his 2. Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National
or her hands, and who through skill, Living Treasures Award)
experience and talent can create things of - GAMABA conducts the search for the finest
great beauty as well as being functional. traditional artists of the land whose
o Artisan is a craftsman, such as carpenter, distinctive skills have reach a high level of
carver, plumber, blacksmith, weaver, technical and artistic excellence and have
embroider, etc. who produces directly been passed on to and widely practice by
functional and/or decorative arts. the present generation in his community.
- weaving, carving, graphic and plastic arts,
textile, pottery and other artistic expressions
2 MAJOR AWARDS GIVEN TO PHILIPPINE of traditional culture
ARTISTS - created in 1992 under RA# 7355 by the
NCCA
1. Orden ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining - Incentives and Privileges:
(Order of National Artists)  a specially designed gold medallion
- The Order of National Artists is the highest  an initial grant of 100,000php and a
National Recognition given to Filipino 10,000php monthly stipend for life
individuals who have made significant (later increase to 14,000php)
contributions to the development of  maximum cumulative amount of
Philippine arts. 750,000php medical and
- It recognizes excellence in the fields of hospitalization benefits
Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts,  funeral assistance and tribute fit for a
Literature, Film and Broadcast Arts, and national living treasure
Architecture or Allied Arts.
- Jointly administered by the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts
(NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the
Philippines (CCP) and conferred by the
President of the Philippines upon
recommendation by both institutions.
- The first recipient was Fernando
Amorsolo in 1972 (National Artist for Visual
Arts).
- Incentives and Privelages:
 the rank and title
 medallion or insignia and a citation
 cash awards and a host of benefits
(monthly life pension, medical and
hospitalization and life insurance
coverage)
 a state funeral and burial at the
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