LECTURE 2

Art Appreciation and

the Human Faculties
LECTURES

 ART AND THE HUMAN ESSENCE

 THE PROCESS OF ART
APPRECIATION
 ART AND THE PERCEPTION OF
REALITY
LECTURE 2.1
Art and the
Human Essence
 Who am I?
THE BASIC QUESTION
IN THE HUMANITIES
 Who am I?
“I am a human being.”
 What is a
human being?
 THE
HUMAN
ESSENCE

Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian Man, 1490
???
THREE HUMAN FACULTIES

MIND REASON THINKING

WILL EMOTION FEELING

SENSES PERCEPTION SENSING

Eyes Sensation Seeing
Ears Hearing
Nose Smelling
Tongue Tasting
Skin Touching
Imagination Imagining
ANALYSIS OF ART BASED ON THE
THREE HUMAN FACULTIES
LEVEL OF THE SENSES
1. PERCEPTUAL ELEMENTS
Sense-Data: Lines, Color, Shapes, etc.
2. REPRESENTATIONS
Things, People, Objects, Events

LEVEL OF THE WILL

3. EMOTIONAL SUGGESTIONS
Happy, Sad, Afraid etc.

LEVEL OF THE MIND

4. INTELLECTUAL MEANING
Ideas, Concepts, Symbolism
 Piet Mondrian,
Composition II in
Red, Blue, and
Yellow, 1930

VISUAL ELEMENTS

COLORS: Red, Yellow,

Blue, White, Black

SHAPES: Rectangles,
Square

LINES: Straight,
Horizontal and Vertical
 VISUAL ELEMENTS
Fernando
Amorsolo COLOR
SHAPES
Winnowing
LINES
Rice, 1956
REPRESENTATIONS
PEOPLE:
Woman
Farmers
ANIMALS:
Chicken
Carabao
THINGS:
Trees
Nipa Hut
Sky
Clouds
Mountain
EVENTS
Winnowing
Planting
Cooking
 Edvard Munch
The Scream 1893

VISUAL ELEMENTS
COLORS, SHAPES, LINES

REPRESENTATIONS
PEOPLE, THINGS, EVENTS

EMOTIONAL
SUGGESTION
FEAR OR TERROR: Shown by the
facial expression of the woman,
and by the curving lines of red,
yellow, orange of the sky
 Harmen
Steenwijck,
An Allegory of
the Vanities
of Human Life,
1658

VISUAL ELEMENTS
COLORS, etc.

REPRESENTATIONS
THINGS, etc.

EMOTIONS SUGGESTIONS
SADNESS

INTELLECTUAL MEANINGS
CONCEPTS, IDEAS, SYMBOLS
INTELLECTUAL MEANING: Ideas, Concepts and Symbols in Art

From the Book

of Ecclesiastes
in the Bible

MEMENTO
MORI
Reflecting
about
Death

Harmen
Steenwijck,
An Allegory of the
Vanities
of Human Life,
1658
LIGHT Optimism SHELL Wealth SKULL Death DARK Pessimism
Hope, God
MUSICAL CLOCK Time
INSTRUMENTS
Beauty LAMP End of Life

HELMET Power SAMURAI Suicide

JAR Celebration

BOOK Knowledge
 DUST IN THE WIND
Artist: Kansas
Songwriter(s): Kerry Livgren (1977)

I close my eyes, only for a moment and the moment's gone.

All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity.
The meaning of the Dust in the wind
lyrics is based on All they are is dust in the wind.
the verse from the
Bible, Genesis 3:19: Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea.
“You are from dust, All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see.
and into dust you Dust in the wind
shall return.” All we are is dust in the wind.
Oh, ho, ho

Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy.
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind.
All we are is dust in the wind.
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind.
Everything is dust in the wind.
The wind
 INTEGRATION
MAGKAUGNAY
Joey Ayala Western Folk Ethnic
Music Philippine
Lupa, laot, langit
Ay magkaugnay
Music
Hayop, halaman, tao
The lyrics is about Ay magkaugnay
the interrelation and
interdependence of Ang lahat ng bagay ay magkaugnay
people and all living Magkaugnay ang lahat
non-living things Tayo ay nakasakay
in nature. Sa mundong naglalakbay
Sa gitna ng kalawakan
Umiikot sa bituin
Na nagbibigay buhay
Sa halaman, sa hayop
At sa atin

Iisang pinagmulan
Iisang hantungan ng ating lahi
Kamag-anak at katribo
Ang lahat nang narito
Sa lupa, sa laot
At sa langit.
.
 LESSON 2.2
The Process of
Art Appreciation
 ART
APPRECIATION

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 ART APPRECIATION

APPRECIATION

PERSON as WORK OF ART

spectator/viewer as object
 ART APPRECIATION
Positive Wow!
perceptual Sense-Data and Representation

emotional Feelings
intellectual Meanings

response to Communication and Reaction

the beauty Value that delights

of artworks Painting, Sculpture, Music

Wow!
or
Yuck!
Marcel
Duchamp,
Fountain, 1917
Kazimir Malevich,
White on
White,
1918
Pablo Picasso,
The Weeping Woman,
1937
Which art do you appreciate most?
 LECTURE 2.3
Art and the
Perception of Reality
ART is . . .
 talent
skill
passion
emotion
idea
truth
ART is . . . reality
goodness
beauty
form
expression
representation
power
 Art is
reality.
What is this?
Who is
this?
Leonardo da Vinci,
Mona Lisa, 1503-06; 1517

RENAISSANCE
ART

Does this
art look real?
Pablo Picasso,
The Weeping Woman,
1937

CUBISM

Does this
art look real?
Which art looks more real?
You see only the front
view of the woman.
You see many views
of the woman.
Which art looks more real?
Piet Mondrian,
Composition
with Red,
Blue and Yellow,
1930

CONCRETISM

Does this
art look
real?
You see red,
blue and
yellow.
Which art looks most real?
Kazimir Malevich,
White on
White,
1918

SUPREMATISM

Does this art

look real?
You see
white on
white.
Which art looks most real?
 Ramon Fajardo,
From Rags
to Riches,
1984

READY
MADE
ART

Does this
art look real?
Judy Sibayan, Rags to Riches
 Do you see the
object itself?

Judy Sibayan, Rags to Riches

Marcel Duchamp,
Fountain,
1917
Which art looks most real of all?
 Art seen as
representational image

Art seen as abstract image

but still representational

ART AND Art seen as form composed

REALITY of shapes, colors etc.

Art seen as
pure form

Art seen as the

object itself
 Henri
Matisse,
Portrait of
Madame
Matisse, 1913

This is not a blue

woman! This is a
blue painting!
 What is this?

This is not a chair.

This is a painting!

Vincent Van Gogh,

Van Gogh’s Chair, 1888
 This is not Catriona Gray.
This is a picture!
Who is this?
Picasso, Marie Therese Picasso, Dora Maar with Picasso, Jacqueline with
Walter, 1937 Cat, 1941 Crossed Hands, 1954
 Edward
Burne-Jones,
Pygmalion and
Galatea IV: The
Soul Attains,
2nd Series,
1878

“A moment of complete happiness

never occurs in the creation of a
work of art. The promise of it is felt
in the act of creation, but
disappears towards the completion
of the work. For it is then that the
painter realizes that it is only a
picture he is painting. Until then he
has almost dared to hope that the
painting might spring into life.”
Lucian Freud, from Gombrich (1960),
Art and Illusion, p. 80.
 Rene Magritte
The Treachery of
Images

Video 2.2

Rene Magritte,
The Treachery of Images,
1928-29

THIS IS NOT A PIPE

ACTIVITY AND
ASSESSMENT
ACTIVITY
Group activity: Make an artwork.

Analyze the visual elements, the

representation, the emotional suggestions
and the intellectual meanings of the artwork.

Discuss/share your analysis to your group.

Make a class report about the analysis and

the group sharing/discussion.
 RUBRICS FOR ACTIVITY 2
Needs
Excellent Good Fair
CRITERIA (16-20 points) (11-15 points) (6-10 points)
Improvement
(1-5 points)

All members actively All members Some members did The group does
Group participated in the participated in the not participate in not show any
Participation
and
activity, and the group activity, but the group the activity, and the collaboration and
Collaboration collaborated does not show a group collaboration participation
harmoniously. unified collaboration. is not harmonious. at all.

The artwork is not

The artwork is very The artwork looks The artwork is not
pleasing to look
Aesthetic pleasing to see, and pleasing, but does not pleasing to see,
at, and many
Value and instructions it abides with all the follow some and all instruction
instructions are not
instructions. instructions. are not followed.
followed.

The group analyzes The group analyzes The group analyzes The group
the artwork the artwork the artwork analyzes the
Analysis
correctly in all correctly in only correctly in only two artwork correctly
DR. ALLAN C. ORATE,
four levels. three levels. levels. in only one level.
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PHOTOS/IMAGES CREDITS:

 http://clipartmag.com/human-figure-outline#human-figure-outline-
33.png
 https://static4.depositphotos.com/1006748/286/i/950/depositphotos
_2861540-stock-photo-classic-vitruvian-man.jpg
 https://images.all-free-
download.com/images/graphiclarge/eye_realistic_6813594.jpg
 https://images.all-free-
download.com/images/graphiclarge/eye_realistic_6813594.jpg
 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J4-
b_mWaCao/UNab0oXepVI/AAAAAAAAAJI/jhdwBG6srxc/s1600/Brai
n.jpg
 https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Winnowing-
Rice/5049F211AB62FCFA
 https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-scream.jsp#prettyPhoto[image1]/0/
PHOTOS/IMAGES CREDITS:

 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/server.iip?FIF=/fronts/N-1256-00-
000025-WZ-PYR.tif&CNT=1.0&WID=800&HEI=800&QLT=85&CVT=jpeg
 https://st4.depositphotos.com/2618131/22146/v/600/depositphotos_22
1460140-stock-video-silhouette-of-thinking-man.jpg
 https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/mona-lisa
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_with_Red_Blue_and_Yellow#/m
edia/File:Piet_Mondriaan,_1930_-
_Mondrian_Composition_II_in_Red,_Blue,_and_Yellow.jpg
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
 https://www.pablopicasso.org/the-weeping-
woman.jsp#prettyPhoto[image1]/0/
 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1118295#/media/File:Vincent_Willem_v
an_Gogh_138.jpg
PHOTOS/IMAGES CREDITS:

 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8878118/mediaviewer/rm974484480
 https://www.henrimatisse.org/portrait-of-madame-
matisse.jsp#prettyPhoto[image1]/0/
 https://lifestylehub.blob.core.windows.net/media-library/catriona-san-
miguel/catriona-gray-san-miguel.jpg
 http://art-picasso.com/1931_14.html
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Maar_au_Chat#/media/File:Dora_Ma
ar_Au_Chat.jpg
 https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/images/works/220.jpg
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_and_the_Image_series#/media/F
ile:The_Soul_Attains,_2nd_series,_Pygmalion_(Burne-Jones).jpg
 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/MagrittePipe.jpg
/300px-MagrittePipe.jpg