ARTIST AND ARTISANS

ART APPRECIATION
 ARTISTS AND ARTISANS
This chapter focuses on the most important element
and creator in any work of art, which is the artist or the
artisan.
Artisans are driven by their sense of wonder and
curiosity. The stages in the creative process would
reflect the notable works from the different artist and
artisans who were given the highest recognition from
our country .
THE DEFINITION OF ARTIST AND ARTISAN

ARTIST
The word “artist” is generally defined as an art
practitioner, such as a painter, sculptor, choreographer,
dancer, writer, poet, musicians, and the like who
produces or creates indirectly functional arts with
aesthetic value using imagination .
 Artist are creative individuals who use their
imagination and skills to communicate in an art
form.
Artists look to many sources for inspiration.
Some look forward to their natural and cultural
environment for ideas; others look within
themselves for creative motivation.
 Artist exhibit the courage to take risk. They are
willing to work intensely for long period of time to
achieve their goals.
Some artist are self-taught (folk-artist) because of
they are not educated in traditional artistic methods.
Just like the artists, the artisan learn skills and
techniques from some other artist but eventually,
both artist and artisans, develop their own unique
styles .
FRIDA KAHLO (MEXICAN, VINCENT VAN GOGH, Self Portrait HENRY ROUSSEAU, Myself: Portrait-
1907-1954) as a Painter, 1887-1888 Landscape. 1890
Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh and Henri Rousseau are
all self taught artist who have had big impacts
 ARTISAN
An Artisan is a craftsman, such carpenter, carver, plumber,
blacksmith, weaver, embroiderer, and the like who produces
directly functional and or decorative arts.
Artisan help us in meeting our basic needs, such as food,
clothing, dwelling, furniture, and kitchen utensils; they craft
everything that makes our life easy. The artisan’s works are
useful, relevant, and essential in our daily life.
 The ARTISAN is basically a physical worker who
makes objects with his or her hands, and who through
skill, experience, and ability can produce things of
great beauty, as well as usefulness.
Artisans are devoted only to the creative part, making
visually pleasant work only for the gratification and
appreciation of the viewer.
KEY COMPONENTS OF THE ART MARKET
 CURATOR
A Curator, who is manager or overseer and usually a curator
or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (gallery, museum,
library or archive) is a content specialist charged with an
institution’s collections, selecting art to be displayed in
museum, organizing art exhibitions in galleries or public
places, researching artist and writing catalogs and involved
with the interpretation of heritage.
 ART BUYER
An Art Buyer is a professional who is knowledgeable
in art, who may scout talents for an advertising agency
seeking to employ an art director, or who may look for
an art for collector or company.
 ART DEALER
An ART DEALER is a person or a company that buys and sells
works of art. Art dealers often study the history of art before
starting their careers.
They keep up with the trends in the market and are
knowledgeable about the style of art that people want to buy. They
figure out how much they should pay for a piece and then estimate
the resale price.
To determine the artwork’s value, dealer inspect the objects or
paintings closely and compare the fine details with similar pieces.
 PRIVATE COLLECTION
This is personal owned collection of works, usually a
collection of art. In museum or art-gallery environment, the
term signifies that a certain work is not owned by the
institution, but is on loan from an individual or organization,
either for temporary exhibition or for the long term.
The source is usually from an ART COLLECTOR, although it
could be from a school, church organization, from bank or
from other private company or any institution.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
 THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Robert Fritz, enumerated the steps in the creative
process, and said that creating is a skill that can be
learned and developed. Like any other skill, we learn
by practice and hands-on experience – we can learn
to create by creating. Fritz presented three stages in
creative process.
1. Conceive the result you want to create. Creation starts at the end. We
need to have an idea of what we want to create. We need a vision – individual
or collective – that we want to realize.
2. Know what currently exists. It is difficult to create something novel
and/or original in any area of knowledge without being aware of what is
being done in that area.
3. Take action. Having a wonderful idea or vision is not enough. You have to
do something to make it real, generate criticism.
4. Develop your creativity. Every new creation gives you fresh thoughts and
knowledge of your own creative process.
5. Learn the rhythms of the creative process. There are THREE
fundamental stage in every creative process: Germination, Assimilation, and
Completion.
THREE STAGES IN THE CREATIVE
PROCESS
GERMINATION (Idea)
The most important and difficult thing in this stage
is choosing. You need to be more specific about
what you want to do.
You have to give to your vision a first shape, from
which you decide your next steps.
ASSIMILATION

It is crucial step in the creative process. During this

phase you will internalize and assimilate or incorporate
the idea you want to create. Plan, analyze it and cultivate
it with all the available resources. The assimilation stage
of the creative process follows an organic path, with its
own rhythms and needs.
COMPLETION
Completion is the time to finish you project, to give it the
final shape before you present it to the audience.
THREE STAGES IN ART
THREE STAGES IN ART
Art making can be associated with art
exploration, concept development, and art
production. In the creative process, the artist
undergoes three stage of experience, which are
popularly known as PREPRODUCTION,
PRODUCTION, and POSTPRODUCTION .
1. PRE-PRODUCTION or subject development – this ends
when the planning ends, and the content starts being produced.

2. PRODUCTION or medium manipulation – this is a method

of joining diverse material inputs and unimportant inputs.

3. POST PRODUCTION (completion) or exhibition – once an

artwork is finish, it will be displayed.
THE MEDIUM and TECHNIQUE
MEDIUM – It refers to the materials that are used
by an artist to create a work for art. The plural of
media. Without the medium, an idea remain a
concept, or it would just dwell in the walls of the
artist imagination. It is challenging to manipulate
medium and transform it form its raw state.
TECHNIQUE – It refers to the artist’s ability and
knowledge or technical know-how in manipulating
the medium. It is the manner by which the artist
controls the medium to achieve the desired effect;
thus, it is in the technique that artists differ from
one another.
 GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
of A P O W H A N G O D O G G AY
 PROCESS TECHNIQUE
Tapping into the Skin thru a - Batok (ancient term)
Thorn end of a Calamansi or -  Hand tapping
Pomelo Tree

MEDIUM PERSONS INVOLVED

-  Ink mixture of charcoal and -   Whang Od’s grand niece (Grace
water Palicas)
- Body as Human Canvass - Tourists, Pilgrims, Trekkers