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The document discusses the Visual Arts, encompassing various forms such as fine arts, contemporary arts, and decorative arts. It also explores philosophical perspectives on art, including concepts of mimesis, representation, and art as an escape or functional entity. Additionally, it outlines the subjects of art, sources of inspiration, and the distinction between subject matter and content in artistic works.

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The Visual Arts

The document discusses the Visual Arts, encompassing various forms such as fine arts, contemporary arts, and decorative arts. It also explores philosophical perspectives on art, including concepts of mimesis, representation, and art as an escape or functional entity. Additionally, it outlines the subjects of art, sources of inspiration, and the distinction between subject matter and content in artistic works.

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THE VISUAL ARTS

REPORTER
ASPA,DONALYN B.
CATALINO, JADE
INTRODUCTION

The Visual Arts are art forms that create works that are
primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing,
painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts,
photography, video, film making and architecture.
These definitions should not be taken too strictly as
many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the visual
arts as well as arts of other types.

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VISUAL ARTS
INCLUDE THE
FOLLOWING:
1. FINE ARTS
Fine arts refers to an art form practiced
mainly for its aesthetic value and its beauty
rather that its functional value.

2. CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Visual arts include a number of modern art
forms, such as: assemblage, collage,
mixedmedia, conceptual art, installation,
happenings and performance art, along with
filmbased disciplines such as photo
3. DECORATIVE ARTS
The general category of visual arts
encompasses a number of decorative art disciplines
and crafts, including ceramics and studio pottery,
mosaic art, mobiles, tapestry, glass art, and others.

4. OTHERS
a. Graphic design, fashion design, and interior
design. b. Tattoo art, face painting, and body
painting.
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PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
OF ARTS
1) ART AS MIMESIS (PLATO).

o Mimesis id derived from the Greek work “mimos” meaning to imitate.


o Plato believed that all artistic creation is mimesis. It exists in the
“world of ideas” and is created by God. The tangible things that human-
made are just shadows created by man’s mind. All artists are imitations
of nature.
o Aristotle speaks of tragedy as an “imitation of an action” that falls
from a higher to a lower estate. Thus, when an artist is a skillfully select
and present material, that artist is purposely seeking to imitate or copy
the5 action of life.
2). ART AS REPRESANTATION (Aristotle).

• Are represents something. When an artist uses


signs and symbols to take something else, it uses
Art to represent such signs and symbols. o It is
through representation that people organize the
world and reality through the act of naming its
elements. Signs and symbols are arranged to form
semantic constructions and express relations with
the other things.

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3.) ART FOR ART’S SAKE (KANT).
o Immanuel Kant's main interest was not in
Art per se, but beauty is sublime. Kant being
an enlightenment writer though that beauty
or sublimity were not properties of objects
but how we respond to items.
o Kant pointed out that beauty is not the
form of the beautiful but about the taste.
o Kant’s concern is not on the subjective
aesthetic response but the function of an
individual or personal taste.
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4.) ART AS AN ESCAPE
o According to Allen Weinstein, without mental escape, we
build up a lot of anxiety within ourselves. Artists has to get
rid of this anxiety and pressure because if we keep these
worries and concerns within our mind, they will come out in
the form of anger and even hatred.

5.) ART AS FUNCTIONAL


o The artist's intent in creating a functional
piece of Art is to bring creativity, beauty, and
usefulness into people’s everyday lives.

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THE SUBJECT OF ART
 In any art from-painting, music,
sculpture, architecture, or dance-there
is always a subject that serves as the
foundation of creating the work of Art.

 The subject of Art is usually anything


that is represented in the artwork. It is
varied-it maybe a person, object, scene,
or event.
TWO TYPES OF SUBJECT ART

• 1. Representational or • 2. Non-representational
Objective. or Non-Objective These
Representational Art or are those arts without
figurative art represents any reference to
objects or event in the anything outside itself. is
real world, usually non-objective It because
looking easily it has no recognizable
recognizable. objects.

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SOURCES OF SUBJECT ART

• 1.Primary Sources Provides Artwork,


• Example:
first-hand testimony or direct autobiographies, the film of
evidence concerning a topic the artist, interviews, diaries,
under investigation. They are speeches, documents,
created by witnesses or nature, history, mythology,
recorders who experienced Christian tradition, sacred
the events or conditions oriental text.
being documented.

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2. SECONDARY SOURCES

Interpret and analyze primary sources. Because


they are often written significantly after events
by parties not directly involved but who have
special expertise, they may provide historical
context or critical perspectives.

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SOME OF THESE SOURCES OF ART
SUBJECTS ARE:
1. Nature- animals, people, landscape

2. History- events taking place in the world

3. Greek and Roman mythology-goods and goddesses, deities


go and heroes
4. Judaeo Christian Tradition- religion and art, the Bible, the
Apocrypha, the rituals of the church
5. Oriental Sacred Texts- Hinduism and Buddhism

6. Other works of art

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KINDS OF SUBJECT

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DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MEANING

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CONTENT IN ART

• Refers to the meaning or significance and or


feeling imparted by a work of Art. This is not
the same thing as the subject matter the work
depicts.
• The content of Art is inextricably linked with
form; form refers to the visual aspects of Art
such as word, design, and choice, abut
shapes, sizes, colors, contrast, medium, soft or
hard edges, and many other decis ion
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THANKYOU FOR LISTENING

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