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Art Appreciation
Yvan R. Gumbao
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If you were an artist, what kind
of artist will you be?
Why?
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Concept of Art
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Art
Latin word “ars”
Craft or specialized skill
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Art
It is a product of man’s need to express
himself. –F.Zulueta
Art is concerned itself with the
communication of certain ideas and feelings
by means of sensuous medium, color, sound,
bronze, marble, words, and film. –C. Sanchez
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“Ars”
Medieval
Latin
•Special form of
book-learning
Renaissance
period
•Craftmanship
17
th
century
•Aesthetics and
craftmanship
was
distinguished
18
th
century
•Fine arts and
useful arts are
further
distinguished
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Art Appreciation
The knowledge and understanding of the
universal and timeless qualities that identify
all great art.
The more you appreciate and understand the
art of different eras, movements, styles and
techniques, the better you can develop,
evaluate and improve your own artwork.
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Assumptions of Art
GE7 –Art Appreciation
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Assumptions of Art
Art is universal.
Artisnotnature.
Art involves experience.
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Art is universal.
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The Scream (1893) –
Edvard Much
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Art is universal
Iliad and Odyssey
Mahabharata and Ramayana
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Art is universal
Timeless
Universal
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Misconceptions
Artistic are those made long time
ago
“…art is not good because it is
old, but old because it is good” –
(Dudley et al., 1960)
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What are the timeless works of
art in the Philippines?
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Art is universal
Art is crafted by all people
A great piece will never be
obsolete
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Art is universal
Enjoyment in the arts belongs to a
higher good, one that lies at the
opposite end of base pleasures
John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism
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Art is not nature.
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Well And Grinding
Wheel In The Forest
Of The Chateau Noir
Paul Cezanne,
a French
painter
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Compare and contrast the two
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Art is not nature.
Made by man
What we find in nature should not
be expected to be present in art
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What do you see?
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Art is not nature.
Individual’s subjective experience
of nature
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Art involves experience.
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Experience
“Actual doing of something” –
(Dudley et al., 1960)
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Art involves experience.
“all art depends on experience,
and if one is to know art, he must
know it not as fact or information
but as experience” -(Dudley et al.,
1960)
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Art involves experience.
The subject’s perception is of
primacy
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Art involves experience.
Degustibusnon disputandumest
(Matters of taste are not matters of
dispute)
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Every
experience is
accompanied
by some
emotion.