ARTS 1
Non-representational or Non-objective Arts
Etymology
1. Latin word “ars” ability or skill – JV Estolas
2. Italian word “artis” craftsmanship, skill – A. Tan
3. Aryan root “ar” to join or to put together
4. Greek Words “Artizen” to prepare and
“Arkiskein” to put together
Art – product of man’s need to express himself
- brings life harmony (Plato)
- attitude of the spirit (John Dewey)
Ex. Trees by Joyce Kilmer
Art - The skillful arrangement or composition of some
common but significant qualities of nature
COMMUNICATION
- Ideas and Feelings (Medium, Color, Bronze,
Sound, Word, Marble, Film)
4 Common Essentials of ART
1. Art must be man-made.
2. Art must be creative, not imitative.
3. Art must benefit and satisfy man.
4. Art is expressed through a certain medium or
material.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
1. Aesthetic experiences may influence us to
change our ways and behavior.
2. The arts may beautify our humanity.
3. Arts bring out the good and noble in us.
4. Through the arts, we come to know the
changing image of man
Art Appreciation
1. the ability to interpret or understand man-
made arts
2. deals with learning or understanding and
creating arts and enjoying them
The Subject of ART
1. Representational or Objective Arts –artworks that
depict something easily recognizable: painting,
sculpture, graphic arts, literature and theatre arts
Ex. Mona Lisa, La Pieta, Set design: The Three-Penny
Opera
Representation in Literature
In literary theory, 'representation' is commonly
defined in three ways.
 To look like or resemble
 To stand in for something or someone
 To present a second time to re-present
2.
–artworks that have no resemblance to any real
objects
- appeal directly to the senses
Ex.
Wassily Kandinsky – Russian painter and art theorist
Paul Jackson Pollock – American painter and a leading
figure in abstract expressionist movement
ARTS and Its Values
 Aesthetic function
 Utilitarian function
 Cultural function
 Social function
Scope of ART
 According to Manaois: 2 general dimensions of arts –
1. fine arts or independent arts
- Made primarily for aesthetic enjoyment through
the senses
Visual: Auditory:
painting music
sculpture literature
dancing
drama
2. practical arts or useful or utilitarian arts
 Industrial art (carpentry, metalworks, masonry,
upholstery, glasswork)
 Applied or household art (furniture, carpets, tapestry,
embroidery, jewellery, pottery, goldsmithing,
basketry, and glassware)
 Civic art (town planning, public parks, town gardens)
 Commercial art (for advertisement and marketing
purposes)
 Graphic art (photographs, drawings, line art, graphs,
diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric
designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other
images)
 Agricultural art (cultivating the ground, including
harvesting crops and the rearing, management of
stock; tillage; husbandry; farming)
 Business art
 Distributive art (packaging, marketing, warehousing,
advertising & shipping of manufactured goods)
 Fishery art (net weaving, shallow-water fishing, deep-
sea fishing, and fish preservation)
 According to Custodia Sanchez: art consists of visual
arts, literature, drama and theatre, music and
dance.

Visual arts - perceived through the eyes
(e.g. graphic arts and plastic arts)
 Josefina Estolas grouped arts into major and
minor arts.
Major: painting, architecture, sculpture, literature,
music and dance
Minor: decorative arts, popular arts, graphic arts,
plastic arts and industrial arts
 She also grouped arts into: visual arts, performing
arts, literary arts, popular arts, gustatory art of
the cuisine and decorative arts or applied arts.
The Origin of ART
 Superstition and beliefs in the spirits
 Heroes, heroines and gods
*Primitive art is symbolic
*All arts originated in the East and West. These arts
pertain to gods, goddesses, religious animals, demons,
priests, kings and queens
The Art Experience:
Creativity and the Human Condition
 The Agency of the Body
Art as Experience:
A. of the artist –
1. Body (both physical and mental) of the artist as
creator of the artwork
2. Body as part of the artwork
B. of the viewer –
1. as a perceiver of the artwork
2. as part of the artwork (interactive type of
artworks)
Artist as Creator
Yayoi Kusama (artist with psychological problem)
Jackson Pollock (splatter and action pieces)
Emmanuel Garibay (Social Realism)
Johannes Toetter artworks: Body of Work
Marina Abramovic: What is Performance Art?
The Creative Process
The Five Stages of Creativity
1. Preparation – immersion of the artist in the
domain
2. Incubation – going back to all the information
gathered in the preparation stage
3. Insight – a classic signal or sign of a creative
person; the idea of the “AHA” moment or a
“Eureka” moment
4. Evaluation – important stage because it
requires self-criticism
5. Elaboration – 99% perspiration; stage where the
work is done; testing the idea and working on
the idea
Mimesis, from the Greek root word mimos, is a basic
theoretical principle in the creation of art
(Encyclopaedia Britannica). The word is Greek and
means “imitation”, in the sense of “re-presentation”
rather than of “copying”.
Plato
 Concept: idealist
 Context: Art is subordinate to morality and
politics.
 Artist are not knowledgeable of the forms
because they only mimic the physical world.
 Beauty is unattainable through art.
 Imitation is mere copying.
Aristotle
 Concept: realist
 Context: Art has its own domain and is
autonomous.
 Artist possessed more than just inspiration but
a technical skill that can be approved upon and
perceived as impressive to the average human.
 Beauty is attainable through praxis.
 Imitation is creative and dynamic.
School of Athens
Mimesis by Seb Janiak (photography)
The Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky Korsakov
(music)
Aeta Butterfly and Monkey Dance
Aesthetics - is the branch of philosophy concerned with
the nature and appreciation of art, beauty and good
taste.
Beauty – a purely subjective expression of personal
sentiment or feeling; purely objective exercise of
rational judgement
Taste (in sociology) - is an individual's personal and
cultural patterns of choice and preference. It involves
drawing distinctions between things such as styles,
manners, consumer goods, and works of art and
relating to these.
Social inquiry of taste is about the human ability to
judge what is beautiful, good, and proper.
Art as Representation
- Norman King (Aeta)
- Egyptian Art representations of male and female
figures
- Venus von Willendorf, Oolithic limestone, c. 28,000 –
25,000 BCE
- Venus by Guillermo Tolentino, plaster of Paris, 1951
- Suspension of disbelief in theatre (Peter Pan babae,
Phantom of the Opera)
- Suspension of disbelief in films
- Catharsis as experienced by both the artist and the
viewer
- Music and Emotions

The Perceiver as part of the Artwork:

Taras Polataiko’s Sleeping Beauty
Art in Island, a 3D interactive art museum