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Introduction and
Assumption
 Learning Outcomes
by the end of this lesson: you should be able to

1. understand the role of humanities and arts in man`s

attempt at fully realizing his end.
2. clarify misconceptions the art.
3. Characterized the assumption of arts, and
4. Engage better with personal experiences of and in art
• Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating
visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks),
expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual
ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated
for their beauty or emotional power. Other activities
related to the production of works of art include the
criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and
the aesthetic dissemination of art.

The three classical branches of art are painting,

sculpture and architecture
• Why study the humanities?

The humanities help us understand

others through their languages,
histories and cultures. Humanities
students build skills in writing and
critical reading. The humanities
encourage us to think creatively. They
teach us to reason about being human
and to ask questions about our world
• Art is universal, because it evokes an emotional response
from us if it is doing the job well. ... Some art has a
specific style that appeals to certain groups of people. And
then you've got decades of various attempts to come up
with original movements in art. Some of them are great
some of them are pure trash
• Why is art universal?
Art is universal, because it evokes an emotional response
from us if it is doing the job well. The best art is beautiful
and inspires awe. Or joy. But it evokes emotion
• The universal aspect stems from your culture and your
environment being used as influences and inspiration. The
fact that they are different is part of what makes them art.
A Zen garden, the Eiffel Tower, The vibrant and unique
patterns and colors of African attire…all these things are
Art and so much more
• Why art is not nature?
This may simply be answered by citing that art is artificial. Art is man-
made construct. Moreover, “art is not nature” means that it is not a
natural occurrence. However, man has taught himself to find art in nature.

Art is not Nature, Art is made by Man

Setting us apart from the animals, humans learned and perceived logic
and pattern in our everyday lives. And art is not an exception. Art that is
composed of patterns and aesthetics. Furthermore, art is not nature
because art is not universal. Art is relative and does not necessarily appeal
to everyone
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LESSON 2
                      Art in Appreciation Creativity Imagination, and Experience

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lesson. you should be able to:
1. Differentiate art from nature:
2. Characterize artistic expression based on personal experiences with arts:
3. Discuss the nature of art's preliminary expression: and
4. Categorize works of arts by citing personal experiences.
Art appreciation as a way of life

Jean-Paul Sartre, a famous philosopher of the twentieth century, described the role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in a
completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom (Greene, 1995). Each artworks behold beauty of its
own kind, the kind that the artist sees and wants the viewers perceive. More often than not, people are blind to this beauty and only
those who havedeveloped a fine sense of appreciation can experience and see the art the same way the artist did.

In cultivating an appreciation of art, one should also excercise and develop his taste for thingsthat are fine and beautiful.

Frequenting museums, art galleries, performing art theatres, concert halls, or even malls that display art exhibitions that are free in
admission during leisure time will not only develop an understanding of the art, but will also serve as rewarding experience.

Learning to appreciate art,no matter what vocationor profession youhave, will lead to a fuller and meaningfulife (Collin & Riley, 1931).

The role of creativity in art making

Creativity requires thinking outside the box. It is often to solve problems that have never occured before, conflate function and style, and
simply make life more unique and enjoyable experience.
• Art as a production of imagination, imagination as a
product of art.
• A product of human being by nature are creative, since
individuals by themselves are creative, they are prone to
engage in arts, remember that art is made by persons
aided by art materials, tools and skills, and shaped by
their creativity and imagination.
 Art as Expression
• The view that “art is imitation (representation)” has not
only been challenged, it has been moribund in at least
some of the arts since the 19th century. It was
subsequently replaced by the theory that art is expression.
Instead of reflecting states of the external world, art is
held to reflect the inner state of the artist. This, at least,
seems to be implicit in the core meaning of expression:
the outer manifestation of an inner state. Art as a
representation of outer existence (admittedly “seen
through a temperament”) has been replaced by art as an
expression of humans’ inner life
But the terms express and expression are ambiguous and do
not always denote the same thing. Like so many other
terms, express is subject to the process-product ambiguity:
the same word is used for a process and for the product that
results from that process. “The music expresses feeling”
may mean that the composer expressed human feeling in
writing the music or that the music when heard is
expressive (in some way yet to be defined) of human feeling.
Based on the first sense are theories about the creation of
art. Founded on the second are theories about the content
of art and the completion of its creation.
• Visual Arts

The visual arts are meant to be seen, with each person

experiencing the artwork differently. Some artwork
expresses ideas and comments on political or social
issues, while other artwork depicts moments from
everyday life, or explores shapes, colors, sizes, and/or
textures. Some visual arts are meant to be functional
objects, such as jewelry and pottery.
• Film

film refers to the art of putting together successions off still images in order to create an illusion
of movement. film making focuses on its aesthetic, cultural, and social value and is considered as
both an art and an industry.

Performance Art

Performance is a genre in which art is presented "live," usually by the artist but sometimes with
collaborators or performers. It has had a role in avant-garde art throughout the 20th century,
playing an important part in anarchic movements such as Futurism and Dada. Indeed, whenever
artists have become discontented with conventional forms of art, such as painting and traditional
modes of sculpture, they have often turned to performance as a means to rejuvenate their work
 Poetry Performance
• Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically
composed for or during a performance before an
audience. During the 1980s, the term[1] came into popular
usage to describe poetry written or composed for
performance rather than print distribution, mostly open to
improvisation.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_poetry
 Architecture
• Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων
arkhitekton "architect", from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "creator") is
both the process and the product of planning, designing, and
constructing buildings or any other structures Architectural
works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as
cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are
often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 Dance
• Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully
selected sequences of human movement. This movement
has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as
dance by performers and observers within a particular
culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its
choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its
historical period or place of origin.
• Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed
for or during a performance before an audience. During
the 1980s, the term[1] came into popular usage to
describe poetry written or composed for performance
rather than print distribution, mostly open to
improvisation.
 Literary Art
Atists who practice literary arts use words not paint,musical
instruments, or chiselsto express themselves and
communicate emotions to the readers.
 Theatre
• Theatre, also spelled theater, in dramatic arts, an art concerned almost exclusively with
live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and
significant sense of drama.
• Though the word theatre is derived from the Greek theaomai, “to see,” the performance
itself may appeal either to the ear or to the eye, as is suggested by the interchangeability
of the terms spectator (which derives from words meaning “to view”) and audience (which
derives from words meaning “to hear”). Sometimes the appeal is strongly intellectual, as in
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but the intellectual element in itself is no assurance of
good theatre. A good performance of Hamlet, for example, is extremely difficult to achieve,
and a poor one is much less rewarding than a brilliant presentation of a farce. Moreover, a
good Hamlet makes demands on the spectator that may be greater than what that
spectator is prepared to put forward, while the farce may be enjoyed in a condition of
comparative relaxation. The full participation of the spectator is a vital element in theatre.
 Applied Arts
• The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and
decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in
order to make them aesthetically pleasing.[1] The term is
used in distinction to the fine arts, which are those that
produce objects with no practical use, whose only purpose
is to be beautiful or stimulate the intellect in some way. In
practice, the two often overlap. Applied arts largely
overlaps with decorative arts, and the modern making of
applied art is usually called design.
 Art
• Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating
visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks),
expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual ideas, or
technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty
or emotional power. Other activities related to the
production of works of art include the criticism of art, the
study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination
of art.
 Creativity
• Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and
somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be
intangible or a physical object.
 Learning Outcomes
1. Distinguish between directly functional and indirectly
functional arts;

2. Explain and discuss the basic philosophical perspectives

on the art.

3. Realize the function of some art forms in daily life; and.

4. Apply concepts and theories on beauty and aesthetics in

real life scenarios.
Aristotle
 Functional of Art
Ideally, one can look at a piece of art and guess with some accuracy where it
came from and when. This best-case scenario also includes identifying the artist
because they are in no small way part of the contextual equation. You might
wonder, "What was the artist thinking when they created this?" when you see a
piece of art. You, the viewer, are the other half of this equation; you might ask
yourself how that same piece of art makes you feel as you look at it.
These—in addition to the time period, location of creation, cultural
influences, etc.—are all factors that should be considered before trying to
assign functions to art. Taking anything out of context can lead to
misunderstanding art and misinterpreting an artist's intentions, which
is never something you want to do.
The functions of art normally fall into three categories: physical, social,
and personal. These categories can and often do overlap in any given
piece of art. When you're ready to start thinking about these functions,
here's how.
 Does Art Always Have to be
Functional?
• While it has been shown that most arts are functional, still there are some which
are not. The value of a work of art does not depend on function but on the work
itself.
Not all products of art have function. This should not disqualify them as art
though.
Nevertheless, a functional object cannot be claimed to be beautiful unless it can
perform its function sufficiently.
The plays of Aeschylus and the poetry of Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe are
still counted as examples of great works of art despite their not having a known
function.
 PHILOSOPHICAL  PERSPECTIVE
ON ART
•Art as an Imitation
Plato (2000) in his masterpiece, The Republic, particularly paints an picture of artists as
imitators and arts as mere imitation.

In Plato’s metaphysics or view of reality, the things in this world are only copies of the
original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the World of Forms.
Art imitates physical things (objects or events). Physical things imitate Forms (read Plato’s
Theory of the Forms). Therefore art is a copy of a copy. In book X of the Republic Plato
describes the metaphor of the three beds. One bed is an idea created by God. The second
bed is created by a carpenter who by constructing the bed imitates God’s idea. The
painter than paints the bed and by doing so he imitates the carpenter’s created bed.
• Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and artist for 2
reasons:
1.They appeal to the emotions rather than to the rational
faculty of men.
2.They imitate rather than lead one to reality.

Socrates just like Plato claimed that art is just an imitation

of imitation.
For Plato art is dangerous because it provides a petty
replacement for the real entities that can be only attained
through reason.
 Art as a Representation
• Aristotle, Plato’s most important student in philosophy,
agreed with his teacher that art is a form of imitation.
Aristotle considered art as an aid to philosophy in
revealing truth.
Unlike Plato who thought that art is an imitation of
another imitation, Aristotle conceived of art as
representing possible versions of reality.
For Aristotle, all kinds of art do not aim to represent
reality as it is, it endeavors to provide a vision of what
might be or the myriad possibilities of reality.
• In Aristotelian worldview, art serves two particular
purposes:
1. Art allows for the experience of pleasure (horrible
experience can be made an object humor)
2. Art also has an ability to instructive  and teach its
audience things about life (cognitive)
 Art as a Disinterested
Judgement
• Immanuel Kant , in his Critique of Judgement, considered
the judgement of beauty, the cornerstone of art, as
something that can universal despite its subjectivity.
Kant recognized that judgement of beauty is subjective.
However, even subjective judgements are based on some
universal criterion (judgment or decision may be based)
for the said judgement.
For Kant, every human being, after perception and the
free play of his faculties, should recognize the beauty that
is inherent in a work of art.
 •
How are these two statements different?

1. “I like the painting”

2. “The painting is beautiful”

 Art as a Communication of
Emotion
• According to Leo Tolstoy, art plays a huge role in communication to
it’s audience emotions that the artist previously experienced.
In the same way that languages communicates information to other
people, att communicates emotions.
As a purveyor of man’s innermost feelings and thoughts, art is given
a unique opportunity to serve as a mechanism for social unity.
Art is central to ma’s existence because it makes accessible feelings
and emotion of people from past and present.
Tolstoy is fighting for the social dimension of art. This means that
art serves as a mechanism of cohesion for everyone.
• Greek philosopher Aristotle claimed
that every particular substance in the
world has an end. Or "telos"  in Greek,
which translate in "purpose."
 Function of Art
• When it comes to functions, different art forms come with
distinctive functions. There is no one-to-one
correspondence between an art and its function. Some art
forms are more functional than other one.
 Personal Function of Arts
• The personal functions of art are varied and highly
subjective. This means that its function depend on the
person who created the art.
 Social Functions of Arts
• Art is considered to have a social function if and when it
addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a
personal interest.
 Physical Functions of Arts
• The physical functions of art are the easiest to
spot and understand.
It can be found in artworks that are crafted in
order to serve some physical purpose.
 Other Functions of Art

• Music in its original form was principally

functional. Music used for dance and
religion
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• Another art form that readily lends it self is Architecture
in fact, architecture might be the most prominent
functional art form.
It is also in architecture where one can find the intimate
connection of function and form.
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