Review Materials for General Education in Arts Appreciation

1. ART
APPRECIATION
GEN.Ed-2

2. WHAT IS ART?
The term ART derives from the old Latin,
which implies a “craft or specialized sort of
expertise, as carpentry or smithing or
surgery” (Collingwood, 1938). (Collingwood,
1938).

3. The Subject of Art
In any art form- be it painting, music,
sculpture, architecture, o dance that
serves as the FOUNDATION OF THE
CREATION of the work of art.

4. ∙ The subject of art is VARIED.
∙ Usually anything that is represented
in the artwork. (person, object, sense,
or event.

5. Art Presented in 2 ways:
Non- representational/ non- objective art
Representational/ objective art

6. Art Presented in 2 ways:
Representational/ objective art
Non- representational/ non- objective art

7. ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Art Is
Universal

8. ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Nature Is Not Art,
and Art Is Not Nature

9. ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Art is a result of
personal experience

10. FUNCTIONS OF ART
(SUCA)
SOCIAL
FUNCTION

11. FUNCTIONS OF ART
(SUCA)
UTILITARIAN
FUNCTION

12. FUNCTIONS OF ART
(SUCA)
CULTURAL
FUNCTION

13. FUNCTIONS OF ART
(SUCA)
AESTHETIC
FUNCTION

14. Elements of art are stylistic features that
are included within an art piece to help the
artist communicate. The seven most common
elements include line, shape, texture, form,
space, color and value, with the additions of
mark making, and materiality.

15. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART
Line is one of the
seven elements of art.
It is considered by
many to be the most
basic element of art. In
terms of art, line is
considered "a moving
dot".

16. COLOR is an element
consisting of hues, of which
there are three properties: hue,
chroma or intensity, and value.[3]
Color is present when light
strikes an object and it is
reflected back into the eye, a
reaction to a hue arising in the
optic nerve.
ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART

17. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART
Form is a three-dimensional
object with volume of height, width
and depth. Form is often used
when referring to physical works
of art, like sculptures, as form is
connected most closely with those
three-dimensional works.

18. Shape is a two-dimensional
design encased by lines to
signify its height and width
structure, and can have
different values of color
used within it to make it
appear three-dimensional.
ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART

19. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART
Space refers to the
perspective (distance between
and around) and proportion
(size) between shapes and
objects and how their
relationship with the
foreground or background is
perceived

20. Texture is used to describe
the surface quality of the
work, referencing the types
of lines the artist created.
The surface quality can
either be tactile (real) or
strictly visual (implied).
ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART

21. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART
Value refers to the
degree of perceivable
lightness of tones
within an image.

22. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART
PRINCIPLES BALANCE
RHYTHM EMPHASIS
PROPORTION UNITY

23. ARTS AND
ARTISANS

24. LEONARDO DA VINCI
Born: 04-15-1452, Vinci, Italy
Profile: Painter, Architect, Sculptor,
Inventor, Military Engineer and
Draftsman.
Died: 05-2- 1519 ,Amboise, France
Quotes: “He who thinks little, errs much”
Brian S. Cunal
Famous Works The Last Supper Mona Lisa
Vitruvian Man

25. LEONARDO DA VINCI

26. VINCENT VAN GOGH
∙ Born: 03-30-1853 Zundert, Italy
∙ Profile: Painter
∙ Died: 07-29-1890 Amboise,
France
∙ Famous Works The Starry Night
Sunflowers Irises

27. VINCENT VAN GOGH

28. MICHELANGELO
∙ Born: 4-6-1475, Michelangelo, Italy
∙ Profile: Painter, Architect, Poet
∙ Died: 2-18-1564, Rome, Italy
∙ Quotes: “Genius is eternal patience.”
∙ Famous Works David Creation of
Adam St. Peter’s Basilica

29. MICHELANGELO

30. CLAUDE MONET
• Born: 11-14-1840, Paris, France
• Profile: Painter, Philosopher
• Died: 12-5-1926, Giverny, France
• Quotes: “The richness I achieve comes
from Nature, the source of my
inspiration.”
• Famous Works Water Lilies
Impresion,Sunrise Rouen Cathedral
Series

31. CLAUDE MONET

32. FRIDA KAHLO
• Born: 07-06-1907, Mexico City, Mexico
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 07-13-1954, Mexico City. Mexico
• Quotes:” I never paint dreams or
nightmares. I paint my own reality.
• Famous Works The Two Fridas SELF-
PORTRAIT WITH THORN NECKLACE AND
HUMMINGBIRD The Broken Column

33. FRIDA KAHLO

34. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
• Born: 11-15-1887, Wisconsin, USA
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 03-06-1986, New Mexico , USA
• Quotes: “The days you work are the
best days.
• Famous Works Black Irises III Cow’s
Skull: Red, White and Blue Radiator
Building Night- New York

35. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

36. EDGAR DEGAS
• Born: 7-19-1834, Paris, France
• Profile: Painter, Sculptor
• Died: 9-27-1917, Paris, France
• Quotes: “Art is not what you see,
but what you make others see.
• Famous Works The Absinthe
Drinker The Dance Class The
Bellelli Family

37. EDGAR DEGAS

38. EDVARD MUNCH
• Born: 12-12-1863, Adalsbruk,
Norway
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 1-23-1944, Oslo, Norway
• Quotes: “From my rotting body,
flowers shall grow and I am in
them and that is eternity.”
• Famous Works The Scream The
Day After The Dance of Life

39. EDVARD MUNCH

40. JACKSON POLLOCK
• Born: 1-28-1912, Wyoming, USA
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 8-11-1956, NY, USA
• Quotes: “The painting has a life of
its own. I try to let it come through.
• Famous Works The Number 5 The
Number 11 The Number 31

41. JACKSON POLLOCK

42. PABLO PICASSO
• Born: 10-26-1881, Malaga, Spain
• Profile: Painter, Sculptor, Ceramicist,
Stage Designer, Poet and a Playwright.
Died: 4-8-1973, Mougins, France
• Quotes: “Every child is an artist. The
problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up.
• Famous Works Guernica The Young Ladies
of Avignon The Weeping Woman

43. PABLO PICASSO

44. GUSTAV KLIMT
• Born: 7-14-1862, Baumgarten,
Austria
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 2-6-1918, Vienna, Austria
• Quotes: “Truth is like fire; to tell
the truth means to glow and
burn.”
• Famous Works The Kiss Potrait of
Adele Bloch-BauerI The Virgin

45. GUSTAV KLIMT

46. HENRY MOORE
• Born: 7-30-1898, Castleford, United
Kingdom
• Profile: Sculptor
• Died: 8-31-1986
• Quotes: “One never knows what each
day is going to bring. The important
thing is to be open and ready for it.”
• Famous Works Reclining Figures King
and Queen Bird Basket

47. HENRY MOORE

48. SALVADOR DALI
• Born: 5-11-1904, Figueras, Spain
• Profile: Painter, Draftsman
• Died: 1-23-1989,Figuerras, Spain
• Quotes:”Intelligence without
ambition is a bird without wings.”
• Famous Works The Persistence of
Memory Swans Reflecting
Elephants Premonition of Civil
War

49. SALVADOR DALI

50. PAUL CEZANNE
• Born: 1-19-1839, Aix-en, France
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 10- 22-1906, Aix-en, France
• Quotes: “We live in a rainbow of
chaos.”
• Famous Works The Bathers The Card
Player Series Jug, Curtain and Fruit
Bowl

51. PAUL CEZANNE

52. DIEGO RIVERA
• Born: 12-8-1886, Guanajuato, Mexico
• Profile: Painter
Died: 11-24-1957, Mexico city,
Mexico
• Quotes: “I've never believed in God,
but I believe in Picasso.
• Famous Works The Man at the
Crossroad The Card Player Series The
History of Mexico

53. DIEGO RIVERA

54. PHILIPPINE ARTS AND
CRAFTS:
A CHRONOLOGY

55. Pre-colonial art was
created before the arrival
of the Spanish explorers.

56. Period of Spanish
colonial art

57. American colonial art

58. Post-colonial art period

59. Contemporary Art period

60. ART FROM THE
PERSPECTIVE OF
PHILOSOPHY

61. Art as a kind of emulation
Plato's The Republic portrays artists as mimics,
and art as nothing more than a collection of
imitations.

62. Art as a means of communication
Art is a representation of a version
of reality. Aristotelian philosophy
holds that art has two distinct
purpose:

63. Art as a means of communication
it allows for the enjoyment of
pleasure, and it has the power to
be instructional, teaching its
audience valuable lessons about
life and its surroundings.

64. Art as a kind of unbiased evaluation
Kant’s Critique of Judgement asserted that the
judgment of beauty, which he regarded to be the
foundation of art, was something universal, despite
the fact that it was susceptible to subjectivity. In his
understanding of beauty, he acknowledged that it is
subjective.

65. Art as a means of conveying
emotional content
Tolstoy believed that art has a significant
function in communicating feelings that the
creator has previously experienced to an
audience via communication. Emotions are
communicated via art

66. PSYCHOLOGY OF
COLORS

67. RED (PHYSICAL)
Positive:
Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic
survival, 'fight or flight’, stimulation, masculinity,
excitement
Negative:
Defiance, aggression, strain

68. BLUE (INTELLECTUAL)
Positive:
Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency,
serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm
Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of
emotion, unfriendliness.

69. YELLOW (EMOTIONAL)
Positive:
Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion,
emotional strength, friendliness, creativity
Negative:
Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression,
anxiety, suicide

70. GREEN (BALANCE)
Positive:
Harmony, balance, refreshment, universal love,
rest, restoration, reassurance, environmental
awareness, equilibrium, peace
Negative:
Boredom, stagnation, blandness, enervation

71. VIOLET
Positive:
Spiritual awareness, containment, vision,
luxury, authenticity, truth, quality
Negative:
Introversion, decadence, suppression,
inferiority.

72. ORANGE
Positive:
Physical comfort, food, warmth, security,
sensuality, passion, abundance, fun
Negative:
Deprivation, frustration, frivolity, immaturity

73. PINK
Positive:
Physical tranquility, nurture, warmth,
femininity, love, sexuality, survival of the
species.
Negative:
Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia,
emasculation, physical weakness

74. GRAY
Positive:
Psychological neutrality.
Negative:
Lack of confidence, dampness,
depression, hibernation, lack of energy.

75. BLACK
Positive: Sophistication, glamour, security,
emotional safety, efficiency, substance.
Negative: Oppression, coldness, menace,
heaviness.

76. WHITE
Positive: Hygiene, sterility, clarity, purity,
cleanliness, simplicity, sophistication,
efficiency.
Negative: Sterility, coldness, barriers,
unfriendliness, elitism.

77. BROWN
Positive: Seriousness, warmth, nature,
earthiness, reliability, support.
Negative: Lack of humor, heaviness, lack of
sophistication.

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