ART APPRECIATION
Tittle: ART APPRECIATION
Lecturer:

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).

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

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

ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Art Is Universal
Nature Is Not Art, and Art Is Not Nature
Art is a result of personal experience

FUNCTIONS OF
ART (SUCA)
Social Function
Utilitarian Function
Cultural Function
Aesthetic Function

ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF
ART
ELEMENTS
LINES
COLOR
FORM/SHAPE
SPACE
TEXTURE
VALUE

ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF
ART
PRINCIPLES
BALANCE
RHYTHM
EMPHASIS
PROPORTION
UNITY

ARTS AND ARTISANS

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

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

MICHAELANGELO
 Born: 4-6-1475, Michaelangelo, 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

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 myinspiration.”
• Famous Works Water Lilies Impresion,Sunrise Rouen
Cathedral Series

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 FridasSELF-PORTRAIT WITH THORN
NECKLACE AND HUMMINGBIRD The Broken Column

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
RadiatorBuilding Night- New York

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

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 thatis eternity. “

JACKSON POLLOCK
• Born: 1-28-1912, Wyoming, USA
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 8-11-1956, NY, USA
• Quotes: “T he 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

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

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 toglow and
burn.”
• Famous Works The Kiss Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I The Virgin

HENRY MOORE
• Born: 7-30-1898, Castleford, Unite 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

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 ElephantsPremonition
of Civil War

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 FruitBowl

DIEGO RIVERA
• Born: 12-8-1886, Guanajuato, Mexico
• Profile: Painter
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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
TheHistory of Mexico

PHILIPPINE ARTS AND
CRAFTS: A CHRONOLOGY

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

Period of Spanish colonial art

American colonial art

Post-colonial art period

Contemporary Art period

ART FROM THE
PERSPECTIVE OF
PHILOSOPHY

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

Art as a means of
communication
Art is a representation of a version of reality. Aristotelian philosophy holds that
art has two distinct purposes: it allows for the enjoyment of pleasure, and it
has the power to be instructional, teaching its audience valuable lessons
about lifeand its surroundings.

Art as a kind of unbiased evaluation
Kant's Critique of Judgment 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.

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

PSYCHOLOGY OF COLORS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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