Art Appreciation Overview & Orientation.pptx
- 1. Quick Review Think about the following questions: 1. Why is art considered AGELESS and TIMELESS? 2. Why is art not NATURE? 3. Why does art involve EXPERIENCE? 4. What is creativity? 5. Why is creativity necessary in art making? 6. When can you say that a person is creative?
- 2. Art Appreciation & Art History
- 3. “Vulture and Girl” / “Struggling Girl”- 1993, Kevin Carter (South African War photojournalist)
- 5. What is Art Appreciation as a SUBJECT? • Art Appreciation is a three-unit course that develops students' ability to appreciate, analyze, and critique works of art. Through interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches, this course equips students with a broad knowledge of the practical, historical, philosophical, and social relevance of the arts in order to hone students' ability to articulate their understanding of the arts. The course also develops students' competency in researching and curating art as well as conceptualizing, mounting, and evaluating art productions. The course aims to develop students' genuine appreciation for Philippine arts by providing them opportunities to explore the diversity and richness and their rootedness in Filipino culture.
- 6. Skills to be developed • Analyze and appraise works of art based on aesthetic value, historical context, tradition, and social relevance • Mount an art exhibit (concept development, production and postproduction, marketing, documentation, critiquing) • Create their own works of art and curate their own production or exhibit • Utilize art for self-expression
- 7. Values to be developed • Deepen their sensitivity to self, community, and society • Discover and deepen their identity through art with respect to their nationality, culture, and religion • Develop an appreciation of the local arts
- 8. ART and its various definitions • For many people, art is a specific thing: a painting, sculpture, or photograph, a dance, a poem, or a play. Art is uniquely human and tied directly to culture. As an expressive medium, it allows us to experience sublime joy, deep sorrow, confusion, and clarity. It gives voice to ideas and feelings, connects us to the past, reflects the present, and anticipates the future. Visual art is a rich and complex subject whose definition is in flux as the culture around it changes.
- 9. ART and its various definitions • Tolstoy's view: Art is the communication of feelings from artist to viewer through certain external signs. artist are people inspired by emotional experiences. use their skill with words, paint, music, movement, etc. to embody their emotions in a work of art.
- 10. ART and its various definitions • Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts— artworks—that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. • Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires, but it is even more personal than that: it’s about sharing the way we experience the world, which for many is an extension of personality. It is the communication of intimate concepts that cannot be faithfully portrayed by words alone.
- 11. What is Art History? Art History is the study of objects of art considered within their time period. Art Historians analyze visual arts’ meaning at the time they were created. Also, another of art history’s mission is to authorial origins of artworks such as discovering who created a particular artwork, where, when, and for what reason.
- 12. Jobs you can get as an Art Historian • Art Administrator • Exhibition organizer • Antique dealer • Arts consultant • Art gallery manager • Journalist • Art critic • Archivist
- 13. Historical Categories historians use to arrange objects in time • Chronology (date/how old is it?) • Provenance (place of origin/country/region) • Style (Art period/culture) • Iconography (symbols and their significance) • Subject matter (religious/portrait//mythological/landscape/historical/genre/still life, etc.) • Attribution (Who made it?, Who influenced the artist?) • Patron (Who paid for it?) • Meaning, cause, context
- 14. Some questions to think about