Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
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Prepared by: Noel V. Bernadas
Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
What is Art for you?
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
What is Art Appreciation?
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
What is Art Appreciation?
Appreciation- profound appreciation- rests on
knowledge and understanding.
“I cannot love someone I do not know”
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
What is Art Appreciation?
Appreciation- profound appreciation- Valuing
rests on knowledge and
understanding. Living/
Knowing
“I cannot love someone I do not doing
know”
Art
Appreciation
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Personal Starting Point
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Personal Starting Point
What is your ideas on art?
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Personal Starting Point
What is your ideas on art?
Your Questions about art?
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Personal Starting Point What is your ideas on art?
Your Questions about art?
Where do we find art?
What do we consider as artistic?
Is art necessary or is it a waste of time?
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Definition of Art
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Definition of Art
Art comes from the Latin word ‘ars’,
Meaning anything humans make or man-
made.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Definition of Art
Art comes from the Latin word ‘ars’,
Meaning anything humans make or man-
made.
Art implies a certain orderliness, rationality
and grace
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Definition of Art
Art comes from the Latin word ‘ars’,
Meaning anything humans make or man-
made.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Seven Genres of Art
1. Visual Arts
2. Architecture
3. Music
4. Dance
5. Literature
6. Theatre
7. Film
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Art, Nature and the World
Is nature an art?
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Art, Nature and the World
Is nature an art?
Art begins as a human encounter or
experience of nature in all its depth and
variety.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Art, Nature and the World
Thus, art begins with encountering something
primarily outside of us and applying human
invention, capturing it as a significant and
worthwhile encounter – at least to ourselves
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Art, Nature and the World
Thus, art begins with encountering something
primarily outside of us and applying human
invention, capturing it as a significant and
worthwhile encounter – at least to ourselves.
1. Nature
2. Intrapersonal Encounter
3. Interpersonal Encounter
4. Metapersonal or Transcendent Encounter
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Subject Matter of Art
Is the “What of Art”
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Subject Matter of Art Music:
Sound
Is the “What of Art” Painting:
Architecture:
Landscape or
Space
Portrait
Subject
Drama and
Film: Dance:
Movement
Storyline
Movie:
Story
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Thinking Like an Artist
How to think like an artist?
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Thinking Like an Artist
How to think like an artist?
Creating art is a far richer and a complex
process than just making a pretty picture.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Thinking Like an Artist
How to think like an artist?
Creating art is a far richer and a complex
process than just making a pretty picture.
A good Artist is one who engages the whole brain
and body in thinking and creating
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Thinking Like an Artist
How to think like an artist?
Creating art is a far richer and a complex
process than just making a pretty picture.
A good Artist is one who engages the whole brain
and body in thinking and creating
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Thinking Like an Artist
How to think like an artist?
Creating art is a far richer and a complex
process than just making a pretty picture.
A good Artist is one who engages the whole brain
and body in thinking and creating
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Thinking Like an Artist
Art making involves multiple intelligences and
the senses as well. In fact art genres
corresponds to senses.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Thinking Like an Artist
Art making involves multiple intelligences and
the senses as well. In fact art genres
corresponds to senses.
Visitors flock to see Rembrandt’s The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum in
27 Amsterdam: apparently some of his patrons were not very happy with the finished
canvas. Photograph: David Levene
Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
Overview of Philosophical ideas
The nature of art, what it is and where it figures in
human life has been the subject of concentrated
reflection in the field of philosophy
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
Overview of Philosophical ideas
The nature of art, what it is and where it figures in
human life has been the subject of concentrated
reflection in the field of philosophy.
Philosophy is the quest to know, spurred by the
love for truth.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
1. Immanuel Kant – places the search for beauty under the
category of practical reason (Critique of the Power of
Judgment, Part III)
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
1. Immanuel Kant – places the
search for beauty under the
category of practical reason
(Critique of the Power of
Judgment, Part III)
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
2. Rene Descartes - The proof of human existence is the
human capacity to think. “Cogito Ergo sum”
- His rationalist approach places great importance on
reason and downplays feelings and other human faculties.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
3. Baruch Spinoza – A Jewish humanist who
focused on affects and feelings.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
3. Baruch Spinoza – A Jewish humanist who
focused on affects and feelings.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
4. Blaise Pascal - said that reason have limits when
said, “The heart has reasons, which even the reason
does not know.”
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
4. Blaise Pascal - said that reason have limits when
said, “The heart has reasons, which even the reason
does not know.”
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
5. Judeo-Christian and Islam religion – these
religions recognized that there is another source of
truth beyond the limit of human reason
(transcendence) which is divine revelation.
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Philosophies and Theories of Art
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Hold a different theory about art and its
role, specially in religion.
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Philosophies and Theories of Art
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Hold a different theory about art and its
role, specially in religion.
Judaism and Islam
- Are very cautious about the visual arts.
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Philosophies and Theories of Art
Judaism and Islam
- Quotes the injunction against idols cited in
the book of laws, Deuteronomy: “You shall
not have false gods before me.”
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Philosophies and Theories of Art
Judaism and Islam
- Quotes the injunction against idols cited in
the book of laws, Deuteronomy: “You shall
not have false gods before me.”
Because the visual art can lead to idolatry, Judaism
and Islam have banned the depiction of God.
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Philosophies and Theories of Art
Judaism and Islam
- Quotes the injunction against idols cited in
the book of laws, Deuteronomy: “You shall
not have false gods before me.”
However, this did not mean that the visual arts had
completely disappeared in Judaism or Islam.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
5. Plato - proposed the concept of the World of
Ideas or the World of Forms (Formalistic)
What we see here on earth, what is visible
as natural forms are copies of the original in the
World of Ideas (Idealistic).
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
Golden ratio (section aurea) or golden mean, was
an ideal ratio that guided the artists and produced
harmonious and pleasing effects
Golden Apollonian Zeus
Ratio Proportion Proportion
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Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
6. Aristotle - proposed an empirical approach to
art. He posited that everything is composed of
matter and form, which he labels all as cause.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
6. Aristotle - proposed an empirical approach to
art. He posited that everything is composed of
matter and form, which he labels all as cause.
1. Material Cause
- refers to the elements out of which an object is made.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
6. Aristotle - proposed an empirical approach to
art. He posited that everything is composed of
matter and form, which he labels all as cause.
2. Formal Cause
- is an expression of what an object is.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
6. Aristotle - proposed an empirical approach to
art. He posited that everything is composed of
matter and form, which he labels all as cause.
3. Efficient Cause
- is the means by which an object is made.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
6. Aristotle - proposed an empirical approach to
art. He posited that everything is composed of
matter and form, which he labels all as cause.
3. Efficient Cause
- is the means by which an object is made.
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
6. Aristotle - proposed an empirical approach to
art. He posited that everything is composed of
matter and form, which he labels all as cause.
4. Final Cause
- refers to the end or purpose why an object is made.
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Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
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Chapter 1: Orientation to Art
Philosophies and Theories of Art
(Quest on the Nature of Beauty –Aesthetics)
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