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Art Appreciation
Submitted by:

Methly Joy B. Moreno

Submitted to:

Professor Noe Pobadora

 Allane : Art and Perception of the World

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 “If one sees the painting as its subject, one commit some kind of mistake, Mr.
Henry Matisse once said, an artist. Man always tend to see painting as a representation
of something. He used to objectivate -- he is constantly urge to see something in the work
of art, because he is sure of himself that it represents something.

Therefore, most of us see what's beyond the visual aspects of a painting – its
designs, shapes and lines of different colors. We often “see through” the piece of an art,
and that what makes our experience in art different from the other, -- it’s unique. This is
somehow can be represented by the story of the little boy in the Little prince where
everyone's merely see a hat, yet what he sees is actually a boa constrictor having
shallowed an elephant.

But the real question here is that, “what of the world does a painting represent?

During the Renaissance period, portraits were representational and highly realistic,
the human figure is mostly at rest. The face is always in a frontal view. Great example of
this were Mr. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and the Last supper. However a decades later, this
treatment of figures were abandoned by the cubist, such as Mr. Pablo Picasso's Le De
Moissels d' Avignon which is composed of various facet of five female bodies seen from
different angles.

As what Mr. J. W. Sanders observed : as decades passed, like what happened to

Renaissance up to the age of cubism, artists have changed their point of view.

The world the Renaissance saw was static; their paintings captured reality for just
one moment, in one view. The cubist turned and wiggle their sight to see many
movements, many appearances which resulted in a multi-view, multi-perspective,
assorted rendering of thing in artistic forms which creates a dynamic form of art.

The nature, evolution and appreciation of representational art can therefore be

understood in the context of the artists’ vision of the world. The art becomes by the way,
the artist see and perceived the world.

The Treachery of Images

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 Rene Magritte : This is not a pipe piece of an art, personally makes me realized a
deeper meaning of art : surrealism perhaps.

We often see the subject of the art, then based and looked for it's label from our
language. We tend to associate the image that we see with our language and that's how
we perceive it : we saw an image of a pipe, wherein the word pipe is actually in our
language, hence we say, “This is a pipe!”. Yet Rene Migratte help us to change our way
of seeing it, behind his simple painting is a deeper meaning about art which make us
realized that the it’s definitely not a pipe, but only a representation of it, it's not the real
thing and only the resemblance of it.

Indeed language has constantly influence and affects our way of thinking, it's our
dependence to language that makes the treachery happened. We often see an art as
literal as our language, we seek the meaning and label of a piece of an art based on the
words available in our minds and it's absolutely doesn’t always happened in arts.

We should have a deeper imagination and go beyond what could we say. We

should transcend beyond the words and context in the dictionary, a surreal art which is
free from concious, rational control, a degree of independence from the linguistic
references up to abstract painting which in turn to be an independent form of art from
visual references in the world.

Ernest Gombridge : The Pygmalion's Power

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 The story of Pygmalion, a greek mythology by Ovid which crytallize the belief in
the power of an art to create rather than to portray.

Pygmalion who happened to be a sculptor, fell in love with the statue he makes,
he then requested and prayed to Goddess Venus for a bride after that image. Venus
granted his prayer and turn the cold ivory into a living body. It is a myth that has naturally
captivated the imagination of the artist to create an art.

Freud once said, the happiness in art was being felt in the act of creation, yet
disappears towards the completion of the work, because that's the time the painter
realizes , that it’s only a picture that he is painting, the he almost dared to hope that the
picture might spring to life as being inspired by the myth of Pygmalion.

The painter can so subdue the minds of men that will fall inlove with a painting that
does not represent a real woman. Perhaps, what Freud said is actually the answer to Da
Vinci's deep dissatisfaction with his art, his reluctance to reach the fatal moment of
completion, being able to realize that his knowledge and imagination are of no avail is
only a picture that he was been painting and after, it will turn to look flat. Artists were truly
passionate to the process of making an art, and Da Vinci's who claimed to be a creator ,
a maker of things, passed from the painter to the engineer, which make him the true
maker that he aspires to be – leaving to the artist only the small consolation of being a
maker of dreams.

What is Art For?

Alain De Botton’s animated guide
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What is basically art for? Well, there’s a lot of things to say, from a perspective of
a kid to an aged, from shallow to deep, from eyes to our emotions, art really serves and
means numerous things.

From what the animated video had presented, there were actually five things art is
for. First, art keeps us hopeful. It's undeniably that most arts were created to show the
prettiest scene and things in the world, that means whoever see and take a deep stare in
a piece of an art will experience an elevation of mood and creates a subtle feeling of
hope, secretly whispering that the world has its beauty that you still need to see.

Parallel with this, is that, art makes us less lonely, its absolutely not only for the
appreciator but with the creator as well. Art is a theraphy -- physically, mentally or
emotionally. It's a way to release our feelings or emotions, or a thing that makes the viewer
realized that, pain is a normal part of human experience. Indeed, art is a comforter, a
friend that will accompany you, through times when you're feeling in distress.

Speaking with emotion, is the other thing that art possessed : its capacity to
rebalance us. Arts have various kinds of showing what does it want to convey, each
piece of art directs the artist's emotions to its viewer and it makes them feel this various
emotions which fills up the lackness they are experiencing. We tend to love those arts
which we think and felt, lightens up the dark side of our life, it's quite deep, but that's one
of the nature of man. If we have problems and anxious, we used to went to the beach and
just by seeing the calmness of the sea it uplifts our mood immediately. Same thing with
how art works on us, it rebalances our mood and fill the lackness we feel inside.

And because of this beautiful traits of arts, it make us to appreciate stuffs. Art
even the toilet bowl and simple oranges or the broken chair makes them appreciated by
people, without the presence of art, we used to perceive these stuffs as a normal creation,
yet as art comes around we tend to see beyond and treat those stuff as another form of
art to be appreciated and care about.
 Summing up all these things that an art is actually for is that, art is a propaganda
– it's a motivation that keep us hopeful, make us less lonely, rebalance us,and appreciate
more stuff.