ARTIST AND ARTISANSARTIST AND ARTISANS
The following are the important players in the art
A. ARTIST
― Art practitioner
― Painter, sculptor, chireographer, dancer, poet, musicians
― Produces or creates indirectly functional arts with
aesthetic value using imagination
― Paintings, sculptures, dances, music, literary pieces
― Creative individuals who use their imagination and skills
to communicate in an art form
― Use materials of an art to solve visual problmes
― Look to many resources for inspiration
― Some look forward to their natural and cultural
environment for ideas; others look within themselves for
creative motivation
― Exhibit the courage to take risks
― Able to see surroundings in new and unusual ways
― Work long periods of time to achieve their goals
― Some are self-taight and have been called folk-artists
because they are not educated in traditional artisitic
methods
― Devoed only to the creative part, making visually pleasant
work only for the gratification and appreciation of the
viewer but with no practical value
B. ARTISAN
― CRAFTSMAN
― Carpenter, carver, plumber, blacksmith, weaver,
embroiderer
― Produces directly functional and/or decorative arts
― Hel us in meeting our basic needs such as food, clothing,
dwelling, furniture, and kitchen utensils
― They craft everything that makes our life easy
― Their works are useful, relevant, and essential in our
everyday life
― Serve us for a long time, supplying us directly functional
arts
― Basically a physical worker who makes objects with his or
her hands, and who through skill, experience
― Ability can produce things of great beauty as well as
usefulness
― Learn skills and techniques from some other artists
KEY COMPONENTS OF THE ART MARKET
― Art Market: economic ecosystem that relies not only on
supply and demand but also on the fabrication of a work
: can appear somewhat unclear since artists
do not make art with sole intention of selling it, and
buyers often have no idea of the value of their purchase
market:
1. CURATOR
― Manager or overseer
― Keeper of a cultural heritage institution
― E.g, gallery, museum, library, or archive
― Specialist charged with an institution’s
collections; can be a dealer
― They select art to be displayed in a
museum, organizing art exhibitions in
galleries or public places
― To be successful, should be organized,
passionate, knowledgeable, adept at multi-
tasking, & proficient at writing
2. ART BUYER
― Professional who is knowledgeable in
art
― Who scout talents for advertising
agency seeking to employ an art
director
― Who look for an art for a collector or a
company
― Art collector
3. ART DEALER
― Person or a company that buys and
sells works of art
― Often study the history of art before
starting their careers
― Have to understand the business site
of art world
― Keep up w/ the trends in the market &
are knowledgeable about the style of
art
― Figure out how much the art
4. PRIVATE COLLECTION
― Personal owned collection of works,
usually a collection of art
― in a museum or art gallery env’t
― signifies that a certain work is not
owned by the institution, but is on loan
from an individual or organization,
either for temporary exhibition or for
long term
― source is usually from an art collector
 RECOGNITION AND AWARD FOR ARTIST AND THE ELEMENT OF SPACE
ARTISAN SPACE: A tricky element of the visual arts
― Involves both physiological capability of the visual
1. Gawad sa Manlilikhang Bayan (GAMABA)
system and the physical manipulation of the 2-
National Living Award
dimensional surface to give the viewer an illusion
― Institutionalized in 1992 through republic
of depth or distance
― National Commission for Culture and the Arts
a. Physiological Perception of Space
(NCCA): highest policy making and coordinating
― 2 process should be understood
body of the Phil. For culture and arts
(stereoscopic vision, And
― Award is conferred upon a Filipino citizen or
kinesthetic vision): these 2 visual
group of any Filipino citizens engaged in any processes allow the viewer to
traditional art uniquely Filipino perceive depth and distance
Duties and Responsibilities of Awardees
― stereoscopic vision: gives the
a. to transfer the skills of his/her traditional folk art
viewer the perception of depth
to the younger generation through apprenticeship
because of the distance b/w the 2
and such other training methods as are found to be
eyes
effective
― retinal disparity: gives the viewer 2
b. to cooperate with the implementing agency, as
images then physiologically
provided for in Section 7 of this act, in the
merges them into one image
promotion and propagation of his/her traditional
― kinesthetic vision: involves the
folk art
movement of the eyes when
c. to donate to the national museum a sample or
looking at or viewing the object
copy of his/her work
2. National Artists of the Phil ― more ocular movements occur
― Considered to be the highest national recognition for when the object is near, and less
when the object is far
individuals who contributed to the dev’t of phil. Arts
b. The Illusion of Space
― National commission for culture and arts and the
1. Overlapping. When objects are grouped, not all
cultural center of the phil. Together administer this
parts of some objects will be seen
award
2. Relative Size and Linear. Objects that are big
― Pres of the phil. Grants this award to an artist after
will be perceived as near compared with
both institutions give recommendations for this
objects that are far
particular artist
3. Atmospheric Perspective. Also known as aerial
― Fernando Amorsolo: 1st national artist
perspective.
ELEMENT OF SHAPE
― SHAPE: result from the coming together of lines
enclosing an area and separating it from its
surroundings
― A perceptual “totality” is formed givng the viewer
the “wholes” that now are labelled as shapes
KINDS OF SHAPE
1. Geometric: regular & precise and present an industrial
feel to the viewer.
: may be rectilinear or curvilinear
2. Organic: have natural appearance and represent
objects from nature; curvilinear and irregular
3. Biomorphic: shapes manifest some qualities of biological
organisms
4. Amorphous: shapes exist w/o any basisi from either
nature/ geometry