ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

ART APPRECIATION

MODULE 1 Lesson 1: What is Art to Me? Understanding How Art Can Meet
Some Human Needs
Name: Tablazon, Edward James F. Date: February 2, 2021
Year Level 3rd year BSBA-HRDM Professor: Mrs, Escobido
S.Y 2020-2021 Prelim:

Objectives: At the end of the lesson the students must be able to:
• Understand the role of Art as a tool to aid human limitations;
• Relate art to yoursel: to your context, experiences, and longings as a
person; and
• Inculcate values and humanistic attitudee toward art.

ACTIVITY 1
Using internet and watch a local art and culture center. It may be a pottery- making
place, a local art gallery, school exhibit, a cultural event, a museum, or a local arts
and crafts store. Observe what is happening. Observe the processes that the
artists or craftsmen are involved in. Take note of the guide questions below as you
conduct your viewing.

Answer the following questions:

a. What did you see? Enumerate 5-10 things that were most notable in the place.
Describe them briefly.

Different artworks about history like the Their purpose is to inform the new
pre-colonial to the 3rd republic. generation what happen in the past
and to get the attention.
Showing how they value the past
Different concepts that how they specially the Filipino heroes
express and the meaning of their
artworks.
Observing the materials what they use.
They use portrait and landscape
Old color and colorful paintings and it
depend how they express the emotion
of every artworks.

They bring back what happen on

history or the remarkable past.

b. Describe your viewing: How did it awaken your senses? Did you feel relaxed,
excited, curious or intrigued?
 When I hear history I immediately feel the curiosity and relaxed. I was really
amazed at their works because every work was thought trough and time
was allotted. Seems like I also want to do and inspires me to draw
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Observe Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808.” Compare and contrast the
work with Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” (research this artwork online). Do not mind the
historical context of the work yet. Just try to observe each one. Give your possible
interpretation of the paintings. Try to think of all the factors involved in creating it
and list down the parallelism you can find.

Answer these questions:

a. What kind of event is being portrayed in the paintings? What emotion/s are the
artists trying to evoke? For what reason?
 The third of may 1808 commemorates the events surroundings the Mandrid
uprising against the French occupying forces of the previous day. The
picture is in fact the right-hand half of a diptych: the left-hand consists of the
second of may 1808. The central figure of painting, who is clearly a poor
laborer, takes the place of the crucified Christ, he is sacrificing himself for
the good of his nation. A dramatic emotion because of the prone bodies and
the reaction of the person in white clothes.

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b. As mere, frail human beings, whybdo you think we have such artworks to
process the emotion?
  Through the artworks it can show the emotion and to understand the
meaning. When they feel the artworks it seems that they have also
experienced what is implied and to arouse attention. We cannot appreciate
the artwork if we don’t feel the emotion.

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How did the artists elicit the emotions of the narratives through the subject matter?
 By the color be used in his artwork and it’s emotion come out more, the
expression of each character and their actions. And the emotions of the
artists are being putted on the artwork.
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ABSTRACTION

The exercises offered you some of the ways that addressed human issues. Read
the following elaborations on each of the functions to further aid your
understanding.

1. BEAUTY

Why do you think some people hang artworks on their wall? The conotation of
beauty is a debatable topic, but let us talk about prettiness and the aesthetic value
of art. One of the innate qualities that “pretty art” can give is that it makes our dull,
lifeless walls come to life. The contrast of having something “alive” and dynamic to
look at on somthing ordinary and common, let us say a pristine while wall, evoks in
us an affinity towards its beauty. Though ew have different notions of beauty, still it
is a common denominator when we are talking about appreciating forms of arts.
Beauty makes sense to most of us.
 “The Artists Garden at Venthuil” Claude Monet 1880

2. HAPPINESS AND HOPE

There is something about art that mirrors the soul of those willing to confront it. In a
societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age. There is a
wide range of properties of art why it gives a sense of joy and hope to its audience.
These examples:
a. when painting are placed in adauting environment such as hospitals;
b. the experience and process of creating art itself;
c. The bliss of looking at a piece of imagery evoking a happy memory;
d. Direct words from typography and graphic messages that are so relatable
as if the author has read your mind and feelings; and
e. Identifying oneself with the properties of an artwork; a homage to
something; works addressing diaspora, displacement, and other social issues.

3. IDENTIFY AND UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

Today’s generation, being the “me” generation is also sometimes tagged as the
“anxious generation”. a lot of social issues evidently reflect this struggle for identity:
gender issues, disconnectedness brought on by social media, regionalism, and
even mental health issues. How do you think art can be a tool address such
challenges? Do you agree that we need somthing outside of us and tangible
enough to define what we are feeling and struggling againts? Sometimes we see
ourselves in an artwork. Sometimes we see ourselve in the process. Art can serve
as a powerful tool to help us communicate and relay our confusion. Even
psychological interventions use art as theraphy to aid in processing some sensitive
experiences.

4. GRIEF AND HEALING

Many of the most poignant and humanistic products of art were made after the
World War II. Twentieth-century art expressed human sufferings and darkness in
its themes. Artists such as Rachel Whiteread talked about this haunting
remembrance of holocaust victims in her “Ghost Library.” Here she used an
experiential type of artistic expression, exploring the themes of place and memory
in an architectural setting.

Through the years, artist have interpreted these shared human experiences in
different ways, which also help us process our grief. Some may use art as a tool to
express pain and process it in theraphy. Notheless, it plays an important role in
making grieving somehow dignified.

5. REMEMBERING AND MARK-MAKING

How do you think has art helped us remembered? How have artists shaped our
landscape? The monument of Rizal in Luneta Park is one example of a type of art
that helps us remember. Without the tangible characteristics of art, we will not be
able to sustain our nationalistic values well enough. We have pictures, films and
paintings that depict heroism and nationalism. Try to look at these artists: “Angel of
the North” by British sculptor Anthony Gormley and Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” in
Chicago. Gormly’s work has been considered as the largest sculpture in the world
and one of the most popular. The humongous figure of a person with airplane-like
wings situated in Gateshead, England, and was commissioned to become an
identifying landmark of the region. On the other hand, Kapoor had this humongous,
bean-sahped metallic sculpture placed at that certainly builds a sense of mark and
identity to that place where the traffic of pedestrians is usually heavy.

6. RAISING AWARENESS

Have you seen large sculptural effigies ( those papier-mache-made-to-be-burned

protest art) during rallies in Manila? Some art can be categorized as activist art.
But not all are as loud and garnish. Some are subtle paintings which might use
satire. In the Philippines, many socially-concerned artist have merged in the age of
modernism portraying politicians and the governments system in their most hateful
actions. A more subtle type of inducing awareness can be observed in architure
such as the stained glass windows of Gothic churches and even their illuminated
manuscripts. Such is also the case of our local churches with large domes at the
altar and huge stained glass windows.

7. CULTURE AND TOGETHERNESS

Lastly, forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain
regions. This is very evident here in the Philippines, which is geographically
separated by thousands of islands - we are very regionalized. In a way, there is a
sense of redemption for the past weakness of Philippines when the Spaniards
strategized the divide and conquer method. Do you remember the national
costume of Miss Universe 2019? Here, we see how reigning queen Catriona Gray
wore the “whole Philippines,” symbolically uniting us through her Luzon-Visayas-
Mindanao-inspired national costume. Indeed it is an attempt to represent our unity
and national identity as Filipinos.

What do you think about the costumes?

 The costumes of the filipinos are very creative and they are proud
represents the culture of the filipinos to the whole world and it is the key to
known our culture and products.

APPLICATION: ( To be submitted as activity 2)

As an individual who has gone through a specific set of experiences, what kind
of art art would you make? What do you want want to share to others? What do
you want to awaken in them? Is there something you would like to remeber? Or
would you like you audience to just take pleasure in the aethetics of what you have
created? Remeber, there is neither right nor wrong answer for aethetic
interpretation. The goal is to express something or relevance to you as a person in
a visual form.

 The art that I make is roses because for me roses are love. I am a lovely
person to my parents and to my love ones, Everyone knows what a rose is.
Everyone knows that a rose speaks the universal language of love. The
rose is the most know flower all over the world. And for me everyone is a
single rose, not everyone can be very beautiful but they can be gorgeous as
a person itself.

ARTWORK:

Present here your drawing, an artwork of any medium, or a photograph that best
represents your answer to the guide questions above.