ART APP REVIEWER (QUIZ)

Art – creating things w/ good intention, skillful arrangement

Aristotle – “the right reason of making things”

Emotion – arts have in common

The Artist – exhibits exceptional skill

2 KINDS OF ARTISTS:

1. Creators
2. Performers

FACTS ABOUT ART:

1. Art is everywhere
2. Art is not nature, it is man-made
3. Art is imitating and creating
4. Art perfects nature
5. Art message is universal “Great art must surpass the boundaries of time and space.”

OTHER PRINCIPLES OF ART:

 Art is medium of expression and communication

 Art is a product of creative work
 Art elicits sensory, emotional and intellectual responses
 Art feeds our hunger for beauty
 Art gives us the experience of aesthetic pleasure
 Art is a practical application of knowledge

WAYS OF PRESENTING A SUBJECT

1. Realism – depicted in the way they normally appear

2. Abstraction – presentation of orig. objects/no intention of giving resemblance

EXAMPLES:

Malakas at Maganda

First Mass in the Philippines

3. Animals
4. Portraits – human face & character
5. Figures – human body, nude/clothed
6. Everyday life – usual ways of performing their tasks
7. History and Legend
8. Religion and Myths
9. Dreams and fantasies

COMMON SUBJECTS DEPICTED

1. Landscape, seascape, and city scape

2. Still life – inanimate objects

Subject in art – person, object, scene or event described or represented

Representational or Objective Art – visible subject

Non-representational or Non-objective Art – do not have visible subject

TYPES OF ART AS A FORM ACCORDING TO CASLIB, GARING AND CASAUL (2018):

1. Visual arts – appeal to the sense of sight

2. Film – succession of still images
3. Performance art – live art/artist’s medium
4. Poetry performance – expresses emotions to an audience thru words
5. Architecture – creation of buildings/structure embodies beauty & functionality
6. Dance – expression thru body movement
7. Literary Art – communicating one’s emotion thru words
8. Theater – presentation of imaginary events
9. Applied Arts - incorporating elements of style & design to every objects