REVIEWER FOR ART APPRECIATION

 BEAUTY is also identical to GOODNESS.

 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE – described role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in
a completely different light and perspective, and the source is human freedom.
 ART is from the LATIN word “ARS” which means “CRAFT OR SPECIFIC SKILL”.
 ARTWORK – product of any craft or specific skill.

FOR SOMETHING TO BE CONSIDERED AN ARTWORK, IT SHOULD BE:

1. Made by man
2. A product of a specific skill

ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ART

1. ART IS UNIVERSAL – it is present in every culture.
2. ART IS NOT NATURE – art is made by man.
3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE – cannot be abstracted from actual doing. To know
art is to experience art.

 ARTIST – person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or
demonstrating the art.
 ARTISAN – skilled craft worker who creates functional things.
 Skill alone is not enough to create a great work of art. One should be CREATIVE,
IMAGINATIVE, and KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS herself.
1. CREATIVITY – requires thinking outside the box.
2. IMAGINATION – allows endless possibilities.
3. EXPRESSION – makes people’s art a reflection of their inner selves.

FORMS OF EXPRESSIONS/GENRES OF ART

1. Visual Art
2. Film
3. Performance Art
4. Poetry Performance
5. Architecture
6. Dance
7. Literary Art
8. Theater
 9. Music
10. Applied Arts

FUNCTIONS AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART

 FUNCTIONAL ART FORMS – benefit the cause of man’s existence.
 NON-FUNCTIONAL ART FORMS – serves no utilitarian purpose.
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART
1. PLATO (ART AS AN IMITATION) - things in this world are only copies of the
original.
2. ARISTOTLE (ART AS REPRESENTATION) – attempt to represent what things
might be. Art allows for the experience of pleasure.
3. IMMANUEL KANT (ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGMENT) – judgment of
beauty can be universal despite its subjectivity.
4. LEO TOLSTOY (ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION) – art plays a
huge role in communication to its audience’s emotions.

BASIC COMPONENTS OF A WORK OF ART

1. SUBJECT – visual focus of the image that may be extracted from examining the
artwork.
2. CONTENT – meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork.
3. FORM – development and configuration of the artwork. How elements and the medium
are put together.
TYPES OF SUBJECT
1. REPRESENTATIONAL ART – figures depicted are easy to make out and decipher.
2. NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART – shapes, lines and colors that are employed to
translate a particular feeling, emotion and even concept.

SOURCES OF SUBJECT
1. NATURE – natural world
2. PEOPLE – most interesting subject of an artwork which may be real or imagined.
3. HISTORY – depiction of factual events that occurred in the past
4. LEGENDS – artworks based on legends present to viewers of the art. Something
tangible even when unverified.
5. RELIGION – artists used as inspiration the religious texts as the Bible, Quran and Torah
6. MYTHOLOGY – sources of subjects that come from the stories of gods and goddesses
 7. DREAMS AND FANTASY – wonder of the unconscious is what is being exposed by
art works under this subject source.
8. TECHNOLOGY – modernity of the present is also an inspiration being used by artists
as a source of subject.

DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MEANING

 FACTUAL MEANING – literal statement or the narrative content in the work
 CONVENTIONAL MEANING – special meaning that a certain object or color has for
a particular culture or group of people.
 SUBJECTIVE MEANING – meanings stem from the viewers or audience
circumstances that come to play when engaging with art.

GENRES OF MOTION PICTURES

1. FEATURE FILMS – movies most commonly shown in large movie theaters.
2. ANIMATED MOVIES – follows the same format as feature films, but use images
created by artists/animators.
3. DOCUMENTARY MOVIES – deal primarily with facts, not fiction.
4. EXPERIMENTAL FILMS – sequence of images, literal or abstract, which do not
necessarily form a narrative.
5. EDUCATIONAL FILMS – intended to facilitate learning at home or in the classrooms.

PEOPLE BEHIND A MOTION PICTURE

1. ACTORS – play the roles of the characters in the film.
2. PRODUCER – handles finances
3. SCREENWRITER – develops stories and ideas for the screen or adapts interesting
written pieces of work.
4. DIRECTOR – studies the script, plans and visualizes how the film should be portrayed.
THE ELEMENTS OF CINEMA
1. ACTING AND THE STARS – art of portraying or impersonating a character in the
story.
2. SET AND ART DIRECTORS – should know the setting of the story and build artificial
sets.
3. MUSIC AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR – music is indispensable in a motion picture.
Musical director is in charge of selecting, composing new songs…
4. COLOR – in the movies is an innovation in cinematography.
5. MAKE-UP, HAIR AND COSTUME DESIGN – these people are responsible for
applying the specific type of make-up, hairstyle and costume to the actors.
 6. SOUND, CAMERA AND SPECIAL EFFECTS TECHNICIAN – sound technicians
are responsible for making the dialogue clear and music of fine quality.

PRINCIPLES OF ART
1. BALANCE – distribution of the visual elements in view of their placement in relation to
each other.
 SYMMETRICAL – elements used on one side are reflected on the other.
 ASSYMETRICAL – not the same on each side
 RADIAL – there is a central point
2. SCALE AND PROPORTION – size of an object in relation to another or relative to a
whole composition.
 NATURAL – realistic size-relations of the visual elements in the artwork.
 EXAGGERATED – this refer to the unusual size-relation of visual elements
 IDEALIZED – size-relation of elements achieve the most-ideal size-relation.
3. EMPHASIS – allows the attention of the viewer to a focal point
4. CONTRAST – disparity between the elements that figure into the composition.
5. UNITY – sense of accord or completeness from the artwork.
6. VARIETY – principle that aims to retain the interest by allowing patches or areas that
both excite and allow the eye to rest.
7. HARMONY – elements or objects achieve a sense of flow and interconnectedness.
8. MOVEMENT – direction of the viewing eye as it goes through the artwork.
9. RHYTHM – created when an element is repeated, creating implied movement.
10. REPETITION – the elements may appear in the artwork in a recurring manner
11. PATTERN – the image created out of repetition.

ELEMENTS OF ARTS
1. LINE – path made by a moving point. Series of dots
 STRAIGHT LINES – geometric and impersonal and differ in the direction they
take. Left to right, start from top going down, slant or move up and down forming
angles.
a. HORIZONTAL LINES – move from left to right or vice versa.
b. VERTICAL LINES – start from the bottom going up or vice versa.
Line that appears to be standing.
c. DIAGONAL LINES – slanting lines. It suggests two meaning.
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. Positive indicates action and
movement. Negative conveys a feeling of uncertainty, stress or defeat.
d. ZIGZAG LINE – angular lines that resulted because of abrupt change
in the direction of a straight line thus forming angles.
2. CURVED LINES – technically curvilinear lines. Found in nature and living organisms.
3. COLOR – property of light. Expresses moods, feelings and personality.
a. HUE – name given to the color.
b. VALUE – lightness and darkness of a color.
c. INTENSITY – brightness and dullness of a color.
4. SHAPE – formed when two ends of a line meet to enclose an area.
 SHAPE – 2 dimensions
 FORM – 3 dimensions
a. NATURAL OR ORGANIC SHAPES – seen in nature like the shapes of
leaves, animals, mountains, flowers and seashells.
b. ABSTRACT SHAPES – have little or no resemblance to natural objects.
c. NON-OBJECTIVE OR BIOMORPHIC SHAPES – seldom have reference
to recognizable objects
d. GEOMETRIC SHAPES – triangles, rectangles, squares, cylinders.
5. TEXTURE – feel or tactile quality of the surface of an object.
6. SPACE – space is an illusion in the graphic arts.
 POSITIVE SPACE – space where shadow is heavily used.
 NEGATIVE SPACE – white space
7. MOVEMENT – portrays motion in artworks.
 ACTUAL MOVEMENT – natural movement using wind and water, battery or
electricity.
 IMPLIED MOVEMENT - illusion