ART APPRECIATION

KRISTINE S. BORROMEO BSED SOC STUDIES 1

Pretest

1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True

Activity 1

1. Self-portrait and other portrait

2. Skull
3. Extinguished candle
4. Pearl necklace
5. Pipe
6. Books
7. Sculpture
8. Bubbles
9. Wine glass
10. Roses
11. Smoke, watches, hourglass
12. Rotten fruit
13. Coins

Activity 2

Based on your answers, write an assumption about what the painting means in the space
below.

 Based on the painting, the painter included portraits of himself in his painting. It
illustrates the ephemeral nature of his own accomplishments but can be still recognized
even in the long period of time through painting. This painting depicted the expressive
and attractive subjects in a lively domestic setting. It included the usual symbol of
transience and impermanence of human life such as skulls, extinguished candles and
flowers. This painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitable death and
the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures. The common vanitas
symbols include coins that symbolizes impermanence of earthly materials; roses which
fades and withers; bubbles which symbolizes brevity of life and suddenness of death;
smoke, watches and hourglass which symbolizes brevity of life; rotten fruit which
symbolizes for decay; skulls which symbolizes certainty of death. It also exhorts the
viewer to consider mortality and to repent while they live. The drawings as intended for
engravings more often made them as independently displayed works of art.
Evaluation

1. What are the hurdles of accessing art in terms of its subject and content?
o The hurdles of accessing art in terms of its subject and content are the notion
that in order to appreciate it, one must be able to extract a specific image, isolate
the artist or maker’s intention, and unearth a particular meaning, and it cannot be
explained as easy as what others think.

2. Where do artists source their subjects?

o Artists mostly source their subjects from nature,

3. Name an example of an artwork and speculate on the content of the artwork based on
its factual, conventional and subjective meanings.
o An example of artwork is the “Mona Lisa”. It is a portrait and example of
representational art or figurative art. Mona Lisa is a type of art wherein its subject
refers to objects or events occurring in the real world. Despite of not knowing
who Mona Lisa is, it is clear that the painting is of a woman that is realistically….