ART

APPRECIATION
LECTURE 02 – Art, Man &
Society
01 HUMANITIES
Introduction
 Etymology
1.1. It came from the Latin
word “humanus” which
means refined, culture
and human

Culture
2.2.
HUMANITIES Adaptation to
environment (social
interaction, norms)

Human
3.3. Having the nature of
people, being a person
 -The expression of ourselves without
using of words (painting,
sculptures, dancing, mosaic, cross
stitch, collage, paper and folding)
HUMANITIES - The study of man’s expression
feelings, thought, intuition, values,
and ideas
- The study of man’s experience,
goals, and aspirations
- It is used to dramatize individual
expressions

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 The humanities serve to provide the
student with certain skills and
Why? values through the arts. Students
learn to appreciate the
importance of value that no other
subject can describe those values
which are directly an exact.

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AIM OF HUMANITIES

MEDIEVAL AGE RENAISSANCE 19TH & 20TH

PERIOD CENTURY

- Dealt with the - To make man richer - To appreciate and

metaphysics of because during understand the
the religious that time only the importance of
philosopher rich people can human being and
make art. ideas
 - Anthropology
Other related - History

- Literature
fields in - Philosophy

humanities - Religion

- Sociology

- Visual and

Performing Arts

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02 ART
 Etymology
1.1. It came from the Latin
word “ars/artis” which
means to do, or man
made

Definition
2.2.
ART It is a medium of
expression because
through arts we express
our ideas, emotions,
feelings, without using
words
3.3.
WORK OF ART
A thing of beauty having
aesthetic value. Obra
maestra, provides aesthetic
values to the viewers.
– It must have an artistic merit
and literary merit.
– It is a symbolic state of
meaning rather having a
practical function.
CATEGORIES OF Best selling - it is very
ART THAT ARE popular in its day, or is
produced by an
CONSIDERED TO artist who has done other
BE GREAT very popular piece.

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 Groundbreaking- that it
does not follow regular
CATEGORIES OF convention or
already tried artistic
ART THAT ARE methods real closely. It is
CONSIDERED TO not, in short, just
one more soap opera
BE GREAT following an old, old
formula, no matter
how well done.

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 Inherently beautiful -
means just as the art
critics do require and
demand that a work of
CATEGORIES OF art have an inner
ART THAT ARE harmony, beauty, and
emotional/intuitive
CONSIDERED TO meaning that are
BE GREAT unified, strong and
intense, and deeply
moving to us. Something
that appeals to your
senses and emotions.

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03 ART & MAN
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

GENDER
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

CULTURE
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

NATIONALISM
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

GEOGRAPHY
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

ETHNICITY
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

SPIRITUAL
BELIEFS
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

SOCIO-
ECONOMIC
BACKGROUND
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

POLITICAL
BELIEFS
IDEAS THAT AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF ART

PERSONAL
EXPERIENCES
ART CRITICISM APPROACH

MIMETIC EXPRESSIVE

Based on the Based on the

subject matter artist

PRAGMATIC AESTHETIC/
FORMAL
Based on the
Based on the form
audience
“Art is an imitation of reality…”

Plato, Greek Philosopher

 MIMETIC – SUBJECT MATTER

With respect to subject

matter, art is an imitation,
depiction or
representation of some
aspect of nature or life.
That which is imitated,
depicted or represented
in art is its subject matter.
“He who touches this book,
touches the man.”

Walt Whitman, an American poet

 EXPRESSIVE - artist

The expressive approach to

art criticism stresses the
relationship of the
artwork to its creator. In
this approach, the artist
himself becomes the
major element
generating both the
artistic product and the
norms by which the work
is to be judged.
“Literature, to be of importance,
must be simple and direct and
must have a clear moral
purpose…”
Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist and short story writer
 PRAGMATIC - audience

Pragmatic critics attach little

importance to the
aesthetic value and
instead judge art
according to how useful it
is to the audience. For
instance, they are partial
to artworks that have
moral value – that aim to
teach, to instruct, to
ennoble, or to mold the
moral character of the
audience.
“There are no moral or immoral
books; they are either well-
written or badly written.”

Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish wit and playwright

 AESTHETIC/FORMAL - form
With respect to form (the
manner of imitation, how
the subject matter is
handled and presented),
art is a composition, a
whole consisting of
various parts or elements;
the selection,
organization, and
integration of these
elements according to
certain formal principles
and employing certain
techniques constitute
that which we call the
form of art.