FUNCTIONS OF

ART
Prepared by: Ms. Eunice Emiko M. Mangune
 Why bother doing
something that one calls an
art?
 Functions of Arts
Personal
- self-expression
or for
entertainment
 Functions of Arts
Social
- used for public
display and
celebration, used to
affect the collective
behavior
 Functions of Arts
Physical
- utilitarian
“the greatest
happiness for the
greatest number”
SOCIAL
PHYSICAL
PERSONAL
PERSONAL
PHYSICAL
SOCIAL
 PHILOSOPHICAL
IMPORTANCE OF ART
Prepared by: Ms. Eunice Emiko M. Mangune
 What is
Philosophy?
Plato’s Theory of Imitation or “Art as Mimesis”
Plato’s view of reality
explains that ideal is only
true and arts are just
imitation or copy of the
truth, therefore for him
literature and poetry are
not true, it’s imitation of
the ideal.
Aristotle’s theory “Art as Representation”
▪ Aristotle considered art as
an aid to philosophy in
revealing truth.
▪ Representation here is
meant an artist's unique way
of capturing an image of
reality.
▪ catharsis - purgation of one's
emotions
Immanuel Kant’s Art for Art Sake
▪ Kant recognized that
judgment of beauty
is subjective.
▪ There is no valid
reason why people
engage in art but the
act itself.
 Philosophical themes in art
Proportion or Radiance or
Integrity consonance clarity
- refers to - implies - has something
faithfulnes balance or to do with the
consistency meaning or
s to one's impact upon the
of the
principles. elements observer.
I. Identify whether the statement is philosophy or
theme.
II. After identifying whether it is philosophy or theme,
identify its type of philosophy (mimesis,
representation, or art for art's sake) or philosophical
themes (integrity, proportion, or radiance).
A painter thinks that a good piece of
art should be able to copy the
object being considered.

Philosophy
Mimesis
When I draw images, I don't mind if it
imitates exactly any object but allow
my imagination free expression.

Philosophy
Representation
"As an artist, I don't consider any
function or purpose of my work.”

Philosophy
Art for art’s sake
An art critic enters a museum and
comments on a particular painting:
"The artist should have made the
colors lighter."

Theme
Radiance
"When I watch a play, I could not
help but become emotional and
allow myself to be carried away."

Philosophy
Representation
 "I experience awe and
admiration when I see a
beautiful picture."
Theme
Radiance
The size of the nose in one picture
matters, and the artist has a reason
for making it big as compared to
the other parts of the body.

Theme
Proportion
"I have my own standards to follow
and I don't care what others would
say with regard to my work of art."

Theme
Integrity
"I know exactly what the artist is trying
to convey in this picture. There's no
doubt about his message."

Theme
Radiance
"Art does not teach any ethical lesson,"
says an artist. "That is my bit of reality.
You can take it or leave it."

Philosophy
Art for art’s sake
 WORK OF ART: ITS
SUBJECT, FORM, AND
CONTENT
Prepared by: Ms. Eunice Emiko M. Mangune
SUBJECT OF ART
Subject of Art
- Anything that is
represented in the
artwork. It may be a
person, object, scene,
or event.
 Types of Subject
Representational
- artworks that depict
something that can easily
recognized which is real
and part of this world.
- painting, sculpture,
graphic arts, literature, and
theater arts.
Non-
representational
- artworks that have
no resemblance to
any real subjects or
objects or anything
from nature.
 Sources
and Kinds
of Subject
 Nature
The nature
and the
environment
have been
sources of
artistic
expression.
Water Lilies
by Claude
Monet
People and World
Events
This can be found in
individual and family
portraits.

World events have been

subjects of art as well. You
see these when you read
the newspaper, and flip
through the editorial page.
 Myths and
Legends
They used myths
and legends as
way of visualizing
the story found The Birth of Venus
within them. by Sandro Botticelli
Parthenon
 Spiritual and
Religious
Beliefs
- art has been an
outlet for religion
and faith to come
to life.
 Bagan,
Myanmar
Disputation of
the Holy
Sacrament by
Raphael
 Ideas
Commissioned
by Employers

- there are artist

hired by
employers.
Form
- is the overall organization
of the artwork. It is an
outcome of the artists'
effort to use the elements
of art and arrange them
according to aesthetic
principles.
Two-dimensional
art

Three-dimensional
art

Technological
media
 Two-dimensional art
This type of art begins the
work on a flat surface called
a plane. For painters, the
blank canvas in a plane. For
students who are asked to
draw, the sheet of bond
paper is the plane.
 Drawings
- is a process of
moving an
instrument over a
smooth surface to
leave a mark.
 Paintings
- is an art process
or media where the
artist applies colors
to surfaces using
paint brush,
painting knives, or
rollers.
Starry Night
by Vincent
van Gogh
Mona Lisa by
Leonardo da
Vinci
Rice Planting
by Fernando
Amorsolo
 Three-dimensional art
The distinguishing factor of
three-dimensional art is its
actual and real depth.
height, width, and depth.
 Sculpture
▪ A type of three-
dimensional art
where most of the
media used are clay,
glass, plastics, wood,
stone, or metals.
▪ Free-standing
sculpture
▪ Relief sculpture
Assembling
- it is the
process of
constructing a
sculpture using
different
materials.
 Modeling
- It is an additive
process where the
artist gradually
adds more of the
material to build the
form (Ragans,
2005).
 Carving
- it is a subtractive
process where the
sculpture removed,
cuts, chips, or drills
parts of the sold
mass to create the
form (Ragans, 2005).
 Casting
- It comes in the
manipulative process
where materials like soft
pliable materials are
made into shapes using
manual hand force or
machine manufactured
force (Ragans, 2005).
 Crafts
- these are
three-
dimensional
crafts that have
utilitarian
intentions.
 Technological media
Technological advances
have paved the way for
arts and the process of
making one to be more
accessible for
consumers.
Photography
- this is a
technique of
“capturing
optical images
on light-sensitive
camera.”
Films and Videos
▪ Films are series of
negatives that intend to
show motion pictures
▪ Videos are an art form
that relies on using
video technology as a
visual and audio
medium.
 Computer
Arts
- graphic
designers rely on
computers and its
applications to
create art.
CONTENT IN ART
 Content
▪ The meaning, message,
and/or feeling imparted by
a work of art.
▪ This is not the same thing
as the subject matter the
work depicts.
Content (Levels of Meaning)
Factual Conventional Subjective
- concerned with - based on or
what is actually - in accordance influenced by
the case rather with what is personal feelings,
than generally done tastes, or
interpretations of or believed. opinions.
or reactions to it.
 Subject: Biblical art
Factual Conventional Subjective
meaning meaning meaning
Man was
Creation story Endowment of
created in the
(creation of intellect to a
image and
man from God.
man) likeness of
God.
 Girl with a
Pearl Earring
by Johannes
Vermeer
The School
of Athens
by Raphael
Subject is the component that seeks to answer the "what" (topic, image,
focus) of the artwork.

Form, on the other hand, is answering the "how", which suggests the
artists strategies in terms of development, composition, and
substantiation.

Content is the component that expounds on the "why's" of an artist.

This seeks to describe the artist's ability to communicate his conscious
and unconscious intentions, meanings/rootedness and context (Ocvirck,
Stinson, Wigg, Bone, & Cayton, 2013).
The Criticism of Art and Judgment of
Aesthetics: Steps in Evaluating Art

Description

Analysis

Interpretation

Judgment
THE ARTIST AND
THE ARTISAN
Prepared by: Ms. Eunice Emiko M. Mangune
 Artists Artisan
- artists focus on - are craftsmen
creating who make
aesthetically practical artistic
pleasing works. products
The job responsibilities of an artists
include:
▪ Developing ideas for a canvas or product;
▪ Selecting a medium for a final work,
including texture, size, or area;
▪ Collecting work for a portfolio and
▪ Applying for grants for financial support.
The job responsibilities of an artisan
include:
▪ Using and mixing mediums like paint, metal,
glass, or fabric;
▪ Shaping, gluing, sewing, testing, and producing
products;
▪ Displaying work at various sites including
auctions, craft shows, or online markets; and
▪ Estimating costs and material needs.
GUESS WHO?
 ARTIST
GRAPHIC
DESIGNER
ARTISAN
SMITH
ARTISAN
CARPENTER
ARTISAN
POTTER
ARTIST
MAKE UP
ARTIST
 Some areas cover by
performing arts management
Organization Marketing
Accounting Public
The Law Relations

Fundraising Flexibility
 Organization Fundraising
Accounting
- Performance is the bread The Law -To look for funding
- Responsible for budgeting
and butter. institutions that will provide
and making tough choices -Protects the creative rights
- Programming and talent for operations. grants and subsidies for a
of both artists and artisans.
development should be the successful operations of the
solid skills. arts industry.

Marketing Public Relations

-Advertisements and
promotions to increase art
production and sales.
Flexibility
-The primary job is to
-No fixed schedule for all
communicate and serve the
staffs and artist.
company’s client.
 Art Dealer Art Collector Art Buyer
▪ Produce
▪ Middleman ▪ Private commercial
▪ Buys and sell collectors advertising
▪ Duties: projects that is
observe within the
Dealing,
Networking
trends in arts budget.
most of the ▪ Experts in
and writing contracts
Searching time. and purchase
order.
What is Art
Production
 ART PRODUCTION
▪ It can refer to the making of
something or final product.
▪ Production is at the heart of
making arts.
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Preproduction

Production

Postproduction
AWARD
▪ An award is something that is conferred or bestowed
especially based on merit or need.
▪ These are the things to consider
in giving an award which are the
number of years in practicing the
arts, provided job for others,
proven sense of nationalism in
noble and tangible actinons.
Awardee’s reputation was also
scrutinized.
RECOGNITION
▪ An award is
something that is
conferred or
bestowed especially
based on merit or
need.
RENOWN
▪ It is not enough that
you are known to
limited number of
people but also outside
the art world. His or
her artwork made an
impact to everybody.
GAMABA AWARDS
▪ Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or the National Living Treasure
Award
▪ Republic Act No. 7355
▪ National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) the
implementing agency.
▪ GAMABA shall mean a citizen engaged in any traditional art
uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have reached high
level of technical and artistic excellence and have been passed
on to generations and widely practice with the present
generation in his/her community.
Qualifications to Become a
Manlilikha ng Bayan
1. He/she is an inhabitant of an indigenous/traditional
cultural community anywhere in the Philippines that has
preserved indigenous customs, beliefs, rituals and
traditions and/or has syncretized whatever external
elements that have influenced it.
2. He/she must have engaged in a folk-art tradition that has
been in existence and documented for at least fifty (50)
years.
3. He/she must have consistently performed or produced
over a significant period, works of superior and distinctive
quality.
4. He/she must possess a mastery of tools and materials
needed by the art and must have an established
reputation in the art as master and maker of works of
extraordinary technical quality.
5. He/she must have passed on and/or will pass on to other
members of the community their skills in the folk art for
which the community is traditionally known.
Even if the traditional artist is incapable of teaching
his/her masterpiece due to advanced age or sickness,
he/she can still be rewarded if
1. He/she had created a significant body of works and/or
has consistently displayed excellence in the practice of
his/her art, thus achieving important contributions for its
development.
2. He/she has been instrumental in the revitalization of
his/her community's artistic tradition.
3. He/she has passed on to the other members
of the community skills in the folk art for
which the community is traditionally known.
4. His/her community has recognized him/her as
master and teacher of his/her craft.
CATEGORIES IN TRADITIONAL
ARTS
Folk Architecture Graphic and
Plastic Arts
Weaving
Ornaments
Carving
Textile
Performing Arts
Fiber Art
Literature
Pottery
Awardees’ Incentives
1. initially receives a P100,000;
2. P10,000 monthly financial assistance; and a gold
medallion.
3. an additional monthly personal allowance of P14,000
4. cumulative amount of P750,000 medical and
hospitalization benefits annually
5. Burial Assistance as a form of tribute
LITERATURE
Ginaw Bilog
▪ Poet
▪ Hanunuo Mangyan
▪ Panaytayan, Oriental
Mindoro
▪ 1993
▪ expert in Ambahan
poetry.
Federico Caballero
▪ Epic Chanter
▪ Sulod-Bukidnon
▪ Calinog, Iloilo
▪ 2000
MUSIC
Alonzo Saclag
▪ Musician and Dancer,
Kalinga
▪ Lubuagan, Kalinga
▪ 2000
▪ Established the Kalinga
Budong Dance Troupe
Masino Intaray
▪ Musician and Storyteller
▪ Pala’wan
▪ Brookes Point, Palawan
▪ 1993
▪ An outstanding master of
the basal, kulilal and bagit
Masino Intaray
▪ Basal - is a kind of musical ensemble played during
the tambilaw (Offering to the Lord of Rice); a rice
wine dringking ceremony.
▪ Kulilal - a lyric poem about love being sung to the
accompaniment of kusyapi, two-stringed lute, and
pagang, bamboo zither.
▪ Bagit - an instrumental music reflecting the sound
and movement of nature.
Samaon Sulaiman
▪ Musician
▪ Magindanao
▪ Mama sa Pano, Maguindanao
▪ 1993
▪ A master in playing the
Kutyapi, a two-stringed
plucked lute.
Uwang Ahadas
▪ Musician
▪ Yakan
▪ Lamitan, Basilan
▪ 2000
▪ Expert in playing kwintangan
kayu and agung
WEAVING
Lang Dulay
▪ Textile Weaver
▪ T’boli
▪ Lake Sebu, South Cotabato
▪ 1998
▪ T’nalak Cloth
Salinta Monon
▪ Textile Weaver
▪ Tagabawa Bagobo
▪ Bansalan, Davao del Sur
▪ 1998
▪ weaving traditional Bagobo
textiles/cloth or Inabal
Darhata Sawabi
▪ Textile Weaver
▪ Tausug
▪ Parang, Sulu
▪ 2004
▪ Pis syabit weaving
Haja Amina Appi
▪ Mat Weaver
▪ Sama
▪ Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi
▪ 2004
▪ She is respected throughout
her community for her
unique designs, the
straightness of her edging and
the fineness of her of her
craftsmanship.
Estelita Bantilan
▪ Estelita Tumandan
Bantilan, also known as
Labnai, is a renowned
master weaver of Blaan
mats called igêm and was
conferred with the
Manlilikha ng Bayan
award in 2016
Magdalena Gamayo
▪ Textile Weaver
▪ Ilocano
▪ Pinili, Ilocos Norte
▪ 2012
▪ Abel weaving
- a kind of blanket
made up of cotton
weaved in different
patterns.
Kusisok
Inuritan
Ambalang Ausalin
▪ Yakan textile weaver
▪ Sinalu’an and
seputangan
METALWORKS
Eduardo Mutuc
▪ Metalsmith
▪ Kapampangan
▪ Apalit Pampanga
▪ 2004
▪ He is a specialist in
religious and secular art.
CASQUE
Teofilo Garcia
▪ Casque Maker
▪ Ilocano
▪ San Quintin, Abra
▪ 2012
▪ Tabungaw hat or
kattukong
The Order of National Artists
▪ A national artist is a Filipino citizen who has been given the
rank and title of National Artist in recognition of his or her
significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts
and letters.
▪ By means of Presidential Proclamation
▪ Orden ng Gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining
▪ National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCAA) and
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and is conferred by
the President by both agencies recommendation
When was the order of
National Artist created?
Presidential Proclamation
No.1001, s. 1972, which
created to Award and
Decoration of National Artist.
Awardees’ Incentives
▪ The rank and title of National Artist
▪ Insignia of a National Artist
▪ 100,000 pesos cash award for living awardees or 75,000
pesos cash award to legal heir/s
▪ Monthly pension, medical and hospitalization benefits
▪ Life insurance if insurable
▪ State funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani
▪ A place of honor
First Filipino National Artist
Fernando Amorsolo
▪ The first National Artist
Award was posthumously
conferred on the "Grand
Old Man of Philippine
Art“
▪ Painter of rural Philippine
landscapes
 SEVEN NEW
NATIONAL ARTISTS
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