LESSON 5

Aesthetic Terms
 VALUES

LOGICAL ETHICAL AESTHETIC

True False Good Evil Beautiful Ugly

 AESTHETICS VALUES

BEAUTIFUL UGLY
Delights Glooms

Wow! Yak!
Walastik! Eww!
Hanep! Sus!
 ORIGIN OF ART AND BEAUTY FROM THE
SENSES
EYES Seeing: Color. Shape, VISUAL ART
Size, Motion Painting, Sculpture,
Archi., Dance, Drama
Ears Hearing: Sound AUDITORY ART
Music, Drama
Nose Smelling: Odor OLFACTORY ART
Perfume Making
Tongue Tasting: Taste CULINARY ART
Cooking
Skin Touching: Texture, TACTILE ART
Shape, Size, Motion Sculpture, Lovemaking
Imagina- Imagining: IMAGINATIVE ART
tion Images Literature , Drama
 AESTHETIC VALUES
ACCORDING TO THE SENSES

SENSE DATA BEAUTIFUL UGLY

COLOR Picturesque Blur
SHAPE Pretty Grotesque
SIZE Cute Piquant
MOTION Graceful Awkward
SOUND Lovely Droll
ODOR Fragrant Foul
TASTE Delicious Pungent
TOUCH Pleasant Harsh
IMAGE Fantastic Ridiculous
36a. Kandinsky, Color Composition
PICTURESQUE
Beautiful Color

Pink Floyd, Brain Damage:

The Dark Side of the Moon,
Psychedelic Rock Music
Video, 1972
 49a

PICTURESQUE
Beautiful Color
 45a

BLUR
Ugly
Color
PICTURESQUE: Rainbow: Beautiful Color in Nature
Sunset in a Beach, San Roque Northern Samar
Amorsolo,
Sunset
Monet, Venice at Twilight
 51a

EMOTIONAL
EFFECT OF
COLOR
 COLORFUL BUILDING

St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow Russia

 FILIPINO
SENSE OF BEAUTY
The colorful is
beautiful.
 HORROR VACCUI:
Fear of Empty Space
COLORFUL DESIGN IN PHILIPPINE FOLK ART
PICTURESQUE
Beautiful Color in
Philippine Art
THE COLORFUL ART OF THE PHILIPPINE KALESA
THE COLORFUL ART OF TRICYCLE DESIGN
COLORFUL PHILIPPINE ICE CREAM CART
COLORFUL
ART OF THE
PAROL

Lanterns
made of
capiz shells
with twikling
light design
Giant Lantern Festival, Pampanga
COLORFUL PHILIPPINE INDIGENOUS ART
Vinta
Badjao
Art
Sarimanok Design
Maranao Art
Abdul Mari Imao, Sarimanok, 1975
Tinalak, Tiboli Art
 Tiboli Woman
Weaving Tinala’k,
(Dreamweaver)
Tinalak
Clothes
Nike Shoes with Tinala’k Design
 COLORFUL COSTUMES
ACCESSORIES AND DECORATION
COLORFUL BANDERITAS DURING PHILIPPINE
PAHIYAS FESTIVAL, LUCBAN QUEZON
SINULOG FESTIVAL, CEBU CITY
KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL, DAVAO
PENAGBENGA FESTIVAL, BAGUIO CITY
DINANGYANG FESTIVAL, ILOILO
ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL, KALIBO AKLAN
MASSKARA FESTIVAL, BACOLOD
TINALAK FESTIVAL, SOUTH COTABATO
THE COLORFUL
IS BEAUTIFUL
Piliin Mo ang Pilipinas
Angeline Quinto
Music Video
2012
 PRETTY
Beautiful Shape

GROTESQUE
Ugly Shape
THE BEAUTIFUL SHAPE OF A DOME

St.Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

 DOME

House of Congress, Washington D.C.

 DOME

Taj Mahal, Agra India

 DOME

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Turkey

 Beautiful Shape

Sydney Opera House, Australia

 SEXY
Beautiful shape of the
female body
Ingres, The Grande Odalisque
Ingres, The Odalisque with a Lute Player
Juan Luna, The Odalisque
Alphonse Ma. Mucha,
Absinthe Robette,
1901

STYLE
ART NOUVEO
 79
Venus of
Willendorf,
35,000 BC

GROTESQUE
Ugly Shape
Grotesque
Face
42g

Leonardo,
Grotesque
Faces, 1492
Leonardo, Grotesque Faces, 1492
 CUTE
Beautiful Size

PIQUANT
Ugly Size
 JAPANESE
SENSE OF
BEAUTY
The small is
beautiful.

BONSAI
Miniature Tree
in a Pot
 SMALLEST ORIGAMI

Folded from a
piece of plastic
film measuring
0.1 x 0.1 mm by
Naito Akira in
2004
 HAIKU
Japanese short poem
composed of 3 lines
with 17 syllables

An old, silent pond…

A frog jumps into the pond,
Splash! Silence again.
(Basho Matsuo) I walk across sand
And find myself blistering
In the hot, hot sun.
 TANAGA
TAGALOG
SHORT POEM
Wala iyan sa pabalat
At sa puso nakatatak
Nadarama’t nalalasap
Ang pag-ibig na matapat

Aanhin ang yamang Saudi,

O yen ng Japayuki
Kung wala ka sa tabi
(Fernando Gonzales)
 GREEK AND
WESTERN SENSE
OF BEAUTY
The big is
beautiful.

Statue of Zeus
435 BC, 40 ft. high
Colossus of Rhodes
280 BC, 100 ft. high
 Statue
of Liberty
1886
305 ft. high
 THE TALLEST BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD
Burj
Khalifa,
Taipei Dubai,
Sears 101, 2,772 ft.
Empire Tower, Taiwan,
State Chicago, 1,666 ft
Building, 1,450 ft.
Pyramid New York
of Kufu 1,250 ft.
Egypt,
420 ft.
 Burj Khalifa
Dubai
2,772 feet high
163 Floors

Scene from the

Making of Mission
Impossible: Ghost
Protocol, 2011
TALLEST BUILDING IN
THE PHILIPPINES

PBCom Tower
Ayala Makati City
790 feet high
55 floors
GRACEFUL
Beautiful
Motion

Michael
Jackson
Beat It
1986
 LOVELY Beautiful sound
DROLL Ugly sound

TIMBRE OF THE HUMAN VOICE

FLOWING EFFECT Jose Mari Chan,

(Continuous Sound) Constant Change

TREMBLING EFFECT Louis Armstrong,

TREMOLO OR VIBRATO It’s a Wonderful
(Vibrating Sound) World
 PLEASANT
Beautiful Touch

KAMA SUTRA
Art of Pleasure
The experience of
pleasure is one of the
five aims of Hindu life
necessary for a person
to attain spiritual
release or moksha.
The love of man Raddha for the god Krishna symbolizes
the human longing for the divine.
Relief Sculpture in Kajhuraho Temple, India
 ANEKAPARIGRAHA
Sacred Prostitute

Fulfills men’s experience

of pleasure, therefore,
helping them to attain
spiritual release.
 GEISHA
Japanese
Traditional
Professional
Woman
Entertainer
 HENTAI
Japanese images and
cartoons showing
sexual activities
 Hokusai,
The Pillow
Book
 FANTASTIC
Beautiful Image

RIDICULOUS
Ugly Image
18a
Dali, The Dream
18c
 De Chirico,
Soothsayer’s
Recompense
Jacek Yerka,
Don’t Slam
the Door
Jacek Yerka,
Quiet Balance
 Jacek Yerka,
Brontosaurus
Civitas
 Magritte
Fine Realities
1964

Surrealist
Rene Magritte,
Documentary
2013