ART APRECIATION: HISTORY OF

WHAT IS ART?
ART
• How would you define ‘art’? For many people
art is a specific thing; a painting, sculpture or
photograph, a dance, a poem or a play. It is all
of these things, and more.  
• But they are only mediums for artistic
expression. 
ART
• Webster’s New Collegiate dictionary defines art
as “The conscious use of skill and creative
imagination especially in the production of
aesthetic objects.”  
• But according to Joseph Brodsky hints at a
definition of art in his poem that art is a
“Creation of a new life”:
ART
• Art is uniquely human and tied directly to culture.
• It takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary.
• It asks questions about who we are, what we value,
the meaning of beauty and the human condition.
• It allow as experience sublime joy, deep sorrow,
confusion and clarity.
• It gives voice to ideas and feelings, connects us to the
past, reflects the present and anticipates the future.
WHAT ARE THE FACTORS THAT
INFLUENCE AN ARTIST
 Geographical Factors
• It is the places where artists stay influence
their work
• The Place where the artist have their artistic
self inflamed
For instance:
• Marble sculptures in Romblon because of
the rich supply of marble.
Historical Factors
• historical events exert a great influence
on the artist
• The Happening in the past that give a
boost to artistic self of an artist
For instance:
• Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere
Social Factors
• How does the society influence an artist
• How artist want to influence the society
For instance
• The Weimar period had seen a flourishing of German
art, much of which was abstract. Hitler saw this
modern art as 'degenerate' and over 6,500 works of
art were removed from display across Germany. Hitler
encouraged ‘Aryan art’ instead, which showed the
physical and military power of Germany and the Aryan
race.
Ideation Factors
• Ideas coming from various people that
influence artists
For instance:
• Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis,
said that the human body is the most
beautiful thing to present in an art. This
soon gave birth to nudism.
Psychological Factors
• Works produced by artists are affected
by their psychological make-up or
framework
For instance:
• “The Sick Child” by Edward Munch
(right) – childhood experience of
contracting an illness after the loss of a
loved one
Technical Factors
• The idea of art creation that an artist
want to show or to teach to other
artist
For instances
• using different techniques, brushes
and strokes
HARMONY
• Artist wanted to express the beauty
of arts
• Artist wanted us to feel the
harmony the peace just by seeing
it.
ART HISTORY
BEGINNING OF TIME

• Art exist even in the beginning of

time for example the use of sharp
objects, for creating cutting tools.
• It is the playful, the creativeness and
a uniqueness of the mind create such
things
 GREEK PERIOD: GOLDEN AGE
• The height of this period was the time of Pericles
and Thucydides, of the great dramatists Sophocles
and Euripides, and of the young Socrates.
• Aesthetic ideal based on the representation of
human character as an expression of a divine
system.
• The sculptor Polykleitos sought to arrive at a
rational norm for the structure of the ideal human
figure.
ROMAN PERIOD
• Still sculpture is prominent in this
Era and commonly their theme is
about there Gods and Goddesses
but Roman version
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
• It is the Age where the
painting a rise but there were
no portrait paintings in the art
of the Middle Ages. The colors
were generally somewhat
muted.
RENAISSANCE PERIOD
• Renaissance artists painted a wide
variety of themes. Religious
altarpieces, fresco cycles, and small
works for private devotion were
very popular.
• Still portrait painting is relevant in
this Era but it is the Era when the
Portrait painting is introduced
AGE OF MANNERISM
• Where Renaissance art emphasizes
proportion, balance, and ideal
beauty, Mannerism exaggerates
such qualities, often resulting in
compositions that are
asymmetrical or unnaturally
elegant.
ROMANTIC PERIOD
• The movement emphasized
intense emotion as an
authentic source of aesthetic
experience, placing new
emphasis on such emotions
as apprehension, horror and
terror and beauty of nature.
REALIST PERIOD

• As artistic movements in
19thCentury Realism are
responses to Romanticism but are
not really comparable to it.
• It is based on the daily event that
can be happen in life and not like
romanticism is somehow cannot
be happen to show extreme
emotion
IMMPRESIONISTIC PERIOD
• Characteristics include relatively small,
thin, yet visible brush strokes, open
composition, emphasis on accurate
depiction of light in its changing
qualities (often accentuating the
effects of the passage of time),
ordinary subject matter, inclusion of
movement as a crucial element of
human perception and experience,
and unusual visual angles.
MODERN PERIOD
• Characterized by the artist's intent
to portray a subject as it exists in
the world, according to his or her
unique perspective
• This is the birth of abstract arts
where there’s lot of meaning in
the art base on the artist
perspective or your perspective
FUTURISTIC ARTS
• This are the arts that
we are doing now
with the use of
digitals tools and
futuristic ways to
express a art