ART

APPRECIATIO
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MR. STEPHEN MARK M. APIN, LPT

INSTRUCTOR
Mona Lisa
The Starry
Night
The Birth of
Venus
•The Creation of Adam
Girl with a Pearl
Earring
What is Art?
| Work of art-visual expression of an idea
or experience formed with skill through
use of medium.

| Media/medium-type of tools used to

create the artwork.
-- clay, fiber, stone, wood, paint, video,
photography

|It can also be expressed through visual

form or music
Purposes and Functions of Art

| tell us things
| elevate our spirits
| show beauty
|
Art for Day to Day Living
| Objects made to delight the eye as well
as serve useful functions

Art for Worship and Ritual

| Through the ages people have used art to
use for prayer, worship, magic, and
ceremony.
Art for Personal Expression
| Artists used their medium to express
their personality/feelings to their viewer

Art for Social Causes

| People are influenced by what they see.

| Artists can use their art to influence the

public.
What is appreciation?

| recognition of good qualities of a person

or something
Art Appreciation

|acquiring knowledge leads to

appreciation

|knowing context
 Art Appreciation
is an art survey course designed to increase knowledge and apprection of visual
arts..
it refers to the exploration and analysis of the art forms that we are exposed to.
analyzing the form of an artwork to general audiences to enhance their enjoyment of
such artwork
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa, La Gioconda from Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, was a real person.
And we’re not talking about a self-portrait of the artist, as you may think. Mona
Lisa was a real Florentine woman, born and raised in Florence under the name of
Lisa Gherardini.
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 | Unlike some artwork of the sixteenth century, the Mona Lisa is a very
realistic portrait of a very real human being.
| There is no doubt that the Mona Lisa is a very good painting. It was
highly regarded even as Leonardo worked on it, and his contemporaries
copied the then novel three-quarter pose. The writer Giorgio Vasari later
extolled Leonardo's ability to closely imitate nature. Indeed, the Mona Lisa is
a very realistic portrait.
It is a visual representation of the idea of happiness suggested by the
word "gioconda" in Italian. Leonardo made this notion of happiness the
central motif of the portrait: it is this notion that makes the work such an
ideal. 
 Women shaved their facial hair, including their eyebrows, then. Leonardo
was an Italian, but he sold the painting to the king of France. Today, it is in
the Louvre Museum in Paris.

She is elegantly dressed in the fashion of the day, and unadorned by

jewelry. It is as if the artist wanted nothing to distract attention from her face,
and her face is the epitome of Renaissance masterwork representing female
beauty at that time. In fact, her gaze is mesmerizing and yet shyly seductive.
The Starry
Night
 Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in the asylum as a 'failure' in his
depression. ... The painting features short, painterly brushstrokes, an
artificial color palette and a focus on luminescence. It's this treatment that
helps explain why it became so famous and why it's considered a great
piece of art.
Starry night conveys strong feelings of hope through the bright lights of
the stars shining down over the dark landscape and night.