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Classifications Genres 17nov2020 Updated
Classifications Genres 17nov2020 Updated
Classifications Genres 17nov2020 Updated
WILLIAM JR R. RANARA
culture
is everything we think and do. Our way of Life
Art ?
Craft ? Technical proficiency
Process?
Embodied forms of similar characteristics
Philosophy? System of knowledge? Expression of
a worldview?
ART
Cultural Expressions
Palpable: it is experienced through a medium or mediums
Functional: it fulfills some social role in the community
Expresses a reality, a lifestyle
A people’s way of understanding their world
Forms are loaded with values
Art is living,
interactive, and
evolving. Traditional
Art is always
CONTEMPORARY
Approaches to the study
• SYNCHRONIC • DIACHRONIC
Studies structure of Studies Art within the
forms independent context of a milieu
from culture (formal)
CONCEPTS
CONCEPTS
culture, history,
medium, subject, function, values,
elements, technique, worldview, myth &
form, expressive religion, semiotics
content
CLASSIFICATION
GENRE (MEDIUM-BASED)
HISTORICAL PERIODS
CULTURE-CONTEXT
FORM AND FUNCTION
GENRE (7 ARTS)
Space/visual, aural/time, and combined
• Architecture
• Visual Arts: Painting and
Sculpture
• Music
• Literature
• Theatre (Dramatic Arts)
• Dance
• Cinema
Historical Periods
• Pre-historic
• Pre-colonial
• Spanish Colonial
• American colonial
• Post colonial
Pre-historic
Islamized
Spanish Colonial
Spanish Colonial
American Colonial
Culture-Context
• Indigenous
• Hispanic
• Islamized
• Afro-American
• Cosmopolitan
indigenous
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The Limitations of Classification by Genres
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