LECTURE 5

Aesthetics: Study of
Art and Beauty
OUTCOMES:
a. Define aesthetics as a branch of philosophy
concerned with art,

b. Compare the Filipino sense of art and beauty

to that Western and Japanese; and

c. Make an artwork applied the concept of horror

vaccui.
 U RE 4 .1
LEC T
F i e l d o f
T he
st h e t i c s
A e
“AESTHETICS”
Etymology
ENGLISH GREEK
“sensory perception” “aesthesis”

Magritte, The
False Mirror
 The word “aesthetics” was first
employed by Baumgarten to mean “the
science of sensory perception.”
Particularly, he used it to denote a
realm of concrete knowledge, as distinct
from the abstract where content is
ALEXANDER communicated in sensory forms.
BAUMGARTEN
(1714-1762)

Aesthetics
 AESTHETICS
Philosophy of beauty and art

Nature of Essence of
Theory about the Beauty: Why Art: What
ultimate reality are beautiful makes
of things things something a
beautiful? work of art?
AESTHETIC DEFINITION

is the creation by the artists in their creativity

and appreciation by the art spectator with artistic

taste
of BEAUTIFUL anything with a value that delights

human-made art distinguished from nature

objects.
 TWO WAYS OF
CONSIDERING BEAUTY

RELATIVE ABSOLUTE
“Beauty is in the “Beauty is in
eye of the beholder.” the thing itself.”

SUBJECT OBJECT
DIVISION OF AESTHETICS

THEORY OF BEAUTY
Nature of beautiful things

THEORY OF ART
Essence of art

THEORY OF ART CRITICISM

Evaluation of the merit or
demerit of works of art
 THEORY OF ART:
Is this art? Why?

THEORY OF ART
CRITICISM:
Is this art great?
Why?

Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482

Model:
Simonetta
Vespucci

THEORY OF
BEAUTY:
Is she
beautiful?
Why?
 U RE 4 . 2
LEC T
h e t i c
Aest
Te rm s
 CATEGORIES OF VALUE

LOGICAL True and False

ETHICAL Good and Bad

AESTHETIC Beautiful and Ugly

 AESTHETICS VALUES

BEAUTIFUL UGLY
Delights Glooms

Wow! Yak!
Walastik! Eww!
Hanep! Sus!
 AESTHETIC VALUES ACCORDING TO THE SENSES

SENSES SENSING: Sense-Data FORMS OF ART

VISUAL ART: Painting,
SEEING: Color,
EYE Sculpture, Architecture,
Shape, Size, Motion
Dance, Drama
AUDITORY ART: Music,
EARS HEARING: Sound
Drama
OLFACTORY ART:
NOSE SMELLING: Odor
Perfume Making

TONGUE TASTING: Taste CULINARY ART: Cooking

TOUCHING: Texture, TACTILE ART:

SKIN
Shape, Size, Motion Sculpture, Lovemaking
IMAGINATIVE ART:
IMAGINATION IMAGINING: Images
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
PICTURESQUE
Beautiful Color

BLUR F

Ugly Color

Mondrian,
Composition with Red,
Yellow and Blue,
1924
 PICTURESQUE
Beautiful Color

BLUR
Kandinsky, Color Composition Ugly
Color

Malevich
White on White
1924
Amorsolo,
Sunset

Romantic Realism
Van Gogh,
Sunset in the
Wheatfield

Expressionism
Lichtenstein,
Sinking Sun

Pop Art
Monet,
Venice at
Twilight

Impressionism
Munch,
Scream,
1894
St. Basil Cathedral,
Moscow, Russia
 FILIPINO
SENSE OF BEAUTY

The colorful is beautiful.

 HORROR VACCUI:
Fear of Empty Space
 Horror Vacui
Oil on Canvas Painting by
Alfonso Ossorio
COLORFUL DESIGN IN PHILIPPINE FOLK ART
COLORFUL PHILIPPINE INDIGENOUS ART
 COLORFUL COSTUMES
ACCESSORIES AND DECORATION
PAHIYAS FESTIVAL,
LUCBAN QUEZON
SINULOG FESTIVAL, CEBU
CITY
KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL,
DAVAO
DINANGYANG FESTIVAL,
ILOILO
ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL,
KALIBO AKLAN
MASSKARA FESTIVAL,
BACOLOD
TINALAK FESTIVAL,
SOUTH COTABATO
 PRETTY
Beautiful Shape

GROTESQUE
Ugly Shape

St.Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

 Taj Mahal, Agra India House of Congress, Washington D.C.

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Turkey Sydney Opera House, Australia

 Ingres, The Grande Odalisque Ingres, The Odalisque with a Lute Player

Mucha
Absinthe Robette
1901

STYLE
Art Nouveau
Juan Luna, The Odalisque
Venus of Willendorf,
35,000 BC
Leonardo,
Grotesque
Faces,
1492
 CUTE
Beautiful Size

PIQUANT
Ugly Size

PBCom Tower
Ayala Makati City
790 feet high
55 floors
Statue of Zeus
435 BC,
40 ft. high

GREEK AND
WESTERN SENSE
OF BEAUTY
The big is
beautiful.
Colossus of
Rhodes
280 BC,
100 ft. high
Statue of Liberty,
1886
305 ft. high
 Burj
Khalifa,
Dubai,
Taipei
2,772 ft.
Sears 101,
Tower, Taiwan,
Empire 1,666 ft
Chicago,
State
1,450 ft.
Building,
New York
Pyramid
1,250 ft.
of Kufu
Egypt,
420 ft.
BONSAI
Miniature Tree in
a Pot

JAPANESE
SENSE OF BEAUTY
The small is
beautiful.
 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.
KIMIGAYO 君が代は
Waka Poem 千代に八千代に
さざれ（細）石の
794 AD いわお（巌）となりて
こけ（苔）の生すまで
National
Anthem of Kimigayo wa
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni
Japan Sazare-ishi no
Iwao to narite
Koke no musu made

May your reign

Continue for a thousand,
Eight thousand generations,
Until the pebbles
Grow into boulders
Lush with moss
JAPANESE SENSE OF BEAUTY
The less is beautiful

MINIMALISM
Use of least number of elements

ZEN PAINTING
Landscape
 ZEN
PAINTING
Bamboo

ZEN
PAINTING
Circle

ZEN PAINTING River

 ZEN
PAINTING
Monk
Meditating
ZEN BUDDHISM
AND MINIMALISM

The cause of suffering in

life is attachment to
material things. The
lesser the possessions,
the lesser the suffering.
So the secret to
happiness is living a simple
life.
GRACEFUL
Beautiful
Motion

AWKWARD
Ugly Motion
Michael Jackson
Beat It
1986
 LOVELY
Beautiful sound

DROLL
Ugly sound
 PLEASANT
Beautiful Touch

HARSH
Ugly Touch

KAMA SUTRA
Art of Pleasure
 FANTASTIC
Beautiful Image

RIDICULOUS
Ugly Image
 Jacek
Yerka,
Dali,
Don’t
The
Slam
Dream
the
Door

Jacek
Jacek
Yerka,
Yerka,
Bronto-
Quiet
saurus
Balance
Civitas
PAIRED ACTIVITY:

Make a visual art using the style of horror

vaccui and must also include one of the senses of
Filipino concepts of art which is to be colorful.
EXAMPLE: