ART APPRECIATION Flashcards
Man is the measure of all things
Protagoras (481-411 BCE)
studies how people process and document the human
experience using philosophy,
literature, religion, art and history as their way of understanding and recording their world.
Humanities
Refers to the full awareness of all the good qualities of what we see, read, and hear about a work of art.
Art Appreciation
Product of man’s creativity, imagination, and expression.
Art
Assumption of Arts
Art is Universal, Cultural, Not Nature, Involves Experience, Art as Expression, as a form of creation.
Assumptions of art where, Timeless, spanning generations and continents through and through.
Art is Universal
Assumptions of art where, art has been part of human culture for many centuries. It has served as means of expressing feelings, exchanging ideas, and transferring knowledge from one generation to the next.
Art is Cultural
Assumptions of art where, Art is man’s way of interpreting nature.
Art is not nature
Assumptions of art where, All art depends on experience, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as fact or information but as experience.
Art involves Experience
Assumptions of art where, Art as expression of our thoughts, emotions, institutions, and desires.
Art is Expression
Assumptions of art where, Art is diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical
proficiency, beauty, emotional, power, or conceptual ideas.
Art as a form of creation
Is the philosophical study of
beauty and taste. It is concerned with the nature
of art and used as basis for
interpreting and evaluating
individual works of art.
Aesthetic
explained that the physical world is a copy of a perfect, rational, eternal, and changeless original. The originals are called the FORMS.
Plato
Plato explained that art is an
imitation of physical things
which in turn are imitations
of the forms.
Art is imitation (mimesis)
According to Plato, art has a power to stir emotions. So arts should not go uncensored (as mentioned in the Republic)
Art is dangerous
first distinguished between what is good and what is beautiful. He stated that
the good always presents itself in some action while a thing of beauty may exists even in motionless objects or things.
Aristole
According to Aristotle arts demonstrated knowledge and discovery, for objects of the art show disposition, passion, and action.
Art is Representation
He wrote a treatise on
Aesthetics entitled, Observations on the Feelings
of the Beautiful and the
Sublime.
Immanuel Kant
According to Immanuel Kant Art does not focus on the properties of the object itself but rather on the pleasure
one experiences as he responds to it.
Subjective Taste
According to Immanuel Kant art Is non-aesthetic and does not consider the beauty of the work or the mastery of the artist but rather, the artwork is
appreciated for what it is.
Universal Taste
