Module 1 Flashcards
The branch of the philosophy that deals with principles of beauty and artistic taste
Aesthetic
- Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought
- easily understood
Intuitive
The purely aesthetic arts such as music, painting, and poetry
Fine arts
The shape or visible structure
Form
The study of arts based solely on an analysis of its form
Formalism
The characteristics, key events, and situations
Human condition
The representation of aspects in the real world
Mimesis
plays an important role in the definition of art
Philosophy
Philosophy plays an important role in the definition of art as philosophy even has a word to refer to the philosophical study of beauty and taste
Aesthetics
believes that arts are representational or mimetic in nature – meaning
Plato
in art presents that art is created as a tool or “instrument
Instrumentalism
defined art as “the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects
Merriam-Webster
The Greek word for “art” is techne,
Ars
are those objects made by humans to be enjoyed aesthetically.
Fine arts
An artwork is a direct source of sensual pleasure and it elicits
Aesthetic function
Art serves its economic purpose, as there are creations of art that are also useful in the society
Economic function
Arts can be a means to pass down the values, attitudes and history of a culture.
Educational function
People in the prehistoric period relied on works of art to worship their gods
Religious function
- Because man is a social being, he/she associates with other fellow human beings.
- This can be seen in churches are designed for communal worship
Social and cultural function
Arts are generally classified into three
Visual arts
Performing arts
Literary arts
are those forms that create works which are primarily visual
Visual arts
are those forms in which the artists used his/her own body, face, and presence as a medium
Performing arts
centered on creative writing and other composition processes which intended to read.
Literary arts
- This form of visual art aims to evoke an emotion from the viewers
- It is practice by applying colors
Painting
This form of visual arts characterized as the art of representing an imagined or observed objects in hard materials such as glass, metals, or wood in three dimensions.
Sculpture
- This form of art provides us the physical structure we lived
- It is a profound expression of human culture in a particular period
Architecture
- This form of art enhances the way we see the world around and conditions us to capture its details in a two-dimensional medium
- This has been a critical element of art throughout history and in the contemporary art world.
Drawing
This form of art is a process of creating portraits
Photography
