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ART APPRECIATIONIt is the positive, perceptual, emotional and intellectual response to the beauty of artworks.ARTS AS A HUMANISTIC DISCIPLINE2 GENERAL FIELDS OF LEARNINGTHE SCIENCES – deals with natural, physical phenomena. THE HUMANITIES – deals with human phenomena. It is a branch of knowledge tha...

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ART APPRECIATION It is the positive, perceptual, emotional and intellectual response to the beauty of artworks. ARTS AS A HUMANISTIC DISCIPLINE 2 GENERAL FIELDS OF LEARNING THE SCIENCES – deals with natural, physical phenomena. THE HUMANITIES – deals with human phenomena. - It is a branch of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture “Withdraw into yourself Truth dwells in the inner man.” St. AUGUSTINE of Hippo 354-430 AD. THE SCIENCES – KNOWLEDGE - The scientist becomes a LEARNED MAN. THE HUMANITIES – WISDOM - The humanist becomes a WISE MAN. “A SCIENTIST TENDS TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE WORLD THAT HE FORGETS TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIMSELF”. - THALES of Miletus 624-546 BC. “WHAT THE SUPERIOR MAN SEEKS IS IN HIMSELF, WHAT THE SMALL MAN SEEKS IS IN OTHERS. - CONFUCIUS 551-479 BC Panofsky, “Art as a Humanistic Discipline”. LATIN Humanitas ENGLISH Humanity DIVINITAS - Gods in the state of perfection in heaven. HUMANITAS - People in the state of culture in civilized society.

BARBARITAS - Savages in the state of nature for survival. THE PLACE OF HUMANITIES IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ANCIENT 800 BC COSMOCENTRIC VIEW PROTAGORAS: Man is the measure of all things. GEOCENTRISM: Man is at the center of the universe. MEDIEVAL 300 AD THEOCENTRIC VIEW SCHOLASTICISM: Man is created in the image of God Man is at the center of creation. RENAISSANCE 1400 - It is a philosophical viewpoint that acknowledges that all being basically, initially and ultimately, focuses around and in the transcendent God and finds in Him its raison d'être. HIERARCHICAL -It refers to any formalization which ranks different genres in an art form in terms of their prestige and cultural value. ANTHROPOCENTRIC VIEW HUMANISM: - It is a philosophical viewpoint arguing that human beings are the central or most significant entities in the world. Nothing is more wonderful than man. MODERN 1600 SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOCENTRIC VIEW: Man is a part of nature. POSTMODERN 1960 ECLECTIC VIEW: Man is a piece of everything. HUMANISTIC DISCIPLINES

• HISTORY - Human events happening in the world. • LANGUAGE - Written and oral forms of human communication. • PHILOSOPHY - Human reason concerning reality. • ART - Admiration (ART APPRECIATION) of human-made objects and the human creativity (ART CREATION) by which these objects are made. ETYMOLOGY • LATIN – ARS • ENGLISH – ARTS • LIBERAL ART – ARTIST/ART • SERVILE ART – ARTISAN/CRAFT • FINE ART - Professional & Academic Artist. • MAJOR ART – Architect, Sculptor • MINOR ART - Stone Cutter, Carpenter WEDTERN CONCEPT OF ART ACADEMIC - Only schooled people are artists. ELITIST - Meant for the higher social class. - It favors a select group of people with a certain ancestry, intrinsic quality, high intellect. HIERARCHICAL - Liberal art and servile art, high and low art, major art and minor art or craft, fine art and practical art, folk art, indigenous art, popular art. WESTERN CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS MAJOR ART - Made by artists and primarily concerned with the form of beauty. MINOR ART OR CRAFT - Made by artisans and concerned with functionality and usefulness of human-made objects (artifacts). CRAFTS

-It is an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill; dexterity ART -It is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks) THE SEVEN MAJOR ARTS IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION VISUAL – painting, sculpture, architecture. PERFORMING – music, dance, drama. LINGUISTIC – literature. FINE ARTS - imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content. MINOR ARTS: CRAFT • Ceramics • Weaving • Sewing • Handicraft • Carpentry • Masonry • Stone • Cutting • Gardening • Cooking “HUMANITIES” LATIN – humanitas ENGLISH – humanities FILIPINO - “pagpapakatao” mula sa “pagkatao” “tao”. COVAR’S FILIPINO ANTHROPOLOGY KATAUHAN Biological: Born as a human being Act of being human “personality”. PAGKATAO Cultural: Becoming a human being Process of becoming human “personhood”. PAGPAPAKATAO - The process by which one becomes a human being.

THE JAR AND THE FILIPINO PERSONHOOD LABAS – ulo, dibdib LOOB – isip, damdamin LALIM – kaluluwa, budhi LABAS NG PAGKATAO Katawan (Physical) - kulay ng balat (maputi, maitim) tindig (matangkad, andak) ilong (matangos, pango) dibdib (malapad, malaki). LOOB NG PAGKATAO Kalooban (Intellectual, Emotional and Moral) - isip (matalino) ugali, asal (mabuti). LALIM NG PAGKATAO Kaluluwa (Espiritual) - anito (banal).

COLONIAL PERIOD (1500-1950) - Our identity destroyed by colonizers: Westernization of Filipino Culture making us alienated from our own. POST-COLONIAL PERIOD (1950 ONWARDS) Reclamation, affirmation, and definition of our identify in our own terms. Western Concept ART Academic Elitist Hierarchical - Only schooled people are artists Meant for the higher social class High and low art, major art, and craft fine and practical art, folk, indigenous. Filipino Concept ART - Has no such Western distinctions.

NON-DUALISTIC RELATION OF TERMS LABAS - malapad ng noo, salubong ang kilay, malagkit ang tingin, maduming bibig. LOOB – matalino, matapang o galit, umiibig masamang magsalita. LALIM - malinis ang kaluluwa, matuwid ang budhi. NON-DUALISTIC RELATION IN FILIPINO PSYCHOLOGY LABAS – hipo, pigil, dinig, tawa, saya, sarap. LOOB – dama, timpi, ulinig, tuwa, ligaya, ginhawa. THE “HUMANITIES” IN FILIPINO CONCEPT “PAGPAPAKATAO” “PAGPAPAKATAO” - The process how a human being becomes a Filipino.

DAMIAN DOMINGO (1796-1834) FATHER OF PHILIPPINE PAINTING JUAN LUNA (1857-1899) ACADEMIC WESTERNIZED FILIPINO PAINTER

FILIPE DEL LEON JR. (2011) “DEFINING THE FILIPINO THROUGH THE ARTS” - It is a sine qua non for becoming active in the world… a source of social empowerment.

Shapes two dimensions–height and width–and are usually defined by lines.

CULTURAL IDENTITY - The worldview and values, beliefs systems, knowledge, skills and practices, core principles and ideas shared by a society. PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD (BEFORE 1500’S) - Had our own cultural identity.

LINE - is an identifiable path created by a point moving in space. It is one-dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length. Lines often define the edges of a form. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, straight or curved, thick or thin.

ANALYSIS OF ART BASED ON THREE HUMAN FACULTIES Visual Elements COLOR - refers to the light reflected off objects. three main characteristics: hue (red, green, blue, etc.) value (how light or dark it is) intensity (how bright or dull it is). SHAPE AND FORM - define objects in space.

Forms exist in three dimensions, with height, width, and depth.

REPRESENTATION - is a type of recording in which the sensory information about a physical object is described in a medium. EMOTIONAL SUGGESTION - One central feature of aesthetic experiences is their ability to arouse emotions in perceivers. INTELLECTUAL MEANING - Sometimes when we look at a piece of art, we understand it. ANALYSIS IF ART BASED IN THE THREE HUMAN FACULTIES LEVEL OF THE SENSES • PERCEPTUAL ELEMENTS: Sense-Data: Lines, Color, Shapes, etc.2. • REPRESENTATIONS: Things, People, Objects, Events. LEVEL OF THE WILL • EMOTIONAL SUGGESTIONS: Happy, Sad, Afraid etc. LEVEL OF THE MIND • INTELECTUAL MEANING: Ideas, concepts, symbolism. ART APPRECIATION AND THE HUMAN FACULTIES • POSITIVE – WOW! • PERCEPTUAL – SENSE-DATA AND REPRESENTATION • EMOTIONAL – FEELINGS • INTELLECTUAL – MEANINGS • RESPONSE TO – COMMUNICATION AND REACTION • THE BEAUTY – VALUE AND DELIGHTS • OF ARTWORKS – PAINTING, Monalisa- Leonardo The treachery of image (this is not apipe)- Rene Magritte

AESTHETICS: STUDY OF ART AND BEAUTY The Field of Aesthetics AESTHETICS – AESTHESIS – sensory perception. AESTHETICS - was first employed by Baumgarten to mean “the science of sensory perception.” - is the creation and appreciation of beautiful handmade objects. DIVISION OF AESTHETICS PHILOSOPHY- theory of Theory about the ultimate reality of things

TWO WAYS OF CONSIDRING BEAUTY Relative- “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Absolute- “Beauty is in the thing itself. THEORY OF BEAUTY - Nature of beautiful things THEORY OF ART - Essence of art THEORY OF ART CRITCISM - Evaluation of the merit or demerit of works of art. AESTHETICAL EXPERIENCE - is not only about liking or disliking, it is about the interaction between the object, person, and the environment.

What is environment? • Visual-Sight • Tactile-Touch • Kinesthetic-Movement • Olfactory-Smell • Auditory-Sound • Gustatory-Taste AESTHETIC TERMS CATEGORIES OF VALUE • LOGICAL – TRUE AND FALSE • ETHICAL – GOOD AND BAD • AESTHETIC – BEAUTIFUL AND UGLY • CUTE – BEAUTIFUL SIZE • PIQUANT – UGLY SIZE

• FANTASTIC – BEAUTIFUL IMAGE • RIDICULOUS – UGLY IMAGE HIERARCHY OF BEAUTY • SUBLIME – PURELY DELIGHTS • GRAND – DELIGHTS AND AWES • ELEGANT – DELIGHTS AND IMPRESSES • CHARMING – DELIGHTS AND ATTRACTS • COMIC – DELIGHTS AND ENTERTAINS • TRAGIC – DELIGHTS AND SADDENS • TERRIBLE – DELIGHTS AND FEARS • SCARRY – GLOOMS AND FEARS • HORRIBLE – GLOOMS AND SADDENS • BIZARRE – GLOOMS AND ENTERTAINS POIGNANT – GLOOMS AND ATTRACTS • PERVERSE – GLOOMS AND IMPRESSES • RUSTIC – GLOOMS AND AWES • PATHETIC – PURELY AND GLOOMS THE FILIPINO AESTHETIC WORLDVIEW • COVAR – Pagkataong Filipino and the concepts of the labas and loob. • JOCANO – Filipino Aesthetics Worldview • WORLDVIEW – A way people look at the universe • CULTURE – A system of symbols and meanings people use to organize their ideas which they express through language. • LANGUAGE - Contains words that carries culture. DIMENSIONS OF FILIPINO WORLDVIEW 1. Natural Dimension 2. Biological Dimension 3. Communal Dimension 4. Social Dimension 5. Normative Dimension 6. Ethical Dimension 7. Moral Dimension 8. Aesthetic Dimension 9. Teleological Dimension 10. Ideological Dimension

AESTHETICS OF FILIPINO PERSONHOOD - Maayos (Pagkataong Panalabas) Beautiful Physical appearance. - Mabuti ang ugali (Pagkataong Panloob) Good social behavior - Pagkataong Maganda pareho sa Labas at Loob (Beautiful Personhood) - Kanais-nais (Desirable, Valuable) THE PHENOMENON OF GANDA AS AN AFFECTIVE PHENOMENON GANDA - is judged in terms of the emotion or the sentiment it evokes from the perceiver. • NAKAKABIGHANI: Ganda evokes desirability. • NAKAKAAKIT: It attracts. • NAKAKATAWAG NG PANSIN: It calls attention. AS AN OLFACTORY SENSE PHENOMENON GANDA - is judged through scent or sense of smell. • NANANATILI O NAMAMALAGI: Ganda makesits presence felt (amoy bagong paligo). • MALINIS: It feels or smells clean (malinis haplusin/amoy-malinis. • SARIWA: It smells or feels fresh (amoy-sariwa, amoy-pinipig). AS A BEHAVIORAL, ETHICAL PHENOMENON GANDA - is judged in terms of action, public appearance, or human relation (ugali). • MAHINHIN: It is coy, dainty, demure • MABAIT: It is good-natured, considerate • MAGALANG: it is respectful or polite AS A PHYSICAL PHENOMENON GANDA - is judged as a concrete entity with physical attributes. • MAKINIS ANG BALAT: Smooth skin • MAAMO ANG MUKHA: Gentle, docile face • MATIPUNO ANG KATAWAN: Healthy body • MATIKAS AS A CAPABILITY PHENOMENON

GANDA - is judged as the ability to perform work or do things.

• MASIPAG MAGTRABAHO: Industrious...