MANILA TYTANA COLLEGES
College of Arts and Sciences
ART APPRECIATION
Activity #2 Date: SEPT. 7, 2021
Name: Belardo, Isiah Claide M.
Course, year, and section: BSTM – IV
1. Can we evaluate beauty objectively? If not, why do people evaluate art subjectively?
Support your answer.
Yes, we can evaluate beauty objectively because there is a standard in our society. Admit it
or not we have a conveniently attractive person in the world. For example, Angelina Jolie. When
you ask people if she is beautiful then everyone’s answer would be, yes.
Of course, art can only be judged subjectively on a personal level. It doesn't matter how good
a Picasso artwork is if it doesn't mean something to you. It's the same with a poem by T.S. Eliot
and a Beethoven music. Appreciation of art, on the other hand, is a practice that can be taught
and learned. This is based on the criteria for art as it is or as it emerged and developed as an
aesthetics subject. Aesthetics is a field of philosophy that attempts, like any other philosophical
investigation, to create objective standards and conditions for the possibility of creative action
and creation. And, beyond a subjective attitude, generalizations and principles are required to
address this topic. All of this may be traced back to Aristotle's work The Art of Poetry, as can
many other intellectual endeavors. He maintained that art is the imitation of nature, and that
drama, particularly tragedy, aids us in feeling good through a process he refers to as Catharsis.
This aids in the discharge of our emotions. From there, the relationship between personal
taste or attitude and ever-evolving critical theories for objective constructions of aesthetic
representations of reality in art has evolved into an ongoing philosophical investigation of the
puzzle of human taste as a subjective factor and beauty as a possible objective reality out there.
Thus, while beauty and art may be a matter of personal taste based on your own experience
and ability to appreciate and enjoy works of art, for an art critic, beauty and artistic
representations are represented by various schools of art such as classicism, romanticism,
realism, impressionism, abstract art, and so forth.
2. Explain in your own understanding the different philosophical concepts of art and how
it can be applied to real life situations.
Art has long been used to convey vital ideas and to motivate people to act and think in new
ways. We relied exclusively on word of mouth or visual symbols to communicate meanings and
learn anything before humans learnt to read.
If we believe that the past (or other people's pasts and other locations) are the same as
anybody else's, we are flattering ourselves. The audience has always been diverse. They were/are
distinct, determined by social and geographic perceptions/limitations, as well as whether they
shared or shared comparable sets of meanings.
With more communication between groups, there may be more disparities in literacy and
social variety inside and across cultures, as well as a probable rise in social contact between
societies. Hopefully, humans will learn to appreciate one another's differences. Art may be used
to convey a variety of messages in a variety of situations. Art forms continue to connect with
people, but they do it in a variety of ways and to a potentially larger audience.
Making art for a specific audience necessitates that the artists consider the audience when
creating. Diverse views of the world are communicated in the process of producing art to
different audiences, and human experience is neither monolithic or unilineal (in the sense of
'traveling from basic to complex').
Art is a verb that we use to express ourselves. Art is a personal expression of our ideas,
feelings, intuitions, and aspirations, but it's also about expressing how we perceive the world,
which for many people is an extension of personality. It's the conveying of personal ideas that
can't be adequately expressed via words alone. And, because words alone aren't adequate, we'll
need to discover another way to convey our message. However, the information we instill on or
in our chosen media is not art in and of itself. The way the media is used, the way the material is
conveyed, is where art may be discovered.
3. Read lecture Number 3 and search the web and create your own picture example.
The dove is a symbol of elegance, serenity,
tenderness, and divinity because of its elegant soft
features, white plumage, and delicate cooing
noises. Peace is the symbolic of the dove, as we
all know. Apart from peace, the dove signifies a
variety of different things.
The dove bird has a universal connotation of
purity. It is a three-dimensional living creature
that has been chosen to represent the human
notion of immense quality: sacredness. The dove
is a symbol of purity, gentleness, devotion,
beauty, and faith in many civilizations.
On a global scale, the peace dove symbolizes
hope and peace, which has been favorably
received by the great majority of religions and
civilizations.
It fits within the cognitive framework that permits many people to share global optimism. The
dove is also a sign of love. Many great works of literature and art use this symbolic depiction of
the dove.
This bird is also known as the Holy Spirit Dove. Messages have been conveyed by pigeons and
doves for thousands of years. This bird is said to be very near to the Gods. As a result, it has
come to signify the deity's adoration.
White doves are depicted soaring out of representations of conflict and bomb blasts in numerous
themes and artworks. Apart from peace, the dove may represent the soul of the slain troops in
certain situations. The dove is also a protective sign.
Conclusion, dove can be mean many things, it depends on how people see and look in to it
deeply. It’s just like beauty and art, we see beauty as is a measure of affect, of feeling. In the
context of art, beauty is a measure of effective communication between participants - the artist's
ability to transmit a notion to the perceiver. Beautiful art succeeds in expressing the artist's
deepest intended feelings and thoughts, whether they are lovely and brilliant or dark and terrible.
However, neither the artist nor the spectator can be confident that the communication will be
effective in the end. As a result, art's beauty is always subjective. As art we see art, as it's about
communicating the way we perceive the world, which for many is an extension of ourselves. It's
about expressing our ideas, feelings, intuitions, and wishes, but it's much more personal than
that. It's the conveying of personal ideas that can't be adequately expressed via words alone. We
all see things in different ways and we look in to things differently no matter if it look the same it
has a different meaning to each and every person.
