ARTA 111 Functions of Art and Philosophy 2nd Sem

OLFU MEDTECH Art Appreciation WEEK 2 Finals

I. POPULAR ART EXPRESSIONS ❖ APPLIED ARTS

➢ Applied arts incorporate elements of style and design to
❖ VISUAL ARTS everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetical
➢ Is the kind of art form that the population is most likely value. Artists in this field bring beauty, charm, and comfort
more exposed to, but its variations are so diverse they into many things that are useful in everyday life.
range from sculptures that you see in art galleries to the
last movie you saw. Some mediums of visual arts include
paintings, drawings, lettering, printing, sculptures, digital
imaging, and more.

❖ FILM
➢ Film refers to the art of putting together successions of still
images in order to create an illusion of movement,
Filmmaking focuses on its aesthetic, cultural, and social II. THE FUNCTIONS OF ART
value and is considered as both an art and an industry.
A. AS A THERAPY
❖ PERFORMANCE ART ➢ In its therapeutic function, art can be and is used as
➢ Performance art is a live art and the artist’s medium is therapy for individuals with a variety of illnesses, both
mainly the human body which he or she uses to perform, physical and mental.
but also employs other kind of art such as visual art, props,
or sound. B. ART AS ARTIFACT
➢ Art also functions as an artifact: A product of a particular
❖ POETRY PERFORMANCE time and place, an artwork represents the ideas and
➢ Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses his technology of that specific time and place. As we look back
emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but over history, we find in art striking, and in some cases, the
expresses them through words. only, tangible records of some peoples. The insights we
gain into cultures, including our own are enhanced
❖ ARCHITECTURE tremendously by such artifacts as paintings, sculptures,
➢ is the art of designing and constructing buildings and other poems, plays, and buildings.
types of structures.
➢ It is often referred to as the “mother of the arts” because C. PERSONAL FUNCTION OF ART
it houses, serves as background for, or occurs in relation to ➢ The personal functions of art are varied and highly
other fields of art. Materials used include stone, concrete, subjective. This means that its function depend on the
brick, wood, steel, glass, and plaster. person- the artist who created the art.

❖ DANCE D. SOCIAL FUNCTION OF ART

➢ Dance is series of movements that follows the rhythm of ➢ Art is considered to have a social function if and when it
the music accompaniment. addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a
➢ Dance personal interest. Political art is a very common example
• French dancier of an art with a social function. Art may convey message of
• Generally, refers to human movement either used as protest, contestation, or whatever message the artist
a human form of expression or presented in a social, intends his work to carry.
spiritual or performance setting.
➢ Choreography E. PHYSICAL FUNCTION OF ART
• Is the art of making dances, and the person who does ➢ The physical functions of art are the easiest to spot and
this is called a choreographer understand. The physical functions of art can be found in
artworks that are crafted in order to serve some physical
❖ LITERARY ART purpose.
➢ Literary art goes beyond the usual professional, academic,
journalistic, and other technical form of writing. F. OTHER FUNCTIONS OF ART
➢ It focuses on writing using a unique style, not following a ➢ Music as an art is also interesting to talk about in relation
specific form or norm. It may include both fiction and non- to function. Music in its original form was principally
fiction such as novels, biographies and poems. functional. Music was used for dance and religion. Unlike
today, when one can just listen to music for the sake of
❖ THEATER music’s sake, the ancient world saw music only as an
➢ Theater uses live performers to present accounts or instrument to facilities worship and invocation to gods.
imaginary events before a live audience. Theater art Music also was essential to dance because music assures
performance usually follows a script, though they should synchronicity among dancers.
not be confused with literary arts. ➢ Art as a Representation
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 ➢ Art as a Disinterested Judgment
➢ Art as a Communication of Emotion C. KINDS OF SUBJECT
➢ History
III. SUBJECT AND CONTENT ➢ Still Life
➢ Animals
❖ Subject ➢ Landscape
➢ refers to the visual focus or the image that may be ➢ Myth
extracted from examining the artwork. ➢ Seascape
➢ What? ➢ Figures
❖ Content ➢ Nature
➢ is the meaning that is communicated by the artist or the ➢ Cityscape
artwork. ➢ Mythology
➢ Why? ➢ Dreams
➢ Fantasies
A. TYPES OF SUBJECT
IV. CONTENT IN ART
1. Representational Art
➢ These types of art have subjects that 1. Levels of meaning
refer to object or events occurring in ➢ Factual
the real world. Often, it is also termed • pertains to the most rudimentary level of meaning for
figurative art, because as the name it may be extracted from the identifiable or
suggest, the figures depicted are easy recognizable forms in the artwork and understanding
to makes out and decipher. how these elements relate to one another.

➢ Conventional
• meaning, on the other hand, pertains to the
2. Non-Representational Art acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using
➢ This art does not make a reference to motifs, signs, symbols and other cyphers as bases of
the real world, whether it is a person, its meaning. These conventions are established
place, thing, or even a particular event. through time, strengthened by recurrent use and wide
It is stripped down to visual elements acceptance by its viewers or audience and scholars
such as shapes, lines, emotion, and who study then.
even concept.
➢ Subjective
• When subjectivities are consulted, a variety of
B. SOURCES OF SUBJECT meaning may arise when a particular work of art is
read. These meanings stem from the viewer’s or
1. Nature audience’s circumstances that come into play when
➢ Example: Vincent van Gogh “Die Ebene Von Auvers” engaging with art.

2. History
➢ Example: Battle of Waterloo

3. Greek and Roman Mythology

➢ Example: “Discobolus” – Greek original by the sculptor
Myron of 450-440 BC

4. Judeo-Christian Tradition
➢ Example: “Sistine Chapel” – Michelangelo
➢ Interior of Westminster

5. Sacred Oriental Texts

➢ Books or painting in India, China and Singapore
➢ Example: Shah Jahan Receiving – Dara Shikoh

6. Other Works of Arts

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