This document provides an overview of art appreciation. It defines art as a craft or expertise according to its Latin origins. It discusses the varied subjects of artworks, including people, objects, senses and events. Art can be representational or non-representational. The document also covers the social, utilitarian, cultural and aesthetic functions of art. It examines elements of art like line, color, form, space and texture and principles like balance, rhythm and emphasis. Finally, it profiles several famous artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Michaelangelo and their notable works.

1. ART APPRECIATION
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2. WHAT IS ART?
The term ART derives from the old Latin, which implies
a “craft or specialized sort of expertise, as carpentry or
smithing or surgery” (Collingwood, 1938). (Collingwood,
1938).

3. The Subject of Art
In any art form- be it painting, music, sculpture,
architecture, o dance that serves as the FOUNDATION
OF THE CREATION of the work of art.
 The subject of art is VARIED.
 Usually anything that is represented in the artwork.
(person, object, sense, or event.

4. Art Presented in 2 ways:
Representational/ objective art
Non- representational/ non- objective
art

5. ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Art Is Universal
Nature Is Not Art, and Art Is Not Nature
Art is a result of personal experience

6. FUNCTIONS OF
ART (SUCA)
Social Function
Utilitarian Function
Cultural Function
Aesthetic Function

7. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF
ART
ELEMENTS
LINES
COLOR
FORM/SHAPE
SPACE
TEXTURE
VALUE

8. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF
ART
PRINCIPLES
BALANCE
RHYTHM
EMPHASIS
PROPORTION
UNITY

9. ARTS AND ARTISANS

10. LEONARDO DA VINCI
Born: 04-15-1452, Vinci, Italy
Profile: Painter, Architect, Sculptor, Inventor,Military Engineer and Draftsman.
Died: 05-2- 1519 ,Amboise, France
Quotes: “He who thinks little, errs much” Brian S. Cunal
Famous Works The Last Supper Mona Lisa Vitruvian Man

11. VINCENT VAN GOGH
 Born: 03-30-1853 Zundert, Italy
 Profile: Painter
 Died: 07-29-1890 Amboise, France
 Famous Works The Starry Night Sunflowers Irises

12. MICHAELANGELO
 Born: 4-6-1475, Michaelangelo, Italy
 Profile: Painter, Architect, Poet
 Died: 2-18-1564, Rome, Italy
 Quotes: “Genius is eternal patience.”
 Famous Works David Creation of Adam St. Peter’s Basilica

13. CLAUDE MONET
• Born: 11-14-1840, Paris, France
• Profile: Painter, Philosopher
• Died: 12-5-1926, Giverny, France
• Quotes: “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the
source of myinspiration.”
• Famous Works Water Lilies Impresion,Sunrise Rouen
Cathedral Series

14. FRIDA KAHLO
• Born: 07-06-1907, Mexico City, Mexico
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 07-13-1954, Mexico City. Mexico
• Quotes:” I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
• Famous Works The Two FridasSELF-PORTRAIT WITH THORN
NECKLACE AND HUMMINGBIRD The Broken Column

15. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
• Born: 11-15-1887, Wisconsin, USA
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 03-06-1986, New Mexico , USA
• Quotes: “The days you work are the best days.”
• Famous Works Black Irises III Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue
RadiatorBuilding Night- New York

16. EDGAR DEGAS
• Born: 7-19-1834, Paris, France
• Profile: Painter, Sculptor
• Died: 9-27-1917, Paris, France
• Quotes: “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
• Famous Works The Absinthe Drinker The Dance Class The Bellelli Family

17. EDVARD MUNCH
• Born: 12-12-1863, Adalsbruk, Norway
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 1-23-1944, Oslo, Norway
• Quotes: “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am
in them and thatis eternity. “

18. JACKSON POLLOCK
• Born: 1-28-1912, Wyoming, USA
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 8-11-1956, NY, USA
• Quotes: “T he painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come
through.”
• Famous Works The Number 5 The Number 11 The Number 31

19. PABLO PICASSO
• Born: 10-26-1881, Malaga, Spain
• Profile: Painter, Sculptor, Ceramicist, Stage Designer, Poet and a Playwright.
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Died: 4-8-1973, Mougins, France
• Quotes: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist oncehe
grows up.
• Famous Works Guernica The Young Ladies of Avignon The WeepingWoman

20. GUSTAV KLIMT
• Born: 7-14-1862, Baumgarten, Austria
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 2-6-1918, Vienna, Austria
• Quotes: “Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means toglow and
burn.”
• Famous Works The Kiss Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I The Virgin

21. HENRY MOORE
• Born: 7-30-1898, Castleford, Unite Kingdom
• Profile: Sculptor
• Died: 8-31-1986
• Quotes: “One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important
thing is to be open and ready for it.”
• Famous Works Reclining Figures King and Queen Bird Basket

22. SALVADOR DALI
• Born: 5-11-1904, Figueras, Spain
• Profile: Painter,Draftsman
• Died: 1-23-1989,Figuerras, Spain
• Quotes: “Intelligence without ambition is a bird
without wings.”
Famous Works The Persistence of Memory Swans Reflecting ElephantsPremonition
of Civil War

23. PAUL CEZANNE
• Born: 1-19-1839, Aix-en, France
• Profile: Painter
• Died: 10- 22-1906, Aix-en, France
• Quotes: “We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
• Famous Works The Bathers The Card Player Series Jug, Curtain and FruitBowl

24. DIEGO RIVERA
• Born: 12-8-1886, Guanajuato, Mexico
• Profile: Painter
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Died: 11-24-1957, Mexico city, Mexico
• Quotes: “I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso. “
• Famous Works The Man at the Crossroad The Card Player Series
TheHistory of Mexico

25. PHILIPPINE ARTS AND
CRAFTS: A CHRONOLOGY

26. Pre-colonial art was created before the
arrival of the Spanish explorers.

27. Period of Spanish colonial art

28. American colonial art

29. Post-colonial art period

30. Contemporary Art period

31. ART FROM THE
PERSPECTIVE OF
PHILOSOPHY

32. Art as a kind of emulation
Plato's The Republic portrays artists as mimics, and
art as nothing more than acollection of imitations.

33. Art as a means of
communication
Art is a representation of a version of reality. Aristotelian philosophy holds that
art has two distinct purposes: it allows for the enjoyment of pleasure, and it
has the power to be instructional, teaching its audience valuable lessons
about lifeand its surroundings.

34. Art as a kind of unbiased evaluation
Kant's Critique of Judgment asserted that the judgment of beauty, which he
regarded to be the foundation of art, was something universal, despite the fact
that it was susceptible to subjectivity. In his understanding of beauty, he
acknowledged that it is subjective.

35. Art as a means of conveying
emotional content
Tolstoy believed that art has a significant function in
communicating feelings that the creator has
previously experienced to an audience via
communication. Emotions are communicated via art

36. PSYCHOLOGY OF COLORS

37. RED (PHYSICAL)
Positive:
Physical courage, strength, warmth,energy, basic survival, 'fight or
flight’, stimulation, masculinity, excitement
Negative:
Defiance, aggression, strain

38. BLUE (INTELLECTUAL)
Positive:
Intelligence, communication, trust,efficiency, serenity, duty, logic,
coolness, reflection, calm
Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.

39. YELLOW (EMOTIONAL)
Positive:
Optimism, confidence, self-esteem,extraversion, emotional strength,
friendliness, creativity
Negative:
Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility,depression, anxiety, suicide

40. GREEN (BALANCE)
Positive:
Harmony, balance, refreshment,universal love, rest, restoration,
reassurance, environmental awareness, equilibrium, peace
Negative:
Boredom, stagnation, blandness,enervation

41. VIOLET
Positive:
Spiritual awareness, containment,vision, luxury, authenticity,
truth,quality
Negative:
Introversion, decadence,suppression, inferiority.

42. ORANGE
Positive:
Physical comfort, food, warmth, security,
sensuality, passion, abundance, fun
Negative:
Deprivation, frustration, frivolity, immaturity

43. PINK
Positive:
Physical tranquility, nurture, warmth, femininity, love,
sexuality, survival of the species.
Negative:
Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia, emasculation,
physical weakness

44. GRAY
Positive:
Psychological neutrality.
Negative:
Lack of confidence, dampness, depression,
hibernation, lack of energy.

45. BLACK
Positive: Sophistication, glamour, security,emotional safety,
efficiency, substance.
Negative: Oppression, coldness, menace,heaviness.

46. WHITE
Positive: Hygiene, sterility, clarity, purity,
cleanliness, simplicity, sophistication, efficiency.
Negative: Sterility, coldness, barriers,
unfriendliness, elitism.

47. BROWN
Positive: Seriousness, warmth, nature, earthiness,
reliability, support.
Negative: Lack of humor, heaviness, lack ofsophistication.