MODULE 1

INTRODUCTION TO ART APPRECIATION

PROGRAM: BTVTED Year Level: 2ND YEAR Section: A/B/C/D/E

COURSE CODE: GENE06 DESCRIPTION: ART APPRECIATION

LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the period, the students should be able to:
1. To understand the role of humanities and arts in man’s attempt at fully realizing his
end;
2. To clarify misconceptions of the art;
3. Characterize the assumptions of arts;
4. Engage better with personal experiences of and in arts; and
5. To characterize artistic expression based on personal experiences with art.

Prepared: Reviewed and Checked:

NICHOLE JOYCE LANDICHO, LPT JASCELYNN N. OLIMPIADA, LPT, PhD
Instructor Program Head

Recommending Approval: Approved:

WILMA WENG P. CASALME, PhD PROF. MICHAEL E. LIRIO, CPA, MMPA

Vice President for Academic Affairs President and College Administrator

Tanauan City College

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 Learning Module Format

Program: Bachelor of Technical Vocation Topic: INTRODUCTION TO ART

Teacher Education APPRECIATION
Course: Art Appreciation Instructor Nichole Joyce B. Landicho, LPT
:
Code GENE06 Module 1 Week #: 1-2 # of 9 pages
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I. Preliminaries
Introduction to How do you define art? For many people, art is a tangible thing: a painting, sculpture,
the Module photograph, dance, poem or play. Art is uniquely human and tied directly to culture. As
Objective an expressive medium, it allows us to experience wide ranges of emotion, between joy or
sorrow, or confusion and clarity. It gives voice to ideas and feelings, connects us to the
past, reflects the present, and anticipates the future. In this module, let us examine how
art is defined and the different ways it functions in societies and cultures.

Section Topics Learning Outcomes Assessment/ Modality

Evaluation

Section 1: The Nature of  Learning

1. To understand the role  Module
Art: What is Art? Journal
of humanities and arts in  Google
man’s attempt at fully  Paired Images: Meet/
realizing his end Art or Not? Classroom
Section 2: The need to be 2. To clarify  Essay  Canvas
creative: Creativity, misconceptions of the  Analysis:
Imagination, and art Identifying an Social media
Expression 3. Characterize the Artist’s platforms
assumptions of arts creativity and
Section 3: Purposes and 4. Engage better with expression
functions of Art personal experiences of  Expressing
and in arts emotion and
1. To characterize artistic creativity
. expression based on through Visual
personal experiences with Art work
. art (painting)

II. Instructions
Content Lecture/ Discussion

Art - diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts

Creativity - the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.

Imagination - the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not
present to the senses.

Expression - the process of making known one's thoughts or feelings.

THE NATURE OF ART: WHAT IS ART?

ART

 Comes from the ancient Latin, ARS which means a “craft or specialized from of skill, like
carpentry or smithying or surgery”.

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  The capacity to produce an intended result from carefully planned steps or method.
 Meant using the bare hands to produce something that will be useful to one’s day-to-day life.

“ARS”

 In Medieval Latin came to mean “any special form of book-learning, such as grammar or logic,
magic or astrology”.
 It was during the Renaissance Period that the word reacquired a meaning that was inherent in its
ancient form of craft.
 Early Renaissance artists saw their activities merely as craftsmanship, devoid of a whole lot of
intonations that are attached to the word now.
 !7th century when the problem and idea of aesthetics, the study of beauty, began to unfold distinctly
from the notion of technical workmanship which was the original conception of the word “ART”.

ART is something that is perennially around us. Some people may deny having to do with the arts but it
is indisputable that life presents us with many forms of and opportunities for communion with the arts. A
bank manager choosing what tie to wear together with his shirt and shoes, a politician shuffling her music
track while comfortably seated on her car looking for her favorite song, a student marveling at the intricate
designs of a medieval cathedral during his fieldtrip, and a market vendor cheering for her bet in a dance
competition on a noontime TV program all manifest concern for values that are undeniably, despite
tangentially, artistic.

Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed
artifacts— artworks—that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be
appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or objects in fields like
painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one
of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the practical
considerations of use are essential, in a way that they usually are not in another visual art, like a painting.

Art may be characterized in terms of mimesis (its representation of reality), expression,

communication of emotion, or other qualities. Though the definition of what constitutes art is disputed and
has changed over time, general descriptions center on the idea of imaginative or technical skill stemming
from human agency and creation. When it comes to visually identifying a work of art, there is no single set
of values or aesthetic traits. A Baroque painting will not necessarily share much with a contemporary
performance piece, but they are both considered art.

Despite the seemingly indefinable nature of art, there have always existed certain formal guidelines
for its aesthetic judgment and analysis. Formalism is a concept in art theory in which an artwork’s artistic
value is determined solely by its form, or how it is made. Formalism evaluates works on a purely visual
level, considering medium and compositional elements as opposed to any reference to realism , context, or
content.

Art is often examined through the interaction of the principles and elements of art. The principles of
art include movement, unity, harmony, variety, balance, contrast, proportion and pattern. The elements
include texture, form, space, shape, color, value and line. The various interactions between the elements and
principles of art help artists to organize sensorially pleasing works of art while also giving viewers a
framework within which to analyze and discuss aesthetic ideas.

ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

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 ART IS UNIVERSAL

 Literature has provided key words of art.

 Iliad and Odessy, two Greek epics and one of the most popular works of art thought in school. This
work purportedly written before the beginning of recorded history, are believed to be man’s attempt
at recording stories and tales that have been passed on, known,and sung throughout the years.
 Art has been timeless and universal, spanning
generations and continents through and through.
 AGE IS NOT A FACTOR OF ART. …art is not good
because it is old, but old because it is good.”

In the Philippines, the works Jose Rizal and Francisco Balagtas

are not being read because they are old. Otherwise, works of
other Filipinos who have long died would have beed required in
junior high school and have remained to be with us because they
are good.

Examples:

Ibong Adarna (captured the imagination of young with its timeless lessons)

King David (we feel one with him in his conversation with
God

Florante at Laura (beauty and love)

Kundiman (still enjoy the way our Filipino

ancestors whiled away their time in the past.
This obra makes one concentrate better)

The first assumption then about the humanities is that art has been crafted by all people regardless the
origin, time, place and that it stayed on because it is liked and enjoyed by people continuously. A great
piece of work will never be obsolete. Some people say that art is art for its intrinsic worth.

UTILITARIANISM (1879) by John Stuart Mill – enjoyment is the arts belongs to a higher good, one that

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lies at the opposite end of base pleasures.

Art will always be present because present human being will always express themselves and delight in
these expressions. Mean will continue to use art persist and never gets depleted.

ART IS NOT NATURE

One of the important characteristics of art is that it is not nature. Art is man’s expression of his
reception of nature. Art is man’s way of interpreting nature. ART IS NOT NATURE. Art is made by man,
whereas nature is a given around us. It is in this juncture that they can be considered opposites. What we
find in nature should not be expected to be present in art, too. Movies are not meant to be direct
representation of reality. They may, according to the moviemaker’s perception of reality, be a
reinterpretation or even distortion of nature.

WELL AND GRINDING WHEEL IN THE FOREST OF

THE CHATEAU NOIR by PAUL CEZANNE – made by a
French painter, painted a scene from reality. The said scene in
inspired by a real scene in a forest around the chateau Noir is
near Aix in Cezanne’s native Provence. Comparing the two. One
can see that Cezanne’s landscape is quite different from the
original scene. Cezanne has changed some patterns and details
from the way they were actually in the photograph. WHAT HE
DID IS NOT NATURE. IT IS AN ART.

THE ELEPHANT AND THE BLIND MEN

This distinction assumes that all of us see

nature, perceive its elements in myriad, different,
yet ultimate valid ways. One can only imagine the
story of the five blind men who one day argue
against each other on what elephant looks like. Each
of the five blind men was holding a different part of
the elephant. The first was touching the body and
thus, thought the elephant was like the wall. Another
was touching the beast’s ear and was convinced that
the elephant was like a fan. The rest were touching
other different parts of the elephant and concluded
differently based on their perceptions.

ART IS LIKE EACH OF THESE MEN’S VIEW

OF THE ELEPHANT. It is based on the
individual’s subjective experience of nature. It is not
meant, after all, to accurately define what the elephant is really like in nature. ARTIST IS NOT
EXPECTED TO DUPLICATE NATUREJUST AS EVEN SCIENTISTS WITH THEIR
ELABORATE LABORATORIES CANNOT MAKE NATURE.

ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE

 Art is just experience; it does not require a full definition.

 When one says that he has an experience of something, he often means that he knows what that

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 something is about.

Examples:

 When one asserts having experienced falling in love, getting hurt, and bouncing back, he in effect
claims that he knows the endless cycle of loving.
 When one asserts having experienced preparing a particular recipe, he in fact asserts knowing how
the recipe is made.
 A radio DJ dispensing advice on love when he himself has not experienced it does not really know
what he is talking about.
 A choreographer who cannot execute a dance step himself is a bogus.
 A painter cannot claim to know to paint if he has not tried holding a brush.
 A sculptor cannot produce a work of art if a chisel is foriegn to him.

ART IS ALWAYS AN EXPERIENCE. ART IS KNOWN BY EXPERIENCING. “ART DEPENDS ON

EXPERIENCE, AND IF ONE IS TO KNOW ART, HE MUST KNOW IT NOT AS FACT OR INFORMATION
BUT AS EXPERIENCE.”

A work of art then cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In order to know what an artwork is, we
have to sense it, see it, hear it, AND SEE AND HEART IT.

ART APPRECIATION: CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION, AND EXPRESSION

THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ART MAKING

 Creativity requires thinking outside the box.

 In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from
another.

When can we say that something is creative?

 When we have not seen anything like it

 When it is out of the ordinary
 When it is not just a copy or imitation of someone’s work …
 THERE IS ORIGINALITY!

ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION

 IMAGINATION AS A PRODUCT OF ART

 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and
understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and
understand.” – Albert Einstein
 Imagination is not constrained by the walls of the norm, but goes
beyond that.
 Through imagination, one is able to craft something bold,
something new, and something better in the hopes of creating
something that will stimulate change.
 In artist’s mind sits a vast gallery of artworks
 An artwork does not need to be a real thing, but can be something
that is imaginary.
 However, something imaginary does not necessarily mean it
cannot be called art. Artists use their imagination that gives birth
to reality through creation.
 In the same way that imagination produces art, art also inspires
imagination.


ART AS EXPRESSION

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  “What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express
it. Through expression, he is able to explore his own emotions
and at the same time, create something beautiful out of them.” –
Robin George Collingwood
 Expressing emotions is different from describing emotions.
 This makes people’s art not a reflection of what is outside or
external to them, but a reflection of their inner selves.

VISUAL ARTS

 Creations that fall under this category are those that appeals to the
sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature.
 Artists produce visual arts driven by their desire to reproduce things
that they have seen in the way that they perceived them.
 There are also other artistic disciplines that also involve a visual aspect,
such as performance arts, theater, and applied arts.
 Some mediums of visual arts include paintings, drawings, letterings,
printing, sculpture, digital imaging.

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 value and is considered both an art and an
industry.
Techniques in film-making process:
 Motion-picture camera (also known as movie
camera)
 Animation techniques
 Computer-generated imagery (CGI) FILM

 Filmmaking simulates experiences or creates one that

is beyond the scope of our imagination as it aims to deliver ideas, feelings, or beauty to its viewers.

PERFORMANCE ART

 Performance art is a live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which he or she uses
to perform, but also employs other kind of art such as visual art, props, or sound.
Elements of performance arts:
 Time
 Where the performance took place
 The performer’s body: Relationship between
the audience and the performer(s)
 The fact that performance art is live makes it
intangible, which means it cannot be bought or traded
as a commodity.

POETRY PERFORMANCE

 Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses his

emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but
expresses them through words.
 These words are carefully selected to exhibit clarity and
beauty and to stimulate strong emotions of joy, anger,
love, sorrow among others.
 It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial values
that go beyond its literal meaning to narrate emphasize,

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 argue, or convince.

ARCHITECTURE

 Art is the pursuit and creation of beautiful things while

architecture is the making of beautiful buildings
 However, not all building is beautiful because some only
embody the functionality they need, but the structure,
lines, forms, and colors are not beautifully expressed.
Important elements:
 Plan
 Construction
 Design
 Buildings should embody these three important elements if they wish to merit the title architecture.

DANCE

 A series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music

accompaniment.
 Dancing is a creative art form that allows people to freely
express themselves.
 IT HAS NO RULES.
 Choreography may seem not to allow this, but in art expression,
dancers are not confined to set steps and rules but are free to create and invent their own movements
as longs as they deem them graceful and beautiful.

LITERARY ART

 Artists who practice literary arts use words to express themselves and communicate emotions to the
readers.
 Simply becoming a writer does not make one a literary artist.
 Literary art goes beyond the usual professional, academic,
journalistic and other technical forms of writing.
 It focuses on writing using a unique style, not following a
specific format or norm.
 It may include both fiction and non-fiction such as novels,
biographies, and poems.
 Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
 The Little Prince – Antoine de Sain-Exupery

THEATER

 Theater uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience.
 Theater art performance usually follows follow a script, though they should not be confused with
literary arts.
 Like in filmmaking, theater also considers several elements such as acting, gesture, lighting, sound
effects, musical score, scenery and props.
 Like performance art, theater also is a live performance.
 Genres: drama, musical, tragedy, comedy and
improvisation

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APPLIED ARTS

 Applied art are incorporating elements of style

and design to everyday items with the aim of
increasing their aesthetic value.
 Artists in this field bring beauty, charm, and
comfort into many things that were useful in
everyday life.
 Industrial design, interior design, fashion design,
graphic design

Purposes and functions of Art

Art for Delight

 We need delight, enjoyment, pleasure, decoration, amusement

and embellishment in our lives to “lift us above the stream of
life”
 AESTHETICS: refers to an awareness of beauty or that quality in
a work of art or other manmade or natural form which evokes a
sense of elevated awareness in the viewer.
 CLASSICAL: in reference to ancient Greece or Renaissance
 MONOCHROMATIC: based mostly on one color

James Abbott McNeil Whistler. Nocturne: Blue and Gold- Old Battersea
Bridge. 182-1875

Art as Commentary

 Artists who view art’s primary goal as

communication between the artist and the
viewer by the means of subject matter.
 Prints: works that exist in multiple copies

Francisco Goya. I saw This (The Disasters of War),

1810. Etching, drypoint and burin.

Art as Commentary

 Painterly: loose or spontaneous brushworks

 Testifies clearly to what the artist experienced and
takes us to a specific place and time

Berthe Morisot. In a Villa at the Seaside, 1874. Oil on

Canvas.

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Art in Worship and Ritual

 Another function of art has been to enhance religious

contemplation
 Most of the world’s religions have found ways to
incorporate artists’ creativity into their sacred rituals,
places, and ceremonies.


Art for Persuasion

 Government buildings, public monuments, television

commercials, and music videos all harness the power of
art to influence action and opinion.
 They invite and urge us to do or think things that we may
not have otherwise thought of.
 Idealism: the representation of subjects in an ideal or
perfect state or form.

Art for Self-Expression

 Art fulfills an expressive function when an

artist’s conveys information about his or her
personality or feelings or worldview, aside from
a social cause, market demand, commissioning
ruler, or aesthetic urge.
 Art becomes a meeting site between artist and
viewer, the viewer feeling empathy and gaining
an understanding of the creator’s personality.
 Self-portraiture has traditionally been an
important vehicle by which artists reach out to
us.

Jackson Pollock Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) 1950

III. Viable and vibrant Activities

IV. ACTIVITY III. EXPRESSING EMOTION AND CREATIVITY THROUGH VISUAL

ART WORK (PAINTING)

DIRECTIONS: Since you have already learned that an “Art” is an artist’s way of expressing emotion
based on personal experiences. In this activity, I want to exude an artist in you! Create an Artwork (painting
or drawing) that would tell about your emotion. Anything that would tell your current emotional state.
Remember, be creative. Creativity means uniqueness, meaning, you did not copy it from somewhere else.
Next meeting, on zoom or maybe, google classroom, we’ll have a discussion with your classmates and you
will show them your masterpiece. Together with your classmates, we will see if your emotions were shown
in your work of art. Draw it in an illustration board of “1/8” size.

NOTE: Artwork is 50 points, presentation is 50 points also. For this week you might earn 100 points as your
score! 😊

V. Opportunity to reflect and articulate students’ acquired knowledge.

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Purpose of the activity

 To explore own ideas about the topic;

 To improve analytical skills; and
 To critically engage with concepts from your course by making connections between your observations,
experiences, and opinions

Criteria for Evaluation

Criteria Superior (12-15 Sufficient (8-11 points) Minimal (4-7 Unacceptable

points) points) (0-3 points)

Depth of Response demonstrates Response demonstrates Response Response

Reflection an in-depth reflection a general reflection on, demonstrates a demonstrates a
on, and personalization and personalization of, minimal lack of reflection
of, the theories, the theories, concepts, reflection on, and on, or
concepts, and/or and/or strategies personalization personalization
___/15 strategies presented in presented in the course of, the theories, of, the theories,
the course materials to materials to date. concepts, and/or concepts, and/or
date. Viewpoints and Viewpoints and strategies strategies
interpretations are interpretations are presented in the presented in the
insightful and well supported. Appropriate course materials course materials
supported. Clear, examples are provided, to date. to date.
detailed examples are as applicable. Viewpoints and Viewpoints and
provided, as applicable. interpretations interpretations
are unsupported are missing,
or supported with inappropriate,
flawed and/or
arguments. unsupported.
Examples, when Examples, when
applicable, are applicable, are
not provided or not provided.
are irrelevant to
the assignment.
Required Response includes all Response includes all Response is Response
Components components and meets components and meets missing some excludes
or exceeds all all requirements components essential
requirements indicated indicated in the and/or does not components
in the instructions. Each instructions. Each fully meet the and/or does not
question or part of the question or part of the requirements address the
assignment is addressed assignment is addressed. indicated in the requirements
___/15 thoroughly. All All attachments and/or instructions. indicated in the
attachments and/or additional documents Some questions instructions.
additional documents are are included, as or parts of the Many parts of the
included, as required. required. assignment are assignment are
not addressed. addressed
Some minimally,
attachments and inadequately,
additional and/or not at all.
documents, if
required, are
missing or
unsuitable for the
purpose of the
assignment.
Structure Writing is clear, concise, Writing is mostly clear, Writing is Writing is
and well organized with concise, and well unclear and/or unclear and
excellent organized with good disorganized. disorganized.
sentence/paragraph sentence/paragraph Thoughts are not Thoughts ramble
construction. Thoughts construction. Thoughts expressed in a and make little

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 are expressed in a are expressed in a logical manner. sense. There are
coherent and logical coherent and logical There are more numerous
___/15 manner. There are no manner. There are no than five spelling,
more than three spelling, more than five spelling, spelling, grammar, or
grammar, or syntax grammar, or syntax grammar, or syntax errors
errors per page of errors per page of syntax errors per throughout the
writing. writing. page of writing. response.

Evidence and Response shows strong Response shows Response shows Response shows
Practice evidence of synthesis of evidence of synthesis of little evidence of no evidence of
ideas presented and ideas presented and synthesis of ideas synthesis of ideas
insights gained insights gained presented and presented and
throughout the entire throughout the entire insights gained insights gained
___/15 course. The implications course. The implications throughout the throughout the
of these insights for the of these insights for the entire course. entire course. No
respondent's overall respondent's overall Few implications implications for
teaching practice are teaching practice are of these insights the respondent's
thoroughly detailed, as presented, as applicable. for the overall teaching
applicable. respondent's practice are
overall teaching presented, as
practice are applicable.
presented, as
applicable.
Summary and Reflection

Please refer to student’s Learning Journal format

VI. Textbooks and other References

Janice Patria Serafica, Greg Tabios Pawilen, Bernardo Nicolas Cslib, Jr., Eden Joy Pastor Alata. (2018).
Science, Technology and Society. Rex Publishing, INC.

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