Lesson 2: Aesthetics

Aesthetics

The study of beauty

and its appreciation

Beauty
is the characteristic of a person,
place, object or idea that provides
a perceptual experience of
pleasure, meaning & satisfaction

 Aesthetics examine what makes

something beautiful, sublime,
disgusting, funny, silly,
entertaining, pretentious,
harmonious, boring or tragic.

 Judgment of aesthetics clearly rely

on our ability to discriminate at a
sensory level.
However, sensitivity to aesthetic
qualities can be well-groomed by
training the senses and the mind.

 Aesthetics qualities can

only be appreciated if an
individual enjoys the
experience of it.

Multi-sensory Factors Affecting Aesthetics:

Visual Kinesthetics
Auditory Olfactory
Tactile Gustatory

Lesson 3:

Art

ART

Etymology: Latin

Ars/Artis
to do or man made

ART

It applies to such activities that

express aesthetic ideas by the use
of skill and imagination in the
creation of objects, environment,
experiences which can be shared
with others.

ART

A creative activity which

involves skill or expertness in
handling materials and
organizing them into a new
product or concept.

WORK OF ART:
A thing of beauty having aesthetic
value.
Obra maestra, provides
aesthetic values to the viewers.
It must have an artistic merit
or/and literary merit.

Categories Of Work Of Art Considered To Be Great:

Best-selling - it is very popular in

its day, or is produced by an artist
who has done other very popular
piece.

Categories Of Work Of Art Considered To Be Great:

Ground breaking- that it does not

follow regular convention or
already tried artistic methods real
closely.

Categories Of Work Of Art Considered To Be Great:

Inherently beautiful - means just as

the art critics do require and
demand, and deeply moving to us.
Something that appeals to your
senses and emotions.

Importance of Art
Driven our existence
Satisfies the needs for personal
expression
Develop our skills to express ourselves
Challenge us to see things differently

Importance of Art
It unleash our hidden desires and passion
It can change our ways in life
To see the truth that we might
understand before
It gives pleasure, satisfaction and
gratification

Functions of Art
express beauty
gives man moment of relaxation and
spiritual happiness
serves as a channel of mans passion
reforms man
overcomes the feeling of restlessness and
loneliness

Different Classifications Of Art

By the Audience - focus on how
audience classified arts
By Critics - focus on how people judge
art
By an Artist - characterize by special
sensing, physical and special senses

By the Audience:
1. Performing Artssomething an artist used
body as a medium. An art
form that is moving from
one place to another.
Example: music, dance,
drama or theater

By the Audience:
2. Visual Arts - usually exist
in two dimensional form
and stay in one place.
Something that we see and
hear.
Example: painting,
photography, cinema

By the Audience:
3. Literature- talks about
language that affects our
imagination and make us
think.
Example: literary art
(poems, novels, stories.
etc.)

By the Audience:

4. Sculptural - a three
dimensional form that
we can touch, see, and
climb. It stays in one
place.
Example: Sculpture,
Architectural Designs

By the Critics:
1.Major Arts or Fine Arts those
that includes music, literature,
sculpture, painting, dance,
theater, and architecture.
2.Minor Arts or Applied Arts those that includes ceramics,
furniture, weaving, photography,
and letterings.

By the Critics:
3. Pure Art - created and
performed for others sake and
to satisfy the audience.
Example: Watching opera
4. Practical Art - with a purpose,
for practical use that something
is useful.
Example: Chair and
Table

By the Artists:
1.Sight art - something that
you can see, imagine, and
create.
Example: painting, drawing,
mosaic, drafting design,
stage design, light displays
and graphic design

By the Artists:
2. Sound Art - something that you
can hear.
Example: Literature, Poetry,
Theater and Music

3. Touch Art- something that you

can feel or touch.
Example: Sculpture, Pottery, and
architecture

Other Classification:
Real Art - something that is
understandable, what you see
is what you get, objective and
representational.
Abstract Art non-subject
matter, non-representational,
that we cannot understand on
the part of the listener.