Art Appreciation GEC 006

ART APPRECIATION
GEC 006
1. What is art?
- 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. Art, in its
broadest sense, is a form of communication. It means whatever the artist intends it to
mean, and this meaning is shaped by the materials, techniques, and forms it makes use of,
as well as the ideas and feelings it creates in its viewers. Art is an act of expressing
feelings, thoughts, and observations.
2. What is your own definition of art?

- Art is a form of expression wherein people create works and pieces that describes what
they think. Art also relates to “beauty” and “aesthetics” the artist wanted to portray. As
stated in the prior statement, art is a form of expression, the artist is free to create a piece
that presents his/her own idea and craft.
3. Make a research on the brief history of world art.

 30,000 BC-2500 BC (Stone Age)
This period introduced art characterized by cave paintings (e.g. Lascaux cave painting),
fertility goddesses and megalithic structures (e.g. Stonehenge).
 3500 BC-539 BC (Mesopotamian)
Characterized by warrior art and narration in stone relief (Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar,
Stele of Hammurabi’s Code)
 3100 BC-30 BC(Egyptian)
This period focuses on art with an afterlife, pyramids and tomb painting (Imhotep, Step
Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti)
 850 BC-31 BC (Greek and Hellenistic)
Period that practiced Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural

orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian). Examples of art in this period are the Parthenon, Myron,
Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles.
 500 BC-476 AD (Roman)

Roman realism is practiced which is characterized by practical and down to earth pieces and
arch. (e.g. Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan’s Column,
Pantheon)
 653 BC-1900 AD (Indian, Chinese and Japanese)
Focuses on serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World (e.g. Gu Kaizhi, Li Cheng,
Guo Xi, Hokusai, Hiroshige)
 476 AD-1453 AD (Byzantine and Islamic)
This period practiced Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic architecture and amazing
maze-like design like the Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the
Alhambra
 500-1400 / 5th Century (Middle Ages)
Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic was popularized ( e.g. St. Sernin,
Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue,
Duccio, Giotto)
 1400-1550 (High and Early Renaissance)
Titled as the rebirth of classical culture. Art works by Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli,
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael were popularized.
 1430-1550 (Venetian and Northern Renaissance)
The Renaissance spreads north- ward to France, the Low

Countries, Poland, Germany, and England. Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan
van
Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden were the leading artist of this period.
 1527–1580 (Mannerism)
The period where art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature.
 1600-1750 (Baroque)
Art was viewed as “a weapon in the religious

wars”, influential artist of this era includes Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of
Versailles.
 1750–1850 (Neoclassical)
The period wherein art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur.
 1780-1850 (Romanticism)
This is the triumph of imagination and individuality as works of Caspar Friedrich, Gericault,
Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin
West were popularized during this period.
 1848-1900 (Realism)
European democratic revolutions of 1848 were happening at this period that Is why people
are celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
rustic painting.
 1865-1885 (Impressionism)
This period is all about capturing fleeting effects of natural light as works of Monet, Manet,
Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas were popularized.
 1885-1910 (Post-Impressionism)
A soft revolt against Impressionism. Artists that were popular by this era are Van Gogh,
Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat.
 1900–1935 (Fauvism and Expressionism)
The Fauves were spontaneous with bright, vivid and colorful strokes,

while expressionists used were thoughtful and well planned to ensure that they reflect their inner
senses and emotions effectively.
 1905–1920 (Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl)
Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new

forms to express modern life. Works of Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich
popularized.
 1917–1950 (Dada and Surrealism)
These art movements were artistic, literary and intellectual movements of the early 20th
century that were instrumental in defining Modernism, these are somewhat deemed as
“ridiculous art”, “painting dreams” and “exploring the unconscious”.
 Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)
Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression

without form; popular art absorbs consumerism. Popular artists are Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning,
Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein.
 Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– present)
Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles

4. How did art influence the Filipino culture?
- The arts of the Philippines reflect a society with diverse cultural influences and traditions.
Islamic traditions were first introduced to the Malays of the southern Philippine Islands in
the 14th century. Most modern aspects of Philippine cultural life evolved under the
foreign rule of Spain and, later, the United States.
In the 16th century the Spanish imposed a foreign culture based in Catholicism. While
the lowland peoples were acculturated through religious conversion, the Muslims and
some upland tribal groups maintained cultural independence. Among those who were
assimilated arose an educated elite who began to establish a modern Filipino literary
tradition. During the first half of the 20th century, American influence made the
Philippines one of the most Westernized nations in Southeast Asia. The cultural
movements of Europe and the United States profoundly influenced Filipino artists, even
after independence in 1946. While drawing on Western forms, however, the works of
Filipino painters, writers, and musicians are imbued with distinctly Philippine themes. By
expressing the cultural richness of the archipelago in all its diversity, Filipino artists have
helped to shape a sense of national identity. Many Malay cultural traditions have survived
despite centuries of foreign rule. Muslims and upland tribal groups maintain distinct
traditions in music, dance, and sculpture. In addition, many Filipino artists incorporate
indigenous folk motifs into modern forms.

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2. What is your own definition of art?

3. Make a research on the brief history of world art.

 3500 BC-539 BC (Mesopotamian)

 3100 BC-30 BC(Egyptian)

 850 BC-31 BC (Greek and Hellenistic)

Period that practiced Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural

 500 BC-476 AD (Roman)

 653 BC-1900 AD (Indian, Chinese and Japanese)

 476 AD-1453 AD (Byzantine and Islamic)

 500-1400 / 5th Century (Middle Ages)

 1400-1550 (High and Early Renaissance)

 1430-1550 (Venetian and Northern Renaissance)

The Renaissance spreads north- ward to France, the Low

Art was viewed as “a weapon in the religious

 1900–1935 (Fauvism and Expressionism)

The Fauves were spontaneous with bright, vivid and colorful strokes,

 1905–1920 (Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl)

Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new

 1917–1950 (Dada and Surrealism)

 Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)

Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression

 Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– present)

Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles

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