4 classifying artworks

1. FINE ARTS OR INDEPENDENT ARTS –made primarily for aesthetic enjoyment

- e.g. music, painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, dancing & drama

2. PRACTICAL ARTS/ USEFUL/ UTILITARIAN ARTS – for practical use

- e.g. industrial art, applied or household art, civic art, commercial art, graphic art, agricultural art, fishery art..

Arts grouped according to

1. MAJOR ARTS – painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, and dance

2. MINOR ARTS – decorative arts, popular arts, graphic arts, plastic arts & industrial arts

1. VISUAL ARTS

1.1. GRAPHIC ARTS

1.2. PLASTIC ARTS

2. PERFORMING ARTS – theater, play, dance & music

3. LITERARY ARTS – short stories, novels, poetry and dramas

4. POPULAR ARTS – film, newspaper, magazine, radio, television

5. GUSTATORY ART OF THE CUISINE – involves skill in food & beverage preparation

6. DECORATIVE ARTS – visual objects produced for beautifying houses, offices, cars and other structures

THE SCOPE OF HUMANITIES Sanchez et al… Espina et al

ARTS CAN BE

1.VISUAL

2.AUDITORY

3.COMBINED

media that can be seen and which occupy space

Grouped into 2 classes:

1. two-dimensional arts – painting, drawing, printmaking, photography

2. Three-dimensional arts – sculpture, architecture, landscape, community planning, industrial designs, crafts like ceramics and furniture

We perceive with our eyes

Classified into 2 groups:

A. THE GRAPHIC ARTS

- covers any form of visual artistic representation

- portrayals of forms & symbols are recorded on a 2-di surface

- all processes & products of the printing industry

a. PAINTING – process of applying pigment to a surface to secure effects involving forms & colors

b. DRAWING – the art of representing something by lines made on a surface

- the process of portraying an object, scene, or forms of decorative or symbolic meaning through lines, shading & textures in one or more colors

c. GRAPHIC PROCESSES – processes for making multi-reproduction of graphic works

- involve the preparation of a master image of the drawing or design on some durable material

- classified by the nature of the surface from which the printing is done:

c.1. Relief Printing c.2. Intaglio Printing c.3. Surface Printing

C.1. RELIEF PRINTING – unwanted portions of design are cut away on the master image

- the printed image is formed by the remaining surfaces

- e.g. linoleum cuts, woodcuts, wood engravings

c.2. INTAGLIO PRINTING – a method of printing from a plate on which incised lines, which carry the ink, leave a raised impression

c.2.1. DRY POINT – the artist draws directly on a metal plate

c.2.2. ETCHING – drawings or designs on metal plates covered with wax

c.2.3. ENGRAVING – done on a metal plate with a cutting tool called a barin, which leaves a V-shaped trough; designs entirely composed of lines and/ or dots

c.3. SURFACE PRINTING – printing is done from a flat (plane) surface

c.3.1. LITHOGRAPHY – printing from a flat stone; based on the repulsion between grease & water

c.3.2. SILKSCREEN – silk is stretched over a rectangular frame & unwanted portions in the design are blocked out

d. COMMERCIAL ART – includes designing of books, advertisements, signs, posters, and other displays to promote sale or acceptance of product, service or idea

e. MECHANICAL PROCESSES – developed by commercial printers for rapid, large-quantity reproduction of words & pictures in one or more colors

f. PHOTOGRAPHY – a chemical-mechanical process by which images are produced on

sensitized surfaces by action of light

B. THE PLASTIC ARTS – includes all fields of the visual arts in which materials are organized into 3-dimensional forms

a. ARCHITECTURE – the art of designing & constructing buildings & other types of structures

b. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – planning outdoor areas for human use & enjoyment, esp gardens, parks, playgrounds, golf courses

c. CITY PLANNING – planning & arranging the physical aspects of a large or small community

d. INTERIOR DESIGN – design & arrangement of architectural interiors for convenience & beauty

e. SCULPTURE – design &

construction of 3-di forms

representing natural

objects or imaginary

shapes

f. CRAFTS – designing & making of objects by hand for use or for pleasure

Decorative arts

A ceramic is an inorganic, non-metallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous .

Decorative arts Interior design is a multi-faceted

profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects ('mobile' in Latin languages) intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things. Storage furniture such as a nightstand often makes use of doors, drawers, shelves and locks to contain, organize or secure smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods.

Jewelry making signifies items of personal adornment, such as necklaces, rings, brooches, earrings and bracelets.

Decorative arts

Metal can be an intimidating material to work with--and not one most crafters will just pick up and try without instruction. In her encouraging introduction to metal crafting. Browning quickly dispels any fear the inexperienced metal crafter may have while showing how working with metal can enhance practically every area of crafting--scrapbooking, collage, altered art, jewelry--and thus giving this title a broader appeal than just to metal crafters.

Decorative arts

Wood working is the process of

building, making or carving something using wood. Along with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was certainly one of the first materials worked by primitive human beings. Micro wear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood. The development of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.

Decorative arts

A collage

•from the French word: coller, to glue • made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. • may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork, photographs, a piece of moss or even a dead mole and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.

Decorative arts

g. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN – design of objects for machine production

h. DRESS AND COSTUME DESIGN* – covers the design of wearing apparel of all types – dresses, coats, suits, shoes, ties, etc..

i. THEATER DESIGN – design of settings for dramatic productions

mediums can be heard and are expressed in time

music and literature

The art of combining spoken or written words and their meanings into forms which have artistic and emotional appeal

1. DRAMA – a presentation made up of words, sounds, and actions of characters

2. ESSAY – non-fiction, expository writing

ranging from informal, personal topics to closely

reasoned critical treatments of important

subjects

3. PROSE FICTION – narratives created by the author, as distinguished from true accounts

4. POETRY – literature of a highly expressive nature using special forms and choice of words and emotional images… Narrative poetry includes epics, romances & ballads… Lyric forms include the sonnet, ode, elegy, song

5. MISCELLANEOUS – history, biography, letters, journals, diaries and other works not formally classed as literature

Art of arranging sounds in rhythmic succession and generally in combination

Both a creative and a performing art

Common forms are song, march, fugue, sonata, suite, fantasy, concerto, and symphony

Musical compositions fall into 3 groups:

VOCAL MUSIC

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

MUSIC COMBINED WITH OTHER ARTS

Composed primarily to be sung

The voice/s are generally accompanied by one or more instruments

LONG VOCAL FORMS OR SHORT VOCAL FORMS

Long vocal forms: 1. Opera 2. Cantata 3. Oratorio 4. Moro-moro 5. zarzuela

Short vocal forms:

1. Folk songs 2. Art songs 3. Kundiman 4. Anthem 5. ballad

Written for instruments of four general types: keyboard (piano, organ); stringed (violin, cello, guitar); wind (flute, clarinet); brass winds (trumpet, saxophone); percussion (drums, xylophone)

mediums can be both seen and heard and exist in both space and time

Dance, opera, drama, and the movies

Along with the music, these are also known as the performing arts

a. OPERA – drama set to music; entirely sung with orchestral accompaniment; staged with accomplished singers, elaborate scenery & costumes

b. OPERETTA & MUSICAL COMEDY – also a drama set to music but is light, popular, romantic & often humorous or comic

c. ORATORIO AND CANTATA – sacred musical drama in concert form; oratories are usually based on Biblical themes

Ballet music and background music for motion pictures

Story recreated by actors on a stage in front of an audience

Common types:

- tragedy

- melodrama

- comedy

- miscellaneous

One of literature’s greatest dramatic art forms

It is a drama of serious nature in which the central character comes to some sad or disastrous end

Portray suffering

Emphasis on the action rather than on character The action is sensational or romantic and usually has a happy ending

a. THE ROMANTIC COMEDY – a light, amusing tale of lovers in some dilemma which is finally solved happily

b. FARCE – a light, humorous play; emphasis on jokes, humorous physical action, ludicrous situations and improbable characters

c. COMEDY OF MANNERS – “drawing room comedy”; sophisticated, sometimes satirical; characters are usually high-society types & situations have little to do with real life; emphasis on witty dialogue

a. TRAGICOMEDY – drama blending tragic and comic elements; with happy ending

b. MIRACLE & MYSTERY PLAYS – dramatized stories from the Bible & of the lives of saints

c. MORALITY PLAYS – characters represent specific vices & virtues

d. CLOSET DRAMA – plays written for reading rather than for staging

e. PIANO DRAMA – based on piano works which revolve around the musical pieces composed under the inspiration of a literary work

Film Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films (also referred to as movies or motion pictures) are produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects.

Involves the movement of the body & the feet in rhythm

Important types:

1. ETHNOLOGIC

2. SOCIAL OR BALLROOM DANCES

3. THE BALLET

4. MODERN

5. MUSICAL COMEDY

Folk dancing associated with national and cultural groups

Popular types of dancing generally performed by pairs

Waltz, fox trot, rhumba, tango

Formalized type of dance which originated in the royal courts of the Middle Ages

Solo or concerted dances with mimetic actions accomplished by music

Generally built around a theme or story

Contemporary or interpretative dances

Represent rebellion against the classical formalism of ballet

Emphasize personal communication of moods & themes

Dances performed by soloists, groups and choruses in theaters, night clubs, motion pictures & TV

Combines various forms of ballet, modern, tap & acrobatics

3 MAJOR PHASES:

1. The artist must have an idea

2. He must have a material to work with

3. He must give form to his idea

1. What did the artist make? What is it about? (subject)

2. What did the artist want to show in his work? What is the artwork for? (function of the art)

3. What is the artwork made of? (materials or medium used)

4. How is the material put together or organized? (materials or medium used)

5. What is the personality or individuality of the art work? (style and mood or temper of the art work)

6. How good is it? (This is the judgment)

7. What is the meaning conveyed by the art? How does it make life more meaningful?