MABALACAT CITY COLLEGE – DAPDAP

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND PHILOSOPHY

ZHU 111 (ART APPRECIATION) GEC 106

This handout is to be used exclusively by Dr. Allan C. Orate’s students in ZHU 111. It contains the classroom lessons to be
supplemented by the PowerPoint Presentations provided for the student which may be downloaded in the student portal.
The work sheets are to be accomplished in classroom or at home as assignments. They also serve as class project to be
checked during term.

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LESSONS FOR PLEMINARY PERIOD

LESSON 1. INTRODUCTION

TWO GENERAL FIELDS OF LEARNING

_________________________1. Deals with natural phenomena such as physics, biology, psychology.
_________________________2. Deals with human phenomena

THE FOUR HUMANISTIC DISIPLINES

_________________________1. Human events happening in the world
_________________________2. Written and oral forms of human communication
_________________________3. Human reason concerning reality
_________________________4. Admiration of human-made objects and creativity of making them.

TWO AREAS OF ART

_________________________ 1. Human creativity of making art. It is concern of the artists.
_________________________ 2. Human admiration of art. It is concern of the art-spector’s.

THE SEVEN MAJOR OF ARTS (Visual, Performing, Linguistic)

_________________________1. Art of the beauty of colors.
_________________________2. Art of the beauty of shape.
_________________________3. Art of the beauty of space.
_________________________4. Art of the beauty of sound.
_________________________5. Art of the beauty of motion
_________________________6. Art of the beauty of performance.
_________________________7. Art of the beauty of writing.

Kandisky, Improvisation
No. 30 (Cannons), 1913

Rodin, The Thinker, 1902

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LESSON 2. THE HUMANITIES

DIFFERENT METHODS OF KNOWING IN THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES

_____________________________ 1. The objective method of knowing employed in the sciences. The scientist learns
about natural phenomena in the world observation, making hypothesis,
experimentation, and formulation of theories and laws.

_____________________________ 2. The subjective method of knowing applied in the humanities. The humanists learns
about the human phenomena by knowing the self.

_____________________________ 3. The basic question in humanistic studies.

THINKERS WHOSE THOUGHT HAS BECOME THE BASIS OF THE METHOD OF THE HUMANITIES

________________________________ 1. The ancient Greek philosopher (469-399 BC) who said “Knowing thyself.”

_____________________________ 2. The Christian philosopher and theologian (354-430 AD) who said “Withdraw into
yourself, truth dwells in the inner man.”

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE HUMANITIES

________________________________ 1. Latin word which refers to the quality of being human, and from which the word
humanities” was derived. In English it refers to human being, person, people, man
and woman. In Filipino it refers to tao, babae and lalaki.

_____________________________ 2. The Greek philosopher (570-490 BC) who said “Man is the measured of all things.”
famous quotation has become the spirit of humanism and humanistic studies in the
Western world.

The historical root of humanistic studies is the philosophy of humanism which had its root on the ancient belief that man is
the center of the universe. During Renaissance, people reflected about themselves as a part of humanity (anthropocentric),
not as a part of nature (cosmocentric) nor part of the divine authority (theocentric). During the modern period, there was the
rise of science and advancement of technology (scientific-technocentric). Now, in this postmodern period, human beings
are seen to be merely one among the collections of things (elecctic), but powerful to determine themselves and the world.

THE THREE FACULTIES WHICH MAKE UP THE HUMAN ESSENCE

_______________________________ 1. The faculty that makes the human beings able to think and reason out.

____________________________ 2. The faculty of human beings that makes them capable of feeling and having different
emotions.

____________________________ 3. The human faculty of perception and sensation.

APPRECIATING ART BY THE THREE HUMAN FACULTIES

_______________________________ 1. The sense-data perceived in the artwork

____________________________ 2. The images or copies of things, people, event or objects perceived in the artwork

____________________________ 3. The feeling or emotions expressed in the artwork

____________________________ 4. The ideas, thoughts or concepts conveyed by the artwork.

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CALLIGRAPHY PRINTING

The Book of Kells, Page of Guttenberg

12th Century AD Bible, 1454

The finest work of calligraphy The first book printed in

During medieval period. the West using movable
types

CERAMICS ADVERTISING
DESIGN
Manunggul Jar,
870-710 BC, Tabon Logo for the Musical
Cave Palawan Play Miss Saigon,
1989
The design in the
cover of this burial jar Shadowy image of a
expresses the ancient Filipino helicopter
belief in after-life.

IKEBANA MASONRY

Picture of Japanese Arc de Triophe de

Flower Arrangement I’Etoile, 1919, Paris

The three flowers represent It means “Arch of the

The heaven, earth and man. Triumph of the Star”
The making of arch was
one time the kept secret
of stone builders who
formed fraternities from
which originated The
Masons

PHOTOGRAPHY
LANDSCAPING

Your own picture

Picture of the Tan
Taken by a Digital
Yan Kee Garden in
Camera and printed
UE-Manila
Using a computer
A garden beautifies the
The use of modern environment even at the
Technology in graphic center of urban area.
Design has revolutionized
The product of representa-
tional images.

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

JOHN KEATS

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PERPECTUAL, EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL ANALYSIS OF ART

Mondrian, Composition with

Red, Yellow and Blue, 1929

VISUAL ELEMENTS
What sense-data do you see in the painting?
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Amorsolo, Winnowing Rice, 1956

REPRESENTATIONS
What things do you see in the painting?
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Munch, The Scream, 1893

EMOTIONAL SUGGESTION
What do you feel about the painting?
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Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

INTELLECTUAL MEANING
What ideas do you think of the painting?
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LESSON 3. ART AND AESTHETICS

DEFINITION OF AESTHETICS

____________________________________ 1. The Greek word from which the term “aesthetics” was derived. In English
It is equivalent to “sensory perception” (Etymological Definition)
_______________________________________ 2. The Philosophy of beauty and art (Real Definition).
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THE THREE DIVISIONS IN THE STUDY OF AESTHETICS

_______________________________________ 1. Inquires about the nature of beautiful things. It asks the questions “What
Makes something beautiful or ugly?”

_______________________________________ 2. Deals with the essence of art. It asks “What makes something an art?

_______________________________________ 3. Concern with the evaluation of the merit or demerit of the work art. It asks
“What makes an art great?”

Aesthetic is a branch of philosophy. The word “aesthetics” was first employed by Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762) to
Mean “the science of sensory perception.” Particularly, he used it to denote a realm of concrete knowledge, as distinct from
Abstract in which a content is communicated in sensory forms.

LESSON 4. THE APPRECIATION OF ART

THE WAY TO APPRECIATE ART

_______________________________ 1. The positive perpetual, emotional and intellectual response to the beauty of
Work of art.

_______________________________ 2. Popular expressions used when a person is confronted with beautiful thing.

_______________________________ 3. Words use to express when one beholds an ugly object.

ART IS. . . . . . . . . (Give 9 words commonly associated with art)

1. ___________________________ 4.__________________________ 7. ___________________________

2. ___________________________ 5. __________________________ 8. ___________________________

3. ___________________________ 6. __________________________ 9. ___________________________

WHICH ART IS THE MOST REAL?

Leonardo, The Mona Lisa, 1501 Picasso, The Weeping Woman, 1937 Mondrian, Composition With
Red, Yellow and Blue, 1929

Malevich, White on White, 1917 Duchamp, The Foundation (Urinal), 1917