Module 2 Art Appreciation and The Human Faculties
Module 2 Art Appreciation and The Human Faculties
Module 2 Art Appreciation and The Human Faculties
MODULE 2:
ART APPRECIATION AND
THE HUMAN FACULTIES
PARTS
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Explain the human faculties as bases for the appreciation of art.
• Analyze works of art according to four levels: perceptual elements,
representations, emotional suggestions, and intellectual meaning.
• Define art appreciation.
• Evaluate the merit or demerit of works of art based on the concept
of art as reality.
ART AND
THE HUMAN FACULTIES
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Erica Simone & Jaci Berkopec, Tree of Life Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1490
Li Chen, Human Nature, 2013
Human Faculties
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ideas, concepts,
symbolism
SHAPES:
rectangles, squares
LINES:
straight, horizontal and
vertical
Piet Mondrian, Composition A, 1923
(non-figurative art)
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Senses: Representations
VISUAL ELEMENTS
PEOPLE:
man, children
ANIMALS:
sea serpents
THINGS:
robe, cloth, altar
EVENT:
Laocoön and His Sons, 2nd century BC
(figurative art)
being attacked, fighting
VISUAL ELEMENTS
REPRESENTATIONS
Emotions:
fear or terror
(facial expression; curving lines of
red, yellow, and orange of the sky)
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CLOCK Time
BOOK Knowledge
FLASK Celebration
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NATURE ART
Created by God Made by people
out of nothing out of something
Art Appreciation
Spectator:
viewer, listener, audience Art appreciation is the
positive, perceptual,
Artwork emotional and intellectual
response to the beauty of art.
(Orate, 2000)
Response
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positive Wow!
perceptual sense-data and representation
emotional feelings
intellectual meanings
response to communication and reaction
the beauty value that delights
of art painting, sculpture, music, etc.
Analyze it based
Articulate your
View the on the three
React (initial) reaction +
artwork human faculties
analysis
(4 levels)
• sense-data and
representation
• emotional
expression
• intellectual
meaning
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Da Vinci,
Mona Lisa,
1503-1506
Picasso,
Weeping
Woman,
1937
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