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ARTS IS EVERYWHERE!

WHAT IS ARTS? That is, it is

reflected in our
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(Art, Man & Society) tastes such as in
the garments we
wear..

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ARTS IS EVERYWHERE! ARTS IS EVERYWHERE!

That is, it is in That is, it is

everyday living in objects
shelter, that carry
transportation, cultural
etc... meaning.

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ART IS EVERYWHERE! ARTS IS EVERYWHERE!

That is, it is
That is, it is in
in everyday
photographs.
scenery.

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ARTS IS EVERYWHERE!
ARTS IS EVERYWHERE!

That is, it is creative That is, it is

works of art that we can creative works of
comprehend. art that we can
comprehend.

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ARTS IS EVERYWHERE! ARTS IS EVERYWHERE!

Or in creative
works of art Because we
that we just cannot.
cannot.

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Defining ARTS ARTS FOR ARTS SAKE

From the Latin word ars, ART means an ability or All works of art that we see and hear have a
skill. purpose as well as expression.

In more specialized sense, the term ART applies to
activities that express aesthetic ideas by the use of skill
and imagination in aesthetically creating (a) objects,
(b) environment and (c) experiences which can
be shared with others.
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(1) Expression is to express beauty, art for
the arts sake
(2) Purpose or Function could be moral,
educational, social, cultural, and religious
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If it is making something beautiful rather

Aesthetics: Theory of Beauty
than useful, it is ART

If it is making something that is useful

more than beautiful, it is CRAFT

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AESTHETICS...
As the study of the beautiful, aesthetics tries to explain the "The divergence of views on art is
nature of creative impulse. It deals with theories of beauty. attributed to many expectations,
including those found in ones
Cannot be separated from the philosophy of art (or the
culture. Therefore, our view of art or
appraisal of the work of art)
the creation of something beautiful is
something affected by period, race,
art appreciation = creation of art work culture, and place."
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I tell the meaning of BEAUTY

What a delicious adobo is. Perceivers may disagree as to the criteria or standards
What a beautiful painting is. of beauty (subjectivity of beauty), which is culture
= What a nice song is.
What a great poem is.
What an astonishing
bound

architecture is.
What profound movie is. But they agree as to the meaning of beauty since that
meaning is based on usage (objectivity of beauty).

Got any problem with this?

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Subjectivity vs. Objectivity of BEAUTY What makes an object beautiful?

What makes something or someone beautiful? (SUBJECTIVE)
OPINION; commonly causing disagreement on the criteria
beauty is how I see it (from the beholders eye)
How do we say that beauty is possessed by something or by
someone? (OBJECTIVE)
FACT; agreement on its meaning based on usage
beauty is out there
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if it is visually appealing/ pleasant?
if it evokes a sense of delight/ owe?
if it stirs up interest, curiosity, imagination?
if it inspires its audience?
it induces empathy and other emotions?
Anything else?
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ARTS FOR ARTS SAKE

All works of art that we see and hear have a purpose
as well as expression.
The ten most expensive
(1) Expression is to express beauty, art for the
arts sake
paintings in history
According to
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/n
(2) Purpose or Function could be moral, orthamerica/usa/11596376/The-ten-most- Are they, in
educational, social, cultural, and religious expensive-paintings-in-history.html
any way,
good?

Three studies
of Lucian Freud Portrait of Dr Gachet
by Francis Bacon by Vincent van Gogh
$145.0m $152.0m

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Portrait of
Adele Block-Bauer I Le Rve
by Gustav Klimt by Pablo Picasso
$158.4m $158.5m

Woman III
by Willem de Kooning
$162.4m

No 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock

$165.4m

Les Femmes dAlger (Version O)

by Pablo Picasso
$179.3m

No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)

by Mark Rothko
$186m

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WHEN WILL YOU MARRY

The Card Players by Paul Gauguin
by Paul Czanne $300m
$274m

the meaning of BEAUTY

Where Perceivers may disagree as to the criteria or
does their standards of beauty (subjectivity of beauty),
which is culture bound, but they agree as to the
premium meaning of beauty since that meaning is based on
usage (objectivity of beauty).
lie? Simply put: KAPAG MAY SENSE!

What definition of beauty does Are beauty competitions

the miss universe (or any justified? Is it alright to make
beauty pageant) promote, creative works of man
subjective or objective? why? compete for beauty? Explain.

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