MODULE-1-art Appreciation PDF FINAL PDF

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BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES

Instructor:Lezel A. Magdasal
Facebook account: Lezel Magdasal
Email address: lezelmagdasal9@gmail.com
COURSE OUTLINE
Discipline Social Science Program General Education

Course Code GE 6 Course Title ART APPRECIATION
Credit Units 3 Duration 3 Hours/week
Program Placement 1st/2nd semester Prerequisite None
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND COURSE INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOME
Art Appreciation is a three-unit course that develop students’ ability to appreciate,

analyze, and critique works of art. Through interdisciplinary and multimodal approached, this
course equips the students with a broad knowledge of the practical, historical, philosophical, and
social relevance of the arts in order in hone students’ ability to articulate their understanding of
arts. The course also develops students’ competency in researching and curating arts as well as
conceptualizing, mounting, and evaluating art productions. The course aims to develop students’
genuine appreciation for Philippine arts by providing them opportunities to explore the diversity
and richness and their rootedness in Filipino culture.
At the end of the course, the students are to:
(A) 1.1.1.1 Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge and skills in the professional/ creative
work, innovations, and lifelong learning in the respective field of study. (S) .3.1.1 Perform
individual or team tasks independently in their respective fields. (K) 1.2.1.1 Apply professional/
creative work, research and innovation in a specialized field of discipline and/ or further study.
All these are achieved through (4.2.1.1) excellent instruction, relevant and responsive
research and / or extension services and quality-assured production (4.3.1.1) of a true NOrSUnian
with the core values of SAPPHIRE needed to (4.1.1.1) become dynamic, competitive and globally
responsive.
COURSE OUTLINE
Timeframe
Week Topic
st nd
1 – 2 Week NOrSU Preliminaries
3rd – 4th Week Lesson 1
Introduction and Assumptions of Art
5th – 6th Week Lesson 2
Functions and Philosophical Perspectives on Art
Elements of Art
Principles of Art
MIDTERM Module 1, 2, 3 and 4
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Timeframe
Week Topic
th th
11 – 12 Week Lesson 5
Artists and Artisans
Art in Early Civilizations
15th – 16 Week Lesson 7
Soulmaking, Appropriation, and Improvisation
Art in Asia
FINAL Module 5,6,7 and 8
COURSE REQUIREMENT AND GRADING SYSTEM
Course Requirements Outputs:
Learning Activities
Practice Task
Assignments
Project/virtual presentation
Major Examinations:
Midterm Examination
Final Examination
Blended Mode of Instruction (BMI): 75% technology mediated

sessions and 25% modular sessions.
Grading System Breakdown of the 100% final grade into at least 4 specific grade-
components as agreed by the concern faculty members in the
department/ program/ college or school.
Evaluation Criteria
Midterm Grade Final Grade
Learning activities -15% Learning activities -15%

Practice task - 15% Practice task -15%
Assignments - 10% Assignments -10%
Project - 20% Project -20%
Midterm Exam - 40% Final Exam -40%
100% 100%
Computation of Final Grade

50% of Midterm Grade + 50% of Final Grade = 100%
Cut-off or required grade in relation to the

course/ program standard is 83.
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MODULE 1
INTRODUCTION
Art appreciation is an art survey course that is design to increase a person’s knowledge
and ideas and the appreciation of the visual arts. Nowadays, students focused on interpreting and
evaluating works of art within formal, cultural, as well as exploring the historical perspectives,
and including a deeper look at global and foreign artworks. Students will also explore and
participate in a variety of art applications to try and experience for a better understanding in the
process of creating an artwork.
This lesson is all about the desire for beautiful things, the appreciation of the useful
beauty existing, and some questions and assumptions that humans normally hold and believed
about art.
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. To understand and appreciate arts in general including their assumptions, functions and
perspectives
2. Analyze and appraise works of art based on aesthetic value, historical context, tradition,
and social relevance.
3. Deeper their sensitivity to self, community, and society.
CONTENTS OF THE MODULE

This module contains the following lessons:
Lesson 1: What is art? Introduction and Assumptions
Lesson 2: Functions and Philosophical Perspectives on Art
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DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE MODULE PROPERLY

In order to benefit profoundly from this module, please be guided by all the key points
presented below.
1. This module contains two (2) lessons. Read, comprehend and analyse the explanations
thoroughly so that you could understand the lesson fully.
2. On the first page of each lesson, you will find the specific learning outcomes (SLOs) of
each lesson. SLOs are knowledge and skills you are expected to acquire at the end of the
lesson.
3. You must answer the Learning Activities/Exercises (LAEs). The LAEs are designed to
help you acquire the SLOs.
4. Feel free to chat, call, text or send an email message to me if you have questions,
reactions, or reflections about the contents or activities in the module.
5. The Practice Task/Assessment and the Assignment shall be checked by your subject
instructor.
LESSON 1
What is Art? Introduction and Assumptions
Learning Outcomes
1. Know the meaning of arts and its assumptions
2. Characterize the assumptions of arts
3. Engage better with personal experiences of and in art
Motivation/Prompting Questions
What are your most striking encounters with arts? Why do you think each encounter is an
experience with art?
DISCUSSION
What is art?
The word art comes from the ancient Latin, “ars” which means a “craft or specialized
form of skill, like carpentry, smithying or surgery” (Collingwood, 1938). Art is the capacity to
produce an intended result from carefully planned steps or method.
Art is something that is eternally around us. Some people may deny having to do with
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Arts, but it is undeniable that our life presents us in any forms of arts. Even if there are
overflowing instances of arts around people, a person will never be satisfied, a person still finds
the need to see more, experience more and explore. A person whose exposure to music is only
limited to one genre, finds it lacking not to have been exposed to other genres. One, whose idea
of a cathedral is only limited to the locally existing cathedrals, finds enormous happiness in
seeing prototypes in foreign countries. A person can never be totally contented with what is just
before him. Humans are drawn toward what is good, and typically attractive.
What are the assumptions of art?
1. Art is universal
Literature has provided key works of art. Among the most popular arts that being
taught in school are the Greek epics which is the Iliad and Odyssey, and the Mahabharata
and Ramayana. These works were written before the beginning of recorded history. It is
also believed to be the human’s aim at recording stories and tales that have been passed
on, known, sung all throughout the years. Art has always been ageless and universal,
spanning generations and continents through and through.
In every country and generation, art is always present. Although, people may feel that
what is considered artistic are only those arts that that been made long time ago. And this
is a mistake. Age is not the basis in determining an art. The first assumption about the
humanities is that art has been created by people regardless of origin, time, place, and it
stayed because it is liked and enjoyed by people continuously. Art will always exist
because humans will always express themselves through art, humans will always
continue to use art while art never gets depleted.
2. Art is cultural
Art is influenced by society through people’s opinion, different values and
different experience that came across space and time. Art is one way of communicating
from different cultures through stories, sounds and even images. Sculptures, paintings,
music, literature and other arts are considered to be the repository of a society’s collective
memory. Art preserves historical records, what is the feeling to be existing in a particular
place and time.
3. Art is not nature

One important characteristic about is that it is not nature. It is all about man’s
expression of his reception and interpretation about nature. Art is made and created by
man, whereas our nature existed before and around us. What we find in nature should not
be expected to be present in art too. Films are not supposedly made to be the direct
representation of reality. But, it’s the moviemaker’s perspectives of reality, an
reinterpretation or a distortion of nature.
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This distinction assumes that all of us see nature. A perfect example for this is the
story of the five blind men and an elephant, who argue against with each other on what an
elephant really looks like. Each of the five blind men holds a different part of the
elephant. They concluded differently based on their perceptions. Art is like each of the
five blind men, and their own perceptions and views on what an elephant looks like. Art
is based on the individual’s subjective experience of nature. Artists are not expected to
duplicate everything about nature, just as the scientist cannot even make a nature.
4. Art involves experience

Reaching this far without having the satisfaction of what is art all about is quite
weird for some people, because mostly, people believe that art does not require a specific
definition. Art is just an experience. Because when we experience, we tend to do
something from the things that we have experienced. A DJ in radio, broadcasting an
advice on love when he himself doesn’t have an experience, doesn’t really know what he
is talking about. When a choreographer cannot execute even a single dance step, can be
called a bogus. Unlike other things, art is known by experiencing. A painter cannot claim
that he’s a painter when he doesn’t even try holding a paint brush. Art depends on the
things that we’ve experienced. If a person is to create an art, he must know it not as a fact
or information but as experience. Also, in every experience with art, it must be
accompanied by emotion. The emotion will serve as the proof that an artwork has
experience.
5. Art as expression in the form of creation

There are times that we don’t understand what we felt and what is going around
within ourselves. Sometimes, you will be conscious about the feeling of fear, excitement,
sadness, happiness, but words aren’t enough to truly describe what we feel. Trying to
release ourselves from those feelings we experienced by doing something is what we
called expressing ourselves. Our emotion will remain unknown until we express it. An
artist has the freedom to express himself the way he wants to. There is no specific
technique in expression. This makes people’s art not a reflection of what is outside or
external to them, but a reflection of their inner selves.
There are many ways of expressing oneself through creating visual arts, film,
performance art, poetry performance, architecture, dance, literary art, theatre, and applied
arts.
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Learning Activities/Exercises
Choose an artwork under each given category that you are familiar with. This can be the
last artwork that you have come across in your mind, or the one that has the most impact with.
Criticize each using the guide questions provided.
Categories: Category: __________________
1. Movie Artwork: ___________________
2. Novel 1. What is it about? What is it for?

3. Poem
2. What is it made of?
4. Music
5. Architectural Structure 3. What is its style?
6. A piece of clothing 4. How good it is?
Teacher Intervention
The teacher created a students’ directory that includes the student name, home address,
preferred learning delivery mode, available gadgets, contact number, email address and
connectivity. The students are opting to pass their answers/output and ask queries regarding the
subject matter via email, messenger, text message, or they can drop their modules at the guard
house/ NORSU gate.
Practice Task/Assessment
Answer the following questions precisely.
1. If you were an artist, what kind of artist would you be? Why?
2. Why art is not nature?
3. Why is art ageless and timeless?
4. Why art involves experience?
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Feedback to Assessment
Please be guided with the following criteria in answering your learning activities and
practice task.
Criteria Points
Content (Relevance of topic) 5
Organization (Unity of thought, flow of discussion 5
Total: 10 points each
question
Assignment
Answer the question precisely.
 As a student, how can you utilize the arts to express yourself, your community, and your
relation to other people?
References/Reading Materials
Collingwood, R.G. (1938). The Principle of Art. Worcestershire: Read Books Ltd.
Dudley, L., Faricy, A., and McGraw-Hill Book Company. (1960). The Humanities. New York:
McGraw-Hill.
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LESSON 2
Functions and Philosophical Perspectives on Art
Learning Outcomes
1. Know what are the functions and philosophical perspectives on art
2. Explain the basic philosophical perspectives on art
3. Apply concepts and theories on beauty and aesthetics in real life scenarios
Motivation/Prompting Questions
Have you gone into a city/town museum? What are the different artworks that you have
witnessed while you are in a city/town museum? What do you think are the purpose of creating
those artworks?
Discussion
FUNCTIONS OF ART
1. To express beauty
2. It gives man moment of relaxation and spiritual happiness
3. It serves as a channel of man’s passion
4. Arts reformed man
5. Overcome the feelings of restlessness and loneliness
 Personal Function Arts - are vehicles for the artists’ expression of their feelings and
ideas. The arts also serve as means of expression for us. The therapeutic value of music
cannot be ignored. Works of art make us aware of other ways of thinking, feeling, and
imagining that have never occurred to us before.
 Social Functions One cannot conceive of a society without art, for art is closely related
to every aspect of social life.
Arts perform a social function when:
1. Influences Social Behaviour - It seeks or tends to influence the
collective behaviour of a people. (Guernica by Pablo Picasso)
2. Display and Celebration - It is created to be seen or used primarily in
public situation.
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One function of sculpture and painting is the commemoration of important

personages in society. The statues of national heroes that grace our parks
and plazas are commemorative works as are the commissioned paintings
of leaders or rulers. Often they serve to record important historical events,
or reveal the ideals of heroism and leadership that the community would
want the young to emulate.
3. Social Description - It expresses or describes social or collective

aspects of existence as opposed to individual and personal kind of
experiences.
 Physical Functions - Tools and containers are objects which function to make our lives
physically comfortable. Functional works of art may be classified as either tools or
containers. Tell whether the following is a tool or container. 1. a spoon - tool 2. a car-
tool 3. a building- container 4. a community - container 5. a ceramic vase - container 6. a
chair.- container
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART
1. Art as an Imitation by Plato- according to Plato’s metaphysics, the things that can be
seen in this world are only duplicates of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that
can only be found in the world of forms. For example, a chair that a person sits on, is not
a true chair, it is the imperfect duplicate of the “perfect chair” in the world of forms. Plato
was convinced that artists merely reinforce the belief in copies and discourage men to
reach for the real entities in the world of forms. Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and
artists for two reasons: (1) they appeal to the emotion rather than to the rational faculty of
men, (2) they imitate rather than lead one to reality.
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2. Art as representation by Aristotle – Aristotle agreed to the idea of his teacher which is
Plato, that art is just an imitation. In contradiction, Aristotle believed that art helps in the
process of revealing the truth. For him, all the different forms of art such including
sculpture, painting, poetry, dance and music, does not designed to represent reality.
Aristotle believed that art represents the possible versions of reality. In Aristotlelian point
of view, art has two main purposes: (1) Art permits for the experience of pleasure. For
example, an awful experience can become a comedy. (2) Art also can be a teacher, which
is able to instruct and teach people about the things in life. It is instructive and cognitive
as well.
3. Art as a Disinterested Judgement by Immanuel Kant - In the “Critique of Judgement”

that Immanuel Kant wrote his third critique contemplate the judgement of beauty, the
cornerstone of art that can be universal despite its subjectivity. Kant mentioned that
judgement of beauty, and therefore, art is intrinsically autonomous from certain interests.
Kant recognized that judgement of beauty is subjective. Kant believed that the subjective
judgement in based on some universal criterion. For him, when someone judge a painting
as a beautiful one, it can be concluded that the said painting has persuaded a certain
feeling of being satisfied, and that the person created the painting to rouse the same
feeling from anyone. Art has the capability of inciting the same feelings of pleasure and
satisfaction from any perceiver.
4. Art as a Communication of Emotion by Leo Tolstoy- has another perspective on what

art is all about. In his book entitled “What is Art (2016), he said, the production of some
truly unthrifty art, just like operas, despite the extreme poverty around the world. For
him, art portrays a role in communicating to the emotions of its audience that the artists
previously experienced. Art serves as a language in communicating that includes feelings
and emotion. In the same way that language communicates information and ideas, art
also communicates emotions and feelings. Just like listening to music, watching an opera,
and reading poems, the audience are the ones who receive the artist’s feelings and
emotions. Art serves as the mechanism to unite people in the society.
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Learning Activities/Exercises
Answer the following and please be guided with the criteria:
Write your answer in a separate clean paper.
1. What art form/ artwork have changed something in your life? Why? Account from
this experience.
2. Does art always have a function? Why? Support your answer by citing an example.
3. If an artwork ceased to have a function, will it still remain an art? Why? Support your
answer.
Teacher Intervention
The teacher created a students’ directory that includes the student name, home address,
preferred learning delivery mode, available gadgets, contact number, email address and
connectivity. The students are opting to pass their answers/output and ask queries regarding the
subject matter via email, messenger, text message, or they can drop their modules at the guard
house/ NORSU gate.
Practice Task/Assessment
Answer the following and please be guided with the criteria:
Write your answer in a separate clean paper.
Explain the following perspectives on art.
1. Art as an Imitation by Plato-
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
2. Art as a Representation by Aristotle-

________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
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3. Art as Disinterested by Immanuel Kant-

________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
4. Art as a Communication of Emotion by Leo Tolstoy-

________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Feedback to Assessment
Please be guided with the following criteria in answering your learning activities and
practice task.
Criteria Points
Content (Relevance of topic) 10
Organization (Unity of thought, flow of discussion 10
Total: 20 points
Assignment
1. Give the advantages of knowing the different functions and philosophical perspectives
on art:
________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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References/Reading Materials
Butcher, S. H. (Ed.) (1902). The Poetics of Aristotle. New York: The Macmillan Company.
Plat0. (2000). The Republic. Accessed November 2, 2017. Retrieved from
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam031/00024471.pdf.
Tolstoy, Leo. (2016). What is Art? Accessed November 2, 2017. Retrieved from http:// web.
Mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/phil%20of%20art/printer-
friendly/Tolstoy_on_Art_TWO_COLUMNS.pdf.
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BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES

Discipline Social Science Program General Education

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND COURSE INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOME

Art Appreciation is a three-unit course that develop students’ ability to appreciate,

At the end of the course, the students are to:

Blended Mode of Instruction (BMI): 75% technology mediated

Learning activities -15% Learning activities -15%

Computation of Final Grade

Cut-off or required grade in relation to the

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

3. Deeper their sensitivity to self, community, and society.

CONTENTS OF THE MODULE

DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE MODULE PROPERLY

What are the assumptions of art?

3. Art is not nature

4. Art involves experience

5. Art as expression in the form of creation

2. Novel 1. What is it about? What is it for?

6. A piece of clothing 4. How good it is?

2. Why art is not nature?

3. Why is art ageless and timeless?

4. Why art involves experience?

One function of sculpture and painting is the commemoration of important

3. Social Description - It expresses or describes social or collective

PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART

3. Art as a Disinterested Judgement by Immanuel Kant - In the “Critique of Judgement”

4. Art as a Communication of Emotion by Leo Tolstoy- has another perspective on what

2. Art as a Representation by Aristotle-

3. Art as Disinterested by Immanuel Kant-

4. Art as a Communication of Emotion by Leo Tolstoy-

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