PHILOSOPHICAL

PERSPECTIVES ON

ART
PLATO
 Art as MIMESIS
ARTIST=IMITATORS
Artwork= Imitation

WORLD OF FORMS
The Physical World

Art
 Art as mimesis

 Art is an imitation of the real

that was an imitation of the
ideal.

 Art is an imitation of an
imitation.
Art as mimesis

“rose”
 Plato's Doubt in the ARTS
• Art appeals to EMOTION rather
than RATIONALITY.

• Art IMITATES rather than lead

one to REALITY.
ARISTOTLE
Art as REPRESENTION
-ART as an AID to philosophy in revealing
the truth.
-Art forms do not aim to present reality as it
is.
-Provides a vision of what might be or the
myriad of possibilities in reality.
 Art as representation

 The aim or art is not to

represent the outward
appearance of things but their
inward significance.
 Art as
DISINTERESTED JUDGMENT
BEAUTY IS UNIVERSAL

Beauty despite its

subjectivity is based on
some universal criterion

BEAUTY as
INHERENT in a
IMMANUEL KANT
work of ART.
Art has its own reason for being.
It implies that an art is best
understood as an autonomous
creation to be valued only for its
success as it organizes color and
line into a formally satisfying and
beautiful whole.
 Art as COMMUNICATION
OF EMOTION
ART is of great importance as it
plays a huge role in
communication to its audience's
emotions that the artist previously
experienced.

ART serves as a LANGUAGE

ART has a Social dimension

LEO TOLSTOY
ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS
and
METHODS
REALISM- presents the subjects
as they appear in real life.

• Micheangelo Buonarroti
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Raphael Sanzio
 FERNANDO AMORSOLO
-The father of Philippine Realism

Planting Rice
 ABSTRACTIONISM
(drawing away from reality)
• DISTORTION-
presents the subjects
in a mishaped form.
 ABSTRACTIONISM

• MANGLING-
presents the subjects
with parts which are
cut, lacerated,
mutilated, or hacked
 ABSTRACTIONISM

• ELONGATION-
presents the subjects
in an elongated or
stretched form

El Greco's
"The Resurrection of Christ"
 ABSTRACTIONISM

• CUBISM- presents
the subject with the
use of geometric
figures.

Vicente Manansala's
"Balut Vendors"
 ABSTRACTIONISM

• ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM-
presents the subject
with the use of strong
color, uneven brush
strokes, and rough
texture with a
deliberate lack of
refinement in the Jackson Pollock's
Number 18
application of paint
 SURREALISM
presents the subject as if the subject does
not form a part of the real world

Persistence of Memory also known as Soft Watches by Salvador Dali

SYMBOLISM
shows the subject as
it appears in real life
but intends it to
represent something else

Guillermo Tolentino's
"Oblation"
 FAUVISM
"optimistic realism"
-uses bright colors suggesting comfort, joy, and
pleasure
HENRY MATISSE

The Red Room

DADAISM
"shocking realism"
-presents the ral-life
subject with the
intention
to shock the audience
with the exposition of
evils in the society

MARCEL DUCHAMP
EXPRESSIONISM
"emotional realism"

presents the real-life

subject with the
intention to express
emotions, pathos,
chaos, fear, violence,
defeat, morbidity, and
tragedy

EDWARD MUNCH
Scream
 IMPRESSIONISM
-presents real-life subjects
with the emphasis on the
impression left on the artist
CLAUDE MONET

The Woman with a

Parasol
FUTURISM
presents the
subject that
relates not to the
present, but to
the future