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SILENCE
Different
Types of Art
Animation
Architecture
Assemblage
Calligraphy
Ceramics
Conceptual Design
Drawing
Folk Graffiti
Graphic Design
Illuminated Manuscript
Illustration
Mosaic Art
Paintings
Performance
Photography
Sculpture
Stained-Glass Art
Tapestry
Video
CONTEXT
• It refers to the
settings, condition,
circumstances, and
occurrences
affecting production
and reception or
audience response
to an artwork.
What does it
try to convey
to us?
• The need to focus on the entire setting in
which art is created and received.
What is with
the setting
itself?
• Web of complex
circumstances which an
artist work in relation to
his/her:
• Physical Environment
• Historical Trends and
Traditions
• Social Movements
• Cultural Values
• Intellectual Perspectives
• Personal Commitments
CONTEXT
• Is a set of background
information that
enables us to
formulate meanings
about works of art and
note how it (context)
affects forms.
How do we distinguish art from
other kinds of art
Craft
The skill and style distinguishing art from other
kinds of human making.
• The “story” as
it expresses or
participates in
by means of
paint, melody,
structure,
movement,
language and
other artistic
Content mediums.
In what way
can the viewer
relate to the
output of the
artist?
• Because it
gives rise to a
whole history
of art
reception, and
plays a part in
explaining the
phenomenon
of the “classic”
Through realization of in a given
context and context- genre of art.
transcending qualities
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
• This 500-year-old
Renaissance
masterpiece has
long been steeped
in mystery, and
even today the
identity of the
woman with the
alluring smile still far
from certain.
‘The hidden code’
“To the naked eye
the symbols are not
visible but with a
magnifying glass they
can clearly be seen”
- Silvano Vinceti
President of Italian
National Committee for
Cultural Heritage
In the right eye appear to be the letters LV which
could well stand for his name Leonardo Da Vinci
while in the left eye there are also symbols but
they are not as defined.
I
" t is very difficult to
make them out clearly,
but they appear to be
the letters C.E or it
could be the letter B -
you have to remember
the picture is almost
500 years old so it is
not as sharp and clear
as when first painted.”
- Silvano Vinceti
President of Italian
National Committee for
Cultural Heritage
The Secret behind Mona Lisa’s smile
• He was said to have
employed
the sfumato effect a
seamless blend of
shading together and to
blur outlines.
The Controversy
of the Artwork
Filipinos
•Granary God
•Contains elements
of sculpture
So what makes this
figure, a trend in
Cordillera?
It is situated in the domain of everyday life
Different Context of Art
1. Artist Background
The artist’s profile affect the
art production.
Artist’s Background
• It expresses
support on the
belief that
spirits reside
with people in
the natural
environment
T’nalak
• It has different
stylized forms
• Kleng (Crab)
• Gmayaw (bird
in flight)
• Tofi (Frog)
• Sawo (Snak)
Tinikling
Tikling (Local Bird)
It tries to escape the field traps set by farmers.
Nelfa Querubin and
the San Dionisio Clay
• To distinguish between
various levels of a
text, to signify an
abstract entity.
“Version” or “variant”
refers to each
manifestation of a
“text” in a manuscript.
Mode of Reception