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Functions of Arts and Its Philosophical Perspectives

The document discusses the functions and philosophical perspectives of art. It describes several functions of art including as communication, entertainment, avant-garde expression, psychological healing, social inquiry, and propaganda. It also discusses indirectly functional art that is appreciated for aesthetic or historical value rather than use. Philosophically, Plato viewed art as mere imitation, while Aristotle saw it as representation that can teach truth. Kant considered art judgment to be disinterested, and Tolstoy saw art as communicating emotions.

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Functions of Arts and Its Philosophical Perspectives

The document discusses the functions and philosophical perspectives of art. It describes several functions of art including as communication, entertainment, avant-garde expression, psychological healing, social inquiry, and propaganda. It also discusses indirectly functional art that is appreciated for aesthetic or historical value rather than use. Philosophically, Plato viewed art as mere imitation, while Aristotle saw it as representation that can teach truth. Kant considered art judgment to be disinterested, and Tolstoy saw art as communicating emotions.

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FUNCTIONS OF ARTS AND ITS

PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
LESSON 3
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
� 1. Determine and rationalize the functions of art
� 2. Categorize and explain the various philosophical
perspectives of art
� Apply the lesson’s concept and theories in real life
scenarios
MOTIVATED ART OR DIRECTLY
FUNCTIONAL ART
� Refers to the intentional objectives of the artist in
creating piece of art.
� At its simplest, it serves an obvious purpose, which can
bring about changes at the personal or even societal
level.
1. AS COMMUNICATION
� Since most of communication are directed towards
another individual, art as a from of communication is a
motivated purpose.
� From ancient times, people have used images to
communicate.
� Emotions, moods and feelings are communicated
through art.
EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS
2. AS ENTERTAINMENT
� Art also bring about a particular emotion or mood for
relaxation or entertainment purposes
3. AS AVANT-GARDE
� Visual images are
normally critical of the
status quo which can
bring about political
change.
� Art as avant-garde expresses
an unorthodox way of
advocating a social or political
revolution, where avant gardist
is viewed as an outsider a rebel
or a martyr.
4. AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING TOOL
� Art therapists, psychotherapists, and clinical
psychologists make use of art therapy to diagnose a
patient and provide an avenue for therapeutic recovery
aside from the conventional forms of psychiatric therapy,
suitable for the patient.
5. FOR SOCIAL INQUIRY
▪ Graffiti or street art are graphic and images or stenciled
on publicly viewable walls, buildings, buses, trains and
bridges without permission.
▪ While similar to art for political to art for political
change, this kind of art seeks to critic the society without
any political reason.
6. FOR PROPAGANDA OR COMMERCIALISM
� Oftentimes, Art is a form of propaganda, which can
influence popular conceptions or mood or sell a product
that also influences mood and emotion.
NON-MOTIVATED ART OR
INDIRECTLY FUNCTIONAL ART
Are artworks that incorporate functional objectives but
do not serve its utilitarian purpose.
Crafted Chinese vases that were crafted for a particular
use but are appreciated not by its use but by its historic
or aesthetic value
These are masterpieces that collectors prefer to keep on
the display shelf even if they are still capable of
performing their original-intended function
� A functional object cannot be claimed to be beautiful
unless it can perform its function.
� An efficient functional object is not necessarily beautiful
� Art demands so much more than mere efficiency
IN SHORT, NON-MOTIVATED ART ARE FOR THE
FOLLOWING PURPOSES.

1. For internal appreciation of beauty


2. As an experience of the mysterious where art provides
a way to experience one’s self in relation to the
universe
3. As an expression of the imagination where art provides
a range of forms, symbols and ideas, with flexible
meanings;
4. For ritualistic and symbolic functions, where art is used
as part of one’s culture.
OTHER FUNCTIONS OF ARTS
PERSONAL
FUNCTIONS OF ART
▪ It can be the form of
expression of a whole
dimension of one’s
personality
▪ Varied and highly subjective
▪ Its functions depend on the
person- the artist who created
the art
� Need for self expression
� Need for communicate an
idea to his audience
� Mere entertainment for
his intended audience
� It can be also therapeutic
� Passion for their respective art forms
� For economic reasons
� Spiritual concern
� Social inquiry and intellectual inquiry
� Aesthetic expression
2. SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF ART
� If it addresses a particular collective interest as opposed
to a personal interest
� If it is made to be seen or used in public or social
situations
� If it enriches part of the country’s material culture and
non-material culture
� If it allows individuals to interact with each other
Easiest to spot and understand
Can be found in Artworks that are crafted in order to
serve some physical purpose
Houses and other buildings are constructed to protect
their occupants and all the others inside them.
Greek philosopher Aristotle
claimed that every
particular substance in the
world has an end, or Telos
in Greek, which translates
into “purpose”
Every substance defined as
a formed matter, moves
according to a fixed path
towards its aim.
For a thing to reach its
purpose, it also has to fulfill
its function.
Man, in Aristotle’s view
of reality, is bound to
achieve a life of
fulfillment and happiness,
or in Greek, eudaimonia.
All men move toward this
final end.
Man’s natural end, telos,
is connected with this
function, which is his
rationality.
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON
ART
ART AS AN IMITATION
Plato in his masterpiece
the Republic, particularly
paints a picture of artists
as imitators and art as
mere imitation.
� He advised against the inclusion of art as a subject in the
curriculum and the banning of artists in the Republic
� Plato’s metaphysics or view of reality, the things in this
world are only copies of the original, the eternal and the
true entities that can only be found in the World of Forms
� Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and artists for two
reasons: they appeal to the emotion rather than to the
rational faculty of men and they imitate rather than lead
one to reality.
SOCRATES
He is worried that art
objects represent only the
things in the world,
copies themselves in
reality.
A painting is just an
imitation of nature, which
is also just an imitation of
reality.
ART AS A REPRESENTATION
ARISTOTLE

� Art as an aid to
philosophy in revealing
the truth
� All kind of art including
poetry, music, dance,
painting and sculpture, do
not represent reality as it
is.
2 PURPOSES OF ARISTOTELIAN POINT OF VIEW
� 1. Art allows for the experience of pleasure
� 2. Art has an ability to be instructive and teach its
audience things about life; thus cognitive as well.
ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGMENT
KANT

� He wrote, the “Critique of


Judgment”
� He mentioned that
judgment of beauty, and
therefore, art is innately
autonomous from specific
interests.
He recognized that judgment of beauty is subjective
Every human being, after perception and the free play of
his faculties.
ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION
TOLSTOY

Art plays a huge role in


communication to its
audience’s emotions that
the artist previously
experienced.
Arts serves as a language, a
communication device that
articulates feelings and
emotions that are likewise
unavailable to the audience.
� Art is given a unique opportunity to serve as a
mechanism for social unity.
� Art serves as a mechanism of cohesion for everyone.

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