CPAR Lesson 1

Art

A tool of expression and communication; a venue to convey or express thoughts, emotions, or aspirations.

Visual Arts

Artistic disciplines appreciated primarily through sight.

Fine Arts

Artworks created primarily for their appearance; includes traditional and emerging forms like drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital art.

Decorative Arts

Both aesthetically pleasing and functional; examples include textile art, jewelry, and furniture.

Contemporary Art Forms

New and unusual art styles that are avant-garde or experimental, such as assemblage, digital art, and land art.

Performing Arts

The use of the artist's voice and/or body movements to communicate artistic expression, enacted in front of a live audience.

Music

A culturally universal art form involving the manipulation of sound and silence, blending pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre, and texture.

Art Music

Stemmed from Western Classical music, preserved through written notations.

Popular Music

Accessible and commercially available, disseminated via mass media.

Traditional Music

Communally and culturally based, passed orally or through performance.

Theater

A fine art where actors perform real or imagined experiences in front of a live audience, integrating visual and performing arts.

Dance

Regulated body movements with aesthetic value, often performed to music.

Feldman Method

A systematic art critique approach with four steps: Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Evaluation.

Filipino Integral Arts

Art ingrained with beauty and function, holistic, part of everyday life, and emphasizes communal participation.

Broadcast Aspect Technique

Showing multiple sides of an object (e.g., Napoleon Abueva’s Spirit of Business).

Multiple Focal Points

Representing different members of society (e.g., Larry Alcala’s Iconican).

Highly Expressive

Emphatic, spontaneous, and emotional art (e.g., Dear Self).

Polychromatic

Love for color and decorative crafts (e.g., Maskara Festival).

Maximalism

Filling space with forms and ornamentation.

Multifunctional Art

Works with various uses, strengthening community (e.g., Leeroy New’s art).

Rhythmic Patterns

Stylized, measured organization of forms (e.g., Salima Saway’s work).