Art - : something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses

important ideas or feelings

: Works created by artists: paintings, sculptures, etc. that are created to be beautiful or to express
important ideas or feelings
: The methods and skills used for painting, sculpting, drawing, etc.

Religion- : the belief in a god or in a group of gods.
: An organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules used to worship a god or a group of
gods.
: An interest, a belief, or an activity that is very important to a person or group.

Art has always been a handmaiden of religion.
Most of the worlds religions have used the arts to aid worship, to instruct, to inspire feelings
of devotion, and to impress, and to convert non-believers.
The relationship between religion and art is not a contradictory relationship, nor an identical
one. There exists between them a kinship and a peculiar mutual aid. Both religion and art
raise us up and awaken in us a striving towards an ideal world.

The Christian Church commissioned craftsmen to tell stories about Christ and the saints in
pictures, usually in mosaics, murals and stained-glass windows in churches. It also resorted
to the presentation of tableaus and plays to preach and teach.
Some religions expressly forbid the representation of divinity as human beings or animal
forms, although they allow the use of some signs or symbols in their place.
Picture of God, human beings, or animals are forbidden by Judaism and Islam because
people might worship the images themselves.
Ancient Egyptians portrayed their gods as part human and part animal.
Ancient African tribes gave the carved images of their gods some human characteristics, but
they distorted the gods features.
Shiva the Destroyer, is shown as a four-armed god
Buddha is symbolized by footprints, a wheel or a tree.


In the early Christian world:
Representations of divinity were also symbolic.
The eye, the dove, the fish, and the shepherd were widely used images.
The serpent has been used to symbolize evil.
The four Evangelists were represented by animal forms:
St. Luke- by an Ox
St. John- by an Eagle
St. Mark- a Lion
St. Matthew- a winged man

Some of the Famous Religious Art
Stained-glass found in the windows of Paniqui Tarlac-
The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a
material or to works created from it. Throughout its
thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost
exclusively to the windows of churches and other
significant buildings










Magellans Cross in Cebu- is a Christian cross planted by
Portuguese, and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand
Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on. This cross is
housed in a chapel next to the Basilica Minore del Santo Nio on
Magallanes Street (Magallanes being the Spanish name of
Magellan), just in front of the city center of Cebu City. A sign
below the cross describes the original cross is encased inside the
wooden cross that is found in the center of the chapel.











Sistine Madonna by Raphael Sanzio- also called La
Madonna di San Sisto, is an oil painting by the Italian
artist Raphael. Commissioned in 1512 by Pope Julius II
as an altarpiece for the church of San Sisto, Piacenza, it
was one of the last Madonnas painted by the artist.
Relocated to Dresden from 1754, the well-known painting
has been particularly influential in Germany. After World
War II, it was relocated to Moscow for a decade before it
was returned to Germany.







Creation of Adam by Michangelo-
is a fresco painting by Michelangelo, forming
part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted circa
15111512. It illustrates the Biblical creation
narrative from the Book of Genesis in which
God breathes life into Adam, the first man. The
fresco is part of a complex iconographic
scheme and is chronologically the fiftty-seventh
in the series of panels depicting episodes from
Genesis. It is the most well-known of the
Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a
piece of art is rivaled only by the Mona Lisa by
Leonardo da Vinci.




Other forms of Religious Art

*Religious Literature-beliefs and mystical experiences are also popular subjects or art.
-Divina Comedia: by Dante Alighieri represents the finest statement of Christian though
during the Middle Ages.
-Hallow Men & The Waste Land: by TS. Elliot are poems that has sense of spiritual
emptiness as characteristic of the 20th century about sterility of life in world given to erotic
sensuality.

*Folk beliefs in creatures & mythology
-Solomon Saprid: has done statues of the tikbalang.

*Rituals- have played an important role in peoples live and have influenced the growth of
certain arts as well.
-Mass: Daily commemoration in Christian Church of Christs death at Calvary.

*Public celebrations- such as festivals and some rituals also employ arts.
-Moriones Festival: was celebrated in Marinduque where people wear masks.
-Ati-atihan Festival: in Kalibo, Aklan were artistic attention is lavished on them.















Are most easily dealt with works of art that are created to perform some service and have
physical functions.

It means that art has a physical function usually relates to items that can be used for a
practical purposes because of their physical structure despite of their artistic appeal.

The art of "physical function" refers to objects that are made to be used as tools or containers.

Art shares responsibility for the built environment: how it looks and how it works. And here,
art means more than embellishing or beautifying surfaces.

Art is partially responsible for the built surroundings, how they look and how they work.


Examples:

Include architecture, which can be breathe taking, but still primary serves a physical
function.




This chair is a good example of physical art. Its
design means that it is immediately aesthetically
interesting to the eye but its main function is to be a
comfortable chair to sit on. This is what we call
Industrial Design.












Art, which is the quality, production, expression or realm of what is beautiful or more than
ordinary significance, is closely related to every aspect of social life.

It tends to influence the collective behavior of people for cause.

Art can also be and inexpensive public language. Cheaply reproduced visual images
communicate with amazing persuasiveness, and, combined with words, their meaning is clear
and unmistakable. Art plays a crucial role in carrying information from government,
business, and industry to every social group or subgroup we can imagine. It influences a
human group: for instance, what products sell well because of their package design

It is made to be seen or used in public situations.
Example: Public Murals and art exhibits

It describes aspects of life shared by all as opposed to personal kinds of experience.
Example: Museums

Social functions of art are those that go beyond personal intrinsic value to art's social
benefits. Individuals and their society are dynamically related. Art communicates. Most often
it is constructed with the intention of sharing responses to and opinions about life with others.
Art enriches, informs, and questions our world. When highly valued it can be both a social
and financial asset. Art can have powerful transformative and restorative effects within a
society as well.

Examples:

Record and Communicate Experience: Art documents and conveys a vast array of
human experience. The messages of art can be communicated interpersonally between
cultures and across time.

Art as Commodity and Cultural Capital: The value of art in general or any particular
art object can change from place to place and time to time. Yet, art is many times
exchanged for money, or in some cases, as money. Art is also a valued dimension of the
assets of a culture in general.


Social Commentary: Art can provide both serious and humorous reflection about and
criticisms of society. Through their art, artists seeking social changes bring public
awareness to a variety of social, political, and environmental issues.

Collaboration and Community Building: Art can bring people together. Frequently,
groups collaborate in the art making process such as working to create a public mural, a
temple or an illustrated book. The viewing and discussion of an art show or participation
in a community ritual, ceremony or celebration also brings people together as a
community.

Enrichment of Humankind: People can be greatly enriched by art through learning to
feel the wonder of and to inquire about life, looking at humankind's many beautiful and
thought-provoking creations or being transformed through the benefits of satisfying art
production. The world is enriched through the vast cultural legacies of its peoples--
innovative, insightful creations and enhancement of the visual world.

Artistic Expressions of Humanitarian Concern: Perhaps the most monumental
painting of social protest in our time is Picasso's Guernica. Guernica is a painting by
Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country
village in northern Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish
Nationalist forces on 26 April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.


GUERNICA by Picasso