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Lane, Paco
Manzano, Rob
Marasigan, Teresa
Marfori, Raj
Mata, Jia

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The vocation of the artists according to Pope John Paul II's Letter to Artists

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The vocation of the artists according to Pope John Paul II's Letter to Artists

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Artists are called by God to show how He loved us by working hand in hand with him. He wants his artists to bring form to his creations and give life to his love. Art creates a link between God and His artists by giving ideas and inspiring them to bring out the beauty in life, because we all know that life imitates art and by that we can say that when we see beautiful art we can also look at life the same way, and this can also help us know ourselves more. God gave us the gift to see the beauty in everything and this makes us commit to our task as craftsmen of God. The gift of being able to be and artist is a blessing that God gave to us and that we should not keep it only to ourselves but to share the skill with others.

Ex nihilo sui et subiecti meaning the one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing. God is the creator of all things and artists are the craftsmen. Good created men in his image and likeness; therefore, craftsmen mirrors God. In Genesis 1:28, God entrusted men the task of dominating the earth. This means that God is telling us that we should continue to live and spread goodness in the world. As human beings, we should not distort what God has created for us. It is in our hands to sustain the beauty of nature because God entrusted this blessing for us men. Artists must use the beauty that surrounds them— through their "artistic activity", artists are closer to God's image. Not all are called to be artists, but God has entrusted in us to craft our own lives. It is our job to make our life a so called "masterpiece". It is about realizing one's productive capacities. The artists produce their works that enables them to express themselves which becomes a revelation about them as a being. As artists continue to produce artworks, they are able to showcase their spiritual growth. Through their works, they communicate to other people. Artworks are not just works, but these works are story of men and women and it shows the history of artists. Their works enable us to know about their lives and the history of culture.

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- Man does not only need objects which would satisfy his immediate needs, but also things that dignifies his existence.

-The things that are truly valuable seem to be useless.

- The humanities are those branches of knowledge which deal with the most human in man.

- Other sciences or technologies also deal with aspects of human life, but they do not directly study man as man.

- The humanites allows us to preserve knowledge and enables us to deepen and develop that knowledge.

- Man has hunger for meaning.

- We are made in the image and likeness of God, every person should not only be treated as means but also an end.

-Promoting the Humanities is equivalent to affirming this primacy of spirit over matter.

- The humanities are commited to values.

- Humanistic formation encourages men, specifically if a formation focuses on improving the person's intellectual capabilities.

- There are many social activites which requires a general formation which centers on the knowledge of man.

-Humanities are good for almost profound truth about man.

- Humanistic formation is necessary for everything.

- It is necessary that throughout the time there will be people who dedicate their studies and their professions to the humanities.

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The Importance of Classical Art as Point of Reference for the Fine Arts

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The Importance of Classical Art as Point of Reference for the Fine Arts

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The importance of Classical Art as a reference point of the Fine Arts is essential because art in general is based on what we think is beautiful and how we are able to produce and actualize our thoughts or inspirations into something beautiful. According to the Letter to the Artists, since God is our creator and he and all he creates are good and beautiful, humans create art that is beautiful as a reflection of God's creations and perfect beauty. Based on this, the common theme that is seen in Classical Art are mostly depictions of God's divine interventions, God as a creator, or the mirroring of God's beauty and ultimate perfections. With this in mind, the importance of Classical Art as a reference to the Fine Arts is essential because it allows people to understand what beauty is supposed to be like and how we are able to create such beauty from things that are already beautiful.

In this letter we are able to see the importance of understanding what is beautiful and how the meaning of what is actually "beautiful" came to be. With this understanding, we are able to create art from things that are already beautiful by including our own interpretations, inspirations, thoughts, and reflections of both what we think is beautiful and how the Fine Arts describe to us what really makes something beautiful in the first place. This is commonly seen in art produced under the Classical Arts due to the fact that it does not only include the artist's own inspiration and interpretation of what is beautiful, but as well as the reflection of God's beauty within it. With this in mind, we are able to fully understand the role of the Fine Arts in the development and understanding of what is beautiful as well as how it can be applied/

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Enjoyable beauty shows that beauty cannot be simply expressed in words from the English language. There is more disagreement about beauty than truth and goodness. Issues about beauty concerns its objectivity and subjectivity. Adler argues using points from two contradictory writers, Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant, to help understand the definition of beauty. In the reading, Adler points out that Aquinas defines the beautiful as something that pleases us when we see it. In other words, when we see something with our eyes, we feel pleased or satisfied.

However, Kant argues that the pleasure should be disinterested by people. Objects of desire pleases us by having them not merely by seeing them. In other words, pleasure should be something that is not pragmatic or a basic concern. Through the visible eye, we only claim something is beautiful if it pleases us to highest degree. Calling something synonymous to beautiful does not equate to the word beautiful, itself. We are pleased when we contemplate, apprehend, or behold the object. In addition to this, the definition of vision has transcended into many meanings that is not merely limited to sensory. Adler wants to eliminate the word “see” in Aquinas’ definition of beautiful. He rephrases it to “The beautiful is that which pleases us upon being contemplated.” Our minds in conjunction with our senses, not just with sight alone. Additionally the objects that give us pleasure are objects that we want and need, and the objects that we take knowledge for and contemplate about using our minds and other senses. Ultimately, beauty is entirely subjective, depending on the taste of people and how they contemplate the objects as such.

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Admirable beauty is quite different from enjoyable beauty. Referring to a certain work of art or even nature, it means that there is some sort of excellence or perfection in the actual piece of art being referred to. It is like enjoyable beauty in the sense that it shows and displays one’s particular taste, however it differs in the time it takes. Admirable beauty often takes longer than enjoyable beauty, as it requires a good amount of thought as well as sufficient knowledge.

There are many elements that would make a specific work of art admirable. These include unity, proportion and clarity. In other words, the work must be clearly well-made—at least in terms of man-made art. In terms of things of nature, that which has admirable beauty must be well-formed. Those who determine which things are admirable are the experts, for they have special knowledge as well as skills which will help them judge what is well-made or well-formed from what is not. It is possible for experts to disagree with each other’s opinions on beauty, and this is in fact inevitable.

However, it would not be right for a layman to disagree with an expert since he or she would lack the specific knowledge and skills needed to judge admirable beauty. This then brings into question superior versus inferior taste. The judgments of the experts regarding the admirable beauty of certain objects are an expression of taste, which means it has a level of subjectivity. However, there is a level of objective truth. How admirably beautiful an object is largely dependent on the object’s condition.

Moreover, what is beautiful due to its objectively judged admirable beauty is not always also be subjectively beautiful. Even though one tries to refine his or her taste, the fact that enjoyable beauty and admirable beauty are two entirely different things holds true. Beauty in itself has two dimensions—the objective, and the subjective. These do not necessarily go hand in hand. It is important to acknowledge and remember the distinction between these in order to prevent confusion in the interpretation of art.