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ART APPRECIATION

Table of Contents
UNIT 1: Introduction to Art Appreciation
Lesson 1 What Is Art? Introduction and Assumptions
Lesson 2 Art Appreciation: Creativity, Imagination and
Expression
Lesson 3 Functions and Philosophical Perspectives on
Art
Lesson 4 Subject and Content
Lesson 5 Artists and Artisans
Lesson 6 Elements and Principles of Art
Lesson 1:
What Is Art?
Introduction and Assumptions
LESSON OUTCOME

By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to:


1. Understand the role of humanities and arts in man’s attempt at
fully realizing his end;
2. Clarify misconceptions about the art;
3. Characterize the assumptions of arts; and
4. Engage better with personal experiences of and in art.
LESSON PROPER
What Is Art?
- The word “art” comes from the ancient Latin ars which means a
“craft or specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithying or
surgery” (Collingwood, 1938).
- Art then suggested the capacity to produce an intended result from
carefully planned steps or method.
- Arts in Medieval Latin came to mean something different. It meant
“any special form of book-learning, such as grammar or logic,
magic or astrology” (Collingwood, 1938).
- The fine arts would come to mean “not delicate or highly skilled
arts, but ‘beautiful’ arts” (Collingwood, 1938). This is something
more akin to what is now considered art.
What is
humanities?
Humanities
- comes from the Latin word
“humanus”, meaning human,
refined and cultured.
refined cultured
- developed - civilized
- improved - cultivated
Humanities
- Itrefers to the arts –
the visual arts and the
performing arts.
Visual Arts
Painting Architecture
Sculpture
Performing
Arts
Music Theatre or Drama

Dance Literature
It is in the study of the
humanities where appreciation
of the arts is given emphasis.
What is Art
Appreciation?
Art Appreciation
- is the ability to interpret or understand
man-made arts and enjoy them either
through actual and work-experience with art
tools and materials or possession of these
works of art for one’s admiration and
satisfaction.
Art Appreciation
- deals with learning or
understanding and creating
arts and enjoying them.
What is the difference
between creativity and
imagination?
Imagination
-thinking of something
-seeing the impossible or
unreal
Creativity
- doing something meaningful
- focus on the things that might
be possible
Is creativity necessary in
artmaking? Why?

When can you say that a


person is creative?
What are the basic
assumptions of arts?
1.Art involves
experience.
In order to experience There can never be
something, you have appreciation of art
to make use of your without having
five senses. experienced it.
2. Art is not nature; nature is not art.

Art is made by man The enhanced beauty and


and nature is made by artistry of nature, then,
God. can be classified as an art.
However, nature can be
enhanced by man.
3. Art is cultural.
Art is a work of Art becomes cultural
humans and anything when it depicts people’s
that has been created way of life, religious
by humans is part of practices, mores an
culture. traditions, etc.
4. Art is a form of creation.
Art is created Human is the
with imagination creator of art. No
and skill. art can be created
without human.
5. Art is subjective.
It cannot be Every individual has
measured by its his/her own perception
significance or and/or interpretation
the level of skill. about the subject.
What are the
nature arts?
1.Art is a diverse range
of human activities.
These activities include the
production of works of art, study of
the history of art and the aesthetic
dissemination of art.
2. Art represents reality.

It depicts objects or scenes


from real world.
3. Art is an expression.

Art is an act of expressing feelings,


thoughts and observations of
human conditions.
4. Art serves as a means of
communication of emotions.

The fundamental purpose of art is


to appeal to and connect with
human emotion.
5. Art matters.
Because it allow us to express
ourselves and illustrate the world
around us.
6. Art is universal.
Art is everywhere. Art can be
found in every corner of the world.
7. Art is creation.
Art must be man-made. It must be
creative, not imitative.
What are the
functions arts?
1. AESTHETIC FUNCTION

Man becomes conscious of the


beauty of nature.
2.UTILITARIAN FUNCTION

Man is provided with shelter,


clothing, food and other necessities
and conveniences of life.
3. CULTURAL FUNCTION

Man becomes aware of his cultural


background.
4. SOCIAL FUNCTION

Man learns to love and help each


other.
Assumptions of Art:

1. Art is Universal. – Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning
generations and continents through and through.
2. Art is not nature. – Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature. Art is
man’s way of interpreting nature.
3. Art involves experience. – Unlike fields of knowledge that involve data, art is
known by experiencing. A work of art then cannot be abstracted from actual
doing. In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it,
and see AND hear it.
LESSON SUMMARY

• Humanities and the art have always been part of man’s growth and civilization.
• Since the dawn of time, man has always tried to express his innermost thoughts
and feelings about reality through creating art.
• Three assumptions on art are its universality, its not being nature, and its need for
experience.
• Without experience, there is no art. The artist has to be foremost, a perceiver who
is directly in touch with art.
WHAT IS ART APPRECIATION?

It is the ability to interpret or understand man-


made arts and enjoy them either through actual
and work-experience with art tools and materials
or possession of these works of art for one’s
admiration and satisfaction.
SOURCE:
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