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Art Appreciation

Assumptions
and
Nature of Arts
What is Art?
• Art is something that is perennially around us.
• Some people may deny having to do with arts but it is indisputable that
life presents us with many forms of and opportunities for communion with
the arts.
• 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).
• Ars 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, 1983).
• The fine arts would come to mean “not delicate or highly
skilled arts, but “beautiful arts” (Collingwood, 1983).
• “The humanities constitute one of the oldest and most
important means of expression developed by man” (Dudley et
al., 1960). Human history has witnessed how man evolved not
just physically but also culturally, from cave painters to men of
exquisite paintbrush users of the present.
Assumptions of Art
Art Is Universal

Timeless, spanning generations and continents


through and through.
Misconception: Artistic made long time ago.
Age is not a factor in determining art.
Literature has provided key words of art.
 lliad and the Odyssey are the two Greek Epics that one’s being
taught in school.
 The Sanskrit pieces Mahabharata and Ramanaya are also
staples in this fields.

 In every country and in every generation, there is always


art. Often times, people feel that what is considered artistic
are only those which have been made long time ago. This
is a misconception. Age is not a factor in determining art.
“An art is not good because it is old, but old because it is
good” (Dudley et al., 1960)
 In the Philippines, the works of Jose Rizal and Francisco Balagtas are
not being read because they are old.
 Florante at Laura never fails to teach high school students the
beauty of love, one that is universal and pure.
 Ibong Adarna, another Filipino masterpiece, has always captured the
imagination of the young with its timeless lessons.
 When we recite the Psalms, we feel in communion with King David
as we feel one with him in his conversation with God.
 When we listen to a Kundiman or perform folk dances, we still enjoy
the way our Filipino ancestors while away their time in the past.
Art Is Not Nature

 Art, not directed by representation of reality, is a perception of reality.

 In the Philippines, it is not entirely novel to hear some consumers of local movies
remark that these movies produced locally are unrealistic. They contend that local
movies work around certain formula to the detriment of substance and faithfulness to
reality of movies.

 Paul Cezanne, a french painted a scene from reality entitled Well and Grinding Wheel
in the Forest of the Chateau Noir .
Art Involves Experience
 It does not full detail but just an experience. Actual doing of something.

 Getting this far without a satisfactory definition of art can be quite weird for
some. For most people, art does not require a full definition. Art is just
experience. By experience, we mean the “actual doing of something” (Dudley
et al., 1960) and it also affirmed that art depends on experience, and if one is
to know art, he must know it not as fact or information but as an experience.
 A work of an art then cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In
order to know what an artwork, we have to sense it, see and hear it.

 An important aspect of experiencing art is its being highly personal,


individual, and subjective. In philosophical terms, perception of art
is always a value judgment. It depends on who the perceive is, his
tastes, his biases, and what he has inside.
Activity #1
Choose one artwork under each category that you are familiar with. Cite a Filipino artwork related to the
category you chose and answer the question provided.

Movie, Novel, Poem, Music, Architectural structure, Clothing

Why you chose it? Relate it to the topic has been discussed. Elaborate your answer.
Answer the following questions based on your own understanding/
interpretation of the lesson you learned. 5 points each.

1) If you were an artist, what kind of artist you want to be?


2) Why is art not nature?
3) Art is ageless. Explain this statement,
4) Why does art involve experience?
5) Cite other misconceptions about art
Thank you

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