Art 3
Art 3
Art 3
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
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.
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.