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Lesson 1. What is Art?

Introduction and Assumption

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• Understand the role of Arts in the human being’s existence in
the world;
• React on the assumptions of arts; and
• Compare a life of an artist and a non-artist.

What Is Art?

Art are some things that's perennially around us.. Art is indisputable that life
presents us with several styles of and opportunities for communication with arts. A
managing director selecting what ties to wear in conjunction with his shirt and
shoes, politician shuffling his music track whereas well seated his automotive
searching for his favorite song, a student marveling at the labyrinthine styles of a
medieval cathedral ring the sector, and a market or cheering for his bet during a
dance competition on a noontime television show all manifest concern for values
that are undeniably, despite tangentially, artistic.
• The word “art” come back from the traditional Latin, ars which implies a
“crafts or specialized style of talent, like trade or smiting or surgery”
(Collingwood,1938).
• Art then instructed the capability to produces meant result from fastidiously
planned steps or technique.
• In ancient world, art solely meant victimization the clean hands to provide
one thing that may be helpful .to one’s da-to-day life.
• Ars Medieval Latin came to mean one thing totally different. It meant “any
special style of book-learning, admire synchronic linguistics or logic, magic
or astrology” (Collingwood, 1938)

Assumptions of Art
Art is universal.
Art has invariably been unaltered and universal, spanning generations and
continents through and through. Among the foremost fashionable ones being
schooled in class are the two Greek epics, the the Iliad and the Odyssey. The
Sanskrit pieces Mahabharata and Ramayana are also staples in this field. These
works, supposedly written before the start of recorded history, are believed to be
man’s try at recording stories and tales that are passed on, known, and sung
throughout the years.
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In every country and in every generation, there is always art.

Oftentimes, people feel that what are considered artistic are only those which
have been made long time ago. This is a misconception. Age is not a factor in
determining art. “art is not good because it is old, but old because it is good” (
Dudley et.al., 1960).
Art is not nature.
Paul Cezanne, a French painter, painted a scene from reality entitled
well and Grinding Wheel in the Chateau Noir. The said scene is inspired by a
real scene in a forest around the Chateau Noir area near Aix in Cezanne’s
native Provence. Comparing the two, one can see that Cezanne’s landscape
is quite different from the original scene. Cezanne has changed some patterns
and details from the way they were actually in the photograph. What he did is
not nature. It is art.
➢ One important characteristic of art is that it is not nature. Art is man’s
expression of his reception of nature.
➢ Art is man’s way of interpreting nature.
➢ At is not nature.
➢ Art is made by man, whereas nature is a given around us.
➢ What we find nature should not be expected to present in art too.

Art involves experience.

For many folks, art doesn't need a full definition. It’s just expertise. By
expertise, is that the actual “doing od something” (Dudley et.al., 1960). Once
one says that he has an expertise of one thing, he typically implies that he is
aware of what that one thing is regarding.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Activity 1. Understanding the Art’s Role
Directions: Using the table below, list down in the first column the arts you‘ve
experienced and write down its role in your life in the second column.

Arts I’ve Experienced Its Role in my Life

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Activity 2. Art Valuing

Directions: Choose one artwork (Movie, Poem Music, Novel, An Architectural
structure or A piece of clothing etc.) and answer the questions below.

Category: _
Artwork: _ _
1. What is it about? What is it for?

2. What is the value of it?

3. How does this art give an impact to you?

Activity 3. Comparing of Artist vs Non-artist

Direction. Use the Venn diagram to compare the life of an artist and non-artist. Choose any
artists and non-artists as your subjects of comparison. Write at least 10 characteristics.
 Mastery Test

Directions: In five (5) to ten (10) sentences answer the following questions
below. See Rubric below. Submit your work through my email add. (10 points
each).

1. Why art is not nature?

2. Why art is still good even it is old?

3. Why does art involve experience?

RUBRICS FOR ESSAY
GRADING FACTORS:

1. Completeness (5points)
- Does your response directly each part of the assignment.
Excellent Very Good Good Need
5 4-3 2 Improvement
0-1
2. Knowledge ( 10 pts)
- Does your response clearly show you have read and understood the
lesson content by correctly defining the key terms, key forms and
summarizing concept?
- How you made influences based on this knowledge to personal on
modern day application.
Excellent Very Good Good Need
10-9 8-7 6-5 Improvement
4-0
3. Analysis (5points)
- Do you clearly state analysis and give to blank these up?
- Does your response provide analysis to the larger concepts of the
lesson?
Excellent Very Good Good Need
5 4-3 2 Improvement
0-1
4. Writing Skills (5points)
- Do you write clearly in complete sentence with minimal errors in
grammar and spelling?
Excellent Very Good Good Need
5 4-3 2 Improvement
0-1