ART APPRECIATION
Module 1
What is ART?
➔ Art is the expression of an idea or
experience made visible by a form
created with skill.
➔ Art is a language that artists use to
express feeling, belief, and character
that everyday words cannot
express.
➔ Ideas are conveyed that go beyond
describing and telling and often are
not easily distilled.
➔ To view art, you must perceive the
piece.
➔ To become deeply aware through
the senses of the special nature of a
visual object.
What is the NATURE of Art?
★ Art is a diverse range of human
activities in creating visual, auditory
or performing artworks, expressing
the author’s imaginative or technical
skill, intended to be appreciated for
their beauty or emotional power.
★ In their most general form these
activities include the:
❖ Production of works of art
❖ Criticism of art
❖ Study of history of art
❖ Aesthetic dissemination of
art
Art represents reality.
Representation is the use of signs that
stand in for and take the place of
something else. It is through representation
that people organize the world and reality
through the act of naming its elements.
Signs are arranged in order to form
semantic constructions and express
relations. Art often depicts objects or
scenes from the world. So, there is a sense
in which art represents the mind’s eye or
what the imagination perceives.
Art is an expression.
The expression contained in the form is an
attempt to translate the unnamed and
the unknown. Intrinsic to our existence as
human beings is our quest to create
meaning, and art allows that process to
take place. Making meaning involves
understanding our surroundings and
marking our experiences.
Art serves as a means of communication
of emotions.
The purpose of works of art may be to
communicate political, spiritual or
philosophical ideas, to create a sense of
beauty, to explore the nature of perception,
for pleasure, or to generate strong
emotions. Art is an act of expressing
feelings, thoughts, and observations of
human conditions. A fundamental purpose
common to most art forms is the underlying
intention to appeal to, and connect with,
human emotion.
Art matters.
The arts matter because they allow us to
express ourselves and illustrate the
world around us in a different light,
helping us to gain understanding of people
and society, and give hope while living in
this world. Art matters because it illustrates
the human experience.
Art is universal.
Literally, art can be found in every corner
of the world. Art is everywhere and it is
embedded into the way of life of the
people. Exclusivity is out of bounds when
we speak of arts because it is for everyone.
Art is the true Esperanto, an artificial
language, the one form of culture that is
genuinely beyond national limitations. Art
knows no barriers; not even language is a
barrier in understanding it.
Art is creation.
It is the combination of already existing
material elements into new forms which
become the realization of a preconceived
idea. Both hut and picture rose in the
imagination of their makers before they
took shape as things. The material of each
was given already in nature; but the form,
as the maker fashioned it, was new. In its
essence and widest compass, art is the
making of a new thing in response to a
sense of need. The very need itself creates,
working through man as its agent.
What is the IMPORTANCE & ORIGINS of
the Nature of Art?
➢ Art is created to express personal
feelings.
➢ Art is produced to reinforce and
enhance the shared sense of
identity of those in a family,
community, or civilization.
➢ Art may be created to express
spiritual beliefs about the destiny
of life controlled by the force of a
higher power.
➢ Artists and craft-people constantly
invent new ways to create
functional art (industrial designers,
architects, jewelry makers, etc.)
➢ Art was used as a form of visual
instruction (education) such as
symbols painted on signs.
Traditionally, art is divided into 7 forms:
1. Painting
2. Architecture
3. Sculpture
4. Literature
5. Music
6. Performing
7. Film
● Visual Arts (architecture, ceramics,
drawing, filmmaking, painting,
photography, and sculpting)
● Literary Arts (fiction, drama, poetry,
and prose)
● Performing Arts (dance, music, and
theater)
● Culinary Arts (cooking, chocolate
making, wine making)
What are the DIFFERENT ASSUMPTIONS
of Art?
★ Assumption is a thing that is
 accepted as true or as certain to
happen, without proof.
Some assumptions about art are:
1. Art has been created by all people
at all times around the world and
it lives because it is well-liked or
enjoyed. Naturally, arts linger on
particularly if it is popular and loved
by everyone.
2. Art involves experience. In order to
experience something, you have to
make use of your five senses.
Hence, there can never be
appreciation of art without having
experienced it.
3. Art is not nature; nature is not art.
Art is made by man and nature by
God. However, nature can be
enhanced by man. The enhanced
beauty and artistry of nature, then,
can be classified as an art.
4. Art is cultural. Art is a work of
humans and anything that has been
created by humans is part of culture.
Art becomes cultural when it depicts
people’s way of life, religious
practices, mores and traditions, etc.
5. Art is a form of creation. Art is
something that is created with
imagination and skill and that is
beautiful or that expresses
important ideas or feelings. As it is
said, man is the creator of art. No
art can be created without man,
who uses his/her imagination and
creativity to produce art. The
person who creates art is called an
artist.
6. Art is subjective. Henceforth, it
cannot be measured by its
significance or the level of skill with
which it is created. “Beauty is in
the eye of the beholder” means
that every individual has his/her
own perception and/or interpretation
about the subject. It would never be
the same for every individual.
CLASSIFICATIONS OF ART:
1. VISUAL ARTS
- Drawing, painting, architecture,
sculpture, ceramics, photography,
conceptual art
DYK?
Salvator Mundi, painted by Leonardo Da
Vinci in the duration of 10 years, is the
most expensive painting of all time, being
sold at 400M.
Why is it expensive? Since it is the only
copy in the world, the one who owns it
can attain bragging rights.
The Statue of David, by Michelangelo, is
the most famous sculpture in the world.
2. LITERARY ARTS
- Prose, poetry, drama, folktales,
myths and legends, comics
3. PERFORMING ARTS
- Dance, music, theater, opera, mime,
magic, circus
DYK?
Dance is the oldest of all the arts /
earliest form of art. Each country has its
own well-known dance, showcasing and
highlighting their culture. supermarkets.

Examples: tinikling (PH), dragon dance ★ Sweet, Salty, Sour

(China), ballet (Italy & France)
4. APPLIED ARTS
- Industrial design, commercial arts,
decorative art, fashion, packaging
DYK?
Industrial Art is anything connected to
the design of an object for mass
production (i.e., packaging).
Commercial Art are things that are used
for personal use (i.e., glasses).
Decorative Art are objects you use for
decoration (i.e., furniture, tiles).
6. ELECTRONIC ARTS
- film/cinema, animation, video games
Eadweard Muybridge discovered
persistence of vision by photographing
each movement of the horse in 11 frames
to show how they have all 4 leafs off the
ground when galloping.
Thomas Edison unveiled a new type of
recording camera which they called a
kinetograph in 1890, which is widely
recognized as one of the world's first
motion picture cameras.

5. CULINARY ARTS
- Gastronomy

DYK?

Fruits and nuts were the first diet of

man.

Lightning caused man to discover fire,

which led man to discover cooking and
make weapons that can be used against
animals. This welcomed animal protein in
the diet.

Pottery opened doors to different kinds

of cooking, which improved man’s eating
manners. This also influenced people to
stay at one place, creating a community.

Then comes agriculture, drying, usage

of spices, fermentation, preservation,
storage of food, instant food, and