"ARS" - a craft or specialized form of skill,
like carpentry or smithying or surgery."
•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 as cited in
Caslib et. al., 2018).
•Art then suggested the capacity to produce
an intended result from carefully planned
steps or method.
•The concept of art that we know now was
different from the concept of art that people
had in the ancient times. During the ancient
times, the meaning of art had something to do
with building objects solely for necessity or
daily use.
•A man is said to be engaged in art when he
performs the step- by-step procedure he
created for himself to be able to produce the
house or any infrastructure that he has
perfectly planned.
Assumptions of Art
1.Art is universal
Art has always been timeless and universal,
spanning generations and continents through
and through.
In every country and generation, there is
always art.
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 as
cited in Caslib et. al., 2018).
A great piece of work will never be
obsolete.
Art will always be present because human
beings will always express themselves.
"In every age or country, there is always
art. Wherever we go, whether it be a city or a
province, here or abroad, we surely have to
pass buildings of various sorts - houses,
schools, churches, stores and others. Some of
them appear attractive
2. Art is not nature
Art is man's expression of his reception of
nature. Art is man's way of interpreting
nature.
What we find in nature should not be
expected to be present in art too.
Movies may be a reinterpretation based on
an individual's subjective experience of
nature.
Artists are not meant to duplicate nature.
3. Art involves experience
Unlike fields of knowledge that involve
data, art is known by experiencing. In order to
know what an artwork is, we have to sense it,
see or hear it, and see AND hear it.
"All art depends on experience and if one is
to know ART, he must know it not as a fact
or information but as EXPERIENCE"
(Dudley et. al., 1960 as cited in Caslib et. al.,
2018).
ART is "any special form of book-learning,
such as grammar or logic, magic or
astrology."
Arts in Medieval Latin
•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 as cited in Caslib et. al., 2018).