ART APPRECIATION

2ND SEMESTER, AY: 2023-2024

INSTRUCTOR: JAMBOY A. SEPRO, LPT

TOPIC: NATURE AND ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

NATURE OF ART

- The word “ART” comes from the ancient Latin word “ars” which means a “CRAFT” or specialized
form of “SKILL”.
- ART is anything accomplished with great skills.
- It something that is perennially around us because it stands for various purpose and uses that
reflects cultural values, expresses ideas or emotion, tells stories and communication, aside from its
aesthetic value.
- TWO CONCEPTS OF ART:

ART APPRECIATION ART HISTORY

-The knowledge and understanding
of the universal qualities that identify
all great art.
-It is a positive, perceptual,
emotional, and intellectual response
to the beauty of art work.
-It a process of identifying or
examining the qualities within art.
-It is a discipline that examines
trend movements periods in
history, it is more concerned with
large-scale artistic movements
rather that the act of creating any
piece of art.

ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
1. ART IS UNIVERSAL
-Art is a form of communication that has no language barriers. It has the ability to speak to
all people of any race, all ages, and gender no matter what the form is.
- art is boarder less, timeless and addresses human needs.
- Age is not a factor in determining art.
- ART is FOR ALL

2. ART IS NOT NATURE

-Nature is real such as birth, life and death as cycle of nature. Nature is beauty and is PERFECT
since it was designed by the God.
- This assumption discussed Art as MAN-MADE.
- It seen as the aesthetic representation of real-life situations, an expression of how man
interprets nature.
-ART is not directed by representation of reality, is a perception of realty.

3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCES

-ART engages five senses (hearing, sight, touch, taste, smell) that allows on creating
immersive experiences.
-An important aspect of experiencing art is that being personal, individual, and subjective.