WHAT IS

ARTS?
WHAT IS ART/S?

•ART comes from Latin ars – a craft

or specialized form of skill
•Capacity to produce an intended
result from carefully planned
methods or steps.
WHAT IS ARTS?

•Art in Ancient World

• Medieval Latin – any special form
of book-learning such as magic or
astrology
• Renaissance – craftsmanship.
WHAT IS ARTS?

•Art in Ancient World

• 17 th century – aesthetics or the
study of beauty began to unfold.
• 18 century – existence of fine
th

arts which means “beautiful arts”.

WHAT IS ARTS?

•Life presents people with many

forms of arts and communication of
arts.
 THREE
ASSUMPTIONS
OF ART
•Art is Universal
•Art is Not Nature
•Art involves Experience
•Art is Universal
•Art is timeless; spanning from
generations through generations
•Iliad and Odyssey
•In every country and generation, there
is always an art.
•Art is Universal
•Age is not a factor in determining
art.
•“An art is not good because it is old,
but old because it is good”
•Works of Rizal and Balagtas
•Art is Universal
•Art is crafted by all people
regardless of origin, time and place.
•Art will always be present because
humans will always express
themselves.
•Art is Not Nature
•Art is man’s expression of his reception
of nature.
•Art is man’s way of interpreting nature.
•Movies may be a reinterpretation or
distortion of nature.
•Art involves Experience
•For most people, arts is just an
experience.
•Actual doing of something.
•In order to know an artwork, one
must sense it; see AND hear it
•Art involves Experience
•An experience of art is highly
personal and subjective.
•Every experience of art is
accompanied by emotions.
Make a short TV or Radio
advertisement that shows or
describes one assumption of
art assigned to your group.
• ASSIGNMENT:
• Choose two categories from the options.
Think of an artwork from your chosen
category which has impacted you. Criticize
each artwork by answering the questions
provided. Encode your work on a long bond
paper.
Categories:
• Movie Novel Sculptures
• Poem Music Paintings/Drawings
• Category: Movie
• Artwork: TITANIC

• 1. What is it about? What is it

for?
• 2. How good it is?
• 3. Why it had impacted you?
 ART APPRECIATION:
CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION,
EXPRESSION
 ART APPRECIATION AS A WAY OF LIFE
• Jean Paul Sartre
• art is a creative work that depicts the world
in a completely different light and
perspective.
• An artwork beholds beauty of its own kind.
• One must deeply understand the purpose of
an artwork and recognize the beauty it
possesses = art appreciation
ART APPRECIATION AS A WAY OF LIFE
•Jean Paul Sartre
• One should exercise and develop
taste for things that are fine and
beautiful
• Learning to appreciate art will lead to
a fuller and more meaningful life.
 ROLE OF
CREATIVITY IN
ART
ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ART MAKING
•Creativity is thinking outside the
box.
•Creativity is what sets apart one
artwork from another.
•Creativity is when one is done out
of the ordinary.
ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ART MAKING
•Being creative is challenging.
•“It’s more fun in the Philippines”
ad campaign.
•Creativity should be backed with
careful research on related art.
 ART AS PRODUCT OF
IMAGINATION,
IMAGINATION AS PRODUCT
OF ART
•Imagination is more important than
knowledge – Albert Einstein
•Through imagination, one is able to
craft something.
•Imagination allows endless
possibilities.
•Artists use imagination that gives
birth to reality through creation.
 ART AS
EXPRESSION
•An emotion will remain unknown to a man
until he expresses them

•Robin Collingwood – Artist expresses

emotion and not induce them.
•Through emotion, one is able to explore
his emotions and create something
beautiful out of it.

•Description destroys expression;

expression individualizes
•People’s art is a reflection of inner
selves not on what is external
POPULAR ART EXPRESSIONS
• Architecture
• Visual Arts
• Dance
• Film
• Literary Art
• Performance Art
• Theater
• Poetry Performance
VISUAL ARTS

• Creations that appeal to the sense of sight.

• Artists produce visual arts driven by their
desire to reproduce things that they have seen
in the way that they perceived them. (Collins and
Riley)
VISUAL ARTS

•Diverse variations - from sculptures to

movies.
•Paintings, drawings, letterings, printing,
digital imaging and more.
FILM
•The art of putting together successions of
still images to create an illusion of
movement.
•Focuses on aesthetics, cultural and social
value.
FILM
•Filmmaking simulates experiences or
creates one that is beyond the scope of
imagination.
•Aims to deliver ideas, feelings and
beauty to viewers.
PERFORMANCE ART
•A live art and artist’s medium is mainly
the human body.
•Consist of four elements: time,
performer’s body, relationship between
audience and performers and performers.
ARCHITECTURE

•The making of beautiful buildings.

•Buildings should embody: plan,
construction and design to consider an
architecture.
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
DANCE

•A series of movements that follows the

rhythm of music accompaniment.
•A creative form which allows one to freely
express themselves.
LITERARY ART

•Artists who practice literary arts use

words.
•Literary arts use unique style of writing,
not following a specific format or norm.
LITERARY ART
•Examples:
• Fiction/non-fiction, novels, biographies,
poems
• The Little Prince by Exupery
• Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
THEATER
•Uses live performers to present accounts
of imaginary events.
•It considers elements such as acting,
gestures, lighting, sound effects, musical
score, scenery and props.
THEATER

•The participation of viewers is important.

•Includes drama, musical, tragedy,
comedy, and improvisation.
THEATER
Example
• Macbeth
APPLIED ARTS
•Incorporating elements of style and
design to everyday items to increase their
aesthetic value.
•Industrial design, interior design,
fashion, and graphic design
PEER ACTIVITY
•Answer the question below on a ½
crosswise and then share your answer to
your pair.
•If you would be an artist, what kind of
artist would you be? What art expression
will you explore more and why?