ART

APPRECIATION
•ART
IS SOMETHING THAT IS
PERENNIALLY AROUND US.
•ART
IS A DIVERSE RANGE OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES
IN CREATING VISUAL, AUDITORY OR
PERFORMING ARTIFACTS (ARTWORKS),
EXPRESSING THE AUTHOR'S IMAGINATIVE,
CONCEPTUAL IDEAS, OR TECHNICAL SKILL,
INTENDED TO BE APPRECIATED FOR THEIR
BEAUTY OR EMOTIONAL POWER
“AS ONE MOVES THROUGH LIFE, ONE
LOCATES BETTER, MORE BEAUTIFUL
OBJECTS OF DESIRE. ONE CAN NEVER
BE TOTALLY CONTENT WITH
WHAT IS JUST BEFORE HIM. HUMAN
BEINGS ARE DRAWN TOWARD WHAT
IS GOOD AND ULTIMATELY,
BEAUTIFUL”
SCOTT (2000)
 GE 206 ART APPRECIATION
NAME: DATE:
COURSE: PROFESSOR:

LIST DOWN YOUR MOST STRIKING ENCOUNTER WITH ARTS, AND EXPLAIN
WHY YOU THINK EACH ENCOUNTER IS AN ART EXPERIENCE.

MY ENCOUNTERS OF ART WHY

 HUMANITIES
• THE STUDY OF HOW PEOPLE PROCESS AND
DOCUMENT THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

• STUDY THE HUMAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE.

• SINCE HUMAN HAVE BEEN ALE, WE HAVE USED

PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, RELIGION, ART, MUSIC,
HISTORY AND LANGUAGE TO UNDERSTAND AND
RECORD OUR WORLD.
• "ARTS" IS ANYTHING THAT PEOPLE CREATE:
PAINTINGS, MUSIC, DANCE, LITERATURE. IN
AN ACADEMIC SETTING,

• "ARTS" REFERS BOTH TO ADVANCED

STUDY OF THE PRACTICE OF THOSE FIELDS,
AND RIGOROUS STUDY OF THEM. "SOCIAL
SCIENCES" IS THE ATTEMPT TO BRING
SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES TO HUMANITIES.
ANCIENT LATIN (75 BC)
• ART COMES FROM ANCIENT LATIN ARS
• ARS MEANS A CRAFT OR SPECIALIZED FORM OF
SKILL, LIKE CARPENTRY OR SMITHYING OR
SURGERY (COLLINGWOOD, 1938)

• ART ONLY MEANT USING THE BARE HANDS TO

PRODUCE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE USEFUL TO
ONE’S DAY TO DAY LIFE.
ARS (MEDIEVAL LATIN)

• ANY SPECIAL FORM OF BOOK-LEARNING,

SUCH AS GRAMMAR OR LOGIC, MAGIC OR
ASTROLOGY ( COLLINGWOOD, 1938)
RENAISSANCE PERIOD
ORIGINS OF RENAISSANCE ART. THE ORIGINS OF
RENAISSANCE ART CAN BE TRACED TO ITALY IN THE
LATE 13TH AND EARLY 14TH CENTURIES. DURING THIS
SO-CALLED “PROTO-RENAISSANCE” PERIOD (1280-
1400),

ITALIAN SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS SAW THEMSELVES AS

REAWAKENING TO THE IDEALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
OF CLASSICAL ROMAN CULTURE
•17 TH CENTURY
• THE CONFLICT OF IDEA ABOUT ART
BEGAN BETWEEN AESTHETIC (STUDY
OF BEAUTY) AND TECHNICAL
WORKMANSHIP (WHICH WAS THE
ORIGINAL CONCEPTION OF THE WORD
“ART”
•18 TH CENTURY
• WORD EVOLVED TO DISTINGUISHED
BETWEEN “FINE ARTS” AND “USEFUL
ARTS”
• THE FINE ARTS WOULD COME TO MEAN
“NOT DELICATE OR HIGHLY SKILLED
ARTS” BUT “BEAUTIFUL ARTS”
(COLLINGWOOD, 1938)
•WHAT IS THE
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN HUMANITIES
AND ARTS ?
 ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
•1. ART IS UNIVERSAL
• ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN TIMELESS AND
UNIVERSAL, SPANNING GENERATIONS AND
CONTINENTS THROUGH AND THROUGH.
• AGE I NOT A FACTOR IN DETERMINING AN
ART. AN “ART IS NOT GOOD BECAUSE IT’S
OLD BUT OLD BECAUSE IT IS GOOD. (
DUDLEY ET.AL., 1960)
• THE FIRST ASSUMPTION THEN ABOUT THE HUMANITIES IS THAT ART
HAS BEEN CRAFTED BY ALL PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF ORIGIN, TIME,
PLACE AND THAT IT STAYED ON BECAUSE IT IS LIKE AND ENJOYED
BY PEOPLE CONTINUOUSLY.

• A GREAT PIECE OF WORD WILL NEVER BE OBSOLETE.

• ART WILL ALWAYS BE PRESENT BECAUSE HUMAN BEINGS WILL

ALWAYS EXPRESS THEMSELVES AND DELIGHT WITH THIS
EXPRESSIONS.

• MEN WILL CONTINUE TO USE ART WHILE ARTS PERSISTS AND NEVER
GETS DEPLETED.
•2. ART IS NOT NATURE
• ART IS MAN’S EXPRESSION OF HIS RECEPTION
ABOUT NATURE.
• ART IS MAN’S WAY OF INTERPRETING
NATURE.
• ART IS NOT NATURE.
• ART IS MADE BY MAN, WHEREAS NATURE IS
GIVEN TO US.
•3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE
• ART IS JUST EXPERIENCE. “ACTUAL
DOING OF SOMETHING” ( DUDLEY ET.AL.,
1960).
• ART DEPENDS ON EXPERIENCE, AND IF
ONE IS TO KNOW ART, HE MUST KNOW
IT NOT AS FACT OR INFORMATION BUT
AS EXPERIENCE.
• EVERY EXPERIENCE WITH ART IS ACCOMPANIED
BY SOME EMOTION. ONE EITHER LIKES OR
DISLIKES, AGREES OR DISAGREES, THAT A WORK
OF ART IS BEAUTIFUL.

• WITH EXPERIENCE COMES EMOTIONS AND

FEELINGS.

• FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS ARE CONCRETE

PROOFS THAT THE ARTWORK HAS BEEN
EXPERIENCES.