INTRODUCTION TO

ARTS
WHAT IS ART???
During Ancient Period.

The word “art” comes from the ancient

Latin ars which means a craft or
specialized form of skill, like carpentry or
smithying or surgery.”
WHAT IS ART???
During Medieval Period.

Ars in Medieval Latin means “any special

form of book-learning, such as grammar
or logic, magic or astrology”.
WHAT IS ART???

During the Renaissance Period

that the word reacquired its
meaning that was inherent in its
ancient form of craft.
WHAT IS ART???

17 Century – a problem and idea

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of Aesthetics, the study of beauty,

began to unfold.
WHAT IS ART???
18 Century – when the word art evolved
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to distinguish between the fine arts and the

useful arts. Fine Arts would come to mean
“not delicate or highly skilled arts, but
“beautiful arts”.
FOUR ESSENTIALS
OF ARTS
FOUR COMMON ESSENTIALS OF ART
1. Art must be man-made
2. Art must be creative, not imitative
3. Art must benefit and satisfy man and man
must make use of art in practical terms.
4. Art is expressed through a certain medium or
material.
ASSUMPTIONS OF
ART
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

1. Art is Universal
2. Art is not Nature
3. Art involves experience