WHAT IS ART?

• Its consist of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, dance,

music and film.
• Work of arts can classified as verbal or non verbal.
• Mixed Arts are a combination of two or more basic arts like dance,
drama, and film.
 WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY
ART APPRECIATION?
• A person learns to become human.
• It can also be our refuge to evaluate one’s feelings and acts that can
transform them to positive forces in the world beset with occasional
failure.
• It gives us broad knowledge of our history and cultural traditions.
 WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY
ART APPRECIATION?
• It also helps us to acquire the values and wisdom that are essential
for human survival and progress.
• We are able to understand and appreciate those measures of human
greatness which may inspire us to greater efforts and the same time
“ refine our taste and judgment”.
• The study of art appreciation helps us develop reflective, critical
thinking, which is important in our everyday life.
 THREE
LANGUAGES OF
THE ARTS
 1. PRIMARY LANGUAGE
Built into us as a part of our human legacy. This is
the language of arts to which we can all respond,
given the chance and some reassurance of its
validity. It is built to the very center of humanity,
and when it lies uncultivated, and becomes foreign
to us, we become less than human.
 2. SECONDARY LANGUAGE

It is made up of a conventions, the tradition

and styles, which have accumulated over the
ages. The greater the number of works of arts
we come to know and appreciate intimately,
the larger our vocabulary becomes of these
conventions.
 3. THIRD LANGUAGE

Is the language in which this and the

other books on the arts are written or
documented. It deals with the ability to
talk about the arts meaningfully and
expressively.