WHAT IS ART?

JANE E. AMORIN
ART

• “Aryan” root word “AR” which means to put together.

• Latin word “ARS” which means skills/ability

- cover those areas of artistic creativity

- embraces the visual arts, literature, music, and dance.

- expresses aesthetic ideas by use of skill and imagination

DIVISION OF ARTS

• Visual arts – arts that are primarily seen, occupies space

( e.g. painting, sculptures, and architectures)

• Auditory arts – heard

(e.g. music and poetry)

• Combined/performing arts – combines visual and auditory elements

(e.g. drama and theatre, dancing, cinema & TV, opera)

BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
OF ART
ART IS UNIVERSAL
Timeless, spanning generations and
continents through and through.
 MISCONCEPTION
People feel that what is considered artistic are only
those which have been made long time ago.

“An art is not good because it is old, but old because it is

good” (Dudley et al., 1960)
JOSE RIZAL AND
FRANCISCO
BALAGTAS
 ART IS NOT NATURE

Man’s expression of his reception of nature Man’s

way of interpreting nature.
 ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE

Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the “actual doing of

something”(Dudley et al., 1960) and it also affirmed that art depends
on experience, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as fact or
information but as an experience.