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## Art Appreciation Class Our lives while trying to maintain the swiftness of the frenzied pace of living. Students who rise up with an artistic awareness perceive the world from diverse viewpoints. This understanding shapes their behaviors, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, and perfor...

## Art Appreciation Class Our lives while trying to maintain the swiftness of the frenzied pace of living. Students who rise up with an artistic awareness perceive the world from diverse viewpoints. This understanding shapes their behaviors, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, and performances. The artistic awareness is above any methodologies or approaches. The milieu in which each child dwells, grows up, and functions is distinctive and cannot be comprehensive. Creative sensibilities are to be developed and encouraged at home, at school, in society, and finally, in the world which plays a major role. In general, there is no debating the belief that the arts have never been more important to our society and should be fully integrated into our lives, our community and education as a whole. ## Meaning of Art The word "art" is rooted in the 13th century French word *art*, which means skill as a result of learning or practice, and the Latin word *ars*, meaning ability or practical skills. The word *art* covers many meanings, including ability, process, and product. As ability, *art* is the human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir us; it is creativity. As process, *art* encompasses acts, such as drawing, painting, sculpting, designing buildings, singing, dancing, and using the camera to create images or memorable works. As product, *art* is the completed work: an etching, a sculpture, a structure, a musical composition, choreography, or a tapestry. Art concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of a sensuous media - color, sound, bronze, body, words, and film. This medium is fashioned into a symbolic language marked by beauty of design and coherence of form. It appeals to our mind, arouses our emotions, kindles our imagination, and enchants our senses (Machlis, 1963). Many known personalities define art in various ways. According to Plato, "Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world." For John Dewey, "Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind-one that demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping