Lesson 1: What is Art? PDF

LESSON 1 What is Art?: Introduction and Assumption NONAH BIANCA L. LASAC, MAComm Instructor I Marinduque State University What is Art? The word art comes from the Ancient Latin, ars which means a “craft or specialized form of skill”. Art the suggested the capacity to produce an intended result from...

LESSON 1 What is Art?: Introduction and Assumption NONAH BIANCA L. LASAC, MAComm Instructor I Marinduque State University What is Art? The word art comes from the Ancient Latin, ars which means a “craft or specialized form of skill”. Art the suggested the capacity to produce an intended result from carefully planned steps or method. In ancient world, they define arts by using the bare hands only to produce something that will be useful to our everyday life.  Art in Medieval Latin came to mean something different. It meant “any special form of book learning, such as grammar or logic, magic or astrology” It was only the Renaissance Period that the Early Renaissance artists saw their th activities merely as craftmanship. It was during the 17 Century, when the idea of aesthetic (study of beauty) began to unfold distinctly from the nation of technical workmanship. It was finally in the Ancient Century when to world evolved to distinguish between the fine arts and the useful arts. Fine arts come to mean beautiful art, which is something more similar to what is now considered art. The humanities constitute one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man, (Dudley et.al, 1960) Human history has witnessed how many evolved not just physically but culturally as well. From cave painters to men of paintbrush users of the present. Source: www.google.com Source: www.google.com We can find cases of man’s attempt to not just craft tools to live and survive but also express his feelings and thoughts, these early attempts at recording man’s innermost interests, preoccupations, and thoughts only prove that the humanities/arts have started even before the term has been coined.  ASSUMPTION OF ART ART IS ART IS NOT ART INVOLVES UNIVERSAL NATURE EXPERIENCE  1. ART IS UNIVERSAL Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning generations and continents through and through. In every country and every generation, there is always art. It has been crafted by all people regardless of origin, time, and place, an it slayed on because it is liked and enjoyed by people continuously. Art will always be present because human beings will always express themselves and delight in this expression.  2. ART IS NOT NATURE Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature, it is man’s way of interpreting nature. Art is not nature, it is made by man, whereas nature is a given around us. What we find in nature should not be expected to be present in art too. It is based on an individual’s subjective experience of nature. Source: www.google.com  3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE For most people, art does not require a full definition. Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the “actual doing of something”. If one is to know art, he must know it not as fact or information but as experience.  3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it, one fully gets acquainted with art if he immerses himself in it. An important aspect of experiencing art is it’s being highly personal, individual, and subjective. In philosophical terms, the perception of art is always a value judgment.  3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE It depends on who the perceiver is, his tastes, his biases, and what he has inside him. One cannot argue with another person’s evaluation of art because one’s experience can never be known by another. Every experience with art is accompanied by some emotion. With experience come emotions and feelings, after all. Feelings and emotions are concrete proofs that the artwork THANK YOU  REFERENCES Fichner-Rathus. Understanding Art. Wadsworth CengageL Learning, 2015. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Visual Arts. Volume IV. Cultural Center of the Philippines, 1994. Caslib, Jr. B.N., Garing, D.C., Casaul, J.A., (2018). Art Appreciation