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ART APPRECIATION

Foundations of Art:
The Importance,
Meaning, and
Assumptions of Art
Definition of Art
• Art is a wide range of man's
activity from expression
down to creating tangible or
intangible things.
• Visual artwork is one of the
oldest, rich, complex, and
popular forms of the art
highly rooted in one's
culture.
• Other forms like auditory
• Webster New Collegiate
Dictionary says that "Art is the
constant use of skills and
creative imagination especially
in the production of aesthetic
objects"
• In a more specific and
straightforward way, we can
define it in this way. Art is
painting, sculpture, music,
dance, play, and the like.
• But there is more beyond this
definition. Art is the expression
• This experience that
exudes from man's inner
voice can transform into
something functional,
artworks that lift one's
spirit, allow others to
experience aesthetic
significance, pain or
sorrow, confusion, and
other emotional power or
• Definitions of art
vary in many ways,
and sometimes it will
depend on how you
have experienced
and encountered art.
• Art is derived from the Latin
word “ars” which means
ability or skills or manmade,
and from the Italian word
“artis” meaning
craftsmanship, mastery and
inventiveness. Because of the
traces from the greatest
works of human activity
anyone can argue that art is a
product of man’s mastery and
skills rooted from his artistic
What is Art
Appreciation?
• Art Appreciation is the capacity to understand art's
works and experience a certain enjoyment in
creating art. It deals with our encounter with the
artworks and the artists and how we are affected by
it.
• As we see, hear, or feel any artwork, we realize that
something in that artwork is also a part of our
experience, because art is the transmission of
feelings the artist has experienced or the expression
of the ineffable emotion of the artist (Tolstoy). Any
artwork will prompt us with valuable aesthetic
emotion, admiration and inspiration.
What is creativity
and its process?
• The cognitive
process of mind
includes
imagination,
creativity and
• Imagination is
envisioning ideas that
are not present in
reality.
• Imagination is
visualizing the
impossible or things
that are not present in
our senses.
• Creativity uses
imagination to represent
new ideas and create a
physical embodiment which
is beneficial and with value.
It is the unveiling of the
impossible to possible.
• Through creativity, the
production of valuable
products is involved. Or in
another statement from
Robert Sternberg, the
• The valuable result of
creativity can either
be intangible like
new ideas and
musical composition,
or tangible object
like sculpture or
painting.
• Expression is making known
ones thoughts or feelings. It
means that the work of art
reflects the artist’s
personality, background or
even personal circumstances.
Its central focus comes from
within an individual and it can
be an expression of ideas or
feelings through words,
actions, or any artistic
activities. Thus all these
Imagination

Creativity

Expression

Innovation
Assumptions of Art
• Art is rooted in culture, and
it ties our present from the
past and connects us to the
future. As independent of
one's culture, artworks
serve as a form of
communication of ideas
and emotions, perceptions,
or even passion through
political, philosophical, and
spiritual matters. Art binds
• Art is universal. Art is as old
as humans. In almost every
country and within the most
primitive communities,
there is always art in every
era and locus. No matter
what period or location, art
exists. That is why it is
universal. People from
different countries
worldwide respond to art
• Art Involves Experience.
Experience is the actual doing of
something. The perfection of art
appreciation will never be
possible without experiencing art.
All art requires experience. The
experience of art is subjective.
Our judgment of art is highly
personal and individual. We
should not expect others to agree
with our own experience with art.
Another thing is that an emotional
response accompanies art
experience. The initial reaction in

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