3. • Art is perennially around us.
• Plato had the sharpest foresight when he discussed in the symposium that:
“Beauty, the object of any love, truly progresses. As one moves
through life, one locates better, more beautiful objects of desire.”
4. My Encounter with Arts Why?
In the first column of the table below, list down your most striking encounters with arts. On the
second column, explain why you think each encounter is an experience of art.
5. The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual
form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their
beauty or emotional power.
Oxford dictionary
The arts, also called fine arts, modes of expression that use skill or imagination in the
creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.
6. Art comes from the
ancient Latin, ars which
means “craft or
specialized form of skill,
like carpentry or
smithying or surgery.
Ars in Medieval Latin
came to mean different. It
meant “any special form
of book-learning, such as
grammar or Logic, magic
or astrology”
7. • “The Humanities constitute one of the oldest and most important means od expression
developed by man”
9. Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning
generations and continents through and through.
An “…art is not good because it is old, but old because it is
good”
The works of Jose Rizal and Francisco Balagtas are not being
read because they are old but because they are good.
10. Art is man’s
expression of his
reception of
nature.
1
Art is man’s way of
interpreting nature.
2
Art is made by
man, whereas
nature is a given
around us.
3
11. Art is just an
experience. By
experience we mean
“actual doing of
something”
Art depends on
experience, and if one
is to know art, he must
know it as fact or
information but as
experience.
12. • Choose one artwork under each given category that you are familiar with. This can be the
last artwork that you have come across with or the one that made the most impact to you.
Criticize each using the guide question provided.
Categories
Movie, Music,
Novel, An architectural structure,
Poem, A piece of clothing
Some people may deny having to do with the arts but it is indisputable that life present us with many forms of and opportunities for communion with the arts. Example, you are wondering what dress to wear on a special day together with your shoes and other body clothing and accessories. When you are shuffling your music track while relaxing. A student marveling at the intricate design of a medieval cathedral and many more all manifest concern for values that are undeniably, despite tangentially, artistic.
This lesson is about this yearning for beautiful, the appreciation of all consuming beauty around us, and some preliminary clarifications on assumptions that people normally hold about art.
Art then suggest the capacity to produce an intended result from carefully planned step method. The Ancient world did not have any conceived notion of art in the same way that we do now. To them, art only meant using the bare hands to produce something that will be useful to one’s day to day life.
2. It was during the seventeenth century when the problem and idea of aesthetics, the study of beauty, began to unfold distinctly from the notion of technical workmanship, which was the original conception of the word “art”.
It was during the 18th century when the word has evolved to distinguish between the fine arts and useful arts. Fine arts would come to mean “not delicate or highly skilled arts, but beautiful arts. This is something more akin to what is now considered art.
Human witnessed how man evolved not just physically but also culturally, from cave painters to men of exquisite paintbrush users of the present. Even if one goes back to the time before written record of man’s civilization has appeared, he can find cases of man’s attempts of not just crafting tools to live and survive but also expressing his feelings and thoughts.
The Humanities, then, ironically, have started even before the term has been coined. Human persons have long been exorcising what it means to be a human long before he was even aware of his being one. The humanities stand tall in bearing witness this magnificent phenomenon. Any human person, then, is tasked to participate, if not, totally partake in this long tradition of humanizing himself.
For every generation, there is always art. Oftentimes people feel that what is considered artistic are only those which have been made long time ago.
The First assumption then about the humanities is that art has been crafted by all people regardless of origin, time , place and that it stayed on because it is liked and enjoyed by people continuously.
Artist are not expected to duplicate nature. Art is based on an individual’s subjective experience of nature.
A sculptor cannot produce a work of art if a chisel is foreign to him. A painter cannot claim to know to paint if he has not tried holding a brush.