2. • Answers are definitely anchored from an individual's
orientation, preferences, biases, education,
exposure, and culture.
3. • It will be easier if we try to ask ourselves with perhaps shallow
and basic but very significant questions:
• Why do we keep on looking for something new?
• Why do we keep on watching film or listen to music?
• Why do we love to read or write? To draw or paint? To sculpt or
carve? To act or play instruments? To sing or to dance? To take
photographs or to make films?
4. • Probably, because we want to enjoy them, we need them to
survive, and to prove our potentials.
• Whatever reasons we have, these will always boil down to
one essential ground – "Man utilizes art because
it serves human fundamental needs, and
likewise enjoys it."
5. • Art appreciation is the ability to
interpret or understand man-
made arts and enjoy them either
through actual or work experience with art
tools and materials or possession of these
works for one's admiration or satisfaction.
Art appreciation, therefore,
deals with learning or
understanding and creating arts
and enjoying them.
6. • Art allows us to explore
illuminating experiences, thus,
affording us an extra understanding,
prudence, and sensitivity towards
cultural differences.
• Art develops our ability to
think critically with our
environment. It opens our senses
and transforms us from a torpid to pro-
active and progressive individuals.
7. • Despite the fact that art unites
people, it also divides and
creates distinction of
culture. It documents and reveals
the way of life – practices, values,
customs, tradition and beliefs of
people of a particular race that differ
from other groups.
8. ART AS A FORM OF EXPRESSION AND
COMMUNICATION
• Good art is successful expression of emotion.
• Art is judged by its effectiveness in producing a desired result
through a particular emotional response in an audience. The artist must
induce in himself the emotions he wishes to produce in his audience and
thus by expressing his own, implant similar feelings in the audience.
• Since art is a form of expression and communication, it should, therefore,
not be in the confines of the few. It is for everybody who wants
change and transformations.
