Introduction to Art Appreciation

1. Introduction
to Art
Appreciation

2. 1:
What Is
Art is something
perennially around us.

3. Comes from the Latin,
ars which means a
“craft or specialized
form of skill.
1:
What Is
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.

4. 1:
What study the
Humanities are the records of man’s experiences, his values, his
sentiments, his ideals, and his goals.
The humanities are ultimately the expressions of man’s feelings
and thoughts.

5. 1:
Cave Painting
The Galloping Wild Boar
Altamira, Spain
1897

6.  Art is
universal
 Art is not
nature
 Art involves
experience.
In every country and in every
generation, there is always art.
“…art is not good because it is
old, but old because its good”

7.  Art is
universal
 Art is not
nature
 Art involves
experience.
Art is man’s expression of his
reception of nature.
Art is man’s way of interpreting
nature.

8.  Art is
universal
 Art is not
nature
 Art involves
experience.
Juan Luna (1884)
size of 4.22 meters x 7.675 meters, it is the largest painting in the Philippines.
Exposicion de Bellas Artes (Madrid Art Exposition, May 1884)
First Gold Medal.

9.  Art is
universal
 Art is not
nature
 Art involves
experience.
Art is just experience.
In order to know what an artwork
is, we have to sense it, see or
hear it, and see and hear it.