Assumptions of Art

1. LEARNING Outcomes
1.) Enhanced ability to differentiate art history
from art appreciation
2.) Increased knowledge on the nature of art’s
preliminary expression, assumptions, functions,
philosophical imports, and subject

2. WHAT IS ART?

4. BY MR. DUSTIN CAGE D. MACARAAN
Instructor, College of Arts & Sciences
Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation
Lucena City, Philippines
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

5. art
Art is an expression made visible by a form. The expression contained
in the form is an attempt to translate the unnamed and the unknown.
Intrinsic to our existence as human is our quest to create meaning,
and art allows that process to take place.

6. art
Making meaning involves understanding our surroundings and making
our experiences. Art, at its root, is an expression and the artist is
an expresser, translating in order to create meaning. Art expresses
and translates, art acknowledges and reveals, art transfers and art
intervenes

7. art
Art is an expression, an expression of feeling, belief and character.
The simplicity of that sentence is rather deceptive and seems tidier
than its implications. Feelings, beliefs, characteristics – these are
what art expresses, although often they are not easily distilled. Our
lives as humans are full of complications and complexities, and our
thought and experience feelings, beliefs and characteristics are
reflective of these complexities

8. Basic Assumptions of
arts

9. assumption
"Assumption" is a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to
happen, without proof. It is something that you accept as true without
question or proof.

10. 1.) Art is universal

11. art is universal
Art has been created by all people at all times, in all countries and
it lives because its well-liked enjoyed. Naturally, arts linger on
particularly if it is popular and love by the people

13. 2.) ART IS CULTURAL

14. art is CULTURAL
Art is a work of humans and anything that has been created by human
is part of culture. Art becomes cultural when it depicts people’s
way of life, religious practices,
mores and traditions, etc.

16. 3.) ART IS NOT
NATURE

17. art is not nature
Art is not nature; nature is not art. Art is made by man and nature
by God. However, nature
can be enhanced by man. The enhanced beauty and artistry of nature,
then, can be classified
as an art.

19. 4.) ART INVOLVES
EXPERIENCE

20. art iNVOLVES EXPERIENCE
In order to experience something, you have to make use of your five
senses. Hence, there can never be appreciation of art without
having experienced it

22. 5.) ART Is a form of
creation

23. art is a form of creation
Art is something that is created with imagination and skill and
that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings. As
it is said, human is the creator of
art. No art can be created without human which, uses his/her
imagination and creativity to produce art. According to the word’s
most basic definition, an artist is simply a person who
creates art.

24. ACTIVITY #1
1.) Choose one (1) artwork that you are familiar with under any category given
below:
- Movie/TV Series -Poem - Statue
- Painting - Architectural Structure - Live Performance
- Poem - A piece of clothing - Photograph
This can be the last artwork that you have come across with or one that made
the most impact to you. Evaluate using the guide questions provided.
1.) What is it about? What is it for?
2.) Where and how did you find it?
3.) How good is it?

25. Thank you so
much!
Any Questions?
Dustin Cage Macaraan
macaraandustoncage@mseuf.edu.ph

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