The document explores the significance and nature of art, defining it as a fundamental means of human expression that has evolved across cultures and eras. It discusses the essential characteristics of art, its functions (aesthetic, utilitarian, cultural, and social), and categorizes different types of art such as fine arts, practical arts, and various forms of visual arts. Additionally, it traces the origins of art to primitive societies, highlighting its connection to spiritual beliefs and cultural rituals.

1. CHAPTER I
The Meaning and Importance of Arts

2. The Nature of Art
• Art is very important in our lives. It constitutes one of the
oldest and most important means of expression developed
by men. Since human have most lived together art sprung.
In fact, in nearly every country art shows itself in primitive
societies. In every age or country there is always art.

3. The Nature of Art
1. Art is derived from the Latin word “ars” meaning ability or skill. F. J. Estolas
2. Art is taken from Italian word “artis” which means craftsmanship skill,
mastery of form, inventiveness and association that exist between form
and ideas, between material and technique. A Ta.
3. Art is a product of Man’s need to express himself. F. Zulueta.
4. It is concerned itself with the communication of certain ideas and
feelings. By means absence was medium color, sound, bronze marbles,
Woods and film. C. Sanchez

4. The Nature of Art
5. I is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world. Plato
6. Art is an attitude of Spirit, a state of mind, one which demands for its
own satisfaction and fulfilling, is shaping of mattered to new and more
significant form. John Dewey
7. It is the skillful arrangement or composition of some common but
significant qualities of nature, such as colors, sounds, lines, movements,
words, stones would etc., to express human feelings, emotions or thoughts
in a perfect, meaningful and enjoyable way. Panizo and Rustia

5. Four common essential of art:
1.Art must be man-made.
2.It must be creative, not imitative.
3.Art must benefit in satisfied man man made use of art
in practical life through artistic principles, taste and skill.
4.Art is expressed through a certain medium or material
by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows.

6. The Nature of Art
Art appreciation is the ability to interpret or understand man-
made arts and enjoy them either through actual in work
experience with our tools and materials are possession. Of
these works of art for one’s admiration and satisfaction.

7. The Subject of Art
Subject of art is varied. The subject of art is usually anything that is
represented in the artwork. It may be a person, object, scene, or event.
Representational or Objective Arts
• Artworks that depict something easily recognized by most people .
Examples:
Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, literature and theater arts

8. The Subject of Art
Non Representational or Non Objective Arts
• Artwork that have no resemblance to any real subject.
• They do not represent anything, and they are what they are.

9. Functions of Arts
1. Aesthetic function. Through art man become conscious of the beauty of
nature. He benefits from his work and from those done by his fellow man. He
learns to use love and preserve them for his enjoyment and appreciation.
2. Utilitarian function. With the creation of the various forms of Art, man now
lives in comfort and happiness. Through art, man is provided with shelter,
laughing, food, sunlight, medicine, beautiful surroundings, personal
ornamentals, entertainment, language, transportation and other necessities
and convenience of life

10. Functions of Arts
3. Cultural function. Through the printed matter arts Transmits and
preserves skills and knowledge from one generation to another. It
burdens one’s political background and makes man more civilized,
and his life more enduring and satisfying.
4. Social function. Through civic in graphic arts, man learns to love and
help each other. International understanding and cooperation are
fostered, and nations become more unified, friendly, cooperative,
helpful and sympathetic.

11. The Scope of Art
According to my Manaois:
1. Fine Arts or independent arts. Fine Arts are made primarily for
aesthetic enjoyment through the senses, specially visual and
auditory.
2. Practical arts are useful or utilitarian arts. Practical arts are intended
for practical use or utility. It is the development of raw materials for
utilitarian purposes.

12. The Scope of Art
According the Custodiosa Sanchez:
1. Visual arts are those sweet perceive with our eyes. They may be classified into two
groups, namely:
 Graphic arts. Include painting, drawing, and photography. Graphic processes,
commercial art advertisements, signs, posters and other displays mechanical
processes, in which portrayals or forms and symbols are recorded on 2 dimensional
surface.
 Plastic arts include all fields of visual arts. Which materials are organized into 3
dimensional forms such as structural architecture, landscape architecture? Golf
course playgrounds. City physical planning and interior arranging. Sculpture crafts,
industrial design. Dress in costume design and theater design.

13. The Scope of Art
According to Josefina Estolas:
1.Major arts. Includes painting, architecture, sculpture,
literature, music, and dance.
2.Minor arts. Includes decorative arts, popular arts, graphic
arts, plastic arts and industrial arts.

14. The Scope of Art
According to Panizo and Rustia:
1. According to purpose. Arts I classified into practical arts are useful arts. Liberal arts, Fine
Arts, major arts and minor arts.
2. According to Media informs. Arts include Plastic Arts, Phonetic Oids, Kinetic Arts, Pure
Arts and Mixed Arts.
3. Practical or useful art. Directed to produce artifacts and utensils for the satisfaction a
human needs.
4. Liberal arts. Directed toward in the intellectual growth, such as in the study of
Philosophy, psychology, literature, mathematics. And Sciences.
5. Fine Arts. Focus toward the creative activity for the contemplation of the mind and the
uplift of the spirit. Painting, sculpture, architecture are example of these arts.
6. Major arts. Characterized by actual and potential expressiveness, such as music, poetry,
sculpture.

15. The Scope of Art
According to Panizo and Rustia:
7. Minor arts. Concerned on practical uses and purposes such as interior decoration and
porcelain art.
8. Plastic arts. Developed through the space and perceived by the sense of Sight. Such
sites include sculpture and decorative materials.
9. Kinetic arts. Involve the element rhythm. Dance is a type of this art.
10. Phonetic arts. Directed towards sounds and words as media of expression. Examples
are music, drama and literature.
11. Pure arts. Take only one medium of expression like sound in music and color in
painting.
12. Mixed arts. Take more than one medium, such as opera, which combines music,
poetry and drama.

16. The Origin of Art
• Art is viewed as a reflection of creative and ingenuity and inventiveness
within a culture.
• It is seen not only in terms of its styles and craftsmanship, but its functional
interaction with all the elements that constitute human life and culture.
• It had started sharing the primitive time when superstition and beliefs in the
spirits are still very common.
• In every culture. It is tribal and indigenous that every ritual and ceremony is
accompanied by dancing, painting, music and poetry.

17. The Origin of Art
• Primitive people painted their bodies, caves and some parts of the
dwelling to symbolize and represents something.
• Sculpture of gods goddesses were usually made of wood and clay.
The origins of this art is probably connected with sorcery and magic.
•All arts originated in the temples of the East and West.