Assumptions of an art

1. What is
Art:
INTRODUCTION AND ASSUMPTIONS

2. What do you
consider as art?

3. What is art?
• Plato
Beauty, the object of any love, truly progresses.
• Scott (2000)
As one moves through life, one locates better, more
beautiful objects of desire.

4. • from the ancient Latin, ars which means a “craft or specialized
form of skill, like carpentry or smithying or surgery” (Collingwood,
1938).
• the capacity to produce an intended result from carefully
planned steps or method
Ars in Medieval Latin came to mean something different. It meant
“any special form of book- learning, such as grammar or logic,
magic or astrology” (Collingwood, 1983).
The fine arts would come to mean “not
delicate or highlyskilled arts, but “beautiful
arts” (Collingwood, 1983
What is art?

5. Art is Universal
Mars
Art is not Nature Art involves Experience
Venus
Assumptions

6. Art is
Universal
Art is timeless, and universal, spanning generations and continents
through and through
Examples are the Iliad and the Odyssey and Mahabharata and
Ramayana
Age is not a factor in determining art as
the quotation says, “. . . art is not good
because it is old, but old because it is
good.”

7. Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature. It is man’s way of
interpreting nature. It is not nature. It is made by man, whereas
nature is a given around us. What we found in nature should not be
expected to be present in art too.
Movies for examples are not meant to be direct representation of
reality. They may, according to the moviemaker’s perception of
reality, be a reinterpretation or even distortion of nature.
Art is not
Nature

8. Art is experience. It involves the actual doing of something.
A work of an art then cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In
order to know what an artworks, we have to sense it, see and hear it.
An important aspect of experiencing art is its being highly personal,
individual, and subjective. In philosophical terms, perception of art is
always a value judgment. It depends on who the perceive is, his
tastes, his biases, and what he has inside.
Reference:
Caslib, B.N. Jr, Garing, D., Casaul, J.A. (2018). Art Appreciation. Manila: Rex Bookstore
Art involves
Experience

9. If you were an
artist,
what kind of

10. Reference:
Caslib, B.N. Jr, Garing, D., Casaul, J.A. (2018). Art Appreciation. Manila: Rex Bookstore