Arts Appreciation

• Arts is a latin word that means "ars" which means skills or craftsmanship and is expressed and communicated through various mediums.
• Multisensory arts involve performing, cinema, and performance art.
• Imagination is a cognitive ability to envision, create, unique, vivid, transformative, artistic concept and interpretation.
• Creativity is original, valuable and meaningful.
• Expression in arts is the creative communication of ideas through various mediums.
• The objective of arts is to develop understanding knowledge and sensitivity.
• The skills of arts include recognizing and valuing the outcomes of arts.
• The outcome of arts is to increase the value of the arts.
• Gestural art is art that is performed.
• Art is universal, inherent in time and boundaries, and transcends place.
• Art is cultural, uniting people and passing culture.
• Art is not nature, all arts are artificial.
• Art is personal experience, engaging into the experience.
• Art is expression, art can never be art unless it is expressed.
• Arts form of creation utilizes skills, medium, content, subject.
• Arts are tangible because they are expressed through senses.
• Art can be categorized as pure or combination, pure means one senses and combination is multisensory.
• Visual arts occupy space, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation.
• Films and cinemas include narrative films, documentaries, and animation.
• Performance art includes live performance, interactive art, body art, and happenings.
• Music includes classical, jazz, rock, pop, hip-hop.
• Literary arts include novels, poetry, plays, essays, and short stories.
• Biography is the story of another person's life.
• Memoirs are autobiographies or diaries.
• Applied arts include graphic design, industrial design, fashion, interior design, and architecture.
• Social arts unite and harmonize us.
• Cultural arts unite tradition and belief.
• Utilitarian arts are used, for example, architecture, bahay kubo.
• Aesthetic arts are about beauty.
• Integrity in arts is about coherence, unity, harmony.
• Proportion/ Consonance in arts is about balance, symmetry, pleasing, arranging.
• Radiance/Clarity in arts is about brilliance, transparency, clear.
• Plato views art as a kind of Emulation, collection of imitations.
• Plato's "The Republic" is a work on arts.
• Aristotle provides enjoyment of beauty and has the power to instruct.
• Aristotle views arts as a means of communication.
• Immanuel kants views art as a kind of unbiased evaluation.
• Immanuel kant's judgment of art is universal.
• Leo tolstoy views art as a means of conveying emotional content.
• Leo tolstoy views art as communicating feeling.