Art Appreciation

• came from the Latin word humanus meaning refined, cultured and human.

  Humanities
• Humanities are expressions of man’s feelings and thoughts
• Emphasizes dignity and worthiness of man and recognizes creative expressions
• comes from the Aryan root word AR which means ‘to put together’

  ART
• Latin word ARS which means

  skills/ability
• Arts that are primarily seen, occupies space.

  VISUAL
• Heard, timed arts; exist in time

  AUDITORY
• Combines visual and auditory elements

  COMBINED/ PERFORMING ARTS
• Art involves experience; there can never be appreciation of art without experience.
• Art has been created by all people at all times, in all countries and it lives because its well-liked and enjoyed
• Art is not nature. Art is made by human beings. Artists frequently find their inspiration and subject matter in nature, and artists do use nature as a medium, but art itself not nature.
• The function of the artist is to help us understand the nature of things, to realize the possibilities in the world, to develop insights or enlarge imagination by creating or revealing new subjects
• Art is made by man; it is everywhere
• The humanities, then, ironically, have started even before the term has been coined. Human persons have long been exercising what it means to be a human long before he was even aware of his being one. The humanities stand tall in bearing witness to this magnificent phenomenon. Any human person, then, is tasked to participate, if not, totally partake in this long

  tradition of humanizing himself.