ART APPRE

• Science educates our minds and the humanities educate our feelings and sensitiveness so that we may use our minds that we are forgetting that we are human beings
• Humanities


  Originated from the Renaissance Latin expression studia humanitatis or study of humanitas which refers to "culture, refinement,education"
• In the early 15th Century, the "studia humanitatis" became a secular study in the universities at the time. It primarily consisted of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy, Latin and Greek classics
• The humanities constitute one of the oldest and important means of expression developed by man
• Humanities today include


  • literature
  • language
  • philosophy
  • geography
  • history
  • religion
  • music
  • art
• Art


  Serves as an expression of the human experience
• Art


  Defined as an expression of one's thoughts and emotions in a transmittable form
• Art is a record of a particular artist's view
• Art


  The word "art" comes from the ancient latin ars which means a "craft or specialized form of skills, like carpentry or smithying or surgery"
• Arts in Medieval Latin

  Came to mean something different. It meant "any special form of book-learning, such as grammar or logic magic or astrology"
• Definitions of ART by various authors

  • Art is derived from the Latin word "ARS," meaning ability or skill - J.V. Estolas
  • Art is taken from the the Italian word "ARTIS," which means craftmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the associations that exists between form and ideas, material and technique - A. Tan
  • Art is that which brings life in harmony with the world - Plato
  • Art is a life that helps us to realize the truth - Pablo Picasso
  • Art is never finished, only abandoned - Leonardo da Vinci
  • Art is the realization in external form of true idea and is a traced back to that natural love of imitation which characterizes human - Aristotle
  • Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling, the artists has experienced - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Four common essentials of art

  • Art is man-made, not God-made
  • Art is creative, not imitative
  • Art benefits and satisfies man - when he uses art in practical life through artistic principles, taste and skill
  • Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows
• Art Appreciation


  • Is the ability to interpret and understand man-made arts and enjoy them through actual work experience with art tools and materials
  • Is the possession of the works of art for one's admiration and satisfaction
  • This refers to the knowledge and understanding of the general and everlasting qualities that classify all great arts
  • Is the introduction and exploration of visual and performing art forms
  • Is the analysis of the form of an artwork to general audience to enhance their enjoyment and satisfaction of the works of art
• Assumptions of art


  • Art is universal
  • Art is cultural
  • Art is not nature
  • Art is an expression of the mind
  • Art is a form of creativity
  • Art involves experience
• Art has been created by all people of the world at all times; it has lived because it is liked and enjoyed. The elements and forms of art apply to all arts everywhere
• Art contributes to the understanding of past and present cultures. People can learn about their culture's values and strengthen their culture's identity
• Art is not nature because it is man-made. Art is man's interpretation of what he perceives as art
• Art is a form of expression of the deepest emotion of the minds
• Art is a product of the imagination that entertains, pleases and inspire people
• Fulfillment and consummation of an act conclude the experience. The expression of the artists are shown in the way their feelings towards their artwork. For most people art does not define full definition. Art is just an experience. By experience we mean the "Actual doing of something"
• Timeline of Art History

  • Ancient Art (30,000 B.C.E. to 400 A.D.)
  • Medieval to Early Renaissance Art (400 to 1400 A.D.)
  • Renaissance to Early Modern Art (1400 to 1880)
  • Modern Art (1880 to 1970)
  • Contemporary Art (1970 to present)
• Ancient art was created from around 30,000 B.C.E. to 400 A.D. and the artwork of this time is as varied as the cultures that created it. What ties them together is their purpose
• Medieval European art saw a transition from the Byzantine period to the Early Christian period. Within that, from about 300 to 900, we also saw Migration Period Art as Germanic people migrated across the continent. This "Barbarian" art was portable by necessity and much of it was understandably lost
• The Renaissance to Early Modern Art period covers the years 1400 through 1880 and it includes many of our favorite pieces of art. It began with the famous 15th-century artists like Brunelleschi and Donatello, who led to the work of Botticelli and Alberti. When the High Rennaissance took over in the next century, we saw the work of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. This was also the time of the Aztec and Inca in the Americas who had their own distinct art
• Modern Art runs from around 1880 to 1970 and they were an extremely busy 90 years. The Impressionists opened the floodgates on new paths to take and individual artists such as Picasso and Duchamp were themselves responsible for creating multiple movements
• The 1970s is what most people consider as the beginning of Contemporary Art and it continues to the present day. Most interestingly, either fewer movements are identifying themselves as such or art history simply hasn't caught up yet with those that have