Art App

• Art appreciation


  • The act of recognizing or understanding that something is valuable or important
  • A feeling or expression of admiration, approval, or gratitude
  • Judgement and evaluation
  • Recognition of the good qualities and understanding of art
• Acquiring knowledge


  • Leads to appreciation
  • Knowing vocabulary, concepts, themes, processes, materials
  • Knowing context
• Art appreciation is the knowledge and understanding of the universal and timeless qualities that identify all great art
• Art


  • The word "art" comes from the ancient latin Ars which means a "craft of specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithying or surgery"
  • Ars in Medieval Latin meant "any special form of book-learning, such as grammar or logic, magic or astrology"
• Art


  • The term art is used to simply refer to bay skill or mastery that is manifested in the outstanding product of an endeavor
  • Art is a product because it includes human creations, different activities and manners of expression
  • Art is a reflection or a mirror of reality
  • Art reflects the characteristics of a period
• Medieval period


  • The dominance of the church initiated the expression of spiritual truths
  • In the visual arts, figures were presented in idealized 'flat' forms to signify a lack of focus on the material world
• Renaissance Period


  • The value ascribed to the material world was shown in more defined and realistic rendition of the human body in the visual arts
  • The focus on the material world is shown in the 'three-dimensional' reality of landscapes
• Modern Period


  • Characterizes the idealistic search for truth and the realization that is not attainable; thus, relatively is accepted as an unavoidable truth
  • This is manifested by the varied experimentations of artistic expressions
• We gain awareness that the people during the Old Stone Age lived in caves and that they manifested their artistry by drawings and sketching
• Assumptions of art


  • Art is universal
  • Art is not nature
  • Art involves experiences
• Art is universal


  • Timeless, spanning generations and continents through and through
  • Artistic made long time ago. Age is not a factor in determining art
  • "Art is not good because it is old, but old because it is beautiful"
  • Works of Rizal and Francisco Balagtas are not read because they are old but they are beautifully written
  • Arts regardless of origin, time, and place are liked and enjoyed by people continuously
• Art is not nature


  • Man's expression of his reception of nature
  • Man's way of interpreting nature
  • Art is made by man, whereas nature is a given around us
  • Art, not directed by representation of reality, is a perception of reality
  • Art has its reason why the artist made it. What it is that he wants to show?
• Art involves experiences


  • It doesn't not full detail but just an experience. "Actual doing of something"
  • "All art depends on experience, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as fact or information but as experience"
• Art appreciation


  • Giving meaning to the art
  • Interpreting the art
  • You have emotions and creativity in creating and so if you have emotions and feelings, the art will come out
• Art and humanities


  • Heritage
  • Knowledge
  • Cultured (discipline) and Refined (well-mannered)
  • Science has connection to humanities because of discoveries in experiments and studies
• Artist


  Person who creates art using conscious skill and creative imagination such as painting, sculpture, music, or writing
• Artisan


  • Skillful person
  • People who create art
  • Craftsmanship and culture
  • Use their hands only
  • Pottery weaving
• It takes an artist to make art. One may perceive beauty on a daily basis
• Not every beautiful thing that can be seen or experienced may truly be called a work of art