Art appreciation

• Art


  • Universal
• Art


  A product of man's creativity, imagination, and expression
• Art


  Comes from the ancient Latin "ars" which means a "craft or specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithing or surgery"
• Works of art


  • "Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch)
• Art is universal
• Age is not a factor in determining art
• "An art is not good because it is old, it is old because it is good"
• Art has been crafted by all people regardless of origin, time, place, and that it stayed on because it is liked and enjoyed by people continuously
• Art is universal because it embodies universal emotions and makes it relatable
• Art is not nature


  Art is man's expression of his reception of nature
• Art is not nature


  Art is man's way of interpreting nature
• In making art, the process is

  1. Reception/perception

  2. Interpretation

  3. Expression
• Art is made by man, whereas nature is given around us
• What we find in nature should not be expected to be present in art, too
• Experience


  The actual doing of something
• A painter cannot claim he is one if he has never held a paint brush, just as a sculptor is not a sculptor if he does not know what a chisel is
• A work of art cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it
• Every experience with art is accompanied by some emotion
• Art appreciation as a way of life

  In cultivating an appreciation of art, one should also exercise and develop his taste for things that are fine and beautiful
• Creativity in art-making

  Requires thinking outside the box
• In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another
• When can we say something is creative

  • When we have not seen anything like it
  • When it is out of the ordinary
  • When it is not just a copy or imitation of someone's work
• There is originality
• Albert Einstein: '"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever be to know and understand."'
• Art is a product of what we perceive and imagine. At the same time, imagination is a product of the influences of existing art forms
• The role of art as a creative work is to depict the world in a completely different light and perspective
• Sometimes when words are not enough, art takes it place in expressing what we feel
• Art is UNIVERSAL


  • Art is not nature
• Art


  A product of man's creativity, imagination, and expression
• Art


  Comes from the ancient Latin "ars" which means a "craft or specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithing or surgery"
• Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh


  • Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
• Art has the capacity to produce an intended result from carefully planned steps or methods
• Art is universal because it embodies universal emotions and makes it relatable
• Art is man's expression of his reception of nature
• Art is man's way of interpreting nature
• In making art, the process is basically:

  Reception/perception
• Art is made by man, whereas nature is given around us
• What we find in nature should not be expected to be present in art, too
• Experience


  The actual doing of something
• A work of art cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it