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Art: Introduction and Assumptions

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to :

1. Understand the role of humanities and arts in man’s attempt at fully realizing his end;
2. Clarify misconceptions the art;
3. Characterize the assumptions of arts; and;
4. Engage better with personal experiences of an in art.

What is Art?

 Art is something that is perennially around us.


 Some people may deny having to do with arts but it is indisputable that life presents us with many forms of
and opportunities for communion with the arts.

The word ART comes from the ancient Latin, ars which means a “craft or specialized form of skill, like
carpentry or smithying or surgery” (Collingwood, 1938).

Ars in Medieval Latin came to mean something different. It meant “any special form of book- learning,
such as grammar or logic, magic or astrology” (Collingwood, 1983).

The fine arts would come to mean “not delicate or highly skilled arts, but “beautiful arts” (Collingwood,
1983

“The humanities constitute one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man”
(Dudley et al., 1960). Human history has witnessed how man evolved not just physically but also
culturally, from cave painters to men of exquisite paintbrush users of the present.

Assumptions of Art

1. ART IS UNIVERSAL

Literature has provided key words of art.

 lliad and the Odyssey are the two Greek Epics that one’s being taught in school.
 The Sanskrit pieces Mahabharata and Ramanaya are also staples in this fields.

In every country and in every generation, there is always art. Often times, people feel that what is
considered artistic are only those which have been made long time ago. This is a misconcepcion. Age is
not a factor in determining art. “An art is not good because it is old, but old because it is good” (Dudley et
al., 1960)

In the Philippines, the works of Jose Rizal and Francisco Balagtas are not being read because they are
old.

Florante at Laura never fails to teach high school students the beauty of love, one that is universal and
pure.

Ibong Adarna, another Filipino masterpiece, has always captured the imagination of the young with its
timeless lessons.

When we recite the Psalms, we feel in communion with King David as we feel one with him in his
conversation with God.

When we listen to a Kundiman or perform folk dances, we still enjoy the way our Filipino ancestors while
away their time in the past.

1. ART IS NOT NATURE

In the Philippines, it is not entirely novel to hear some consumers of local movies remark that these
movies produced locally are unrealistic. They contend that local movies work around certain formula to
the detriment of substance and faithfulness to reality of movies.

Paul Cezanne, a french painted a scene from reality entitled Well and Grinding Wheel in the Forest of the
Chateau Noir .

III. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE

Getting this far without a satisfactory definition of art can be quite weird for some. For most people, art
does not require a full definition. Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the “actual doing of
something”(Dudley et al., 1960) and it also affirmed that art depends on experience, and if one is to know
art, he must know it not as fact or information but as an experience.
A work of an art then cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In order to know what an artworks, we have
to sense it, see and hear it.

An important aspect of experiencing art is its being highly personal,individual, and subjective. In
philosophical terms, perception of art is always a value judgment. It depends on who the perceive is, his
tastes, his biases, and what he has inside.

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