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ART APPRECIATION
Durezza Basil
BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
ART IS NOT NATURE
• Art is man-made
• Nature is the starting point of art by providing both
subject and medium
• Art imitates life according to Aristotle
• No matter how art imitates life it is still a product of
man’s creative genius
2. ART IS AN EXPERIENCE OF CREATION AND RE-CREATION
2-a Art is an experience of Creation to the
Artist
• Art is the process of creating the work to the artist like
this picture of Jackson Pollock at work
2-b Art is an Experience of re-creating the work of another
artist
• When an artist takes the work of another artist
and uses his own style or language or medium to
re-create or innovate he is creating another form
of art
• Adaptations are examples of re-creating the
work of another artist

Starry
starry night
paint your palette blue and grey
look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils
catch the breeze and the winter chills
in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to
say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how
perhaps they'll listen now
Starry
starry night
flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's
loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to
me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.
For they could not love you
but still your love was true
and when no hope was left in sight on that
starry
starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;
But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never
meant for one
as beautiful as you.
2-c Art is the Audience’s Experience of re-creating
the work of the artist
3. ART IS AGELESS, TIMELESS AND UNIVERSAL
•Art is created by people of all ages
•The language of art is spoken by people of all
nations
•The usefulness of art is seen across
generations
NOTA BENE!
• Art is a product of man’s
CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION, and
EXPRESSION.

• Not everyone is an artist, but

surely, ALL are SPECTATORS of
art.
REFINEMENT understand
the PURPOSE and BEAUTY of an
art work
CREATIVITY is what sets apart one artwork from
another artwork.
 An emotion will remain • “I am angry!”
unknown to a man until he
expresses it

 Expression individualizes.

 Art is a reflection of an artist’s

inner self.
 FUNCTIONS OF ART
1. Personal
 Varied
 Highly subjective
e.g. Therapeutic, entertainment

2. Social
 If and when it addresses a collective interest

3. Physical
 Direct, tangible
Does art always have to be functional?
•The value of a work of art does not
depend on function but on the work
itself.

•Efficient functional object is not

necessarily beautiful