What is Art: Introduction and Assumptions

 Art is something that is perennially around us Popular Art Expressions

 Pursuit for art is endless.
• Visual Arts
 Beauty, the object of any love, truly progresses
• Film
- Plato (Symposium)
• Performance Art
What is Art?
• Poetry Performance
Etymology
• Architecture
came from the ancient Latin, ars which means a “craft
or specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithing or • Dance
surgery”
• Literary Art

• Theater

• Music

• Applied Arts

Assumptions of Art

1. Art is universal

2. Art is not nature

3. Art involves experience

Art Appreciation: Creativity, Imagination, and

Expression

 The role of art as a creative work is that it

depicts the world in a completely different light
and perspective.
 How do you develop love and appreciation for
art?
 Creativity requires thinking outside the box.
 Art is a product of imagination.
 Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we know and
understand, while imagination embraces the
entire world, and all there ever will be to know
and understand.

- Albert Einstein

 Imagination is a product of art.

 Art is an expression.