GOLDEN OLYMPUS COLLEGES

SAN VICENTE, TARLAC CITY

ART APPRECIATION
MODULE

Course Title: Art Appreciation

No. of Units: 3 units

Course Description:
Art Appreciation is a three-unit course that develops student’s ability to appreciate, analyze
and critique works of art. Through interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches, this course equips
students with a broad knowledge of the practical, historical, philosophical, and social relevance of the
arts in order to hone students’ ability to articulate their understanding of the arts. The course also
develops student’s competency in researching and curating art as well as conceptualizing, mounting,
and evaluating art productions. The course aims to develop student’s genuine appreciation for
Philippine arts by proving them opportunities to explore the diversity and richness and their
rootedness in Filipino Culture

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students should be able to:

Knowledge
1. Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of arts in general, including their function,
value and historical significance
2. Define and demonstrate the elements and principles and design
3. Explain and evaluate different theories of Art
4. Situate Philippine arts in global context

Skills
1. Analyze and appraise works of art based on aesthetic value, historical context, tradition, and
social relevance
2. Mount an art exhibit (concept development, production and post production, marketing,
documentation, critiquing
3. Create their own works of art and curate their own production or exhibit
4. Utilize art for self-expression and promoting advocacies

Values
1. Deepen their sensitivity to self, community and society
2. Discover and deepen their identity through art with respect to their nationality, culture and
religion
3. Develop an appreciation of the local arts

Number of hours: 3 hours every week for 18 weeks or 54 hours in a semester

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SAN VICENTE, TARLAC CITY

LESSON 1

ASSUMPTIONS AND NATURE OF ART

I. Topic: Assumptions and Nature of Art

II. Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, the student should be able to:
a) Define and identify assumptions and nature of arts
b) Give the significance of assumptions and nature of arts in real life situation.
c) Cite Filipino artwork

III. Content:

Concept Notes
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
 Timeless, spanning generations and continents through and through.
 Misconception: Artistic made long time ago.
 Age is not a factor in determining art.
 Literature has provided key words of art.
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  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 misconception. 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.

2. Art Is Universal

 Art, not directed by representation of reality, is a perception of reality.

 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.

3. Art Involves Experience

 It does not full detail but just an experience. Actual doing of something.
 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 artwork, 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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IV. Activity

Choose one artwork under each category that you are familiar with. Cite a Filipino artwork
related to the category you chose and answer the question provided.

Movie, Novel, Poem, Music, Architectural Structure,

Clothing

Why you chose it? Relate it to the topic has been discussed. Elaborate your answer.

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V. Assessment

Answer the following questions based on your own understanding/ interpretation of the lesson
you learned. 5 points each.

1. If you were an artist, what kind of artist you want to be?

2. Why is art not nature?
3. Art is ageless. Explain this statement,
4. Why does art involve experience?
5. Cite other misconceptions about art

References:
 Dr. Lamucho, V. S., Baesa-Pagay, J.S., et al. (2003) p.3 Basic Assumptions of the
Art
 Toto Wel. (November 17, 2018) Art: Introduction and Assumptions. http://www.ruel
positive.com/art-intoduction-assumptions
 Jhay Baccay. (October 04, 2018) Assumptions-of-art-1.pptx.
http://www.scribd.com.presentation/390111106/Assumptions-of-art-1-pptx

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