Module 1: Introduction and Assumption of Arts

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TABLE OF CONTENT---------------------------------------------------------1
OVERVIEW-----------------------------------------------------------------------2
HUMANITIES AND ART-----------------------------------------------------3-4
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART-----------------------------------------------------4-7
ACTIVITIES---------------------------------------------------------------------7-9
RUBRICS----------------------------------------------------------------------10-11
ASSESSMENT-------------------------------------------------------------------12
REFERENCES------------------------------------------------------------------13

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Art Appreciation is the knowledge and understanding of the universal and timeless qualities
that identify all great art. It is the study of different arts and knowing the meaning behind the
artwork. Also it deepen the relationship of a men to the artwork by knowing its story not just by
seeing visually the artwork. Through art appreciation student can develop their skills in art and
learn how to appreciate an artwork in creative way.
This module is made to provide Accessible Resource Augmented Learning (ARAL) in this
time of pandemic that can maintain the high standard education and globally competitive
individual that can help the students to widen their knowledge and continue their learning as a
freshmen students.
This instructional materials provide the needs of the students to continue their studies even
without going to school. By the use of smartphones and other resources they can enhace their
skills and abilities except for depending on this module.
This module contain information about Introduction and Assumptions of Arts in which you
will get information about:
a. Humanities and Art; and
b. Assumptions of Art

In this module you need to attain the following goals:

1. State the importance of arts;

2. Cite situations that would demonstrate the importance of art;
3. Explain the role of humanities and arts; and
4. Characterize the assumptions of arts.

It have activities and assessment such as practical and pen-paper test that will test your
knowledge on how you understand the lesson.

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Lesson 1 Introduction and Assumption of Arts

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this lesson, the student should be able to:
Explain the importance of art appreciation.
Analyze the role of art in everyday life.
Identify the connection of arts and humanities.Characterize the assumptions of art.
Explain the assumptions of art.
Identify different piece of artworks.

Arts is a large variety of works, from paintings to sculptures, architecture to design, and in
modern times, digital arts. It is something that is perennially around us. It is meant to stimulate
thought and conversation between its viewers. It evokes feelings of joy, sadness, anger and pain.
It helps to open up the mindset of the people by listening to the different perspectives and views
as well as interpretations of the art. Plato had the sharpest foresight when he discussed in the
Symposium that the beauty, the object of any love, truly progresses. As one moves through life,
one locates better, more beautiful objects of desire (Scott,2000).

Why Study the Humanities?

For as long as man existed in this planet, he has cultivated the land, altered conditions of the
fauna and the flora, in order to survive. Alongside these necessities, man also marked his place in
the world through his works. Through his bare hands, man constructed infrastructures that tended
to his needs, like his house. He sharpened sword and spears. He employed fire in order to melt
gold. The initial meaning of word “art” has something to do with all these craft.

 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, 1983). Art then
suggested the capacity to produce an intended result from carefully planned steps or
method. The ancient World did not have any conceived notion of art in the same way
that we do now. To them, art only meant using the bare hands to produce something that
will be useful to one’s day-to-day life.
 Arts 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).
 Arts in Renaissance Period was reacquired a meaning that was inherent in its ancient
form of craft. Early Renaissance artists saw their activities merely as craftmanship,
deviod of a whole lot of intonations that are attached to the world now.

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 In seventeenth century the problem and idea of aesthetic, the study of beauty, began to
unfold distinctly from the notion of technical workmanship, which was the original
conception of the word “art”.
 Finally, in the eighteenth century where the fine arts and the useful arts was distinguish
that fine arts mean “not delicate or highly skilled arts, but ‘beautiful’ arts”
(Collingwood, 1938).
 “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 jut physically but also culturally, from cave painters to men of exquisite
paintbrush users of the present.
 In the old period of time man attempts of not just crafting tools to live and survive but
also to express his feelings and thoughts.
 In 1879, a Spaniards and his daughter
were exploring a cave when they saw
pictures of a wild boar, hind and bison
which is the Galloping Wild Boar found
in the cave of Altamira, Spain.
According to experts, these paintings
were purported to belong to Upper
Paleolithic Age, several thousands
of years before the current era. Figure 1: Cave Paintings
Pre-historic men, with their crude instruments, already showcased and manifested
earlist attempts at recording man’s innermost interests, preoccupations, and thoughts.
 The humanities, then, ironically, have started even before the term has been coined. The
humanities stand tall in bearing witness to this magnificent phenomenon.

ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Since long period of time arts cannot explained clearly in a simple sentence.
So, there is assumptions about arts and those are: Art is universal, art is not nature and art
involves experience.

Art is Universal
 Literature has provided key works of art those are the Illiad (a poem focused on the war,
battles and fights) and the Odyssey ( a poem about advetures, trials and mythological
creatures) which is a Greek epics and the Sanskrit pieces Mahabharata and Ramayana.
These works, purportedly written before the beginning of recorded history, are believed
to be man’s attempt at recording stories and tales that have been passed on, known, and
sung thrughout the years. Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning
generations and continents through and through.
 In every country and in every generation there is always art. Oftentimes, people feel that
what is considered artistic are only those which have been made long time ago which is
a misconception because age is not a factor in

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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 work of Jose Rizal and Francisco Balagtas are not being read
because they are old but because they are good. They are liked and adored because they
meet our needs and desires. The Florante at Laura that never fails to teach high school
students the beauty of love, one that is universal and pure and the Ibong Adarna a
Filipino masterpiece that 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. In listening Kundiman or perform folk
dances, we still enjoy the way of our Filipino ancestors whiled away their time in the
past.
 The first assumption then about the humanities is that art has been crafted by all people
regardless of origin, time, place and that it stayed on because it is liked an enjoyed by
people continuously. A great piece of work will never be obsolete.
 In John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism(1879), enjoyment in the arts belongs to a
higher good, one that lies at the opposite end of base pleasures. Art will always be
present because human beings will always express themselves and delight in these
expressions. Men will continue to use art while art persists and never gets depleted.

Art is Not Nature

 Paul Cézanne, a French painter, painted a scene from reality Well and
GrindingWheelintheForestoftheChâteauNoir.The said scene in a forset
around the Château Noir area near Aix in Cézanne’s native
Provence.Comparing the two, one can see that Cézanne’s landscape is quite different
from the original scene. Cézanne has changed some patterns and details from the way
they were actually in the photograph. What he did is not nature. It is art.
 One important characteristics of art that is not nature. Art is man’s expression of his
reception of nature. Art is man’s way of interpreting nature. Art is not nature. Art is
made by man, whereas nature is a given arund us. It is in this juncture that they can be
considered opposites. What we find in nature should not be expected to be present in art
too. Movies are not meant to be direct representation of reality. They may, according to
the moviemakers’ perception of reality, be a reinterpretation or even distortion of
nature.
 This distinction assumes that all of us seen
nature, perceive its elements in myriad,
different, yet ultimately valid ways. One can
only imagine the story of the Five Blind Men
who one day argue against each other on what
an elephant looks like. Each of the five blind
men was holding a different parts of the
elephant. The first was touching the body and
thus,
thought the elephant was like a
Figure 2: The Elephant and the Blind Men

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wall. Another was touching the beast’s ear and was convinced that the elephant was like
a fan. The rest were touching other different parts of the elephant and concluded
differently based on their perceptions.
 Art is like each of those men’s view of the elephant. It is based on an individual’s
subjective experience of nature. It is not meant, after all, to accurately define what the
elephant is really like in nature. Artists are not expected to duplicate nature just as even
scientists with their elaborate laboratories cannot make nature.
 Once this point has been made, a student of humanities can then ask further questions
such as: What reasons might the artist have increating something? What is it that he
wants to show?

Art involves Experience

 Getting this far without a satisfactory definition of art can be quite wierd 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).
 When one claims that he has experienced falling inlove, getting hurt, and bouncing
back, he in effect claims that he knows the endless cycle of loving. When one asserts
having experienced preparing a particular recipe, he in fact asserts knowing how the
recipe is made. A radio DJ dispensing advice on love when he himself has not
experienced it does not really know what he is talking about. A choreographer who
cannot execute a dance step himself is a bogus.
 Art is always an experience. Unlike fields of knowledge that involves data, art is known
by experiencing. A painter cannot claim to know how to paint if he has not tried holding
a brush. A sculptor cannot produce a work of art if a chisel is foreign to him. Dudley et
al. (1960) affirmed that “[a]ll art depend on experience, and if one is to know art, he
must know it not as fact or information but as experience”.
 A work of art then cannot be abstracted from actual doing. In order to know what an
artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it, and see and hear it. To fully appreciate our
national hero’s monument, one must go to Rizal Park and see the actual sculpture. In
order to know Beyoncé’s music, one must listen to it to actually experience them. A
famous story about someone who adores Picasso goes something like this: “ Years ago,
Gertude Stein was asked why she bought the pictures of the then unknown artist
Picasso. ‘I like to look at them’, said Miss Stein”(Dudley et al., 1960).One fully gets
acquainted with art if one immerses himself into it. In the case of Picasso, one only
learns about Picasso’s work by looking at it. That is precisely what Miss Stein did.
 In matters of art, the subject’s perception is of primacy. An important aspects of
experiencing art is its being highly personal, individual, and subjective. In philosophical
term, perception of art is always a value judgement. It depends on who the perceiver is,
his tastes, his biases, and what he has inside him. Degustibusnondisputandumest(
Matters of taste are not matters of dispute). One cannot argue with another
person’s evaluation of art because one’s experience can never be known by another.

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 Finally, one should also underscore that every experience with art is accompanied by
some emotion. One either likes or dislikes, agrees or disagrees that a work of art is
beautiful. A stage play or motion picture is particularly one of those art forms that
evoke strong emotions from its audience. With experience comes emotions and
feelings, after all. Feelings and emotions are concrete proofs that the artwork has been
experiences.

Activity 1:
DIRECTIONS: Choose one artwork under each given category that you are familiar with.
This can be the last artwork that you have come across with or the one that made the most
impat to you. Criticize each using the guide questions provided.

Categories:
 Movie
 Novel
 Poem
 Music
 An architectural Structure
 A piece of clothing

Guide Questions:
1. Base on the artwork, What is the theme and the message of it?
2. How can you describe the artwork?
3. How was the artwork affect your feelings?
4. After you watch or read the artwork, How good is it for you?Does the artwork show
that the art is universal, art is not a nature, and art involve experience?How?

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Activity 2:
DIRECTIONS: Answer the following questions as precisely yet as possible.
1. If you were an artist, what kind of artist would you be?

2. In the past years, State your own striking encounter with arts and how is your
experience on it?

3. Why art is said its not a nature?

4. Why art is considered as ageless and timeless?

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5. Why does art involve experiece?

DIRECTIONS: Read the statement carefully and write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is incorrect.

1. Art is a craft or specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithying or surgery.

2. Art is any special form of book-learning such as grammar or logic and magic or
astrology.
3. The Ancient World recognize art by writing and painting.
4. the humanities considered as one of the oldest and most important means of
expression developed by man.
5. The Galloping Wild Boar found in the cave of Altamira, Spain belong to Neolithic
age.
6. In seventeenth century the fine arts and the useful arts was evolved.
7. Collingwood dfine fine art as delicate or highly skilled arts, but
beautiful’ arts.
8. in 1897 the cave painting was discover by a Spaniards and his daughter.
9. Art is being related to humanities because arts give meaning of different
expressions and emotions.
10. In eighteenth century the idea of aesthetic and the study of beauty exist
which is a misconception of arts.
11. The perception of art is by a value of judgement.
12. Art is present wherever you are on whatever you feel and whenever sun and winter
past.
13. Movies are one of the direct representation o reality.
14. Changing some patterns and details from the way they were actually in the
photography is known as art.
15. Dudley et al. Says “art is just experience, mean that actual doing of
something”.
16. Art is simply a mirror of nature.
17. The important aspects of experiencing art is its being personal,
individual, and objective.
18. In art we can know what an artwork is by sensing it, see or hear it and see and
hear it.
19. Art is a fact or information that value nature and experience.
20. Art cannot depict or show the reality of nature.

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Descriptions 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Focus Sharp, distinct Apparent Exact point No apparent No evidence of
controlling point point made made about a point but a topic.
made about a about a single single topic minimal
single topic with topic with with some evidence of a
evident sufficient evident specific topic.
awareness of awareness of awareness of
task. task. task.
Content Substantial, Sufficiently Limited Have content Superficial and/
specific, and developed content with with minimal or incongruent
illustrative content wih inadequate explanation. content.
content adequate elaboration or
demonstrating elaboration or explanation.
strong explanation.
development and
sophisticated
ideas.
Conventions Evident control of Sufficient Limited Minimal control Without control
grammar, control of control of of grammar, of grammar,
mechanics, grammar, grammar, mechanics, mechanics,
spelling, usage mechanics, mechanics, spelling, usage spelling, usage
and sentence spelling, spelling, and sentence and sentence
formation. usage and usage and formation. formation.
sentence sentence
formation. formation.

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Book:
 Caslib Jr., Bernardo Nioloas; Garing, Dorothea C.; Casual, Jezreel Anne R.(2018).
ArtAppreciation.Manila: Rex Book Store,Inc.

Internet:
 https://ca.linkedin.com/in/garybellamy
 https://www.visual-arts-cork.com
 https://www.scribd.com
 https://www.ruelpositive.com>art-introductionandassumption

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