ART APPRECIATION

LESSON 3: ASSUMPTIONS OF ARTS

ASSUMPTIONS OF ART (ORTIZ,ET AL.,1976)

1. ART IS UNIVERSAL
 Art is not only for CONCLUSION
 concert halls, museums, or galleries.  The following are the assumptions of art: art
 those who can afford to pay. is universal; art is not nature; art involves
 critics and scholars experience; art as an expression; and art as
 Art is for everyone. Art is everywhere a form of creation.
 medium refers to the material or means
2. NATURE IS NOT ART which the artist uses to objectify his/her
 Art is man-made feeling or thought.
 nature has been a constant source for
models of art

3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE

THREE MAJOR EXPERIENCE OF ART (FOR
ARTIST):
1. Experience that an artist wants to
communicate.
2. Experience in creating the artwork
3. Experience after creating the artwork

AUDIENCE’S EXPERIENCE OF ART:

1. Sensory response
2. Emotional response
3. Intellectual response

4. ART AS AN EXPRESSION
 Art uses symbols which organize into some
comprehensible equivalent of the
experience that an artist trying to convey.
 Art is an expression of a general vision of
the age in which it was created.
 An artist becomes a kind of historian,
recording in his/her work the attitudes and
the way of life of his period.

5. ART AS A FORM OF CREATION

 As a creative activity, art involves skill or
expertness in handling materials and
organizing them into new, structurally
pleasing, and significant units.
 Art is a planned activity
 Art may be produced by an individual or a
team.

BY: JHUN KENNETH R. AGUSTIN | BSN1K 1