ART APPRECIATION,

HUMANITIES,
DIVISION OF ART, FUNCTIONS OF
ART,
ASSUMPTION OF ARTS,
DIMENSION OF ART
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• THE TERM ART FROM THE LATIN WORD “ARS”. IS
OFTEN USED TO DESCRIBE THE FINE ARTS, WHICH
CONSIST OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE,
LITERATURE, DANCE, MUSIC, AND FILM.
• ART IS AN EXPRESSION OF OUR THOUGHTS,
EMOTIONS, INTUITIONS, AND DESIRES.
• ART IS A WAY OF GRASPING THE WORLD.
• THE ARTS REFERS TO THE THEORY, HUMAN
APPLICATION AND PHYSICAL EXPRESSION OF
CREATIVITY FOUND IN HUMAN CULTURES AND
SOCIETIES THROUGH SKILLS AND IMAGINATION IN
ORDER TO PRODUCE OBJECTS, ENVIRONMENTS AND
EXPERIENCES.
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• MAJOR CONSTITUENTS OF THE ARTS INCLUDE VISUAL
ARTS (INCLUDING ARCHITECTURE, CERAMICS,
DRAWING, FILMMAKING, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY,
AND SCULPTING), LITERARY ARTS (INCLUDING FICTION,
DRAMA, POETRY, AND PROSE), PERFORMING ARTS
(INCLUDING DANCE, MUSIC, AND THEATRE), AND
CULINARY ARTS (INCLUDING COOKING, CHOCOLATE
MAKING AND WINEMAKING).
• SOME ART FORMS COMBINE A VISUAL ELEMENT WITH
PERFORMANCE (E.G. CINEMATOGRAPHY), OR ARTWORK
WITH THE WRITTEN WORD (E.G. COMICS).
• FROM PREHISTORIC CAVE PAINTINGS TO MODERN-DAY
FILMS, ART SERVES AS A VESSEL FOR STORYTELLING
AND CONVEYING HUMANKIND'S RELATIONSHIP WITH
THE ENVIRONMENT.
 HUMANITIES
• THE WORD HUMANITIES COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD
“HUMANUS” WHICH MEANS “HUMAN” WHO IS REFINED,
CULTURED, AND WORTHY OF DIGNITY OF A MAN.
• IT IS ALSO BASED ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF THE
SOPHIST’S DICTUM OF THE GREEK PYTHAGORAS.
• THE WEBSTER DICTIONARY DEFINES “HUMANITIES” AS
ANY OF THE BRANCHES OF LEARNING EMBRACED BY
PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, ART, THEOLOGY,
NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.
• HUMANITIES ARE THE STORIES, THE IDEAS, AND THE
WORDS THAT HELP US MAKE SENSE OF OR LIVES AND OUR
WORLD.
• THE HUMANITIES HELP US ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES WE
FACE TOGETHER IN OUR FAMILIES, OUR COMMUNITIES,
AND AS A NATION. (MAGUIAGAD ET AL.,2005).
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ASSUMPTION OF ARTS
• ART AND NATURE
• THE NATURE OF ART IS FAR MORE THAN
MERELY “SUBJECTIVE” OR “WHATEVER YOU
WANT IT TO BE”. THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE
OF ART IS DERIVED FROM THE AESTHETICS
BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY.
• THE TRUE NATURE OF ART WAS DEFINED BY
PLATO ON A COMPLEX THEORY ESTABLISHED
AROUND 400BC. BEFORE THIS, ART WAS
MEMESIS (A REFLECTION OF LIFE).
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• ART AS IMITATION
• PLATO ASSERTED THAT WHEN ARTISTS ARE MAKING OR
PERFORMING ART THEY ARE IMITATING.
• ART IMITATES PHYSICAL THINGS (OBJECTS OR EVENTS).
PHYSICAL THINGS IMITATE FORMS
• THEREFORE ART IS A COPY OF A COPY, THE THIRD REMOVE FROM
REALITY.
• THE SECOND BED IS CREATED BY A CARPENTER WHO BY
CONSTRUCTING THE BED IMITATES GOD’S IDEA.
• THE PAINTER THAN PAINTS THE BED AND BY DOING SO HE
IMITATES THE CARPENTER’S CREATED BED. IN THIS CONTEXT,
THE ARTIST’S BED IS TWICE REMOVED FROM THE TRUTH.
• FOR PLATO, THE FACT THAT ART IMITATES (MIMESIS), MEANT
THAT IT LEADS A VIEWER FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY FROM
THE TRUTH TOWARDS AN ILLUSION.
• THIS BELIEF LEADS PLATO TO THE DETERMINATION THAT ART
LEADS TO DANGEROUS DELUSION.
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• ART AS PLEASURE
• IN “PHILOSOPHY OF THE ARTS” BY
GORDON GRAHAM, GRAHAM REFERS TO
THIS VIEW AS AESTHETIC HEDONISM HE
STATES, “…ART IS A SOURCE OF PLEASURE
OR ENJOYMENT.” THIS MEANS THAT AS
LONG AS IT IS PLEASURABLE, IT IS ART.
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• ART AS PLAY
• EVERYONE NEEDS TO VENT THEIR PASSIONS,
EMOTIONS AND OTHER FORMS OF
UNCONTROLLED EXPRESSION OF ENERGY.
ARTISTS OFFER ENTERTAINMENT TO AUDIENCE
OR REVIEWERS THROUGH THE EXPRESSION OF
THE ART. PLATO LIKEWISE OBSERVED THAT ART
IS A FORM OF PLAY FOR THE ARTIST.
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• ART AS AN EXPRESSION
• MOST ARTIST CONVEY HIS/HER ART
WORKS BY EXPRESSIONS THROUGH
CREATING ART WORK. THE
EXPRESSIONIST VIEWS ARE FOUND
IN LEO TOLSTOY, A RUSSIAN
NOVELIST WHO WROTE WAR AND
PEACE AND ANNA KARANINA; AND
BENEDDETTO CROCE, AN ITALIAN
PHILOSOPHER, WHO WROTE
THEORY OF AESTHETIC.
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• ART AS AN EMPATHY OR EXPERIENCE
• JOHN DEWEY'S MAJOR WRITING ON AESTHETICS,
ORIGINALLY DELIVERED AS THE FIRST WILLIAM JAMES
LECTURE AT HARVARD (1932).
• DEWEY'S AESTHETICS HAVE BEEN FOUND USEFUL IN A
NUMBER OF DISCIPLINES, INCLUDING NEW MEDIA.
• DEWEY HAD PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN ARTICLES ON
AESTHETICS IN THE 1880S AND HAD FURTHER
ADDRESSED THE MATTER IN DEMOCRACY AND
EDUCATION.
• HE LAID OUT THE BEGINNINGS OF A THEORY OF
AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, AND WROTE TWO IMPORTANT
ESSAYS FOR PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION (1931).
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• ART AS FORM OF CREATION
• THE CREATION OF A WORK OF ART IS THE
BRINGING ABOUT OF A NEW
COMBINATION OF ELEMENTS IN THE
MEDIUM (TONES IN MUSIC, WORDS IN
LITERATURE, PAINTS ON CANVAS, AND
SO ON).
• THE ELEMENTS EXISTED BEFOREHAND
BUT NOT IN THE SAME COMBINATION;
CREATION IS THE RE-FORMATION OF
THESE PRE-EXISTING MATERIALS.
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ARTS
• ART AS UNIVERSAL
• ART IS UNIVERSAL,
BECAUSE IT EVOKES
AN EMOTIONAL
RESPONSE FROM US IF
IT IS DOING THE JOB
WELL.
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ARTS
• ART AS CULTURAL
• ART CAN BE ROOTED IN HISTORY
AND A CATALYST FOR CHANGE IN
A CULTURE. IT CONNECT THE
PEOPLE CULTURE TO THEIR PAST,
AND SUGGESTS NEW IDEAS AND
INSIGHTS.