ASSUMPTIONS

OF ART
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
• clarify misconception about art
• differentiate art from nature
• categorize works of art by citing personal experience
• characterize the assumptions of the arts
 ASSUMPTIONS OF ART

Art is universal
01 02 Art is cultural

Art is an expression of the

Art is not nature
03 04 mind

Art is a form of
creativity
05 06 Art involves experience
 ART IS
UNIVERSAL
Timeless, spanning generations and
continents through and through

Arts regardless of origin, time, and

place are liked and enjoyed by people
continuously.
 ART IS
CULTURAL
Art contributes to the
understanding of past
and present culture.
ART IS NOT NATURE
Man’s expression of his
reception of nature
ART IS AN EXPRESSION
OF THE MIND
According to Jeff Lee (2016), art is a form of
expression of the deepest emotion of the
minds. According to him, the egoic mind
(conscious mind) and the echoic mind
(unconscious mind) togeteher making up the
totality of thinking.
ART IS A FORM OF
CREATIVITY
Art is a product of the imagination
that entertains, pleases and inspire
people. The various artworks of
artists reflect the artist’s power of
creativity.
 ART INVOLVES
EXPERIENCES
All art depends on experience, and
if one is to know art, he must know
it not as fact or information but as
experience.