Arts

1. MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF
ART APPRECIATION
Kryzzle Tritz B. Dangel

2. ART APPRECIATION IS:
• the ability to interpret and understand man-made arts and enjoy them
through actual work experience with art tools and materials.
• the possession of the works of arts for one’s admiration and satisfaction.
• refers to the knowledge and understanding of the general and
everlasting qualities that classify all great arts.
• is the introduction and exploration of visual and performing art forms.
• is the analysis of the form of an art work to general audience to enhance
their enjoyment and satisfaction of the works of art.

3. IMPORTANCE OF ART APPRECIATION
Art Appreciation –
• Can help the person make sense of his world by broadening his experience and understanding of
the things around him.
• Can help the person imagine the unimaginable.
• Is able to connect a person’s life and experience the past, present, and the future or sometimes
simultaneously .
• Can help transport the individual to different places and culture through literature, films, visual
arts, and other forms of art.
• Allows the individual to see himself, his family dynamics as well as his community through
different lens of great art.
• Enable the individual to better empathize with those who suffered and endured for their lives
through great art forms.

4. FAMOUS PERSONALITIES ON ART
APPRECIATION
“Studying the arts in college prepares the person for a lifetime of pleasure
and appreciation of being open to new experience and of becoming that
ideal every liberal arts college strives to produce – “a life-long learner.”
- Barbara Ernst Prey, artist and member of the National Council of Arts

5. FAMOUS PERSONALITIES ON ART
APPRECIATION
“Our nation’s future may depend on our creativity and our ability to
understand and appreciate the cultures around the world as much as our
proficiency in reading and math.”
- David Skorton, Cornell University President

6. FAMOUS PERSONALITIES ON ART
APPRECIATION
“Art can serve as a symbol for something that is tangible, or for a thought,
an emotion, a feeling, or a concept. Through peaceful means, it can
convey full spectrum of the human experience. Perhaps that is why
appreciating art is so important.”
- Archeologist Nicholas Conrad

7. ART HISTORY
• Art History refers to the historical development and stylistic context of
the objects of arts that includes the major and minor arts. The major arts
include: painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the minor arts
like ceramics, furniture, and other decorative arts.

8. ART CRITICISM
• Art Criticism determines the relative artistic values of an individual work
in comparison with others of comparable style.

9. ACTIVITY
CRITIQUE the following statements. Write your critique on a piece of paper
to be submitted next week (Thursday, 1st September 2022).
1. In art appreciation, one can understand something about the work of
art while very little, or maybe nothing at all, about its history.
2. Art appreciation is for amateurs while art history is for professionals.

10. INDIVIDUAL HOMEWORK
On a short bond paper, paste a drawn picture or cut-out picture that
represents each of the following subjects:
1. One (1) picture that represents a person
2. One (1) picture that represents a scene
3. One (1) picture that represents an object
Write a caption below each picture. Each picture must depict something
easily recognizable by most people in the class or in the community.
Photocopied pictures are not acceptable.