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ART
APPRECIATION
Art appreciation is the ability to interpret or understand manmade arts and enjoy them either through actual work experiences with art tools and materials or possession of these works of art for ones admiration and satisfaction.
PRINCIPLES
ART APPRECIATION
The principles of art appreciation are used as criteria to understand and appreciate an artwork.
What is it for?
What is its temper, mood, individuality? Is the personality of the artist revealed? Is the time and place revealed?
The answer will be judgment the manner one perceives beauty in an artwork.
In art, it is always better to start exploring the how of it then the what is it. For a work of art must be encountered in itself, not as a statement of a philosophy, or an answer to a question. Art is not only about something.
First of all, it is something. A work or art is not a text or a commentary of the world. It is a being-in-the-world; it is as real as human existence.
Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
Robert Henri (1865 - 1929) U.S. painter and teacher