Art appr. Lesson 2

• Arts are indescribable to define and difficult to gather into a

  conceptual net, but we would probably agree that the arts enhance daily experiences.
• Art is all around us, being universal as it can be found in all

  cultures.
• All the art that we receive through our senses have a purpose, as well as expression; they occupy some place in our judgment.
• These days, art plays a vital part in developing the intellect of the

  younger generation to build up a positive character and appreciate natural aesthetics.
• An artistically tending students has a constructive turn of mind and artistic ways in every work he or she performs.
• The word “art” is rooted in the 13th century French word ‘art’,

  which means skill as a result of learning or practice.
• Art

  -a skill which is the result of learning or practice
• The word art covers

  many meanings, including ability, process, and product
• Art as ability

  -Art is the human capacity to make things of beauty

  and things that stir us
• Art as ability

  -it is creativity.
• Art as ability

  -Creativity is an artist trait

  developed in the course of ones life to express his feelings.
• Creativity is an artist trait

  developed in the course of ones life to express his feelings.
• Art as process

  -Art encompasses acts, such as drawing, painting, sculpting, designing buildings, singing, dancing, and using the

  camera to create images or memorable works.
• Art as product

  -Art is the completed work - an etching, a sculpture, a structure, a musical composition, choreography, or a tapestry.
• Arts concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of a sensuous medium (color, sound, bronze, body, words, and film).
• According to Plato

  -“Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world.”
• According to John Dewey

  -“Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind-one that demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping of matter to new and more significant form.”
• According to Oscar Wilde

  -“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
• According to Elbert Hubbard

  -“Art is not a thing- it is a way.”