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• Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972). He was the country’s first National Artist in 1972 and is also known as the ‘Grand Old Man of Philippine Art’.
• art is something that has aesthetic value.
• Art is beautiful, something that is pleasing to the eyes. Others would say that art should be inspirational. It is a reflection or a mirror of one’s culture, identity and emotions.
• ⮚     “how humans apply and express creative skill and imagination to produce works that convey appreciation attributed to the beauty and emotional strength of the artwork”- Google
• ⮚     “is the act of consciously using one’s skill and creative imagination to produce aesthetic objects”- Merriam Webster Dictionary

   
• , how art is defined has sparks arguments among many people because there is no definition of art that is universally accepted. Though mostly art relates to beauty as a product of skill and creativity, this common perception poses more questions than clarity.
• Classical Meaning of Art

  The original classical definition - derived from the Latin word "ars" (meaning "skill" or "craft") - is a useful starting point. This broad approach leads to art being defined as: "the product of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills."
• art being defined as: "the product of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills." 
• Post-Renaissance Meaning of Art

  The emergence of the great European academies of art reflected the gradual upgrading of the subject. New and enlightened branches of philosophy also contributed to this change of image. By the mid-18th century, the mere demonstration of technical skills was insufficient to qualify as art - it now needed an "aesthetic" component - it had to be seen as something "beautiful."
• Thus Renaissance painters and sculptors were viewed merely as highly skilled artisans (interior-decorators?). No wonder Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo went to such efforts to elevate the status of artists (and by implication art itself) onto a more intellectual plane.
• At the same time, the concept of "utilitarianism" (functionality or usefulness) was used to distinguish the more noble "fine arts" (art for art's sake), like painting and sculpture, from the lesser forms of "applied art", such as crafts and commercial design work, and the ornamental "decorative arts", like textile design and interior design.
• end of the 19th century, art was separated into at least two broad categories: namely, fine art and the rest - a situation that reflected the cultural snobbery and moral standards of the European establishment. 
• Meaning of Art Post-World War II

  The cataclysm of WWII led to the demise of Paris as the capital of world art, and its replacement by New York. This new American orientation encouraged art to become more of a commercial product, and loosen its connection with existing traditions of aestheticism
• Postmodernism and the Meaning of Art

  The redefinition of art during the last three decades of the 20th century has been lent added intellectual weight by theorists of the postmodernist movement.
• what does art have in common?

  emotion
• a person who exhibits exceptional skills in design, drawing, painting etc. or one who works in one of the performing arts like an actor or a musician?

  Artist
• Cennino Cennini wrote that art seeks to find new things hidden within known natural forms and seeks to express them through hand in such a way as to make one belive that something w/c doesnt exist exist.