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• ar


  to join or put together
• artis


  craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, association between form and ideas, material and techniques
• Definitions of art

  • Art is an attempt to create pleasing forms. (Herbert Read)
  • Art is the enjoyment of forms. (Ernst Cassirer)
  • Art is a man-made object demanding to be experienced aesthetically. (Erwin Panofsky)
  • Art is expression; it is not intention or talent. (Benedetto Croce)
  • Art is the skilled performance or distinctive ability in any activity whatsoever. (James Jarrett)
  • Art is the power to produce a preconceived result by means of consciously controlled and directed action (the classic definition derived from ancient Roman and Greek concepts)
  • Art molds our actual life of feeling; by giving form to the world, it articulates human nature: sensibility, energy, passion and mortality. (Suzanne Langer)
  • Art is any embellishment of ordinary living that is achieved with competence and has describable form. (Melville Herskovits)
• artezein


  to prepare
• Plato: 'Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world'
• arkiskein


  to put together
• ars


  ability or skill
• F. Zulueta: 'Art is the product of man’s need to express himself'
• John Dewey: 'Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind-one which demands for each own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping of matter to new and more significant form'
• Common Essentials of Art

  • Art must be man-made
  • Art must be creative, not imitative
  • Art must benefit and satisfy man
  • Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his audiences
• Assumptions of art: Art is universal, serves as a means of communication, timeless
• Natures of Arts

  • Art is everywhere
  • Art is a means of expression and communication
  • Art as a creation
  • Art and experience
  • Art and beauty
  • Art and nature
• Art exists because it serves the fundamental need of people
• Art provides comfort, entertainment, and education that gives self-fulfillment and satisfaction
• Art is a man-made construct
• Art is artificial and is consciously created into a piece of art
• Art involves experience
• All art depends on experience, and to know art, one must know it as experience
• Art is always an experience and is known by experiencing
• Art can be found anywhere
• Formal analysis of art is the name given to the analysis of the components of art
• The seven most common elements of art are lines, shape, texture, form, space, color, and value
• Various forms of art share the use of the same concept of elements and principles
• Lines can be used for stressing a word or phrase, connecting content, creating patterns, dividing up space, and more
• Vertical lines suggest height and strength, horizontal lines suggest width, distance, calmness, and stability, diagonal lines convey opposition and movement, zigzag lines convey action and excitement, curved lines convey movement and comfort
• Shape can be used to create a pattern, organize and divide space, and draw the viewer's attention
• Categories of Shapes

  • Geometric Shapes
  • Organic Shapes
  • Positive Shapes
  • Negative Shapes
• Color is a property of light, as it is reflected off the object. Without light, one cannot perceive color
• Colors are used to generate emotions, create unity, make something stand out, and generally create visual interest
• Dynamic Shape


  Shapes that appear moving and active
• Attributes of color

  • Hue
  • Value
  • Chroma or intensity
• Static Shape

  Shapes that appear stable and resting
• Secondary Colors

  • Green
  • Purple(violet)
  • Orange
• Positive Shapes


  In a drawing or painting, they are the solid form in a design such as a bowl of fruit. In sculpture, it is the form of the sculpture
• Tertiary Colors


  • Red-purple
  • Red-orange
  • Blue-green
  • Yellow-green
  • Blue-purple
  • Yellow-orange
• Primary Colors

  • Red
  • Yellow
  • Blue
• Hue


  The color itself, the distinctive quality by which one can distinguish one color from another
• Value


  The brightness of the hue, the quality by which one distinguishes a light color from a dark one
• Dark Colors


  • The lack or even absence of light
• Chroma or intensity


  The quality that distinguishes a strong color from a weak one