UNIT 1 ART APP

• Humanities


  Writings of ancient Latin authors read for their moral teaching, metaphysics of religion philosophy, disciplines taught in universities including grammar, rhetoric, history, literature, music, philosophy, and theology, arts including visual arts, music, dance, theater, and literature
• The sciences and the humanities have the same goal but deal with different aspects - the sciences deal with the external world and what can be observed, measured, and experimented, while the humanities deal with man's internal world, personality, and experiences
• Art


  The conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects
• Definitions of art by writers and philosophers

  • "Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and humanity" - Leo Tolstoy
  • "Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life" - Henry Miller
  • "Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience" - Aristotle
  • "The object of art is to give life a shape" - Jean Anouilh
  • "Art is science in the flesh" - Jean Couteau
  • "All art is social, because it is the result of a relationship between an artist and his time" - James Adams
  • "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known" - Oscar Wilde
  • "Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use" - Frank Lloyd Wright
• Assumptions about art


  • Art is everywhere
  • Art is not nature
  • Art is imitating and creating
  • Art perfects nature
  • Art is universal
  • Art is timeless
• Art as expression and communication


  Art has grown out of man's need to express himself, using symbols to convey personal and social values, emotions, and psychological insights
• Art and experience


  Three major kinds of experience involved in artistic activity: the experience the artist wants to communicate, the act of expressing this experience, and the artist's gratifying experience of having accomplished something significant. The onlooker or listener may have similar or related experiences.
• Art and beauty


  Beauty in art refers to an interaction between line, color, texture, sound, shape, motion, and size that is pleasing to the senses. However, art may not always aim to please but to evoke feelings, reactions, conversations, or questions.
• Art


  Works created by humans that appeal to the senses and have aesthetic value
• Major arts


  • Music
  • Painting
  • Architecture
  • Sculpture
• Minor arts


  Arts that are inferior in degree, especially in the extent of aesthetic quality
• Dimensions of arts


  • Fine arts or independent arts
  • Practical arts or utilitarian arts
• Visual arts


  • Graphic arts
  • Plastic arts
• Performing arts


  • Theater
  • Play
  • Dance
  • Music
• Literary arts


  • Short stories
  • Novels
  • Poetry
  • Dramas
• Popular arts


  • Film
  • Newspaper
  • Magazine
  • Radio
  • Television
• Gustatory art


  Skills in food preparation
• Decorative arts


  Visual objects produced for beautifying houses, offices, cars and other structures
• Arts classified by purpose

  • Practical or useful arts
  • Liberal arts
  • Fine arts
  • Major arts
  • Minor arts
• Arts classified by media and forms

  • Plastic arts
  • Phonetic arts
  • Kinetic arts
  • Pure arts
  • Mixed arts
• Functions of art


  • Agent of magic
  • Aid to meditation
  • Agent to ritual
  • Record of events, objects, situations
  • Substitute for real thing, or a symbol
  • Souvenir
  • Propaganda
• For ancient Romans, art served as a vehicle of propaganda: their sculptures proclaimed victories, and their buildings highly praised the power of the State
• In modern societies like our own, art serves different and sometimes contradictory purposes
• Purposes of art


  • An artist paints to communicate a message to his audience
  • An artist paints to please himself
  • An artist explores shapes and colors
  • An artist illustrates books
• Functions of art


  • An agent of magic
  • An aid to meditation
  • An agent to ritual
  • A record of events, objects, situations
  • A substitute for real thing, or a symbol
  • A souvenir
  • Propaganda to impress, persuade or change thinking or behavior
  • Communication of stories, ideas, events
  • An agent of social control
  • Amusement or entertainment
  • A mean of moral improvement
  • Education
  • A means of self-expression
  • Self-revelation
  • Release of emotions
  • Exploration of vision
  • A reflection and interpretation of life
  • An expression of beauty
  • Decoration or embellishment
  • Monetary investment
  • A status symbol
• The functions of arts are wide ranging. Art is as broad as human experience. All of art comes out of life and is bound up with life. Art is meaningful, but meaningful in ways that differ from society to society, from time to time, and from person to person
• Categories of art functions

  • Personal
  • Social
  • Physical
• Personal function of art

  Art created out of a need for self-expression, gratification, communication, aesthetic experience, entertainment, or without any meaning
• Personal function of art

  • Art used to attempt to exert magical control, bring order, or create chaos
  • Art used as therapy for the artist and viewer
• Social function of art

  • Art that seeks to influence collective behavior
  • Art created to be seen or used primarily in public situations
  • Art that expresses or describes social or collective aspects of existence
• Ways art can influence social behavior

  • Pictorial form to put across a message
  • Satire to ridicule people and institutions to encourage change
  • Editorial cartoons to comment on societal foibles
  • Literature for political and ideological expression
  • Propaganda literature to sway minds and feelings
  • Religion to spread beliefs and reinforce faith
  • Advertising art to affect buying behavior
• Ways art can serve social display and celebration

  • Commemoration of important personages and historical events
  • Rituals
  • Public celebrations and festivals
• Social description function of art

  Art works as historical documents that reveal how people thought, felt, and lived in a certain historical period
• Physical function of art

  Art created to perform a practical service, such as tools and containers
• Architecture, crafts, and industrial design are types of art that have physical functions
• Art with physical function is aesthetically interesting but primarily serves a practical purpose