arts appreciation

• Art


  The oldest and most important means of expression developed by man
• Art is created by people at all times and has lived because it is liked and enjoyed
• True work of art

  Made by man himself, not imitatively but creatively
• True artist


  Does not imitate nature but rather interprets it by carefully selecting the essential features
• Definitions of art


  • Art is derived from the Latin word ars, meaning "ability or skill" - J.V. Estolas
  • Art is taken from the Italian word artis, which means craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the associations that exist between form and ideas, between material and technique - A. Tan
  • Art is the skillful arrangement or composition of some common but significant qualities of nature such as colors, sounds, lines, movements, words, stones, wood, etc., to express human feelings, emotions, or thoughts in a perfect meaningful and enjoyable way - Panizo and Rustia
  • Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind one which demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping of matter to new and more significant form - John Dewey
• Common essentials of art

  • Art must be man-made
  • Art must be creative, not imitative
  • Art must benefit and satisfy man and man must make use of art in practical terms
  • Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows
• Humanities


  Arts that bring out the good and noble in us, including architecture, painting, sculpture, performing arts, and literature
• Art appreciation


  The ability to interpret or understand man-made arts and enjoy them either through actual and work experience
• Representational or objective arts

  Artworks that depict something easily recognized by most people
• Non-representational or non-objective arts

  Artworks that have no resemblance to any real subject and appeal directly to the senses primarily because of the satisfying organization of their elements
• Functions of art


  • Aesthetic function
  • Utilitarian function
  • Cultural function
  • Social function
• Dimensions of art


  • Fine arts or independent arts
  • Practical arts or useful or utilitarian arts
• Fine arts


  • Music
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Literature
  • Dance
  • Drama
• Practical arts


  • Industrial art
  • Applied or household art
  • Civic art
  • Commercial art
  • Graphic art
  • Agricultural art
  • Business art
  • Distributive art
  • Fishery art
• Visual arts


  • Graphic arts
  • Plastic arts
• Graphic arts


  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Photography
  • Graphic process (printing)
  • Commercial art (designing of books, advertisements, signs, posters, and other displays)
  • Mechanical process
• Plastic arts


  • Structural architecture
  • Landscape architecture (gardens, parks, playgrounds, golf course beautification)
  • City physical planning
  • Interior arranging (design of wallpaper, furniture)
  • Sculpture
  • Crafts
  • Industrial design
  • Dress and costume design
  • Theatre design
• Major arts


  • Painting
  • Architecture
  • Sculpture
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Dance
• Minor arts


  • Decorative arts
  • Popular arts
  • Graphic arts
  • Plastic arts
  • Industrial arts
• Performing arts


  • Theatre
  • Play
  • Dance
  • Music
• Literary arts


  • Short story
  • Poetry
  • Novel
  • Drama
• Popular arts


  • Film
  • Newspaper
  • Magazine
  • Radio
  • Television
• Gustatory art of the cuisine

  • Food preparation
  • Beverage preparation
• Decorative arts or applied arts

  • Beautification of houses
  • Beautification of offices
  • Beautification of cars
  • Beautification of other structures
• Medium


  The means by which an artist communicates his idea, the materials used by an artist to interpret his feelings or thoughts
• Visual arts mediums


  • Two-dimensional arts (painting, drawing, printmaking, photography)
  • Three-dimensional arts (sculpture, architecture, landscape, community planning, industrial designs, crafts like ceramics and furniture)
• Auditory arts


  Mediums that can be heard and expressed in time, such as music and literature
• Combined arts


  Mediums that can be both seen and heard and exist in both space and time, such as dance, opera, drama, and film
• Technique


  The manner in which the artist controls his medium to achieve the desired effect, the ability with which he fulfils the technical requirements of his particular work of art
• Artist's choice of medium


  The artist believes that his chosen medium can best express the idea he wants to convey
• Artist's technique


  Artists differ from one another in technique even if they use the same medium
• Mediums of visual arts

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Watercolor


  A difficult medium to handle, but it invites brilliance and a variety of hues
• Fresco


  A painting method done on a moist plaster surface, must be done quickly as the paint dries into the plaster
• Tempera


  Mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk or egg white and ore
• Pastel


  A stick of dried paste made of pigment ground with chalk and compounded with gum water
• Encaustic


  Painting done by applying wax colors fixed with heat
• Oil painting


  Pigments mixed with linseed oil and applied to canvas, flexible medium
• Acrylic


  A synthetic paint mixed with acrylic emulsion as binder, does not tend to break easily
• Mosaic


  The art of putting together small pieces of colored stones or glass called "tesserae" to create an image