Art Aprreciation Prelim

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  • Art is a diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory or performed artifacts or artworks
  • Art is a subject under humanities
  • Art is from an italian word "Artis" defined as "Human Creative Skill"
  • 3 Definitions of Art:
    1. Mimesis
    2. Expression
    3. Formalism
  • Art is a product of mans need to express himself: F.Zulueta
  • Art concerned itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings and by means of form and film: C.Sanchez
  • Art is that which brings life in harmony with the world: Plato
  • Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind one which demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping matter to new and more significant forms: John Dewey
  • Art is not what you see but you make others see: Geogia O'keffee
  • Art is a life that helps us to realize the truth: Pablo Picasso
  • Art is desire of a man to express himself, to record the action of his personality in the world he lives in: Amy Lowell
  • Art is never finished , only abandoned: Leonardo Da vinci
  • Art is the conscious creation of something beautiful or meaningful using skill and imagination: lisa morder
  • Art is the skillful arrangement or composition of some common but significant qualities of nature such as colors, sounds, lines, movements, words, siones, wood, etc. to express human feelings, emotions , or thoughts in a perfect , meaningful and enjoyable way: Panizo and rustia
  • Four common essentials of arts:
    1. Art is man made not god made
    2. Art is Creative
    3. Art benefits and satisfies man
    4. Art is Expressed through a certain or materials
  • Why art is important?
    1. Improves your creativity skills
    2. Gives you satisfaction
    3. Gives you the opportunities to showcase your talents
    4. Gives confidence in our performance
    5. Helps you do well academically
    6. Helps you to express your emotions
    7. Is a different language, it can express things without words
  • It is the ability to interpret and understand man made arts and enjoy them through actual work experience with the tools and materials.: Art Appreciation.
  • Is the study of objects of art considered within their time or period. Art historians analyze visual arts ,meaning (Painting, sculpture, architecture) at the time they were created: Art history
  • It shows what the people think is important, beautiful, and valid it expresses the emotions that the artists feel and it provide decoration through his medium: Assumption of Arts
  • Art exist because it is important to people lives. It is the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man in any culture: Art is universal
  • Art is man made: Art is not nature
  • All art required experience. Experience is the actual doing of something.: Art involves experience
  • Art contributes to the understanding of past and present cultures: Art is Cultural
  • Art is an expression of an individual, making known his thoughts or feelings: Art as expression
  • Defined by psychological scientists as the generation of ideas or products that are both original and valuable: Creativity
  • Is the ability to form mental pictures of people or things , or to have new ideas concepts of what is not actually present to the senses: Imagination
  • Assumption of arts:
    1. Art is universal
    2. Art is not nature
    3. Art involves experience
    4. Art is cultural
    5. Art as expression
  • Components of Arts:
    1. Subject
    2. Form
    3. Content
  • Referring to the main character , object or anything else that is presented as the main focus in the work of art: Subject
  • Art the have a subject: Representational or objective
  • Art that do not have a subject: Non representational or non object
  • Musical compositions which have a subject: Program Music
  • Things are depicted in the way they would normally appear: Realism
  • Process of simplifying and/or reorganizing objects and elements according to the demands of the artistic expression: Abstraction
  • Figures have been so arranged that proportions differ noticeably from natural measurements: Distortion
  • Realism plus distortion: Surrealism
  • Refers to the visual organization of the artwork and how the artist has used lines, shapes, value, color, etc: Form
  • Two types of form:
    1. Geometric Form
    2. Organic Form
  • Impact of meaning of an artwork: Content
  • The literal statement or the narrative content in the artwork: Factual meaning