Lesson 1: what is Art?

• ART IS A CONSCIOUS CREATION OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL OR MEANINGFUL

  USING SKILL AND IMAGINATION.
• LATIN WORD OF ART WITH MEANING ART, SKILL, OR CRAFT.

  ARS
• THREE CATEGORIES OF THE DEFINITION OF ART

  1 . ART AS REPRESENTATION: MIMESIS

  2. ART AS EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONAL CONTENT

  3. ART AS FORM
• -PLATO FIRST DEVELOPED THE IDEA OF ART AS "MIMESIS," WHICH IN GREEK, MEANS COPYING OR IMITATION.
• -ACCORDING TO H.W JANSON

  "WE CANNOT ESCAPE VIEWING WORKS OF ART IN THE CONTEXT OF TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE, WHETHER PAST OR PRESENT. HOW INDEED COULD IT BE OTHERWISE, SO LONG AS ART IS STILL BEING CREATED ALL AROUND US,

  OPENING IUR EYES ALMOST DAILY TO NEW EXPERIENCES AND THUS FORCING US TO ADJUST OUR SIGHTS?"
• 11TH CENTURY TO 17TH CENTURY

  -THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES IN WESTERN CULTURE, THE DEFINITION OF ART WAS ANYTHING DONE WITH SKILL AS THE RESULT OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE.