M1 GED0007

• Aesthetics


  A branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and the beautiful especially with judgments of taste concerning them
• Art as science


  • The science of sensuous knowledge whose goal is beauty
  • Deals with exact principles about beauty (proportion, balance, rhythm etc.)
• Amber Heard


  • Face found to be 91.85 percent accurate to the Greek Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi
• Kim Kardashian


  • 2ND Most beautiful face
  • Perfect eyebrows
• Denzel Washington


  • Used as primary example of perfection for beauty according to symmetry in the early 1990s
• Art


  A science whose subject matter is the description and explanation of the arts, artistic phenomenon and aesthetic experience that includes psychology, sociology and history of the arts and essentially related aspects such as marketing, business etc.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 'A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.'
• Confucianism


  • Man is basically GOOD
  • It is man's nature to love the GOOD
  • He will always be attracted to the beautiful
• Functions/Importance of Arts


  • Aesthetic function
  • Didactic function
  • Communicative function
  • Practical function
  • Psychological function
  • Religious function
  • Social and political function
• Artist


  A person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art
• Artisan


  • A skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand
  • These objects may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative art, sculpture, clothing, jewelry, food items, household items and tools and mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker
• Curator


  • A manager or overseer
  • Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material including historical artifact
• Nature of the Arts


  • Creation: An act of re-ordering or combining of already existing materials to form a new object. This involves planning, creativity and cooperation.
  • Expression/Communication: An artist way of communicating; his emotions, values and hidden realities.
  • Experience: What an artist gains after having been involved or exposed to certain realities in life. This involves experience, expression and gratification
• Nature


  • Natural
  • Evanescent
  • Disorderly
  • Subject of art
• Art


  • Artificial
  • Unrepeatable
  • Could be improved
  • Object of art
• Kinds of Response


  • Sensory response: Stimulates the senses.
  • Intellectual response: Stimulates the mind.
• Perceptual Pellagra – Disease if you cannot appreciate arts
• Kaleidoscope – collection
• Epochs – are history / timeline
• Art is made by human beings
• Artist derive inspiration from nature