Art App

• Art - comes from Latin 'ars' meaning a craft or specialized skill.
• Aesthetic - the study of beauty.
• Fine Arts - refers to beautiful arts, not just delicate or highly skilled ones.
• Humanities - oldest means of expression developed by man.
• Ikebana - Japanese flower arrangement symbolizing heaven, earth, and man.
• Taj Mahal - Massive marble mausoleum in Agra, Inidia, build by Shah Jahan.
• Telos - Aristotle's concept of purpose or function in every substance.
• Social Function - Art addressing collective interests, like political art.
• Rizal monument - Tall obelisk monument in memory of Jose Rizal.
• Spoliarium - Motivation for Juan Luna's painting.
• Mural - Large painting conveying a political or social message.
• Creativity - Art's role in depicting the world uniquely due to human freedom.
• Prose - any writing that is not poetry.
• Louvre - gallery of paintings located in Paris, France.
• Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill's belief that enjoyment in arts is a higher good.
• Eudaimonia - the highest good, Aristotle's view of achieving fulfillment and happiness in life.
• Personal Function - artistic self-expression or therapeutic purposes.
• Physical Function - Art serving a practical purpose, like a Japanese raku bowl.
• Architecture - influenced by natural and social conditions of a place.
• Art as Imitation - artistic representation of reality.
• Art as communication - expressing and conveying emotions through art.
• Representational Art - depicts objects or events from the real world.
• Figurative Art - art with clears figures, like Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
• Non-representational Art - abstract art without clear figures.
• Vasily Kandinsky - proponent of non-representational art, blending painting and music.
• The God Stealer

  Author: Francisco Sionil Jose

  Setting: Philippines

  Main Character: Philip Latak and Sam Cristie
• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 1916.
• Factual meaning - identifiable and recognizable forms in the art work and understanding how these elements relate to one another.
• Conventional meaning - the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, symbols, and other cyphers as bases of its meaning (semiotic meaning).
• Subjective meaning - context, what we know, what we learn and the vale we stand for.
• Simple element - Line
• Horizontal - rest or calm, landscape
• Vertical - elevation or height, communicates stability and firmness.
• Diagonal and crooked - movement and instability.
• Crooked/jagged - violence, conflict, struggle
• Curved lines - bend or coil
• Form - refers to three dimensions ; height, width, and depth.
• Shape - refers to two dimensions; height and width.
• Organic - these are occurring readily in natural, often irregular and asymmetrical.
• Geometric - include shapes such as squares, triangles, cubes, circles, spheres and cones.