Art App MOD 1-4

• Aesthetics

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


  The science of sensuous knowledge whose goal is beauty, deals with exact principles about beauty (proportion, balance, rhythm etc)
• 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.
• Man is basically good (Confucianism), and it is man's nature to love the good and be attracted to the beautiful
• Functions of arts

  • Aesthetic- Expresses beauty in many ways
  • Didactic- A teaching aid; meant both to entertain and to instruct
  • Communicative- Conveys ideas and beliefs.
  • Practical- For everyday use
  • Psychological- Evokes and conveys emotions and feelings
  • Religious- Used for worship.
  • Social and Political- Symbol of people’s unity.
• 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
• Artistan


  A person who creates functional or decorative objects such as furniture, decorative art, sculpture, clothing, jewellery, food items, household items and tools and mechanisms
• Curator


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

  1. A creation - an act of re-ordering or combining of already existing materials to form a new object2.An expression/communication - an artist's way of communicating emotions, values and hidden realities

  • An experience - what an artist gains after having been involved or exposed to certain realities in life
  • Artificial - a duplication of the natural world
• Responses to art

  • Sensory - stimulates the senses
  • Intellectual - stimulates the mind
• Subject in art

  Persons, objects, scenes, events described or presented in an art
• Types of subjects in art

  • Representational / Objective Arts
  • Non-Representational / Non-Objective Arts
• Subject


  The object in the art
• Content


  The meaning of the art
• Types of content

  • Factual - the literal meaning
  • Social / Conventional / Cultural - has meaning for a group of people
  • Subjective / Personal - with personal meaning to the artist
• Mediums of Art


  The MATERIALS or MEANS which the artist uses to objectify his feelings or thought
• Visual or Space Arts

  • Two dimensional art (painting, drawing, photography)
  • Three dimensional art (sculpture, architecture, landscaping, crafts like furniture making)
• Oil painting


  Painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of dryingOil
• Ink paintings


  Painting done with a liquid that contains pigments and/or dyes used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design
• Watercolor


  Painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle
• Acrylic paint


  Fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion
• Clay- Sculpture produced by molding.

  Wax- A sculpture made using a waxy substance
• Wood

  A form of working-wood by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine
• Glass sculpture


  Modern works of art, typically one-off creations, which are substantially or wholly made of glass
• Plastic

  Involves physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics
• Auditory ArtsThose whose medium can be heard and which are expressed in time (eg. music and literature)
• Violin


  A string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths
• Viola


  Slightly larger than a violin in size and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin
• Violoncello


  Used as a solo musical instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles, string orchestras
• Double Bass


  The largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument of the viol family in the modern symphony orchestra
• Harp


  Tall, about six feet, shaped a little like the number 7, and has 47 strings of varying lengths, which are tuned to the notes of the white keys of the piano
• Lyre


  A stringed instrument of the harp class having an approximately U-shaped frame and used by the ancient Greeks especially to accompany song and recitation
• Piccolo


  A half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments
• Flute


  An aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening
• Oboe


  A family of double-reed woodwind musical instruments. The standard oboe plays in the treble or soprano range
• English Horn


  A transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe (a C instrument)
• Clarinet


  A family of woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell
• Snare Drum


  Used in orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, parades, drum lines, drum corps, and more
• Timpani


  Consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper