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Defined as: a diverse range of HUMAN ACTIVITIES in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author’s imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
Art
Latin word for Art
Artem/Ars
Old English of Art
Eart
Old French of Art
Art
Middle English of Art
Art
A thing that is created through ability and imagination and is beautiful and transmits feelings and ideas. It’s also the work that is created by artists, painters, sculptors and other craftsmen”.
Art
Defined as the language of visual signs, conveys ideas, feelings or moods
Visual Arts
The word Art encompasses many meanings. What are these?
Ability
Process
Product
The human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir us; skill, mastery and creativity.
Ability
The different classification of art such as drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, music and photography.
Process
The completed work, painting, sculptures.
Product
Importance of Arts
- Source of pleasure and entertainment
- Men to be hopeful and less lonely
- Art is an expression of one’s feeling and mind in a non literal way.
- Art is the understanding and appreciation of those aesthetic natures of life.
- It is the balance of harsh reality that human faces on a daily basis.
The art that is produced at the present period which is continuously in process and in flux.
Contemporary Arts
A successor to Modern Art
Post modern art
Primarily for aesthetic enjoyment through the senses especially the visual and auditory.
It is the changing certain materials or media for aesthetic pleasure.
Fine or Aesthetic (Major arts)