1-WHAT IS ART? Assumptions and Misconceptions

Question 1

➢It is the ability to interpret or understand man-made arts and enjoy them through actual and work-experience with the tools and materials or possession of these works of art for one’s admiration and satisfaction.

Answer 1

art appreciation

Question 2

• any creative work of a human being
  a form of expressing oneself
• resides in the quality of doing; the process is not magic
• an act of making something visually entertaining
• an activity that manifests the beauty (What is Beauty in Art?)
• the mastery, an ideal way of doing things.

Answer 2

art

Question 3

FUNCTIONS OF ARTS

Answer 3

BEAUTY
HAPPINESS AND HOPE
IDENTITY AND UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
GRIEF AND HEALING
REMEMBERING AND MARK-
MAKING
CULTURE AND
TOGETHERNESS

Question 4

One of the innate qualities that “pretty art” can give is that it makes our dull, lifeless walls come to life.

Answer 4

beauty

Question 5

In a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age.

Answer 5

happiness and hope

Question 6

Art can serve as a powerful tool to help us
communicate and relay our confusion.

Answer 6

identity and understanding the self

Question 7

Artists have interpreted these shared human experiences in different ways, which also help us process our grief.

Answer 7

grief and healing

Question 8

Art has helped us remember and shaped our landscape.

Answer 8

remembering ang mark-making

Question 9

Forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions.

Answer 9

culture and togetherness

Question 10

“The Artists Garden at
Vetheiul” by

Answer 10

Claude Monet, 1880

Question 11

GHOST LIBRARY by

Answer 11

Rachel Whiteread

Question 12

Angel of the North by

Answer 12

Antony Gormley

Question 13

Cloud’s Gate by

Answer 13

Anish Kapoor

Question 14

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ARTS

Answer 14

art must be perfect
drawing and painting go hand in hand
more colors are always better
small canvases over big canvases
painting is easy
quantity equals quality

Question 15

in the words of the most famous surrealist, “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”

Answer 15

Salvador Dali

ART MUST BE PERFECT

Question 16

“Painting embraces all the 10 functions of the eye: darkness, light, body and colour, shape and location, distance and closeness, motion and rest.” Painting requires its own set of skills.

Anatomical Studies of the Shoulder, from the codex of

Answer 16

Leonardo da Vinci

DRAWING AND PAINTING GO HAND IN HAND

Question 17

In the words of ________, “A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.” The number of colours used doesn’t really make the painting – it’s how those colours are used.

Answer 17

Henri Matisse

MORE COLORS ARE ALWAYS BETTER

Question 18

As ________ once said, “Can you believe it is not all easier to draw a figure about a foot high than to draw a small one? On the contrary, it is much more difficult.”

Answer 18

Vincent Van Gogh

SMALL CANVASES OVER BIG CANVASES

Question 19

As stated by __________, “Painting is
easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”

Answer 19

Edgar Degas

PAINTING IS EASY

Question 20

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY by

Answer 20

Salvador Dali

Question 21

Nu Bleu (Blue Nude II), 1952, a
lithograph by

Answer 21

Henri Matisse

Question 21

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe,
1889

Answer 21

Van Gogh

Question 21

ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ARTS

Answer 21

art is universal
art is not nature
art involves experience
art is cultural
art is a form of communication

Question 22

Art has always been
timeless and universal,
spanning generations and
continents through and
through. In every country
and every generation,
there is always art.

Answer 22

art is universal

Question 23

“One important
characteristic of art is that it
is not nature. Art is man’s
expression of his reception
of nature. Art is man’s way
of interpreting nature. Art is
made by man, whereas
nature is given around us”

Answer 23

art is not nature

Question 24

To know what an
artwork is, we have to
sense it, see, or hear it. In
matters of art, the
subject’s perception is of
primacy

Answer 24

art involves experience

Question 25

In the words of ____________, “Everything
has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Answer 25

Andy Warhol

QUANTITY EQUALS QUALITY