1-WHAT IS ART? Assumptions and Misconceptions Flashcards
➢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.
art appreciation
- 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.
art
FUNCTIONS OF ARTS
BEAUTY
HAPPINESS AND HOPE
IDENTITY AND UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
GRIEF AND HEALING
REMEMBERING AND MARK-
MAKING
CULTURE AND
TOGETHERNESS
One of the innate qualities that “pretty art” can give is that it makes our dull, lifeless walls come to life.
beauty
In a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age.
happiness and hope
Art can serve as a powerful tool to help us
communicate and relay our confusion.
identity and understanding the self
Artists have interpreted these shared human experiences in different ways, which also help us process our grief.
grief and healing
Art has helped us remember and shaped our landscape.
remembering ang mark-making
Forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions.
culture and togetherness
“The Artists Garden at
Vetheiul” by
Claude Monet, 1880
GHOST LIBRARY by
Rachel Whiteread
Angel of the North by
Antony Gormley
Cloud’s Gate by
Anish Kapoor
MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ARTS
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
in the words of the most famous surrealist, “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali
ART MUST BE PERFECT
“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
Leonardo da Vinci
DRAWING AND PAINTING GO HAND IN HAND
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.
Henri Matisse
MORE COLORS ARE ALWAYS BETTER
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.”
Vincent Van Gogh
SMALL CANVASES OVER BIG CANVASES
As stated by __________, “Painting is
easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Edgar Degas
PAINTING IS EASY
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY by
Salvador Dali
Nu Bleu (Blue Nude II), 1952, a
lithograph by
Henri Matisse
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe,
1889
Van Gogh
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ARTS
art is universal
art is not nature
art involves experience
art is cultural
art is a form of communication
Art has always been
timeless and universal,
spanning generations and
continents through and
through. In every country
and every generation,
there is always art.
art is universal
“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”
art is not nature
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
art involves experience
In the words of ____________, “Everything
has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Andy Warhol
QUANTITY EQUALS QUALITY
