Art Flashcards
Italian word “artis”
Art
Craftmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the association that exist between form and ideas and between material and techniques (A. Tan)
Artis (Italian word)
Aryan root “ar”
Art
To join or put together
Ar (Aryan root)
Greek words “artizein” and “arkiskein”
Art
To prepare
To put together
“Artizein”
“Arkiskein”
Latin word “ars”
Art
Ability or skill
Ars (Latin word)
It is concerned with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of sensuous medium, color, sound, bronze, marble, words and film (C. Sanchez)
Art (Latin word, “ars”)
“Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world.”
Plato
Art is a product of man’s need to express himself.
F. Zulueta
Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind – one which demands for its own satisfaction and fulfillment.
John Dewey
> enhances our interior decorations >gives a “face-lift” to our cities
provides beauty - homes
adorn our places of worship with different ornaments.
brightens our days
Art
The journey of art could be traced back from the paintings of our ________________
through the graffiti art of
today’s generation.
Stone Age ancestors
The media, the forms, the styles and the subjects may evolve and change from millennium to millennium, from day to day but the _______________ are present.
unifying threads
Unifying Principles are the following:
> search for beauty
truth
self-expression
The word ART encompasses many meanings, including…
ability,
process
and product.
ART, as ___________ is the human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir us (creativity)
Ability
ART, as ______________ encompasses acts, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, designing buildings and using the camera to create memorable works.
Process
ART, as _______________, it is a completed work- a sculpture, a structure, a tapestry, a portrait, a song.
Product
Man needs an image of himself, an understanding of his nature.
Importance of Art (1)
Development of the complete, social man, ready to take on his responsibilities in this rapidly changing world and to enjoy life as he lives it.
Importance of Art (2)
________________ – purpose/pleasing
________________- events, deeds
_____________ and aesthetic experience
- Satisfaction
- Commemoration/reminisce
- Inspiration