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
It gives us a broad knowledge of our history & cultural traditions.
Importance of Art (3)
Helps us to acquire the values & wisdom that are essential for human survival & progress.
Importance of Art (4)
The tradition of pottery dates back to prehistoric times as proven by the __________________ which is at least __________________, and which depicts on it’s lead to boatmen riding a banca on their way to the great divine.
Manunggul Jar
3,500 years old
Among the finest of early Philippine pottery designs are footed dishes that were decorated with geometric cut-outs, molding, cording, or finger impressions. Most of these were made from the…
7th to 9th centuries in Batangas
Filipinos found that glazed and kiln-fired ceramics from ___________________ was more waterproof and more durable.
As imported ceramics grew in popularity among Filipinos, they neglected the ______________
The ___________________ is among the pottery traditions that have been maintained.
China and other Asian countries
local pottery craft
pottery tradition of burnay
Archaeologists in the Philippines believe they have discovered evidence of a lost tribe in the sacks of broken pottery seized from antiquities smugglers. Twenty-two sacks of pottery, including burial urns sculpted in human form and believed to be more than ___________, were found loaded on a ____________________________.
2000 years old
tricycle in Sarangani province on the island of Mindanao.
Helps us develop reflective and critical thinking, which are important in our everyday life.
Importance of Art (5)
Art has always added beauty to our lives. Imagine life without music, dance, paintings and the like? What kind of life would we have?
TO CREATE BEAUTY (Purpose of Art)
One art form need not to be seen as intrinsically superior or beautiful than others because the standard of beauty are by no means Universal- for ____________
“beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (Plato).
Works of art have been used to create pleasing environments. Paintings, sculpture and photographs find their way into rooms, courts and gardens for use as decorations
TO PROVIDE DECORATION (Purpose of Art)
Artists have pursued truth and tried to reveal it, truth about how the world looks and how it works via the work of art.
TO REVEAL TRUTH (Purpose of Art)
Artist have reached outward to describe the truth about humanity and have reached inward to describe the truths about themselves. The ___________ just like the _____________ validates the human condition.
Artists tried to show us a portion of the truth in life and the world we live in.
“ugly truth”
“beautiful truth”
An artist can defy mortality by creating a work that will keep his talents and his tragedy in the public’s consciousness for decades.
TO IMMORTALIZE (Purpose of Art)
Art has been used to express hopes for fertility, to propitiate the gods, to symbolize great religious events and values. Until modern times, the history of art can be studied in terms of expressing religious values alone.
TO EXPRESS RELIGIOUS VALUES (Purpose of Art)
Art used to inform future generations of what and who have gone before them.
TO RECORD AND COMMEMORATE EXPERIENCE (Purpose of Art)
An artist makes use of composition to put order in the diverse content of his work. Composition is the aesthetic arrangement of elements within a work of art.
Ex: Japanese sand garden : expresses order and harmony (self & nature).
TO CREATE ORDER AND HARMONY (Purpose of Art)
It constitutes one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man. It has sprung up among them as a language charged with feeling and significance. The desire to create this language appears to be universal. In every age or country, there is always art.
Art
This is the study of mankind, for through the arts we can
discover man’s major interests, feelings, & problems through the ages.”
A study of the art
ART, like ___________ is very important in our lives because it is concerned with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of a sensuous medium – color, sound, bronze, marble, words, film and literature
Love
____________ is always a part of the culture from which it is made……
Understanding culture helps us understand the aesthetic creations of a period.
Art
Study of what it means to be a human.
Art
The ability to interpret or understand man-made arts and enjoy them either through actual and work experience with art tools and materials or possession of these works of art for one’s admiration and satisfaction.
Art Appreciation
- Man-made
- Creative
- Benefits and satisfies man
- Expressed through a certain medium or material
4 Common Essentials of Art
A person who exhibits exceptional skills in design, drawing, painting, etc. or one who works in one of the performing arts, like an actor or musician. He is more sensitive and more creative.
Artist
Art for arts sake” ____________ – implies that beauty is the reason for the art work. Thus, his “must” concern > minds of the viewers/readers. He communicates his thoughts, fantasies, observations & self- revelation through his art.
(artist’s credo)
2 Kinds of Artists
Creators and Performers
_____________ writes a song to be sung by talented singers.
Besides the ___________, they require other artists who recreate what has been composed.
Although the artistry of the ____________ is based on the creation of others, they bring individual interpretations to their performances.
Composers
Creators
Performers
Why artists have so many names?
Varied expertise in the use of different media or materials
Visual Artists
painters, architects, sculptors
photographers, filmmakers, graphic artists
Music & Dance (Art of Movement)
singers, musicians, composers,
choreographers, dancers
Literary Artists
poets, novelists, writers or authors, playwriters, dramatists
- Attitudes
- Reasoning
- Theory
- Investigation
- Skills
- Thinking
Artist
A work of art is an activity that involves both imagination and skill in accomplishing it.
Creates aesthetic feelings or experiences which delight and satisfy our desire for beautiful things
Artwork
a record of a particular artist’s view (Bogart)
It shows something what he has seen, felt and thought of and recorded it as an arrangement of designs, colors, lines and tones or words which satisfy his aesthetic purpose
Artwork
the product of the artist’s unique personality influenced consciously or unconsciously by factors such as: his environment, traditions, national traits, religious beliefs, economic conditions, his ideals or even the climate and geography
Artwork
Represents or reflects the individual, the character of the period and the place where it was produced
Artwork
