ASSUMPTIONS AND NATURE OF ART Flashcards
________ – “craft or specialized
form of skill, like carpentry
or smithing or surgery”
ARS
Ancient period
Ars = _________
utility
______________________
Ars = “any special form of book-learning, such
as grammar or logic, magic or astrology.”
Medieval period
____________________
Arts= Craftmanship
Renaissance period
______________________
Developed the study of aesthetics and
beauty
17th century
______________
Art was distinguished between useful art
and fine arts
18th century
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
Art is _________________
Art is not _________________
Art involves _________________
Art is Universal
Art is not Nature
Art involves experience
“ Imagination is more important
than knowledge. For knowledge
is limited to all we now know
and understand, while
imagination embraces the entire
world, and all there ever will be
to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein
An emotion will remain unknown to a
man until he expresses it.
Artists explore their emotions to create
something beautiful out of it.
Art as an expression
____________
The Principles of Art (1938)
what an artist does to an
emotion is not to induce it,
but express it
Robin George Collingwood