Exam for Art Flashcards
- Understand individual differences.
- Our skills in decision making and problem solving.
- Enhances our creative skill, nurtures our imagination, and promotes originality and innovativeness.
ART
Main reasons for creating art include:
- Making our surroundings more beautiful.
- Creating records of a specific time, place, person, or object.
- Expressing or Communicating ideas.
- Expressing religious beliefs.
- Criticizing elements of society.
- Educating people.
- Showing that we are capable of doing something no one else tried before.
Making our surroundings more beautiful.
Example:
Architecture Painting Sculpture Jewelry Design Objects
Creating records of a specific time, place, person, or object.
Example:
Paintings of individuals
Battle scenes
Wedding or baby photographs
Expressing or communicating ideas.
Examples:
Songs
Poem
Spoken Poetry
Claimed that every particular substance on earth has an end, or telos in Greek, and when translated, it means “purpose”.
Aristotle
Different functions of art:
Personal Function
Social Function
Physical Function
It is the use of art that merely for personal gain. It is highly subjective and depends on how person used an art.
Personal Function
Art serves social functions when it is able to influence other people.
Social Function
It is the function of art that is directly related to physical use or purpose of an art.
Physical Function
Study of the nature of art, including concepts such as interpretation, representation and expression, and form.
Philosophy of art
Came from the Greek Philosopher Plato.
Art a imitation
He believes that everything here on earth is just an imperfect copy of what is in the world of forms.
Plato
This view of art came from Aristotle. According to him, all the arts have their own techniques and rational principle.
Art as representation.
A slogan translated from the French word which was coined in the early 19th century by French Philosopher Victor Cousin.
Art for Art’s Sake
