Importance of Art Flashcards
The word “art” is rooted in the 13th century _____ word art
French
earns still as a
result of learning or practice
art
Latin word arts, meaning ___________ .
“ability or practical
skills”
In __________, ars meant “any special form of book learning such as
grammar, logic, or astronomy
Medieval Latin
The word art covers many meanings including
ability, process, and product
art is the humans capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir us; it is
creativity.
ability
Art concerns itself with the communication of___________ by means of a
sensuous medium-color, sound, body, words and films. T
certain ideas and feelings
describe art in 3 different way
as an ability
as a process
as a producy
Four Common Essentials of Art
- Art has to be man-made
- Art must be creative, not imitative
- Art must benefit and satisfy a man
- Art is expressed through a certain medium
historians is to study visual and tangible objects humans
make and map them in history (Pooke & Newall, 2008).
job of art
In studying art history, historians ask a series of questions
● Who made this? What was his intention in making it? Where and when was this
● made? What was happening around the artist at the time?
● Who or what is the subject? How is the subject represented?
● How was this made? What style was used?
● How did the artist’s audience receive the work? What did it mean for them during that
time?
an attitude toward art. It allows us to understand deeply the
purpose of an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses (Collins & Riley, 1931).
art appreciation
the humanities is being able to look at a work of art and form a wise
opinion of the work.
assumptions of art
Assumptions of Art
- ART IS UNIVERSAL
- ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE
- ART AS EXPRESSION
- ART AS A FORM OF CREATION
