Lesson 1: What is Art Flashcards
Why should we study humanities?
It is being humane, cultured and refined.
What is humanities?
It is a discipline of memory and imagination. telling us where we have been and helping us determine what we will become.
___________ et. al., 1960, posits that humanities constitute the oldest and most important means of _________ developed by_________.
Dudley, expression, man
The word art comes from the ancient Latin, _________ which means a “________ or specialized form of skill, like _________ or _________ or ________”. (_________, 1938)
ars, craft, carpentry, smithying or surgery, Collingwood
Ars in ________ came to mean something different. It meant “any special form of _________, such as _______ or ________, _________ or _________.” (Collingwood, 1938)
Medieval Latin, book-learning, grammar or logic, magic or astrology
It was finally in the _________ century when the world has evolved to distinguish between the ________ art and the ________ arts. The fine arts would come to mean “not ________ or ________, but ________.
eighteenth, fine, useful, delicate, highly skilled arts, beautiful arts
What are the three assumptions of Art?
- Art is universal
- Art is not nature
- Art involves experience
Art is man’s expression of his ________ of nature. Art is a man’s way of ________ nature. Art is ________.
reception, interpreting, not nature
Art is made by ________, whereas nature is a _________. It is in this juncture that they can be considered _________.
man, given around us, opposites
This distinction assumes that all of us see ________, perceive its ________ in _________, different, yet ultimately _________ ways.
nature, elements, myriad, valid
Art is based on an individual’s _________ experience of nature.
subjective
Artists are not expected to duplicate nature. True or False
True
Art is just experience. By experience, we mean that “_________”.
Actual doing something
_________ et. al. (1960) affirmed that “all art depends on _________, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as _________ or _________ but as experience.
Dudley, experience, fact, information
In matters of art, the subject’s _________ is primacy. An important aspect of experiencing art is its being highly ________, ________ and ________.
perception, personal, individual, subjective
