Orientation to Art Flashcards
Korean word for Art
Yesul
Indonesian word for Art
Seni
Kabisayaan word for Art
Alampat
It is an expression about our human experience and the reality within us and outside through a medium.
Fine Art
It is an ability or skill that humans make.
Art
Greek word for crafstmanship
Techne
3 Classical Arts
- Visual
- Auditory
- Performing
It refers to the architecture, visual arts, film, and literature.
Visual
It refers to music, and literature when read aloud.
Auditory
It refers to theater and dance.
Performing
It refers to fashion design, furniture design, graphic design, and interior design.
Applied Arts
4 Sources of Art
- Nature
- Self
- Others
- The Divine
It refers to the encounter with nature as nature is not art.
Nature
It is an intrapersonal encounter which refers to our thoughts, imagination, feelings, and desires.
Self
It is an interpersonal encounter which refers to the one-on-one or societal encounters.
Others
It is the metapersonal, transcendent encounter which refers to the encounters with something for greater and beyond ourselves.
The Divine
It seeks to establish common principles and theories that would clearly define, in more common terms, what makes an object of art beautiful.
Beauty
The philosophy of beauty, artistic interpretation, and taste.
Aesthetics
6 perspectives of Beauty
- Xenophon
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Immanuel Kant
- David Hume
- Traditional Japanese
He said that an object is beautiful because it is good and serves a rational purpose.
Xenophon
He stated that the existence of beauty presupposes the ideas of an absolute ideal.
Plato
He expanded on Plato’s idea by identifying the traits that define beauty.
Aristotle