What is art Flashcards
Aryan root word which means to join or put together
AR
Latin term means artificially made or composed by man
ARS
Arti/Arte
Renaissance word which means craft guild and craftsmanship
“Without creativity, there would be no innovation”
Thorne (2007)
People during the prehistoric times used _______, ______, and ______ to convey concepts and ideas, and share experiences.
painting, drawing and sculpture
sensous medium
color, sound, marble, bronze, words and film
fashioned into symbolic language
marked by beauty of design and coherence of form
sensous medium
According to him, “Art is a means of union among all men, a means of communication.”
Leo Tolstoy
thinks of art as “vision.” In doing an art work, he believes that an artist creates a picture of phantasm.
Benedito Croce
characteristics of art
- can be found in all ages and all countries
- involves experience
- product of man’s need to express himself
- interdisciplinary
- universal
- an act
believes that “art is the direct opposite of practical.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
thinks that “art is the right reason for making things.”
Aristotle
He said that “the artist may be immoral, and yet his work may be good.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
also believes that “art has no other end but itself, and that all arts are patterned on nature.
Aristotle
defines art as “experience…the refined and intensified forms of
experience are works of art.”
John Dewey
