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Defining Art

Art can be defined as the skillful arrangement of qualities of nature like colors and sounds to express human emotions and thoughts in a meaningful and enjoyable way. The divisions of art include practical arts which produce useful objects, liberal arts which are intellectual efforts, fine arts for contemplation, and minor arts for practical uses. The origins of art forms like dance, music, painting and sculpture can be traced to religious ceremonies and rituals meant to connect with gods and spirits. The overall purpose of art is to express beauty and provide moments of happiness, relaxation, and spiritual reflection for humanity.

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Defining Art

Art can be defined as the skillful arrangement of qualities of nature like colors and sounds to express human emotions and thoughts in a meaningful and enjoyable way. The divisions of art include practical arts which produce useful objects, liberal arts which are intellectual efforts, fine arts for contemplation, and minor arts for practical uses. The origins of art forms like dance, music, painting and sculpture can be traced to religious ceremonies and rituals meant to connect with gods and spirits. The overall purpose of art is to express beauty and provide moments of happiness, relaxation, and spiritual reflection for humanity.

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DEFINING ART

ART APPRECIATION

Prepared by Roland Lorenzo M. Ruben


ETYMOLOGY OF ART
• Art – Aryan root AR meaning “join”, “put together”
• Two Greek verbs = artezein – “to
prepare”
arkiskein – “to put together”
• Latin term = ars, artis – everything made or composed by man

• Art, in general, is either the making or the composition of any object useful
for our human needs, from a stone knife to a jet plane, or the arrangement
of certain elements and qualities for the contemplation and
enjoyment of its meaning or beauty.
DEFINITION OF ART

Aristotle – art as
the “right
reason of
making things.” School of Athens, Raphael (1510)
DEFINITION OF ART
• Any kind of human activity, when
directed to change or
transforms things under the patterns of right
reason, can be called ART.
• Art, therefore, is the skillful arrangement or composition of some
common but significant qualities of nature, such as colors,
sounds, lines, movements, words, stones, wood,
etc., to express human feelings, emotions, or thoughts in a perfect,
meaningful, and enjoyable way.
THE DIVISIONS OF ART
A. Purpose
• Practical or useful arts –
produce artifacts and utensils,
industrial art, applied or
household art, civic art,
commercial art, graphic art,
agricultural art, business art,
distributive art and fishery art
THE DIVISIONS OF
ART
A. Purpose
• Liberal arts –
intellectual efforts –
philosophy,
psychology, literature,
mathematics and
sciences
THE DIVISIONS OF ART

A. Purpose
• Fine arts – products of
human creativity for the
contemplation of the mind
and uplift the spirit – e.g.
painting, sculpture,
architecture

ARLENE SCHLAZER-DIGITAL ARTIST


The Luncheon on the Grass, Édouard Manet, 1862-1863
THE DIVISIONS OF ART
A. Purpose
• Major arts – actual and
potential expressiveness – e.g.
painting, architecture,
literature, music, poetry,
sculpture, dance

Venus de Milo
Between 130 and 100 BC
THE DIVISIONS OF ART
A. Purpose
• Minor arts – practical uses and
purposes – e.g. decorative arts,
porcelain art, popular arts (film,
newspaper, radio, magazine,
television)
B. Media and forms
• Plastic arts – developed through space
and perceived by the sense of sight: e.g.
painting, sculpture and architecture

www.artbreak.com

Recycled Plastic Bag Chickens


South Africa
Recycled plastic bags & wire
Assorted colors. www.indigoarts.com
B. Media and forms
• Phonetic arts – based on sounds and words as media
of expression: e.g. music, drama, literature
B. Media and forms
• Kinetic arts – rhythmic movement: e.g. dance

www.msunited.com
B. Media and forms
• Pure arts – which take only one
medium of expression as sound in
music and color in painting.

by Francoise Nielly

http://www.soultravelmultimedia.com/2011/07/15/vibrant-and-color
http://gunsnroses100pre.blogspot.com/2011/07/slash.html ful-traditional-art-paintings-by-francoise-nielly/
B. Media and forms
• Mixed arts – which use two or more media:
e.g. Opera

http://www.gratisonline.com.br/melhores-musicas-de-opera-ouvir/
THE ORIGIN OF THE
ARTS
• Dance – first art cultivated by man
• It flows naturally from man
• Man feels liberated and exalted
when he applies rhythm to his corporeal
movement
Veiled dancer, ancient Greek
terracotta figurine from Myrina, ca.
150–100 BC.Louvre Museum
THE ORIGIN OF THE ARTS
• Music and poetry accompanied dance
performance
• Poetry began as story-telling of the feats of the
ancestors and of their legendary origins associated
to heroes and gods.
• Origin of painting and sculpture can be
traced to dance

Ancient Greek terracotta statuette of a dancing


maenad, 3rd century BC, fromTaranto.
THE ORIGIN OF THE
ARTS
• Primitive people painted their bodies, caves,
and some parts of their dwelling to symbolize
and represent something.
• Sculpture of gods, goddesses were usually made of clay
and wood.
• Origin is connected with sorcery and magic
• All arts originated in the temples of the East
and West. These arts pertain to gods, goddesses,
religious animals, demons, priests, kings and queens.
PURPOSE OF THE ARTS
• beauty
To express
• Affords man moments of relaxation and spiritual happiness =
reflection of an eternal happiness
• Our imagination is seldom more satisfied
• An outlet of our slumbering passions
• Powerful means to reform man, change his deviant behavior into social order
• To overcome his feelings of loneliness, uncertainty and restlessness

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