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What is Art?
Art is a highly diverse range of human activities
engaged in creating visual, auditory, or
performed artifacts— artworks—that express the
author’s imaginative or technical skill, and
are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or
emotional power.
The oldest documented forms of art
are visual arts, which include images
or objects in fields like
painting, sculpture, printmaking ,
photography, and other visual media
Art may be characterized in terms of
mimesis (its representation of reality),
expression,
communication of emotion, or other
qualities.
 Art is often examined through the
interaction of the principles and elements
of art.
The principles of art include movement,
unity, harmony, variety, balance,
contrast, proportion and pattern.
The elements include texture,
form, space, shape, color,
value and line.
What Does Art Do?
A fundamental purpose common to
most art forms is the underlying
intention to appeal to, and
connect with human emotion.
However, the term is incredibly broad and is broken
up into numerous sub-categories that lead to
utilitarian , decorative, therapeutic, communicative,
and intellectual ends. In its broadest form, art may be
considered an exploration of the human
condition, or a product of the human experience.
What Does Art Mean?
The meaning of art is shaped by the intentions
of the artist as well as the feelings and ideas it
engenders in the viewer.
The meaning of art is often culturally specific,
shared among the members of a given society
and dependent upon cultural context.
1. What is Art for you?
2. How do you view Art as a student?
3. What does Art contribute to our existence?
4. How relevant is Art in terms of education?
5. How do you want Art to be perceived by
students around the world?
What Makes Art Beautiful?
Beauty in terms of art refers to an interaction
between line, color, texture, sound, shape,
motion, and size that is pleasing to the senses.
What makes art beautiful is a complicated concept,
since beauty is subjective and can change based on
context. However, there is a basic human instinct,
or internal appreciation, for harmony, balance, and
rhythm which can be defined as beauty.
Beauty in terms of art usually
refers to an interaction between
line, color, texture , sound,
shape, motion, and size that is
pleasing to the senses.
Aesthetic Art
Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that deals
with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty,
and taste. Aesthetics is central to any exploration
of art. The word <aisthetikos,= meaning <esthetic,
sensitive, or sentient. In practice, aesthetic
judgment refers to the sensory contemplation or
appreciation of an object , while artistic judgment
refers to the recognition, appreciation, or criticism
of a work of art.
Numerous philosophers have attempted to
tackle the concept of beauty and art. For
Immanuel Kant, the aesthetic experience of
beauty is a judgment of a subjective, but
common, human truth. He argued that all
people should agree that a rose is beautiful if
it indeed is.
There are many common conceptions of beauty; for
example, Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine
Chapel are widely recognized as beautiful works of art.
However, Kant believes beauty cannot be reduced to
any basic set of characteristics or features. For Arthur
Schopenhauer, aesthetic contemplation of beauty is
the freest and most pure that intellect can be. He
believes that only in terms of aesthetics do we
contemplate perfection of form without any kind of
worldly agenda. Beauty in art can be difficult to put
into words due to a seeming lack of accurate language.
Art and Human Emotion
Sometimes beauty is not the artist’s ultimate
goal. Art is often intended to appeal to, and
connect with, human emotion. Artists may
express something so that their audience is
stimulated in some way—creating feelings,
religious faith, curiosity, interest,
identification with a group, memories,
thoughts, or creativity.
Who Is an Artist?
An artist is a person who is involved in the wide
range of activities that are related to creating art.
An artist is a person who is involved in the wide
range of activities that are related to creating art.
The word has transformed over time and context,
but the modern understanding of the term
denotes that, ultimately, an artist is anyone who
calls him/herself an artist.
In ancient Greece and Rome, there was no word
for ‘’artist’’. The Greek word ‘’techne’’ is the
closest that exists to ‘’art’’ and means ‘’mastery of
any art or craft’’. From the Latin ‘’tecnicus’’ derives
the English words ‘’technique’’, ‘’technology’’, and
‘’technical’’. From these words we can denote the
ancient standard of equating art with manual labor
or craft.
Each of the nine muses of ancient Greece oversaw
a different field of human creation. The creation of
poetry and music was considered to be divinely
inspired and was therefore held in high esteem.
However, there was no muse identified with the
painting and sculpture; ancient Greek culture held
these art forms in low social regard, considering
work of this sort to be more along the lines of
manual labor.
During the Middle Ages, the word artista referred to
something resembling craftsman, student of the
arts. The first division into "major" and "minor" arts
dates back to the 1400s with the work of Leon
Battista Alberti, which focused on the importance of
the intellectual skills of the artist rather than the
manual skills of a craftsman. The European
academies of the 16th century formally solidified the
gap between the fine and the applied arts, which
exists in varying Degrees to this day.
Currently, the term "artist" typically refers to anyone
who is engaged in an activity that is deemed to be an
art form. However, the questions of what is art and who
is an artist are not easily answered. The idea of defining
art today is far more difficult than it has ever been.
After the exhibition during the Pop Art movement of
Andy Warhol's Brillo Box and Campbell's Soup Cans,
the questions of "what is art?" and "who is an artist?"
entered a more conceptual realm. Anything can, in fact,
be art, and the term remains constantly evolving.