Art App Flashcards
is something that is perennially around us
Art
___ had the sharpest foresight when he discussed in the Symposium that beauty, the object of any love, truly progresses. As one moves through life, one locates better, more beautiful objects of desire.
Plato
The word “art” comes from the ancient Latin, ___ which means a “craft or specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithying or surgery”
ars
___ then suggested the capacity to produce an intended result from carefully planned steps or methods.
Art
Ars in ___ came to mean something different. It meant “any special form of book-learning, such as grammar or logic, magic or astrology”
Medieval Latin
It was only during the ___ that the word reacquired a meaning that was inherent in its ancient form of craft.
Renaissance Period
___ artists saw their activities merely as craftsmanship, devoid of a whole lot of intonations that are attached to the word now.
Early Renaissance
It was during the ___ when the problem and idea of aesthetics, the study of beauty, began to unfold distinctly from the notion of technical workmanship, which was the original conception of the word “art.”
seventeenth century
It was finally in the ___ when the word has evolved to distinguish between the fine arts and the useful arts.
eighteenth century
The ___ would come to mean “not delicate or highly skilled arts, but ‘beautiful’ arts”
fine arts
The ___ constitute one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man.
humanities
___ has witnessed how man evolved not just physically but also culturally, from cave painters to men of exquisite paintbrush users of the present.
Human history
The ____ found in the cave of Altamira, Spain is one such example. In 1879, a Spaniard and his daughter were exploring a cave when they saw pictures of a wild boar, hind, and bison.
Galloping Wild Boar
The ___ stand tall in bearing witness to this magnificent phenomenon. Any human person, then, is tasked to participate, if not, totally partake in this long tradition of humanizing himself.
humanities
Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning generations and continents through and through. Art will always be present because human beings will always express themselves and delight in these expressions. Men will continue to use art while art persists and never gets depleted.
ART IS UNIVERSAL
Among the most popular ones being taught in school are the two Greek epics, ____ & ____
the Iliad and the Odyssey
_____, a French painter, painted a scene from reality entitled Well and Grinding Wheel in the Forest of the Château Noir. The said scene is inspired by a real scene in a forest around the Château Noir area near Aix in Cézanne’s native Provence
Paul Cézanne
Cézanne’s landscape is quite different from the original scene. Cézanne has changed some patterns and details from the way they were actually in the photograph.
Art is not nature
Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature. Art is man’s way of interpreting nature. What we find in nature should not be expected to be present in art too.
Art is not nature
Art is always an experience. Unlike fields of knowledge that involve data, art is known by experiencing. In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it, and see AND hear it.
Art involves experience
One cannot argue with another person’s evaluation of art because one’s experience can never be known by another.
Degustibus non disputandum est (Matters of taste are not matters of dispute)
____ a famous French philosopher of the twentieth century, described the role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre
___ requires thinking outside the box. It is often used to solve problems that have never occurred before, conflate function and style, and simply make life a more unique and enjoyable experience.
Creativity
German physicist ,___ who had made significant and major contributions in science and humanity demonstrated that knowledge actually derived from imagination.
Albert Einstein
