Chapter 1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Art is derived from the Latin word “ars,” meaning ability or skill
J.V. Estolas
Art is taken from the Italian word “artis,” which means craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the associations that exist between form and ideas, between material and technique.
A. Tan
Art is a product of man’s need to express himself.
F. Zulueta
Art is concerned itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of sensuous medium, color, sound, bronze, marble, words and film.
C. Sanchez
Art is that which brings life in harmony with the world.
Plato
Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind - one which demands for its own satisfaction and fulfillment, a shaping matter to new and more significant form.
John Dewey
Art 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.
Panizo and Rustia
Art is not what you see but what you make others see
Georgia O’Keeffe
Art is a life that helps us to realize the truth
Pablo Picasso
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the action of his personality in the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
Art is never finished, only abandoned
Leonardo da Vinci
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling, the artist has experienced.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Art is the realization in external form of a true idea and is traced back to that natural love of imitation which characterizes humans.
Aristotle
Art is the conscious creation of something beautiful or meaningful using skill and imagination
Lisa Morder
Art is the discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art is not what you see but what you make others see
Edgar Degas
refers to the historical development and stylistic context of the objects of arts that includes the major and minor arts.
Art history
based their studies by scrutinizing objects of arts by answering historically such questions as the key features of the art style, what does the art convey and how does it function visually.
Art historians
are two approaches in creating art.
The two-dimensional and three-dimensional picture planes
an example of representation style is produced when the artwork was not directly imitative but an impression of nature.
Impressionism
the work of art is not representational but the expression of the artist’s feelings, longings, aspirations, and ideals of beauty and form.
Expressionism
