PRELIMS - LESSON 1

Question 1

Art in medieval latin came to mean something different. It meant __________- learning, such as grammar or logic, magic or astrology”

Answer 1

Any special form of book

Question 2

The fine arts would come to mean “not delicate or highly skilled arts, but “beautiful arts”

Answer 2

“Not delicate or highly skilled arts” but “beautiful arts”

Question 3

The word art comes from the ancient latin, ____ which means a __________ like carpentry or smiting or surgery”

Answer 3

ars

craft or specialized form of skill

Question 4

•Timeless, spanning generations and continents through and through.

•Misconception: artistic made long time ago.

• Age is not a factor in determining art.

•Literature has provided key words of art.

•Iliad and the odyssey are the two greek epics that one’s being taught in school.

Answer 4

ART IS UNIVERSAL

Question 5

Art, not directed by representation of reality, is a perception of reality.

In the Philippines, it is not entirely novel to hear some consumers of local movies remark that these movies produced locally are unrealistic. They contend that local movies work around certain formula to the detriment of substance and faithfulness to reality of movies.

Paul Cezanne, a French painted a scene from reality entitled well and grinding wheel in the forest of the chateau noir.

Answer 5

ART IS NOT NATURE

Question 6

It does not full detail but just an experience. Actual doing of something.

Getting this far without a satisfactory definition of art can be quite weird for some. For most people, art does not require a full definition. Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the “actual doing of something” (Dudley et al., 1960) and it also affirmed that art depends on experience, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as fact or information but as an experience.

Answer 6

ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE