Quiz-Art Appreciation

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Art

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•Ancient Latin 'Ars' which means "a craft or specialized form of skill"

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Fine Arts

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•not delicate or highly skilled arts, but 'beautiful' arts

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Useful Arts

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•Useful practical skills

Example: Blacksmithing

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Art Appreciation

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•is the knowledge and understanding of the universal and timeless qualities that identify all great art.

•refers to the exploration and analysis of the art forms that we are exposed to.

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Assumptions of Art

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•Art is everywhere.

•Art is not nature.

•Art is imitating and creating.

•Art perfects nature.

•Art message is universal.

•Art involves experience.

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Physical Functions of Art

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•The physical functions of art can be found in artworks that are crafted in order to serve some physical purpose.

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Social Functions of Art

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•if and when it addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a personal interest.

•Political art is a very common example of an art with a social function.

(commonly used in news)

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Personal Functions of Art

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•Varied and highly subjective.

•An artist may create an art out of the need for self-expression.

•It can also be mere entertainment for his intended audience.

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Talents

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•God-given, innate

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Skills

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•learned, a craft

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Albert Einstein "Imagination"

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•Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.•Knowledge is actually derived from imagination

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Creativity

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•Creativity requires thinking outside the box

•A creative artist does not simply copy or imitate another artist’s work

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Robin George Collingwood "Expression"

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•an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it.

•Description actually destroys the idea of expression, as it classifies the emotion, making it ordinary and predictable

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Art as an imitation

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•Plato’s metaphysics

-the things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal and the true eternities that can only be found in the world of forms.

•Socrates thought that art is an imitation of another imitation.

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Art as a representation

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•Aristotle(Plato's Student)

•Agreed with his teacher that art is a form of imitation

•Aristotle conceived of art as representing possible versions of reality.

•Art allows for the experience of pleasure

•Art also has an ability to be instructive and teach its audience things about life;thus, it is cognitive as well.

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Art as a disinterested judgement

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•Immanuel Kant

• Kant recognized that judgement of beauty is subjective. However, kant advanced the proposition that even subjective judgements are based on some universal criterion for the said judgement.

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Art as a communication of emotion

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•Author of war and peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

• Art serves as a language, a communication device that articulates feelings and emotions that are otherwise unavailable to the audience.

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Plan B

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