areas of knowledge the arts

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AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

THE ARTS

Ms Varsha Pandit{Visual Arts Teacher}


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The essential function of art is moral

d. h. Lawrence

God is really only an artist. He invented the giraffe,the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He

just goes on trying others things

Pablo Picasso


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ART IS EITHER PLAGIARISM OR

REVOLUTION

PAUL GAUGUIN

ART IS NOT A HANDICRAFT, IT IS THE

FEELING THE ARTIST HAS

EXPERIENCED

LEO TOLSTOY


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AIMS

Appreciate possible definitions & descriptions of the central

characteristics of the arts.

Be able to defend what you think are the standards of

artistic judgment.

Understand how arts fit into the human experience.

Appreciate various theories of the role of truth in the context

of the arts.


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Self

Actualization

Needs

Self Esteem NeedsSocial Needs

Safety Needs

Physiological Needs


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What is Art ?


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When we ask what art is, we need to be clear about what sortof answer we hoping to find.

The question is how and in what contexts people use the word

ArtThe other question is what must we call art?

Lets us see what fits into the frame work of art

One can say Arts are a way of expressing emotions

Thus Art becomes the various ways of expressing ones

emotions, and one can express emotions in various ways:Dance

Photography

Painting

Music

Drama

Sculpture &

Writing


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Lets work these questions out:

If the purpose of art is to evoke emotion, then what is thebest form of art?

In light of the above question, to what extent iscommunication of emotion a useful characterisation of art?

Find several pieces of art in different media; goodor bad which evoke emotions.{ Architecture,music, painting, poetry, plays sculpture}


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ART has not always been what we think it is today. An

object regarded as Art today may not have beenperceived as such when it was first made, nor was the

person who made it necessarily regarded as an artist.

Both the notion of "art" and the idea of the "artist" are

relatively modern terms.

Many of the objects we identify as art today -- Greek

painted pottery, medieval manuscript illuminations, and

so on -- were made in times and places when people hadno concept of "art" as we understand the term. These

objects may have been appreciated in various ways and

often admired, but not as "art" in the current sense.


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ART lacks a satisfactory definition. It is easier to describe it as theway something is done -- "the use of skill and imagination in the

creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences thatcan be shared with others" (Britannica Online) -- rather than whatit is.

The idea of an object being a "work of art" emerges, together withthe concept of the Artist, in the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy.

During the Renaissance, the word Art emerges as a collectiveterm encompassing Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, agrouping given currency by the Italian artist and biographerGiorgio Vasari in the 16th century.

Subsequently, this grouping was expanded to include Music andPoetry which became known in the 18th century as the 'Fine Arts'.These five Arts have formed an irreducible nucleus from whichhave been generally excluded the 'decorative arts' and 'crafts',such as pottery, weaving, metalworking, and furniture making, all

of which have utility as an end.
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But how did Art become distinguished from thedecorative arts and crafts? How and why is an

artist different from a craftsperson?

In the Ancient World and Middle Ages the word wewould translate as 'art' today was applied to anyactivity governed by rules. Painting and sculpturewere included among a number of humanactivities, such as shoemaking and weaving, whichtoday we would call crafts.

During the Renaissance, there emerged a moreexalted perception of art, and a concomitant rise in

the social status of the artist. The painter and thesculptor were now seen to be subject to inspirationand their activities equated with those of the poetand the musician.


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The institutionalizing of art in the academieseventually provoked a reaction to its strictures and

definitions in the 19th century at which time newclaims were made about the nature of painting andsculpture.

By the middle of the century, "modernist"approaches were introduced which adopted new

subject matter and new painterly values. In largemeasure, the modern artists rejected, orcontradicted, the standards and principles of theacademies and the Renaissance tradition.

By the end of the 19th century and the beginning of

the 20th, artists began to formulate the notion oftruth to one's materials, recognizing that paint ispigment and the canvas a two-dimensionalsurface. At this time the call also went up for "Artfor Art's Sake."
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Magna Mater

The Mother

Goddess
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ART & ARTISTS and the Academies

The first Academy of Art was founded in Florence in Italy in

1562 by Giorgio Vasari who called it the Accademia delDisegno. There students learnt the "arti del disegno", a termcoined by Vasari, and included lectures on anatomy andgeometry.

Another academy, theAccademia di San Luca (named after

the patron saint of painters, St. Luke), was founded a decadeor so later in Rome. More so than the Florentine Accademiadel Disegno, the Academia di San Luca served an educationalfunction and was more concerned with art theory.

The Academia di San Luca later served as the model for theRoyal Academy of Painting and Sculpture founded in Francein 1648. The French Academy very probably adopted theterm "arti del disegno" which it translated into "beaux arts",from which is derived the English term "Fine Arts."
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Art & Artists and Modernism

As an art historical term, modern refers to a perioddating from roughly the 1860s through the 1970sand is used to describe the style and the ideology of

art produced during that era.It is this more specific use of modern that isintended when people speak of modern art. Theterm modernism is also used to refer to the art of

the modern period. More specifically, modernismcan be thought of as referring to the philosophy ofmodern art.


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