Question 1. a. What do you think art is? What is art? Art is that which is pleasing to the senses or of more than significant importance (Cothren & Stokstad, 2011, p. xxvii). It is also said that art is an opinion (South University Online, 2014). Anybody can have their own opinion of a piece of art, but very few people can actually judge art. Of course, everyone still has their own opinion. A mother will see her one-year-olds painting and see a work of art. A true work of art invokes a need to understand what the artist was saying or feeling at that specific time. Art captures time and the human experience (South University Online, 2014). It could be a wedding portrait that brings tears to a wife's eyes, or it could be the red blanket in a bedroom (South University Online, 2014). Art is a perception of beauty of form and color and location. The definition of art is as follows: "the quality, production, expression , or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance" (Dictionary.com, 2014). Art evokes emotion, it can be uplifting or depressing. Man has always had a need to express himself, to say what he cannot speak. b. Why do you think it is important to study art as an academic discipline? There must be discipline in life, or nothing would ever get done. Academic discipline teaches organization and follow-through to be successful. Art seems so unimportant to success in the real world, but this is not true. I did not realize that there were so many aspects involved in judging a work of art. There are parts you see immediately, like bright colors, or an interesting subject, or maybe a rough texture. They focus your attention on a specific... ... middle of paper ... ... History, Volume 2, 4th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Learning Solutions. Dictionary.com. (2014). Art. In Dictionary.com. Retrieved January 11, 2014, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/art. Masakim. (2003, September 25). Re: "The devil is in the details". In The Phrase Finder. Retrieved January 11, 2014, from http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/24/messages/694.html. South University Online. (2014). HUM1002: History of Art from Middle Ages to Modern Times: Week 1: Art as an Academic Discipline. Retrieved from http://myeclassonline.com South University Online. (2014). HUM1002: History of Art from Middle Ages to Modern Times: Week 1: The Art Historian. Retrieved from http://myeclassonline.com South University Online. (2014). HUM1002: History of Art from Middle Ages to Modern Times: Week 1: Warm Color. Retrieved from http://myeclassonline.com
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Art was viewed in a different sense in the fourteenth century. It had a more active role and was not just decoration, but a vital component of worship and pr...
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“Philosophers, writers, and artists expressed disillusionment with the rational-humanist tradition of the Enlightenment. They no longer shared the Enlightenment's confidence in either reason's capabilities or human goodness.” (Perry, pg. 457) It is interesting to follow art through history and see how the general mood of society changed with various aspects of history, and how events have a strong connection to the art of the corresponding time.
If I were to ask you what is art, and how can one find it? What would you say? Well if it were me being asked those question, I would simply say that art to me is a form of a picture; a visual painting or model of some design and it could be found all among us. You may define it differently only because art could be defined in many ways. I could simply say that art to me is a form of a picture; a visual painting or model of some design. Well according to an article written by Shelley Esaak, an art history expert she mentioned that art has a way of stimulating different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot, with a whole gamut of emotions in between. She also mentioned that art gives us a way to be creative and express ourselves. [1]
In education today, art studies are not often viewed as a priority for students and they very frequently get cut from school’s curriculum due to a lack of proper funding. Howeve...
The shift between the Middle Ages and Renaissance was documented in art for future generations. It is because of the changes in art during this time that art historians today understand the historical placement and the socio-economic, political, and religious changes of the time. Art is a visual interpretation of one’s beliefs and way of life; it is through the art from these periods that we today understand exactly what was taking place and why it was happening. These shifts did not happen overnight, but instead changed gradually though years and years of art, and it is through them that we have record of some of the most important changes of historic times.
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Art can be defined in many ways by an individual. One can say that any creative output by a person is considered art. Others contend that art must conform to a societal standard and the basis of the creation should be understood by most intellectual people. For example, some contend that computer-generated images, such as fractals, are not art due to the large role played by a computer. E.O. Wilson states “the exclusive role of the arts is to intensify aesthetic and emotional response. Works of art communicate feeling directly from mind to mind, with no intent to explain why the impact occurs” (218). A simple definition may be that art is the physical expression of the ideals formed by the mind.