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ARTAPRE
Baruc, Michenette Kayle A.
TM132

1. Define Art
Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they are usually not for a painting, for example. Music, theatre, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, and other media such as interactive media are included in a broader definition of art or the arts. Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts. Art has been characterized in terms of mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other values. During the Romantic period, art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science". Though the definition of what constitutes art is disputed and has changed over time, general descriptions mention an idea of human agency and creation through imaginative or technical skill.
The nature of art, and related concepts such as creativity and interpretation, are explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

2. Different kinds of Art * There are many kinds of art. It depends on how you expressed it, on how creative you are. There are many ways, so whatever you do, don’t be afraid. Everything is beautiful. a. Ceramics - A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling.[1] Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous (e.g., a glass). Because most common ceramics are crystalline, the definition of ceramic is often restricted to inorganic crystalline materials, as opposed to the noncrystalline glasses, a distinction followed here.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic b. Drawing - Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Instruments used includegraphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silverpoint). An artist who practices or works in drawing may be called a draftsman or draughtsman.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing c. Sculpture - Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions, and one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since modernism, shifts in sculptural process led to an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.[1]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpture d. Architecture - A design. The term architecture can refer to either hardware or software, or to a combination of hardware and software. The architecture of a system always defines its broad outlines, and may define precise mechanisms as well.
An open architecture allows the system to be connected easily to devices and programs made by other manufacturers. Open architectures use off-the-shelf components and conform to approved standards. A system with a closed architecture, on the other hand, is one whose design is proprietary, making it difficult to connect the system to other systems.
Source: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/architecture.html e. Painting - Contemporary artists have extended the boundaries of painting considerably to include; collage, different materials such as sand, cement, straw or wood for their texture. Juxtaposing images and materials, either as a collage, printing or painting is not simply a decorative process it is a complicated exercise. The mind always tries to create a narrative between images and materials. The juxtaposition of arbitrary marks, color, photographs etc. will always tease and trick the mind into rationalizing what it is trying to process and attempt to make physical world references – in other words make sense of what it is trying to analyze.
Source: http://www.morguegallery.com/weblog/?p=241

3. Is everything art?
Yes, everything is an art. Art is everywhere and everything. In every angle, art is present even in a single and small way. In our everyday life, we encounter art in different way. Some are good looking, some are not but it falls under the art. Art can be seen in smallest things like a sand. There's a lot of color of sand. People usually put it on a bottle and it is actually an art. So, art is on smallest and huge thing. The universe is a great example of art. Universe falls also in art. Different vibrant colors, tiny and huge shapes, are present in universe. Art has a meaning behind. It depends on a person who made that art. It could also have a deep meaning and emotion which the creator want to tell us.