• Principle of application of skill, knowledge in a creative effort, form of beauty, esthetic expression of feeling, as in music, painting, sculpture, literature, architecture and dance
• Aesthetic experience of Man
• Art is expression, not intention or talent ( Benedetto Croche)
• Attempt to create pleasing forms (Herbert Read)
• Molds our actual life of feeling (Susanne Larger)
Forms of Art
• Performing Arts – recreat what is compsed by the creator
• Visual Arts – perceive through the eyes
Examples of Performing Arts
• Music – art of combining and regulating sounds by varying pitch to produce composition
• Dance – uses the body as a medium to express emotion through bodily gestures and rhythmic movement
• Drama – art where a group of people act out a plot to get across the audience the idea, the author is trying to express. Performed in stage or theater.
• Motion Picture – number of audience is bigger through radio, television, etc.
• Play – it is a literature performed where scenery and costume provide the visual arts
• Opera- drama set to music, it combines several arts like, music, dance, acting
Classifications of Visual Art
Two-dimensional art
-Also called the graphic arts
-Flat and has two dimension: height/ width
Examples: Drawing, painting, engraving, lithigraphy, silkscreen, commercial art, photography
Three-dimensional arts
-also called as plastic arts
Height/width/thickness
Examples: Architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, interior design, sculpture, crafts, undustrial design, dress and costume design, theater design
Lines and their elements
Lines – is the simplest most primitive, and most universal means for creating visual works. They may be brood, faint and hardly seen, ragged or clear and distinct
Kinds of lines
Straight