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| 'ART - disciplined activity that
may be limited to a skill as painting, drawing,
sculpture and architecture. The term is also expanded
to apply to 'Human Skills' in it's broadest sense
- for example to writing, composing and performing
music, acting, or photography. In this brief survey,
however, Art is taken exclusively in the sense of
drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture and the
decorative arts. The question "WHAT IS ART?"
is addressed in the field of aesthetics.' |
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From Encarta.com |
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| Orginally, 'SKILL'
(of any kind), a meaning the word has in everyday
contexts, modern usage referring especially to painting,
drawing, or sculpture emerged by C.1700, but significantly
DR JOHNSON'S primary meaning of the word (in 1755)
was still 'THE POWER OF DOING SOMETHING NOT TAUGHT
BY NATURE AND INSTINCT; AS TO WALK IS NATURAL, TO
DANCE IS AN ART.' This contrast between art and
nature goes back to the Middle Ages.' |
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Art History:
A Preliminary Handbook, by Robert J. Belton, ©
Copyright 1999 Versaware Inc. and its licensors
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| in late ANTIQUITY the
ARTS consisted of the seven 'ARTES LIBERALES' (The
Liberal Arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric, geometry,
arithmetic, astronomy and music. Philosophy was
the mother of them all and on a lower level stood
the technical arts like: architecture, agriculture,
painting, sculpture and other crafts. "ART"
as we conceive of it today was a mere craft. Art
in the Middle Ages was "THE APE OF NATURE"
and what is Art today?' |
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By Bart Rosier ....
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| 'We struggle with this
because we have been taught that Art is important
and we're unwilling to face up to the recently reveled
insight that Art in fact has no 'essence' when all
is said and done. Art remeins significant to human
beings and the idea that now anything can be Art
and that no form of Art is true then any other form,
strike us as unacceptable. |
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By Professor
Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Art &Artists
Today .... [b]
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| 'While Art's importance
to civilazation is well recognized, you can't eat
Art, sleep on it, keep the rain off with it, or
drive it to Toledo. This "IMPRACTICALITY"
-- the essentially poetic, spiritual basis of Art,
and humanity's lack of artistic understanding --
sets artists apart from the rest of the world.' |
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