The Importance, Meaning

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The Importance of Art

 The art enhance daily experiences, art has touched everyone.

 Art is all around us, being universal as it can be found in all cultures.

 Art has a particular importance in our lives, all the art we receive through our
senses have purpose, as well as expression they occupy some place in our
judgement.

 These days, art plays vital part in developing the intellect of the younger
generation to build up a positive character and appreciate natural aesthetics.
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Meaning of Art

 The word Art is rooted in the 13th century French word art,which means skill as a
result of learning or practice, and the Latin word ars meaning ability or practical
skills.

 The word art covers many meanings, including ability, process and product.

 As ability art is the human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir
us; it is creativity

 As a process, art ecompasses acts such as drawings, panting,

sculpting,designing buildings,singing, dancing, and using the camera to create
images or memorable works.
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 Art as product, art is the completed work an etching , a sculpture,a structure, a
musical composition, choreography,or tapestry.

 Art concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of
a sensuous medium.

 According to Plato “Art is that which brings life harmony with the beauty of the
world”

 John Dewey “ Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind one that demands for its
satisfaction and fullfilling, a shaping of matter to new and more significant form

 Oscar Wilde “ Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has
known

 Elbert Hubbard “ Art is not a thing it is a way

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Four Common essentials of Art

 Art has to be man made

 Art must be creative, not imitative

 Art must benefit and satisfy man

 Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist

communicates himself to his audience
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Art History
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