MOD 1 | INTRODUCTION TO PHIL ARTS

• DERINITION OF ART

  Art is an expression of an idea, feeling or experience meant to arouse emotional response from the audience. It is a language that artists use to express something that everyday words cannot communicate.
• In order to experience art fully, you must do more than simply looking at it with your eyes or hearing it with your ears; you must develop the ability to perceive. To perceive is to become deeply aware through the senses of the special nature of an object
• PURPOSES OF ART

  1. Personal Function
  2. Social Function
  3. Spiritual Function
  4. Physical Function
  5. Educational Function
  6. Economic Function
• The urge to create is universal. Artists are driven by their sense of wonder and curiosity
• Artists who are self-taught and therefore have had little or no formal schooling in artistic methods are called folk artists.
• WHERE DO ARTISTS GET IDEAS?

  1. Nature and Environment
  2. People and Real World Events
  3. Myths and Legends
  4. Spiritual and Religious Beliefs
  5. Creative Techniques
  6. Artists of the Past
  7. Ideas Commissioned by Employers