WHAT IS ART?

 IS NATURE ART?

-According to Webster: “Art is human ingenuity in adapting natural things to man’s use?

-Therefore, an artist uses genius in transforming God-made things into man-made things that
satisfy his needs the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production
of aesthetic objects” (Merriam-Webster).

-Artist uses creativity and innovation in transforming God-made things into man-made things
that satisfy his need.

■       Wood à  Religious image/House/piece of furniture

■       Plants à Cloth/paper
■       Clay à Pots and Idols
From the word “ars” = Skill, Cunning, Artifice, Craft
ART SKILL CUNNING ARTIFICE CRAFT
Ingenuity and
Mechanical
Technical subtlety  in Expertness in
Personal & skill in imitating
knowledge and devising, workmanship,
unanalyzable things in
efficiency inventing, or cleverness in
creative power nature
  executing attaining one’s ends
 
 
 
Art can take the form of film, music, theatre, and pop culture, all of which aim to entertain
and make people happy. But when films, songs, or plays are made for a specific audience or
purpose, the art begins to diversify. Films, for example, can be made to spread awareness or
cultural appreciation. Songs can also be composed in a way that they bring out certain
emotions, give inspiration, or boost the morale of people.

According to Marcos (2006), the word art supplies various meanings, including ability-human
capacity to create things of beauty and things that stir us; process- art encompasses acts such
as drawing , painting, sculpture, designing building and using the camera to create , and product
completed work or the final product.

-Art is any creative work of a human being.

-Art is a form of expressing oneself.
-Art resides in the quality of doing; process is not magic.
-Art is the act of making something visually entertaining.
-Art is that activity which manifests beauty.
-Art is mastery, an ideal way of doing things.
-Art is not a thing — it is a way. (Elbert Hubbard)
-Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature. into beautiful forms
suitable for human use. (Frank Lloyd Wright