TEACHING OF ARTS AND CRAFTS AT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

NAME: ABILAWON RIDWAN WANDE

MATRIC NUMBER: 209018024

DEFINITIONS OF ART

1. Art is the product of thought provoking creative human activity in which materials are

shaped or selected to convey ideas, ideas, emotion, or visually interesting forms.

2. Art is a means of self expression, but for this expression to be really artistic, it must

create pleasing forms which satisfy our sense of beauty.

3. Art is the expression of feelings and ideas using the medium available to communicate

with the audience.

4. Art is the skillful or creative way of exploring materials or a conceived idea.

5. Art is an expression of thoughts or feelings using the available materials around us with a

functional end product or to pass across message.

6. It is the creative manipulation of materials and equipment to enhance the environment

and to create beauty, comfort and pleasure that are pleasing to the sense.

7. The expression or application of creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form

such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their

beauty or emotional power.

8. Art is work produced by human creative skill and imagination.

9. A skill at doing specified thing, typically one acquired through practice.

10. The conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of

aesthetic objects.
11. Art is a creative activity that expresses imaginative or technical skills.

12. Art means to utilize knowledge or skill according to rules and principles to create

something.

13. Human efforts to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.

14. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other

elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the

beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

15. Activities intended to make something special.

16. A recreation of reality, according to metaphysical value judgments.

17. Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

18. The use of imagination to express ideas or feelings, particularly in painting, music,

writings, drawing, drama or sculpture.

19. Art is a diverse range or product of human activity involving creative imagination to

express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

20. Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory or

performed artifacts.