Activity 1

Discuss the following:

Art is universal because it is popular.

Art is good because it is universal.

Art is universal because it can be used to express ones emotions and ideas. It is important to be
able to use imagination in making art, although these are still subject to other people's comprehension
and appreciation, being able to express everything and turn it into something tangible is an art itself. Art
is history, a story teller, a memory. We as creations of a higher power, are works of art. Each of us
unique in our way.

Activity 2

Who is considered an artist? What does it mean to be an artist?

An artist is a person who can take something they see within and physically manifest it with
their own hands for others to see or sometimes a person who is very good at their job is called an artist,
even if it is not considered as art. Being an artist means putting your best feet forward every day and to
create things that

In much of the world today, an artist is considered to be a person with the talent and
the skills to conceptualize and make creative works. Such persons are singled out and
prized for their artistic and original ideas. Their art works can take many forms and fit
into numerous categories, such as architecture, ceramics, digital art, drawings, mixed
media, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles. Of greater importance,
artists are the individuals who have the desire and ability to envision, design, and
fabricate the images, objects, and structures we all encounter, use, occupy, and enjoy
every day of our lives.

Today, as has been the case throughout history and across cultures, there are different
titles for those who make and build. An artisan or craftsperson, for example, may
produce decorative or utilitarian arts, such as quilts or baskets. Often, an artisan or
craftsperson is a skilled worker, but not the inventor of the original idea or form. An
artisan or craftsperson can also be someone who creates their own designs, but does
not work in art forms or with materials traditionally associated with the so-called Fine
Arts, such as painting and sculpture. A craftsperson might instead fashion jewelry, forge
iron, or blow glass into patterns and objects of their own devising. Such inventive and
skilled pieces are often categorized today as Fine Craft or Craft Art.

In many cultures throughout much of history, those who produced, embellished,

painted, and built were not considered to be artists as we think of them now. They
were artisans and craftspeople, and their role was to make the objects and build the
structures for which they were hired, according to the design (their own or another’s)
agreed upon with those for whom they were working. That is not to say they were
untrained. In Medieval Europe, or the Middle Ages (fifth-fifteenth centuries), for
example, an artisan generally began around the age of twelve as an apprentice, that is,
a student who learned all aspects of a profession from a master who had their own
workshop. Apprenticeships lasted five to nine years or more, and included learning
trades ranging from painting to baking, and masonry to candle making. At the end of
that period, an apprentice became a journeyman and was allowed to become a member
of the craft guild that supervised training and standards for those working in that trade.
To achieve full status in the guild, a journeyman had to complete their “masterpiece,”
demonstrating sufficient skill and craftsmanship to be named a master.