Jeremy M. Marcos B.S.

IT 105

1. What Is Art Appreciation?

Art appreciation involves having an understanding of all of the qualities that comprise a
great work of art. Art appreciation classes can be enjoyed by everyone from art experts
to complete novices. Art appreciation also involves learning about certain time periods,
styles and techniques so that a person has a better understanding of the basis for the
art as well as of the art itself. Themes and movements are important to understand
when studying art. Art appreciation differs from art criticism in that criticism is an
evaluation of art and is a judgment. Appreciation should be undertaken with no
judgment involved, but with just a desire to understand and comprehend.

2. What is art?
Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or
performed artifacts— artworks—that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill,
and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. The oldest
documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or objects in fields like
painting, sculpture, printmaking , photography, and other visual media . Architecture is
often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the
creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential, in a way that
they usually are not in another visual art, like a painting. Art may be characterized in
terms of mimesis (its representation of reality), expression, communication of emotion,
or other qualities. Though the definition of what constitutes art is disputed and has
changed over time, general descriptions center on the idea of imaginative or technical
skill stemming from human agency and creation. When it comes to visually identifying a
work of art, there is no single set of values or aesthetic traits. A Baroque painting will
not necessarily share much with a contemporary performance piece, but they are both
considered art.

3. Define painting.
A painting is an image (artwork) created using pigments (color) on a surface (ground)
such as paper or canvas. The pigment may be in a wet form, such as paint, or a dry form,
such as pastels. Painting can also be a verb, the action of creating such an artwork.
4. Define sculpture.
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of
the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of
material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics,
wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete
freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by
removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and
often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient
cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost
entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.

5. What is digital arts?

Some artists use materials like paints and brushes to create art. Today, many others also
use modern means of exploring creativity, like video technology, television, and
computers. This type of art is called digital art. Digital art is work made with digital
technology or presented on digital technology. This includes images done completely on
computer or hand-drawn images scanned into a computer and finished using a software
program like Adobe Illustrator. Digital art can also involve animation and 3D virtual
sculpture renderings as well as projects that combine several technologies. Some digital
art involves manipulation of video images. The term 'digital art' was first used in the
1980s in connection to an early computer painting program. (This was long before they
were called apps, mind you!) It's a method of art-making that lends itself to a
 multimedia format because it can potentially be viewed in many ways, including on TV
and the Internet, on computers, and on multiple social media platforms. In short, digital
art is a sort of merger between art and technology. It allows many new ways to make
art.

6. What is difference between art history and art appreciation?

Art history is when you learn of artists, their style, in what period in history they
painted, who they painted for or if they established a style or movement in art.

Appreciation is when you learn about a painting itself. Like the colors that were used,
why were those colors used, the composition of the piece, why was something painted
in certain way. Sometime you can simply look at a piece of work and realize how much
time he/she put into it just by looking at all the detail and size of piece. I think that in
itself can be appreciated.

7. What Is Architecture?
Architecture is everywhere. Each and every building: home, school, office, hospital and
supermarket were designed for their particular purpose. It is of vital importance that
these buildings, and in turn the environments they form and the neighbourhoods and
cities they are a part of, are designed to be the best possible buildings for their specific
context, use and the people who use them. Architecture has the ability to materially
affect outcomes: it can affect the way we relate to each other, increase business
productivity, support communities and neighbourhoods, improve health, and even
decrease crime.

8. What is medium?
In art, "medium" refers to the substance the artist uses to create a piece of artwork. For
example, the medium Michelangelo used to create "David"(1501-1504) was marble,
Alexander Calder's stabiles employ painted steel plates, and Marcel Duchamp's
infamous "Fountain" (1917) was made with a porcelain medium. The word medium can
be used in other contexts within the art world as well. Let's explore this simple word and
it's sometimes confusing array of meanings.