DEFINITION OF TERMS:
1. HUMANITIES- The study and interpretation
of the following: language, both modern and
classical; linguistics; literature; history;
jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology;
comparative religion; ethics; the history,
criticism and theory of the arts.
2. ART- Art is generally understood as any
activity or product done by people with a
communicative or aesthetic purpose—
something that expresses an idea, an
emotion.
Comes from the ancient Latin, ars which
means a “craft or specialized form of skill,
like carpentry or smithying or surgery.
3. CREATION-
The act of producing or causing to exist.
4. RECREATION- the process of making
it exist or seem to exist again in a different
time or place.
5. SUBJECT OF ART- what an artist chooses to
present and how he presents it. Types of art
subjects
TYPES OF ART SUBJECTS
STILL LIFE- A drawing or painting of an
arrangement of nonmoving, nonliving objects ,
such as fruit, flowers, or bottles. Usually, a still
life is set indoors and contains at least one man-
made object, such as a bowl or vase.
SELF-PORTRAIT- A painting, drawing, or
sculpture or other work of art showing the artist
himself.
RELEGIOUS THEME- Art which the subject is of
religious matter.
NON OBJECTIVE SUBJECT- Art which the visual
signs are entirely imaginative and not from
anything seen by the artist. No recognizable
subject.
LANDSCAPE- A picture of natural outdoor
scenery, such as mountains, rivers, fields, or
forests.
GENRE- Art that has a subject matter that
concerns with everyday life, domestic scenes,
sentimental family Relationships, etc.
VISIONARY EXPRESSION- Art that involves
simplification and/or rearrangement of natural
objects to meet the needs of Artistic expression.
PORTRAIT- A painting, drawing, or sculpture or
other medium showing a person or several
people. Portraits usually Show just the face and
shoulders, but it can include part or all of the
body, as well.
6. WAYS OF REPRESENTING ARTS
REALISM- A style of work focuses on the
accuracy of details that depicts and somehow
mirrors reality.
ABSTRACTION- art that does not attempt to
represent an accurate depiction of a visual
reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms
and gestural marks to achieve its effect.
SYMBOLISM- Symbolism was both an artistic
and a literary movement that suggested ideas
through symbols and emphasized the meaning
behind the forms, lines, shapes, and colors.
FAUVISM- Style of painting that emerged in
France around 21th century. They used pure and
vibrant colors by applying straight from the paint
tube to the canvass.
DADAISM-A revolt by certain 20th-
century painters and writers in France, German
y, and Switzerland against smugness in tradition
al artand Western society; their works, illustrati
ng absurdity through paintings of purposeless
machines and collages of discardedmaterials, ex
pressed their cynicism about conventional ideas
of form and their rejection of traditional conce
pts of beauty.
FUTURISM- An early 20th century art movement
that started in Italy. Which highlighted the
speed, energy, dynamism, and power of
machines.
SURREALISM- Surrealism aimed to revolutionise
human experience, rejecting a rational vision of
life in favour of one that asserted the value of
the unconscious and dreams.
7. VISUAL ART- Are art forms that create works
that are primarily visual in nature.
8. MEDIUM OF ART- Medium can refer to both
to the type of art, as well as the materials an
artwork is made from.
9. DRAWING- is creating a picture with
a variety of tools, in most cases
pencils, crayons, pens or markers. Artists
draw on different types of surfaces, like
paper or canvas. The first drawings
were discovered in caves, that date
back about 30,000 years.
10. PAINTING- Painting is often called the most
important form of visual art. It is about
putting colours on a canvas or a wall.
Painters express their ideas through
a mixture of colours and different brush
strokes .
11. STAINED GLASS- Refers to glass that has
been colored by metallic oxides during the
manufacturing process. Different additives
produce different hues, allowing artisans to
strategically produce glass of specific colors
12. MOSAIC- A picture or other design
constructed from smaller pieces
13. TAPESTRY- is one of the oldest forms of
woven textile, has been used to create
everything from tunics and purses to table
covers and chair backs, as well as some of
the world's largest and most beautiful pieces
of textile art.
14. PRINTMAKING- Art that is made
by covering a plate with ink and pressing it
on the surface of another object. Today
prints are mostly produced on paper today
but originally, they were pressed
onto cloth or other objects.
15. PHOTOGRAPHY- Photography refers to the
process or practice of creating a photograph
– an image produced by the action of light on
a light-sensitive material
16. SCULPTURE- are three
dimensional pieces of art that are created
by shaping various kinds of material. Among
the most popular are stone, steel,
plastic, ceramics and wood.
17. ARCHITECTURE- is the art and science of
designing, planning, constructing structures.
18. INTERIOR DESIGN- Planning and design of
man-made spaces, a part of environmental
design and closely related to architecture.
19. LANDSCAPES- in this genre typically include
natural scenery that may feature fields,
forests, mountains, and valleys although
figures may also form part of the subject
matter. Sky and weather may also play
important roles in landscape art. Landscape
painting is historically important to both
Western and Chinese painting.
20. LINE- refers to appoint moving at an
identifiable path- it has length and direction.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF LINES
 HORIZONTAL LINE- Are normally
associated with rest of calm.
 VERTICAL LINE- connote elevation or
height.
 DIAGONAL LINE- convey movement
and instability
 CROOKED LINE- are reminiscent of
violence, conflict or struggle.
 CURVED LINE- lines that bend or coil.
they allude to softness, grace,
flexibility.
21. COLORS- one of the elements that enhances
the appeal of an artwork.