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# ART A111 ## Fine Arts Were about inspiration and genius and enjoyed as refined pleasure. ## Crafts Were about skills and rules, and made for usefulness/entertainment. ## In Summary Art and craft are eternally separate and it just took us time to realize it; in the wake of modernism, art has gra...

# ART A111 ## Fine Arts Were about inspiration and genius and enjoyed as refined pleasure. ## Crafts Were about skills and rules, and made for usefulness/entertainment. ## In Summary Art and craft are eternally separate and it just took us time to realize it; in the wake of modernism, art has gradually revealed its essence and its historical phase therefore is now over. ## Critics Demand Tracey Emin's Bed Goes to Museum Emin made the piece after a breakup, it shows the artist's unmade bed with stained sheets, cigarette butts and condoms scattered around it. ## Assumptions of Art - Art is Universal - Art is timeless - Art is ageless ## Nature and Arts - **Art is not nature** Art is made by human beings. Artists frequently find their inspiration and subject in matter in nature, and artist do use nature as a medium, but art itself not nature. - **Nature is not art** Nature is God made. - **Art and Nature** Has beauty/aesthetics. ## Art involves experience There can never be appreciation of art without experience. ## **Art,** then, is not only what rests in the frame, but **is itself** a frame for experience. Art is a way of preserving experiences, of which there are many transient and beautiful examples, and that we need help containing. # Creativity, Imagination and Expression ## Art appreciation as a way of life Each artwork beholds beauty in its own kind, the kind that the artist sees and wants the viewers to perceive. “The role of art as a creative work is to depict the world in a completely different light and perspective” - Jean-Paul Sartre ## The role of creativity in art making - Creativity requires thinking outside the box. - In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another. ## Art as a product of imagination, imagination as a product of art “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein - **Art as expression**