ART APPRECIATION design, crafts, and architecture (Esaak, 2019).
APPLIED ARTS is the application of design and aesthetics to objects of function and KEY CONCEPTS: The Functions of Art everyday use. ARCHITECTURE is both the process and PERSONAL FUNCTION is for public display or product of planning, designing, and constructing expression. buildings or other structures (Encyclopedia Britannica, retrieved June 24, 2020). SOCIAL FUNCTION refers to the celebration or to affect collective behavior. CREATIVITY is the phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is PHYSICAL FUNCTION refers to the utilitarian formed. The created item may be intangible use of art. (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such REPRESENTATIONAL ART has subjects that as an invention, literary work, and/or painting). refer to objects or events occurring in the real world (Caslib, Garing, & Casaul, 2018). DANCE is a performing art consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART does not movement. This movement has aesthetic and make a reference to the real world, whether it is symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance a person, place, think, or even a particular event. by performers and observers in a particular It is stripped down to visual elements such as culture (Fraleigh, 1987). shapes, lines, colors that are employed to FILM is a form of entertainment that enacts translate a particular feeling, emotion, and even a story by sound and a sequence of images concept (Caslib, Garing, & Casaul, 2018). giving the illusion of continuous movement. LITERATURE is anybody or collection of written work. It also refers to writing considered to be an art form or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, and sometimes deploys language in ways that differ from ordinary usage (Leitch et al., 2018). MUSIC is the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion (Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1992). 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 dry form, such as pastels (Boddy-Evans, 2017). PERFORMANCE ARTS refer to an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be live, through documentation, spontaneously or written, presented to a public in a Fine Arts context, traditionally interdisciplinary. SCULPTURE is a 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 modeling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood, and other materials. THEATER is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music and dance (Random House Webster’s Dictionary, 1991). VISUAL ARTS are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture,