What is art?
Every thing made by man is art. It referred to any useful skill. Art has been defined as a skill in making or doing based on true and adequate reasoning.
THE BIRD IS SINGLE ROOT AND ITS STAND IS ANOTHER ROOT
In Latin word it is ‘ars’, it was applied to any skill or knowledge that was needed to produce something, in Greek the word ‘techne’, it may be techniques. In the middle ages a student who finished logic, geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
The liberal arts originated in ancient greek and roman attitudes towards different types of skill.
There are several types of arts, liberal arts, service arts, fine arts etc. liberal arts comes from Latin word ‘liberalis’ meaning “suitable for free man..
The skills of the artist, the craft man and the technologist, all generally involve changes in the natural world. A piece of wood is shaped into a statue by a sculptor. The goal of artists is to give permanence to the present, to speak to their age by creating works that will endure for all time. The skill of the artists rests upon knowledge and experience.
Classification of arts: single root
Liberal and fine or useful
Sensory appeal
Single arts:
Painting, sculpture, music, and literature are single arts. Architecture, drama, and dance are composite arts. They depend for their success on a variety of talents.
