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Arts cross all language barriers to:
inform, influence, entertain, educate, record and perpetuate events (influence change)
All the arts create unique ideas that carry significant messages or exist for:
beauty alone
What word refers to artistic taste and the appreciation of the fine arts?
aesthetic
Which word is often heard in connection with the fine arts, carrying the connotation of an expert or authority on a particular subject?
connoisseur
Which word describes the process of bringing an idea into existence that has been conceived through experimentation and exploration of media and processes, and projected as a personal expression?
creativity
The first forms of art appear about:
40,000 B.C. (Beginnings)
The first race to leave artifacts lived during the Paleolithic Age and were known as the:
Neanderthals (Beginnings)
When these people disappeared (Neanderthals), they were replaced with the:
Cro-Magnon (Beginnings)
These people (Cro-Magnon) were the first to use art as a:
means of communication and historical reference(Beginnings)
What occurred that made a written record of history possible in this period? (Egypt)
the advent of communication
The Egyptians had basic patterns for institutions, beliefs, artistic ideas, and religion. This helped them develop:
a strong sense of continuity
Our knowledge of Egyptian civilization rests almost entirely on what?
their art, artifacts, and contents of their tombs
The rules applied to the arts by the Greeks centered on:
proportion and balance
Of the hundreds of plays written by ancient Greeks:
only about 30 remain
How many actors usually played all the parts in a Greek drama?
3
What is an aulas?
a flute like instrument
