2. What Is Art?
– Expressive Culture—manifestations of
human creativity
Many cultures lack terms that can be
translated easily as “art” or “the arts”
• Arts include music, theater arts, visual
arts, storytelling, and literature
3. What Is Art?
Aesthetics—“qualities perceived in
works of art...; the...mind and emotions
in relation to the sense of beauty” (The
Random House College Dictionary)
• Art—“the quality, production,
expression, or realm of what is beautiful
or of more than ordinary significance;
the class of objects subject to aesthetic
criteria”
4. What Is Art?
– Jacques Maquet (1986) claims an artwork
is something that stimulates and sustains
contemplation
Such an artistic attitude can be combined and
used to bolster religious attitude
Much art done in association with religion
Art may be created, performed, or displayed
outdoors in public or in special indoor settings
• Art and Religion
5. What Is Art?
Art and Religion
– Rites of passage often feature special
music, dance, song, bodily adornment, and
other manifestations of expressive culture
In any society, art produced for its aesthetic value as
well as for religious purposes
6. Early forms
Music came from early chants of
prayers. Collective and resonated
example Samveda
Literature – Prayers – Rigveda
Mythology
Paintings and Statues- Fertility goddess
Dance –Santal/Oraon
– Shiva , Krishna
11. Ancient Age
Samuel, David and Solomon musicians
– in Hebrew Mythology (songs of
Solomon, songs of deliverance etc.)
Singing trainings by the prophets
A number of Greek Gods and
goddesses
Gods for music and dance
Vedic gods –Narad
Buddha -Amprapali
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18. Middle Age
Statues and Paintings for worship
Islam banned worshipping statues
Islamic Calligraphy developed
Recitation
25. Sistine Chapel
About a year after creating
David, Pope Julius II
summoned Michelangelo to
Rome to work on his most
famous project, the ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel.
26. Creation of Eve Creation of Adam
Separation of Light and The Last Judgment