Art

Defination of Art:

It is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

  • Leonardo Da Vinci was left handed and his personal notes were written from the right side of the page to the left.
  • Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
  • Learning to draw and think creatively helps to prepare students for the future.
  • English artist Andy Brown, created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by stitching together 1,000 used tea bags.
  • The first pencil was invented in England in 1565.
  • Everyone is creative.
  • Learning to draw helps kids in all other subjects.
  • Drawing develops hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness- abilities that engineers and architects use.
  • Art develops kids imagination and critical thinking skills.
  • Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro and Paolo Livrea won this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for measuring the relative pain people suffer while looking at an ugly painting, rather than a pretty painting, while being shot (in the hand) by a powerful laser beam.
  • Nobody knows when the first people began to produce art, but it was pretty early on, probably more than a hundred thousand years ago. The earliest art we know about is  stone carving from Africa.