HOA Q&A_NCG

Name: Ng Cheng Ghee
Student ID: 1107247

What is art?

Art has various types of meaning. The earliest meaning is from Latin word, which defines art as "craft" or "skill". For instance, the word "artifact" is from Latin phrase "arte (by skill) facere (ablative of ars ("art") + factum ("thing made") ).According to The Encyclopedia Britannica Online, art defines as "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others". From the definition above, art can be looked back as earliest as the pre-history art such as the rocking crafting, cave painting and others.However, nowadays, the word "art" can describe and define into a few meanings which depend on people's perspective. Art can be viewed as the knowledge of specific talent. It also can be a piece that can attract peoples emotions and senses. For example, the nudity of human is a kind of art.

What is history?

History is any knowledge and information about the pass after peoples started to invent writing and record things. There are different types of pass events counted as history. For example, the record of natural disaster, an interesting incident, and even the medical record of patients counted as history. During Middle English, the word was known as narrative of an incident which mean "story". However, in some countries such as German and French, the word is still used to indicate both meaning which are "story" and "history" due to the influence of synthetic language.

What is design?

The meaning of "design" is still remain uncertain and does not have a closure until now. There are too much different kind of explanation in the world, some of them are frankly rigid and empty in a formal way. For example, according to Dick Buchanan, "Design is the human power to conceive, plan, and realize products that serve human beings in the accomplishment of any individual or collective purpose. But in this world, the goal of design is more than accomplishment and collective purpose, sometimes, peoples design for their own sake or their own happiness. A lousy and boring design may meant nothing and no valuable to the world, but it does not mean that it is not a design.

What do you want from this course?

Hopefully, I can learn and understand more about art and design that will help me to produce better quality arts when I design and do any artwork in the future. Last but not least, of course I hope that I can make tons of money from this course when I used it to find a career (dream on, I know).

What do you want to be doing in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?

Honestly, in my imagination, 5 years later, I will be graduated and continue to study the advance level of art related studies (If I'm that rich and capable enough to do that, which is not). 10 years later, hopefully I already have a steady job that will support me and my parents financially. Marriage? Not a big fan and do not intend to rush for it, fate will arrange for me. Lastly, 20 years later, positively I will have enough money to travel the world to explore and enjoy every single place on the Earth. That is just stupid if you do not wish for this.Marriage? If I lucky to have one then yea for me, if not still have to move on.

What do you hope to get from this particular class?

I hope that I can know better about the background arts and designs and definitely can get a better grade on this class.

Is history of art and design necessary do you think for your larger goals?

Yes, I think that is needed for me to study it because in order to produce a good artwork and design, we always have to understand the art and design in the past. Is just like we have to master the rules of design and art before we break the rules. It is essential for my larger goals as well, which is a good designer.

Image of the most beautiful thing for you, state your reason.

This is one of my favorite "stolen moment" photography. It is the most beautiful thing for me because it shows the simplest thing when I look at it, where you feel that it is so sincere and simple. It is just like an unconscious moment or our life.

Image of the most ugly thing for you,state you reason.

This is the ugliest thing for me because I just hate it when I look at it. A big NO whenever peoples say it out loud. Apologize for failing to give a better reason to describe it.