FINE ART
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart go together. The head conceives an idea, the heart fills it with emotions and the hand gives artistic shape to the idea. Fine art, like a triangle, is the result of physical, intellectual and emotional streams working together in such a way that the resultant Work or piece of art is a thing of beauty and a source of inspiration forever. Whenever there is incoherence or incompatibility among the three agents of human personality, there is bound to be distortion and disturbance, both in the imaginative as well as in the creative processes. The concentration of the held, hand and heart and their intensity and intention supplement each other’s efforts covert or overt, is the prerequisite of all fine art. An artist is known for the potential of his feelings and reactions to the happenings outside and inside. There should not be any conflict between ideas and emotions If it is, it would bring forth not a specimen of fine art but a lame and limping outburst.
(a) What is fine art?
(b) What are the functions of head, heart and hand in producing an art?
(c) Write the factors which spoil the real art?
(d) What is the prerequisite of fine art?
(e) Why should there not be a conflict between ideas and emotions?
(f) Pick out from the passage word similar in meaning to ‘required as a condition’.
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