* Art : 1) In old, know-how, human, any practice producing a result unnatural (artificial). 2) In the modern sense of aesthetics, production or creation of works intended to please (Fine Art), that is to say, to lead in appearance, a positive aesthetic appreciation.
* Work : From the popular Latin tripalium "machine three piles" designed to stop the horses for shoeing, which "instrument of torture." Any activity aimed at producing a useful work. Specifically, all activities performed by humans to produce goods and services in return for which he is paid. * The work is often associated with pain and suffering. Elsewhere in the Bible, God punishes sin by driving the first Adam from the Garden of Eden and now forcing him to cultivate a barren land, "You earn your bread by the sweat of your brow." * For Marx, human labor is helping to transform as well as human nature. Contrary to the animal, acting out of pure instinct, the man determines his consciousness in order to achieve it before you realize it. "What distinguishes early on the worst architect from the bee the most expert, wrote Marx, is that he built the cell in his head before building the hive. '* The wage labor is, according to Nietzsche, "the best policy", "It takes everyone in check and powerful means to hinder the development of reason, desire, taste of independence."
The art requires training, discipline, technique , concentration. It reports to work instead of play Art is serious work. But artistic creation is a free activity, disinterested e, whose purpose fun and entertainment .
The artist provides a real job, because the artistic application of effort and considerable technical skill.
The art requires a technique
Like any work of art requires technical know-how. The most obvious similarity between the artist and the technician is manual labor of the material. Focillon in this regard speaks of the "tactile values" of art: "Art is done by hand. (...) In Roman iconography, God does not blow on the globe of the world to launch in the ether. He puts it up in there with the hand. And it's a great hand Rodin (1840-1917), to include the work of six days, brings out a block where the dormant forces of chaos "(life forms). Similarly, the hand reveals itself technician intelligence of man.
* i) Art is a work rather than a game
a) The art requires a technique.
b) The art takes effort.
c) Art is serious.
* ii) The art is a game rather than work.
a) Art is not utilitarian.
b) The art is free.
c) The artist plays with the forms
