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Quotes about the importance of Arts education

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Arts education has always proved to improve academic achievements, spark innovations and help strengthen the economy in different ways. Arts education holds a significant role in the lives of students as it helps to foster a positive culture and climate in schools. It also develops skills like resilience and a growth mindset among people. It brings out creativity in people.

Here are a few inspirational quotes as to why art education is important and that art matters.

  1. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” -Albert Einstein

 

  1. “The arts are an essential element of education, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. Music, dance, painting, and theatre are all keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment.” -William Bennett, Former US Secretary of Education

 

  1. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -Pablo Picasso

 

  1. “To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.” -George Washington

 

  1. “The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.” -Dana Gioia

 

  1. “The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.” -Barak Obama

 

  1. “Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Albert Einstein

 

  1. “An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.” -Gavin Newsom

 

  1. “There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.” -Charlie Chaplin

 

  1. “The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.” -Barbara Jordan
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General Knowledge questions for art students

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Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. In this article, you will find ten general knowledge questions and answers on all things related to art. So be prepared to test your general knowledge of everything related to art, from Picasso to Van Gogh.

Questions:
  1. The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci is on display in which Paris Museum?

Answer: Louvre Museum

  1. Which artist painted Poppy Field in 1873?

Answer: A French painter Claude Monet

  1. In which century did Leonardo da Vinci paint The Last Supper?

Answer: Fifteenth century

  1. Who created the famous sculpture ‘The Thinker’?

Answer: A French Sculptor Auguste Rodin

  1. In which city would you find the Van Gogh Museum?

Answer: Amsterdam, Netherlands

  1. Who was the first famous artist of the Italian Renaissance?

Answer: Masaccio (Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone Cassai)

  1. What was the subject of the earliest known paintings?

Answer: Animals

  1. What did I.M. Pei design outside the Louvre Museum, in Paris?

Answer: A Pyramid

  1. What did Jan van Eyck paint on, mostly?

Answer: On Wooden panels

  1. What does the Venus of Brassempouy represent?

Answer: A woman’s head

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Shafqat Mehmood Inaugurates NCA Thesis Show

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National College of Arts has a history of producing eminent artists, designers and art professionals who are contributing in varied walks of life. Students spend four years at the college exploring multiple mediums of expression, which culminate in the form of degree show. The degree show comprises of the works by the students from 8 departments i.e Fine Arts, Visual Communication Design, Product Design, Ceramic Design, Textile Design, Architecture, Film and Television and Musicology.

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