what does Monaco mean by the ‘spectrums of art’? 

Monaco states that the word ‘art’ itself shows us a lot about the history of art and how art was used by our ancestors. Art was once recognized in seven different forms: poetry, history, comedy, astronomy. Music, dance, and tragedy. This was because they all signified an important aspect of the universe we lived in. However, the term ‘art’ started to shift its meaning during the thirteenth century where the term art started to become used more for practical reasons such as geometry, it was also re-order to fit the trivium (grammar. Rhetoric and logic). Although, these changes only applied for a university setting, while outside a university the term ‘art’ was used more liberally for different skills like the ‘art of medicine.’ Eventually. In the sixteenth century the word art and the word skill were interchangeable since to be able to master an ‘art’ or ‘skill’ you would need a lot of practice. During the seventeenth century, the modern term for fine arts started to rise and sculpting and painting started to get recognized as an art, while geometry and mathematics started to be seen as separate. Later, a difference between ‘art’ and ‘artisan’ was made which was a new phrase of ‘creative’ or ‘imaginative.’ As science was developing quickly in the nineteenth century, the definition of art started to decrease, since science was gaining added information, updated terms were created such as ‘chemistry’ to help organize. Eventually the term ‘art’ referred to visual arts or literate arts. As technology improved, art was classified as advanced, creating the Dada movement in 1920 where art became basic and met the minimum quantum.  

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