Unit 2 Appreciate
Peiced Together
“Good ____ come in small packages,” they say.
Indeed, some cultures around the world appreciate the importance of small things, often putting them together to create ____ works of art.
Often, practical need or creative desire plays a key ____ in such efforts.
Patchwork, whose beauty has long been appreciated in many cultures across the globe, is a type of needlework that involves sewing scraps ____ fabric together to create a larger piece of art.
Every culture is proud of its own patterns, including ____ who take pride in their unique style, jogakbo.
Created ____ the Joseon dynasty, it is a type of traditional wrapping cloth made by stitching small pieces of fabric into a large square or rectangle.
Frugal women did not want to waste any fabric and ____ ways to reuse it.
____ jogakbo was much more than just repurposing fabric.
It often told the creator’s life story ____ a finished piece contained fabric scraps from her wedding skirt, her husband’s shirt, and her children’s clothes.
The practical need to ____ leftover patches gave birth to a novel art form.
The beauty of jogakbo ____ in its design, which results from stitching together patches of various shapes, sizes, and colors in a seemingly improvised manner.
Stitching such random patches into a perfect square or rectangle requires artistic sensitivity, a high level of skill, careful planning, and long hours ____
The desire for creative excellence resulted in harmonious combinations of patches in various colors, shapes, and sizes, which have been ____ to modern abstract paintings, such as those of Piet Mondrian or Paul Klee.
Jogakbo was a useful activity in which leftover pieces of cloth were transformed into a pursuit of beauty and utility, eventually becoming an important part ____ traditional Korean craft art.
Assembled Together
The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France and Nasir al-Mulk mosque in Shiraz, Iran amaze their visitors with brilliant glass window panels through which astonishing light ____ vigorous colors penetrates.
These panels are called stained-glass windows and are made up of colored pieces of glass assembled together ____ form large windows.
In Europe and the Middle East, the techniques for stainedglass windows advanced quickly during the Medieval period, when religious ____ got bigger to accommodate more worshipers and prayers.
Small pieces of glass assembled next to one another were not ____ more practical for construction but also able to tell a story.
Since most people were illiterate at that time, the images placed on the windows helped them understand religious messages that they might otherwise have been unable to ____
Making a stained-glass window is a ____ in which intricacy is required.
____ involves creating durable glass sheets and staining them, cutting them into desired shapes, and assembling them into prepared designs.
Each step ____ expert craftspeople working together.
Though originally used in religious structures, stained-glass windows found their way into a variety of modern buildings, including ____ homes.
These little pieces are now recognized worldwide as an important ____ of creative art, whose splendor wouldn’t have been acknowledged without the glass artists’ desire for beauty sparked by a practical need.
Strung Together
Throughout the ages and across all cultures, there have been ____ decorative objects with a hole for threading called beads.
In its simplest form, beadwork can involve threading a ____ beads together on a single string to make a simple bracelet or necklace, or on a larger scale, to form beaded bags, clothing, or even wall-hangings.
Beadwork ____ ancient, evidenced by the findings of beads dating back to the Stone Age.
Back then, people strung ____ shells, or rocks together to hang around their neck.
As cultures and societies evolved over time, beadwork became a form of personal expression, a symbol of social class, or even a talisman ____ drive away bad luck.
Interestingly, some regions ____ particularly rich traditions.
The Ndebele tribe of South Africa, for example, is famed for intricate dresses made ____ glass beads.
Different designs ____ as a means of marking different developmental stages of a woman’s life.
An unmarried girl may wear a square apron onto which thousands of glass beads were hand-sewn, while a married woman might wear a five-paneled apron, along with ____ necklaces and a beaded cape.
Similarly, beadwork is ____ essential aspect of many Native American cultures.
Beadwork powerfully expresses cultural identity, reflecting ____ sense of continuity across generations.
Pieced Together by ____ and Desire
Plato once remarked that “our ____ will be the real creator.”
When need or desire arises, different communities willingly attach small, simple, insignificant everyday objects to one another to generate a new form of creative ____ that is more beautiful and more practical than the mere sum of its parts.
The Greek philosopher may have recognized that the process for all things creative begins from within, from ____ and desire, to express artistic instincts or to maximize the utility of things available.
Cultures may vary on the surface, but they all seem to share some common elements, often ____ and essential, rooted deep in human nature.