What is Art?

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What is Art?

• Tell me

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What is Art?

• Form of expression with aesthetic
• Aesthetic Values that allow the viewer to judge
  art as satisfying.
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• Aesthetics the branch of philosophy dealing with
  such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the
  sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the
  fine arts, with a view to establishing the
  meaning and validity of critical judgments
  concerning works of art, and the principles
  underlying or justifying such judgments.2.the
  study of the mind and emotions in relation to the
  sense of beauty.

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Aesthetics
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Janet Fish
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• Piet Mondrian

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Jackson Pollock
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Marla Olmstead..
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• Marcel Duchamp
• Ready-mades
• Dadaism

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Perception

• Art is how we organize perception
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception
• How we see
• How we sense something
• Sight
• Sound
• Taste
• Smell
• Sound

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Perception Exercise

• Choose an object
• Perceive it
• Look
• Touch
• Listen
• Smell
• Taste

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Homework

• Perceive an object
• Practice really looking at an object
• Choose one interesting object
• Look
• Feel
• Listen
• Smell
• Taste
• One paragraph for each sense
• Must type, 12pt type, double spaced, ½ margins
• Refer to example

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Language

• Art is communication, a language that artists use
  to express what everyday words can not.
• A picture is worth 1,000 words
• Universal language

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The Aesthetic Experience
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Types of Art.

• Visual Arts.
• Audience primarily uses sight
• Permanent

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Visual Art

• Fine Art
• Deals with process
• Motivation self enjoyed for own sake

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Commercial Art

• Commercial
• Commerce
• To sell
• Money
• Deals with product
• Client needs
• Commercial trade art used to sell
• Allure customer, make you stop and buy

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Fine vs. Commercial

• Is a painting fine or commercial art?
• Is a photograph fine or commercial art?
• Motivation in fine art is self.
• No necessary medium
• Does not have to be beautiful
• Modern termFine Art term changed to visual arts.
  Fine meaning fine quality or academic art.
• Difference is the intention of the artist

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Macys vs. Adams.
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Performing Art

• Human Body is the medium
• Occupies space and time
• Audience uses sight and hearing
• Process rehearsal
• Product performance (show)

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Forms of Expression

• Realism
• Represents the external world in an objective and
  factual manner.
• Jeannette Pasin Sloan

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Representational

• To reproduce recognizable subject matter with a
  slight distortion due to personal interpretation
  and style.
• Vincent van Gogh

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Abstract

• Imagery that simplifies, distorts, or exaggerates
  the concept with personal interpretation and
  style.
• Technique overrides the representation.
• Pablo Picasso

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Non-Objective

• Non-Representational
• Not intending to represent actual objects or
  elements of nature.
• No subject matter.
• Christopher Goodwin

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Materials

• Objects used in the creation of the art
• (Drawing paper)

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Tool

• The object that manipulates the material/medium
• (Paint brush)

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Medium

• Method of expression
• The material that is the art
• (watercolors)

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Homework

• Complete the worksheet given.
• Use your textbook to draw examples of each form
  of expression.
• Da END!