Objective versus Subjective Art

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Objective versus Subjective Art
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• What is subjective art?
• Art based on opinion, judgment, assumption,
  beliefs varies person to person.
• What is objective art?
• Art that is observable able to be seen, heard,
  touched, smelled, tasted, factual
• What are the advantages of studying both?

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Objective Art
Realist Artist Andrew Wyeth Master Bedroom,
watercolor
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Andrew Wyeth, Curtain Call
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Maria Sibylla Merian
was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who
studied plants and insects and made detailed
paintings about them. Her detailed observations
and documentation of the metamorphosis of the
butterfly make her a significant, albeit not well
known, contributor to entomology (the scientific
study of insects).
Nature Studies
A painting showing the metamorphosis of
Thysania agrippina produced in 1705. Another
version exists in which all but the opened-winged
butterfly is reversed.
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Subjective Art
"Stuart Davis in Gloucester, part of a
collection of over 60 paintings and works on
paper that survey Stuart Daviss work in the
Gloucester, MA.
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Glouster Landscape, Stuart Davis
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The left side suggests an interior scene, while
the right side evokes urban architecture or a
factory environment. Bright red and blue frame
the heavy black outlines.
Davis's blaring colors, geometric shapes, and
bold lines helped capture the quickening pulse of
early-twentieth-century America. In the 1920s and
1930s, when most of his contemporaries were still
using nineteenth-century techniques, Davis delved
into abstraction, appropriating images and
rhythms from jazz bars, backstreets, and the
industrial clutter of cities.
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• Essential Questions
• How can you turn and uninteresting subject into
  an interesting drawing?
• Whats the difference between looking at
  something analytically compared to emotionally?
• In what ways does our point of view change our
  relationship with an object?
• How can observation be used as a tool?

Enduring Understanding Close observation can
both enhance our information and expressive ideas.
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Now we are going to be creating our own
subjective and objective dyptich. We will
complete the following

1. A blind contour drawing of a man made tool or
   organic object.
2. Subjective three drawings of the same object in
   colored pencil first, then enhancing one of the
   drawings using expressive marks to show movement
   (manmade) or location (organic).
3. Objective three drawings of the same object in
   color pencil and graphite pencil from different
   viewpoints frontal view, alternative angle, and
   a zoomed in area.