Art and the Aesthetic

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Chapter 15

• Art and the Aesthetic

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Chapter Outline

• The Pervasiveness of Art
• Forms of Artistic Expression
• Art and Culture 

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Art

• When something's purely utilitarian or functional
  nature is modified for the purpose of enhancing
  it's aesthetic qualities and thus making it more
  pleasurable for our senses. 

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Aesthetic

• Qualities that make objects, actions, or language
  more beautiful or pleasurable, according to
  culturally relative and variable standards.

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Art

• A cultural universal.
• Art is not viewed as something separate and
  distinct among most traditional peoples.
• American Indian peoples had no word for art in
  their languages. 

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Body Arts

• Artificial artistic enhancement or beautification
  of the human body by painting, tattooing,
  scarification, or other means.
• Physical Alterations hair styles, head shaping,
  food binding
• Body painting
• Tattooing and scarification

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Visual Arts

• Arts that are produced in a material or tangible
  form, including basketry, pottery, textiles,
  paintings, drawings, sculptures, masks, carvings,
  and the like.

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Visual Arts

• Basketry
• Ceramics
• Paintings 
• Jewelry

• Clothing
• Masks
• Sculpture

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Visual Arts 2 Factors

• Form - the result of a combination of style and
  function.
• Ornamentation - design added to the physical form
  of an object.

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Performance Arts

• Forms of art such as music, percussion, song,
  dance, and drama that involve sound and/or
  stylized body movements.

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Performance Arts

• Refers to arts that use sound and movement.
• Music
• Song
• Dance
• Theater/drama

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Art in a Cultural Context

• Religion
• Gender
• Identity

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 Social Functions of Art

• Express individuality.
• Define and reinforce gender differences.
• Public display of ethnic or group affiliation.
• Social status or rank.

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Quick Quiz
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1. Which of the following is not considered
artistic?

1. hair styles
2. adding trees in the yard
3. seasoning our food
4. none of the above

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Answer d

• Hairstyles, adding trees in the yard and
  seasoning our food are all considered to be
  artistic.

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2. Which of the following is not a form of
artistic expression?

1. scarification
2. music
3. the use of human or animal pictorial
   representations among Muslims
4. dance

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Answer c

• The use of human or animal pictorial
  representations among Muslims is not considered a
  form of artistic expression.

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3. Which of the following is true?

1. Western art is mostly religious in its themes
2. Classical Greek art was mostly secular
3. Western art has become increasingly secular since
   about 1700
4. in ancient Greek drama the roles of men were
   played by women

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Answer c

• It is true that Western art has become
  increasingly secular since about 1700.