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The definition of art:
- (A HUMAN PHENOMENON)
- Art is a primarily visual medium that is used to express ideas about our human experience and the world around us.
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What is art for whom and when?
- →Art is whatever a society or a culture says is art.
- →Not a universal or fixed definition. →Fluctuates, because cultures are alive and changing.
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Functions of Art
- →Assists in rituals
- →Reflects customs
- →Communicates
- →Helps us imagine the divine
- →Commemorates the dead
- →Glorifies the state
- →Protests political and social
- →Celebrates war and conquest
- →Promotes cohesion
- →Records likenesses
- →Educates us
- →Entertains us
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ART HAS VISUAL FORM
allows the work to be seen or touched, and ideas to be communicated.
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Visual form
- the formal elements, line, shape, color, texture, mass, volume, space.
- →composition, the arrangement of formal elements
- →materials from which the artwork is made.
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Art has content
ideas associated with each artwork
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Content
- communicated through:
- →Imagery
- →symbolic meaning
- →where it is used or displayed
- →customs, beliefs, and values of the culture
- →writings that explain the work
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Aesthetics
- →a branch of philosophy dealing with art, its sources, forms, and effects.
- →goes beyond individual tastes or preferences.
- →is a critical reflection on art.
- →reflects the culture’s preferences.
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Perception
focused and concentrated looking
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Response
reflects the artists’ responses to their life experiences and the world around them.
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Expression
art is the expression of the artist’s perception and response
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Artistic Creativity
- Creativity allows us to originate something or to cause some object to come into being.
- •What that means exactly can vary from culture to culture.
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2 essential ingredients ofcreativity in the US?
- →innovation
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- →self-expression
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Crafts
are sometimes distinguished from art.
- →refers to specific media, ceramics, glass, jewelry, weaving, and woodworking…
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- →involves making objects rather than images.
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- →objects often have a utilitarian purpose.
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Stylistic Categories
- Style is the manner of artistic expression:
- →of an individual artist
- →of a historic period
- →of an entire civilization
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Naturalistic
recognizable imagery that is depicted as seen in nature.
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Representational
contains entities from the world in recognizable form.
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Idealized art
natural imagery is modified, strives for perfection within the bounds, values and aesthetics of a particular culture.
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Classical Art
- →art that is orderly, balanced, clear, well proportioned.
- →describes a point in the evolution of styles
- →represents the full development of a certain style.
- →(with a capital C), refers specifically to art made in Greece in the 5th C. BCE.
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Expressive or expressionist styles of art communicate
- →heightened emotions
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- →a sense of urgency or spontaneity.
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Expressive styles
- →appear bold and immediate
- →feature distorted, abstracted imagery
- →appear asymmetrical
- →have textured surfaces, thick paint application
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Surreal Art
- →contains bizarre or fantastic arrangements
- – of images or materials.
- →taps the workings of the unconscious mind.
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Non-objective Art
contains imagery generated by the artist.
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“Abstract art”
is the same as “nonobjective,”
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Abstracted
imagery may or may not be recognizable, but derived from reality by distorting, enlarging, and/or dissecting from nature.
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Cultural styles
- are apparent when studying a particular art form that appears globally.
- →Islamic mosques are built globally.
- →Local solutions are different from each other.
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Artists’ Styles
refers to the distinguishing characteristics of an artist’s work.
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