making art
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Making Art
PROCESS
• The series of activities and decisions that lead to a finished artifact.
• Processes generally unique to the artist• Most contain common activities
– Conceiving of a work– Deciding its purpose– Creating, showing, and assessing the workC
Processes and Purposes
Processes and Purposes
• Purpose or intended function of the work– Commercial
expression– Personal
expression
NONREPRESENTATIONAL (NONOBJECTIVE) ART
• Artifacts that use colors, textures, shapes, and brushstrokes to express thoughts and feelings in themselves rather that to make representational artifacts.
REPRESENTATIONAL ART
• Artifacts that render figures, objects, or scenes as they appear in the real or visible world and as they might appear in the imagined world, with varying degrees of accuracy, distortion, and stylization.
SUBJECT MATTER AND MEANING
Choice and Uses of the Medium
• Medium as Material• Medium as Artform• Medium and Craftsmanship
Aspects of Form
• Design elements include:– Line– Texture– Shape– Mass– Volume– Color– Time
• Design principles include:– Balance– Emphasis– Patterns– Unity
Contexts
• Viewing• Internal• Artist’s• Social• Art Historical
FORM
• How an artwork is composed structurally according to its intended functional and expressive purposes.
CONTEXT• VIEWING CONTEXT: Where
and how an artifact is placed for viewing.
• INTERNAL CONTEXT: The juxtaposition of parts within a whole artifact and the meanings they evoke through proximity to one another.
• ARTIST’S CONTEXT: The life history, experiences, and time influencing an artist’s work.
• SOCIAL CONTEXT: The time and place in which an artifiact is mad.
• ART HISTORICAL CONTEXT: The artifact in relation to all other artifacts past and present.
MEANINGS
• Expressive content of an artifact and the artifact’s inferred implications.
Conclusion: The Components and Meanings• Components
– Subject Matter– Medium– Form– Contexts
• Meanings– The results of
interpretations
INTERPRETATION
• A process and result of deciphering what an artifact is about, means, or expresses.
• SUBJECT MATTER + MEDIUM + FORM + CONTEXTS = MEANING
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