What is Art?

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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.

Aesthetics

Janet Fish

Piet Mondrian

Jackson Pollock

Marla Olmstead…..

Marcel Duchamp

Ready-mades

Dadaism

http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/phil%20of%20art/duchamp2.htm

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

Perception Exercise…

• Choose an object• Perceive it

• Look• Touch• Listen• Smell• Taste

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

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

“The Aesthetic Experience”

Types of Art….

• Visual Arts….– Audience primarily

uses sight– Permanent

Visual Art

• Fine Art– Deals with process– Motivation – self

enjoyed for own sake

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

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 term…Fine Art term changed to visual

arts. Fine meaning fine quality or academic art.

• Difference is the intention of the artist

Macy’s vs. Adams….

Performing Art

• Human Body is the medium

• Occupies space and time

• Audience uses sight and hearing

• Process – rehearsal• Product –

performance (show)

Forms of Expression

• Realism– Represents the

external world in an objective and factual manner.

– Jeannette Pasin Sloan

Representational

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

• Vincent van Gogh

Abstract

• Imagery that simplifies, distorts, or exaggerates the concept with personal interpretation and style.

• Technique overrides the representation.

• Pablo Picasso

Non-Objective

• Non-Representational• Not intending to

represent actual objects or elements of nature.

• No subject matter.

• Christopher Goodwin

Materials

• Objects used in the creation of the art

(Drawing paper)

Tool

• The object that manipulates the material/medium

(Paint brush)

Medium

• Method of expression• The material that is

the art

(watercolors)

Homework

• Complete the worksheet given.

• Use your textbook to draw examples of each form of expression.

Da END!