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Things to ponder…

Things to ponder…. Why do people create? (paintings, music, monuments, sculptures, poetry, etc.) When did people first begin creating things not necessary for survival? Is visual art supposed to be pleasing to look at? What is art?. Is this art? So who decides what is art?.

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Things to ponder…

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  1. Things to ponder… • Why do people create? (paintings, music, monuments, sculptures, poetry, etc.) • When did people first begin creating things not necessary for survival? • Is visual art supposed to be pleasing to look at? • What is art?

  2. Is this art?So who decides what is art? Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

  3. IKB 79 by Yves Klein

  4. Black Circle by Kasimir Malevich

  5. 8 Themes and Purposes of Art 1. The Sacred Realm – gods, goddesses, angels, demons, spirits of ancestors, spirits of nature • Religious images serve to focus the thoughts of the faithful by giving concrete form to abstract ideas.

  6. 2. The Social Order – symbols of rank and signs of status at all levels of society; monuments.

  7. 3. Storytelling – lives of saints, folktales passed down through generations, significant events • Artists turn to stories whose roots reach deep into their culture’s collective memory.

  8. 4. The Here and Now – images of daily routines/lives

  9. 5. TheHumanExperience • We are all born, we pass through childhood, we mature into sexual beings, we search for love, we grow old, we die. • We experience similar emotions – doubt and wonder, happiness and sorrow, loneliness and despair. • The decisions we must weigh on our journey through life

  10. 6. InventionandFantasy • The idea that a painting may spring from the imagination

  11. 7. ArtandNature – nature and our relationship to it • Nature can be a subject for art and also serve as a material for art.

  12. 8. ArtasArt – art can be its own theme, with no other purpose than to give visual pleasure or to pose another answer to the ongoing question, “What is art?” • New materials or techniques can often inspire a creative response

  13. Three types of art: • Representational – represent the world more or less as our eyes see it • Abstract – simplifies and recombines shapes • 3. Nonrepresentational –does not refer to the appearances of the visible world

  14. Three styles(artistic languages): 1. Naturalism – most faithful to visual experience 2. Stylization – conforms to an artistic or intellectual idea 3. Abstraction – process that simplifies and recombines shapes

  15. Perspective Paintings can appear to be: • Flat • Shallow • Deep • How do artists achieve depth? • Foreshortening • Overlapping • Size

  16. The Love Letter by Jan VerMeerThis painting is deep.

  17. Agony in the Garden By Andrea Mantegna

  18. This painting by Ad Reinhardt is flat.

  19. The Three Musicians By Pablo Picasso This painting is shallow

  20. Red Canna by Georgia O’Keefe

  21. Little Yellow Horses by Marc Franz

  22. How do YOU see art?

  23. How do YOU see art? Write a journal response: What has been your experience with art in the past? How well are your eyes “trained”? What goals do you have in learning about art this year, and what art would you like to see?

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