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Message, meaning, materials. Traditionally captured ordinary experiences to turn them into something of beauty Items in other cultures that may often serve simple utilitarian functions may be seen as things of beauty or works of art in our own
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Traditionally captured ordinary experiences to turn them into something of beauty • Items in other cultures that may often serve simple utilitarian functions may be seen as things of beauty or works of art in our own • Clothing, environments often created to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer – aesthetics • For most people, the main purpose of art is to satisfy our aesthetic sense. We want to see and experience the beautiful • Art will often represent other truths and realities and be far from creating an aesthetic visual experience • A valuable moment with art may not be its appearance but its ability to trigger a higher level of thought and awareness – this may be a form of beauty in its own right • The public often receives innovative works with negativity or reservation if it does not fit into
The Asparagus. 1880 EdouardManet Oil on Canvas
Seated Bather. 1930 Pablo Picasso
David. 1501-1504 Michaelangelo
Corps de Dame. 1950 Jean Dubuffet
Door to the River. 1960 Willem de Kooning Oil on Canvas
Golden Tree Dorothy Knowles Watercolour
The process of pasting or gluing fragments of printed matter, fabric, natural material – anything relatively flat - onto the two-dimensional surface of the picture plane. Collage
The Dove. 1964 Romare Bearden Paper, gouache, pencil, colored pencil on cardboard Bearden’s meaning is identical with his method. Mixed media provides Bearden with the means to bring the divers elements of urban African-American life into a formally unified, yet still distinctly fragmented, whole.