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Elements of Art  |  Principles of Art  |  Definitions  |  Guide

 

I N T R O  D U C T I O N

T O  H U M A N I T I E S

I N T R O  D U C T I O N    A R T  &  K N O W L E D G E

 

BRANCHES OF EDUCATION

HUMANITIES Performing Arts Visual Arts Architecture Literature History Philosophy Religion Languages and Linguistics Jurisprudence (theory and philosophy of law) SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Anthropology Archaeology Cultural and Ethnic Studies Economics Gender and Sexuality Geography Political Science Psychology   NATURAL SCIENCE Physics Chemistry Space Sciences Earth Sciences Life Sciences   FORMAL SCIENCES Computer Sciences Logic (also a branch of philosophy) Mathematics Statistics PROFESSIONS & APPLIED SCIENCES Design Engineering Education Business Forestry and Environmental Studies Family and Consumer Science Health Sciences Journalism, Media, and Communications Law (jurisprudence is a humanities) Library and Museum Studies Military Sciences Public Administration Social Work Transportation Agriculture

 

 

What is beauty? (Aesthetics)

Is beauty an average? read  more

 

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ELEMENTS OF ART  p54

View the Class ART Gallery

 

PRINCIPLES OF ART  p61
Guide

 

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PAINTERLY

 

A painting is considered painterly when the brushstrokes are visible, and it was painted in a free, and spontaneous manner. Examples:

Marla Olmstead

 

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853 – 1890)
Starry Night, June 1889	Self Portrait	The Sower, 1888
Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers	Irises, 1889	Country road in Provence by night
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch (1606 – 1669)
The Anatomy Lesson		Old Man with Fur Hat, 1630
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French (1841 – 1919)
Luncheon of Boating Party	Seating girl, 1883	Charles & Georges Durand-Ruel, 1882

 

LINEAR

 

A painting is considered linear when the brushstrokes are not visible, and it was painted in a precise, and controlled manner. Examples"

 

Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510)
	Venus and Mars, 1483
Birth of Venus
Jan van Eyck Flemish (1395 – 1441)
Suckling Madonna Enthroned	Crucifixion Juicio Final	Portrait of a Man
Roger Dean	H. R. GIGER	Surrealism

 

 

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PURPOSES OF ART -  p21/23 Read

 

3. Revealing Metaphysical Truths
 

POINTILLISM

Georges Seurat

 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte

 

 

Detail of La Parade

 

 

SURREALISM (presentation)
 

Surrealist Manifesto

From Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, 1924

ANDRÉ BRETON

Surrealist Animation
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy, 1900–1955, French painter.
Dali and Max Ernst: Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish
Max Ernst, 1891–1976, German painter, sculptor, and poet. He is a pioneer of the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Rene Magritte, 1898-1967, Belgian Painter

 

John Locke – p20 
P21 Out of chaos we create form – TED A Stroke of Insight

4: Different Perspective:

Tom Forsythe's Food Chain Barbie
 

DADA or DADAISM (Art is not a mirror; it's a hammer.)
 

Dada
It began in Zürich Switzerland in 1916 as a reaction to World War I. They believed that “Destruction is also creation." Dada can best be defined as art without rules. It focuses on the absurdity of existence, irrationality, is countercultural, controversial, and shocking.

Fountain (1917) by Marcel Duchamp

Art is whatever is displayed as art.

Marcel Duchamp (1887 –1968) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He produced relatively few artworks. His output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period.

He said, “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
 

 

FUNCTIONS OF ART - p21:

 

SOCIAL CHANGE

 

Dread Scott Tayler's What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?

 

Banksy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GVs3BSxoOs
Warning - the above link has material that might be considered offensive.
 

Igor Stravinsky - THE RITE OF SPRING, 1912

 

Picasso - G  U E  R  N  I  C  A

 

Guernica  p 31- During the Spanish Civil War Nazis bombed the Spanish town.

- 11 feet tall by 25 feet long – you feel dwarfed by it, and like you’re within the image.
- The painting is done in black, white, and grays to create contrast (compare to 0.10 p31).

- The horse dominates the center, and represents the people  who were victimized by incomprehensible cruelty.

Watch Pan’s Labyrinth: www.panslabyrinth.com
- The bull symbolizes senseless suffering, farm animals (Guernica’s a farming community), & God (the mother pleads, & the bull ignores.  The problem of evil.
- The man holding flowers?

 

 

CRITICISM:

 

Gabriel Cornelius von Max, 1840-1915
Monkeys as Judges of Art, 1889

 

 

PLATO (427-348 BCE) was the first art critic. P27 BCE means before the common era. He believed in different levels of reality, and but art at the bottom because it’s a copy (Art is a Mirror). If art is not viewed as a mirror, what is it then?
 

Plato believed in censoring art. We don’t know all ends, so we shouldn’t tamper with convention. We shouldn't glorify violence and vice - Collateral Club Scene with music by Paul Oakenfold. 

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

 

ARISTOTLE (384-382 BCE) was Plato’s student. Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of drama and literary theory. It covers poetry, drama, comedy, and tragedy.

 

DECONSTRUCTION

This theory of art criticism was advanced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida. He believed that an analysis of any artwork would yield conflicting meanings. The meaning of a work arises from the artist and viewer, so there is no absolute meaning, facts, or truths in art. There are only interpretations.

 

FORMAL CRITICISM

Formal criticism does not consider any external information. The work must stand on it's own. This ignores symbolisms that point to things happening in the world. READ MORE

 

Criteria:

      Artisanship

      Clarity

      Coherence

      Interest

      Is it unique?
 

CONTEXTUAL CRITICISM

 

This includes external factors.

Criteria:
 

     Does the artist have something to say?

     How well does she say it?

     Is it worth saying?

     Does it make you think or feel?