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What is art?
Art: the expression or application of human creative skill. art must:
- be made with the intent to convey emotion
- should "satisfy the senses"
- be made with intent
- have attention to feeling and emotion art may:
- be a relay of experience or emotion from one person to another
Medium
A particular material, along with an accompanying technique (plural: media). Example include:
- Acrylic, enamel, gesso, glaze, ink, oil
History
- The branch of knowledge dealing with past events
How do you look at art?
Purposes and functions of art include:
- Communicating information:
- In non-literate societies, art was used to teach.
- Today, film and television are used to disseminate information.
- Spirituality and Religion
- All of the world's major religions have used art to inspire and instruct the faithful
- Personal and cultural expression
- Social and political ends - Artists have criticized or influenced values or public opinion - Often it is clear and direct - Other times, however, it is less obvious - Monarchs who commissioned projects to symbolize their strength and power
Generally, art can be broken down into two parts, form, and content.
- Form relates to the "formal" aspects of art, composition or medium.
- Content relates to the subject. What's being portrayed, how are they portraying it?
- The distinction should be made between fact and opinion/guessing.
Parts of form:
- Line and Shape
- Lines define space and may create an outline or contour, as style called "linear"
- They can be visible or implied, and may be a part of composition
- It may be 2 dimensional, 3 dimensional, suggested, or implied.
- *Wherever there is an edge
- Color
- Hue: The name of the color (red, blue, yellow)
- Saturation: The quality or vibrancy of those values
- Value: The addition of white, black, or grey to the value
- Tint: pure hue + white
- Tone: pure hue + grey
- Shade: pure hue + black
- Texture
- Texture is an element of art pertaining to the surface quality or "feel" of the work of art
- Texture can be described as smooth, rough, soft, etc. Some textures are real, and others are simulated
- Textures that can be felt are ones that fingers can actually touch.
- Space and Mass
- Space references to what contains objects: may be 2D or 3D.
- Mass refers to the effect and degree of the bulk, density, and weight of matter in space.
- In architecture or sculpture, it is the area occupied by a form.
- Perspective: Foreshortening is a way of representing an object so that it conveys the illusion of depth; an object appears to be thrust forward or backward in space.
- Composition
- How are items arranged or organized in art
- Symmetrical, asymmetrical
- Static or dynamic
- Picture space is comprised of foreground, middle ground, and background.
- Scale
- As an art history term, scale refers to the size of an object or object represented
- Size of things, conveyed or literal
Parts of style:
- Cultural style
- Societies develop their own beliefs and style of material forms
- Artists are a product of their culture
- Period style
- Style changes over time
- Art changes because of economic and political changes
- Regional style
- Geography leads to diverse styles
- Personal style
- Individual artists often have distinct styles
Two basic forms of style:
- Representational: Seeks to create recognizable subject matter (this is a picture of a dog)
- Abstract: Seeks to capture the essence of a form, not the literal representation (this picture captures the feeling of a dog)
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