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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
- It may be 2 dimensional, 3 dimensional, suggested, or implied.
- *Wherever there is an edge
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