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86 lines
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## What is art?
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**Art**: the expression or application of human creative skill.
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art must:
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- be made with the intent to convey emotion
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- should "satisfy the senses"
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- be made with intent
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- have attention to feeling and emotion
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art may:
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- be a relay of experience or emotion from one person to another
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## Medium
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A particular material, along with an accompanying technique (plural: media). Example include:
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- Acrylic, enamel, gesso, glaze, ink, oil
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## History
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1. The branch of knowledge dealing with past events
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## How do you look at art?
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Purposes and functions of art include:
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- Communicating information:
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- In non-literate societies, art was used to teach.
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- Today, film and television are used to disseminate information.
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- Spirituality and Religion
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- All of the world's major religions have used art to inspire and instruct the faithful
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- Personal and cultural expression
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- Social and political ends
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- Artists have criticized or influenced values or public opinion
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- Often it is clear and direct
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- Other times, however, it is less obvious
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- Monarchs who commissioned projects to symbolize their strength and power
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Generally, art can be broken down into two parts, *form*, and *content*.
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- Form relates to the "formal" aspects of art, composition or medium.
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- Content relates to the subject. What's being portrayed, how are they portraying it?
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- The distinction should be made between fact and opinion/guessing.
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Parts of form:
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1. Line and Shape
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- Lines define space and may create an outline or contour, as style called "linear"
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- They can be *visible* or *implied*, and may be a part of composition
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- It may be 2 dimensional, 3 dimensional, suggested, or implied.
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- *Wherever there is an edge
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2. Color
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- Hue: The name of the color (red, blue, yellow)
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- Saturation: The quality or vibrancy of those values
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- Value: The addition of white, black, or grey to the value
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- Tint: pure hue + white
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- Tone: pure hue + grey
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- Shade: pure hue + black
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3. Texture
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- Texture is an element of art pertaining to the surface quality or "feel" of the work of art
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- Texture can be described as smooth, rough, soft, etc. Some textures are real, and others are simulated
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- Textures that can be *felt* are ones that fingers can actually touch.
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4. Space and Mass
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- Space references to what contains objects: may be 2D or 3D.
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- Mass refers to the effect and degree of the bulk, density, and weight of matter in space.
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- In architecture or sculpture, it is the area occupied by a form.
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- 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.
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5. Composition
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- How are items arranged or organized in art
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- Symmetrical, asymmetrical
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- Static or dynamic
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- Picture space is comprised of foreground, middle ground, and background.
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6. Scale
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- As an art history term, scale refers to the size of an object or object represented
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- Size of things, conveyed or literal
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Parts of style:
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- Cultural style
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- Societies develop their own beliefs and style of material forms
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- Artists are a product of their culture
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- Period style
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- Style changes over time
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- Art changes because of economic and political changes
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- Regional style
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- Geography leads to diverse styles
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- Personal style
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- Individual artists often have distinct styles
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Two basic forms of style:
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- Representational: Seeks to create recognizable subject matter (this is a picture of a dog)
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- 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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