Chapter 1 Exploring Art
Chapter 1 Exploring Art
Chapter 1 Exploring Art
What is Art?
Functions of Art
Assists in rituals
Reflects customs
Communicates
Helps us imagine
Protests political
and social
Celebrates war
and conquest
Commemorates the
dead
Promotes cohesion
Records likenesses
Educates us
Entertains us
the divine
Imagery
symbolic meaning
where it is used or displayed
customs, beliefs, and values
of the culture
Aesthetics
a branch of philosophy
dealing
with art, its sources,
forms, and effects.
CREATING ART
Artistic Creativity
Creativity allows us to originate
something or to cause some
object to come into being.
What that means exactly can
vary from culture to culture.
innovation
self-expression
Craft
refers to specific
media,
ceramics, glass,
jewelry, weaving, and
woodworking
involves making
objects
rather than
images.
Stylistic Categories
Style is the manner of artistic expression:
of an individual artist
of a historic period
of an entire civilization.
A rose is a rose,
but styles of representation
of it are not necessarily the same.
Style Vocabulary
Naturalistic
recognizable
imagery
Representational
contains
entities from
the world in
recognizable form.
Fig. 1.2
Fig. 1.3
values
The Veranda Post (Fig. 1.2) and the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (Fig. 1.3)
Classical Art
in the 5th C.
heightened emotions
a sense of urgency or spontaneity.
Expressive styles:
Fig.1.23
Fig. 1.24
Artists Styles
1.25, left Vincent van Gogh. Portrait of Mme. Ginoux (LArlesienne), 1889. Oil on canvas. 23 1/2"
19 1/2". Galleria Nazionale dArte Moderna, Rome.