DEFINING ART WHAT MAKES SOMETHING A WORK OF ART?
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING JOHANNES VERMEER 1665 WHY IS THIS A WORK OF ART?
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA ART CHINESE PROPAGANDA ART Does Art have to be truthful?
Can a painting be art if it disturbs and upsets us or if it looks ugly? Why or why not? Would a realistic image be more powerful? WILLEM DE KOONING - WOMAN
The Purpose(s) of Art Michelangelo, The Creation of Man, , Sistine Chapel To capture a perception of reality. To teach or uplift the mind To praise a spiritual power To express emotion To create beauty To bind a community together something else???
Skillful but is it Art?
SO…….. WHAT IS ART? WHAT MAKES SOMETHING A WORK OF ART?
Who decides what is Art? Marcel Duchamp Fountain x 46 x 36 cm. (25 x 18 x 14 in.)
Do-Ho Suh Seoul Home/ L.A. Home:Bathroom 2003, Silk 12’ x 20’ x 20’ Does it… Capture reality? Teach or uplift the mind? Express emotion? Create beauty? Bind a community together? Praise a spiritual power?
DAMIEN HIRST The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991).
TRACY EMINMY BED, 2001
Orlan: Operation Reussie Video, 1990
Steve McCurry New York September 11, by Magnum Photographers.
Marcus Harvey Myra 1995
Chris Ofili The Holy Virgin Mary 1996
Feeling uncomfortable yet? Ron Mueck, Untitled (boy), 1999 – 2001, mixed media with fiber glass resin
CORNELIA PARKER
WENDA GU United Nations Series: Temple of Heaven (China Monument), 1998 Installation with screens of human hair. Approx. 24 x 30 x 27 ft. (732 x 914 x 823 cm). Wenda Gu
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Cy Twombly Painting "Ohne Titel (Roma)" 1969 My baby brother could do that……. Is this Art?
Yellow,orange,redMark Rothko Why is this considered to be Art?
Martin Creed ‘The lights Going On and Off’
So where do we go from here? What is to become of art? “I hope in this millennium art will become something more important than a spectacle. I hope that art will get closer to the people in general, not just something for the specialists…I hope art will become more spiritual… I hope it can fill the big emptiness of humanity today” Ernesto Neto, Brazilian sculptor
“If you can piss, you can paint.” Pablo Picasso
Keith Haring I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
What is Art? to adorn, to beautify, to express, to illustrate, to mediate, to persuade, to record, to redefine reality, and to redefine art. ?
What is Art? What makes something a work of Art? What constitutes good art? How is good art recognised and decided upon? Who decides what is Art? Write your own personal definition with examples of artworks and other peoples’ quotations to provide evidence for your argument. Remember to acknowledge your sources.