What is Art? Using art: decoration, display, performance, ritual and prayer, entertainment, leadership and power displays Keeping art: museums, collections, restoration When art is not saved: destruction of art, art in rituals, non-object art Studying art: art history, aesthetics, art criticism, archaeology, cultural anthropology, human development Visual Medium expresses ideas about our human existence

What is Art? Function, Form, Content (Subject Matter),Meaning Function-promote spiritual or physical well being Form-materials, formal elements, composition

What is the Medium? INTRODUCTION Medium can be defined as the material substance used to create an artwork-the substance used to make up the artwork Disciplines are the various branches of art making activity, like painting, sculpture or photography

Artists show details and movement with the elements of Art Line- a Moving Point having length and width in art Fig. 1.1 Vincent Van Gogh, Self- Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 1889

Twisting Lines: The Language of Art and Architecture Peter Paul Rubens, 1618, Oil on Canvas, Munich, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Serpentine Twists

The Lines in this Painting Create What kind of Shape? Raphael, 1505, Madonna of the Meadow

Light & Value: What is the Source of Light? Second Formal Element: Light & Value - Value can be demonstrated by Shading Is there any seen here in this fresco panel by Giotto, The Flight into Egypt? Why or Why not?

How is Light demonstrated here? Pieter De Hooch, 1664, A Boy Bringing Bread, Oil on Canvas, Wallace Collection, London

Artificial Light: The Language of Art and Architecture Edgar Degas, Retiring, Pastel, 1883, Art Institute of Chicago

Rene Magritte, Empire of Lights, Oil on Canvas, 1954, Brussels, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique Class question

Space: Is there a lack of visual information? Roger Hilton, Oi Yoi Yoi, 1963, Oil on Canvas

Yves Klein, IKB 79, 1959, acrylic, fabric and wood

Museum History Role of Museums Preserve cultural heritage Educate the public First museums 16 th and 17 th centuries Cabinets of curiosities Why do we collect?

Musei Wormiani Historia", the frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities. 1655frontispieceOle Worm

Art used dynamically in rituals…see Fig Bis or Bisj Poles of the Asmat people, mid-20th century. New Guinea, Irian Jaya. Class Question?

Great Public Museums-British Museum, 1759 open to public

First specialized art museum open to public – The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Russia, in 1764

Great Public Museums-The Louvre, Paris France open to public

When Art is Not Saved Class will cover the loss of art and art that is meant to be temporary Art destroyed in conflicts Art stolen from museums and galleries Art that is forged