STUDY OF VISUAL ARTS
What is art? What are the functions / purposes of art?
FUNCTIONS/PURPOSES OF ART: Read the following page and summarize the functions/purposes of art in ‘MS Word Document’. Save the file as ‘SOVA_yourname’ - The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso
STYLES OF ART The characteristic way in which an artist expresses him/herself Style Realistic RepresentationalExpressionistic Abstract
REALISTIC ART: Portrayal as seen by the eye or what was really thought to be, without idealization or distortion. Can you name a few artworks that fall in this category? (Put your answers in the file ‘SOVA_yourname’)
REPRESENTATIONAL ART: A portrayal of things as perceived in the visible world; the subject matter could be altered or distorted but is still recognizable. Roy Lichtenstein Drowning Girl 1963
EXPRESSIONISTIC ART: Form and colour are freely distorted by the artist in order to achieve a heightened emotional impact. Edvard Munch The Scream 1893
ABSTRACT ART: Departs significantly from the actual appearance of things. May be completely non-objective or non-representational. Conversion of reality into forms that can be appreciated for their own sake Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm: No. 30,
Constantin Brancusi Bird in Space 1928 What do you think this work is about? (Comment in ‘SOVA_yourname)
LOOKING AT ART: Describing, Analyzing, Interpreting & Judging - Physical Properties - Subject - Illusionary Properties - Formal Properties - Viewer Perspectives - Artistic Motivations
Physical Properties - Size - Medium - Techniques - Textures - Two-dimensional or Three-dimensional - Function
Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory 1931 Oil on canvas, 24 cm x 33 cm Describe the physical properties of this painting (Save your description in ‘SOVA_yourname’)
Subject What is being portrayed? (Put your answer in ‘SOVA_yourname’) What representational / abstract elements? Edvard Munch The Scream 1893
Illusionary Properties - Shadows - Overlapping - Decreasing Size - Reduced details - Soft focus - Perspective Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory 1931 Oil on canvas, 24 cm x 33 cm
Formal Properties What are formal properties? Study the following links and make your own notes:
Viewer Perspectives Where does the artist position us? How does the artist want us to look at the work? Look at Manet’s ‘The Railroad’. What do you think? (Comment in ‘SOVA_yourname’) Edouard Manet The Railroad
* ARTISTIC MOTIVATIONS Why do artists do what they do? What is the artist’s intention? Study the following works and write your thoughts in ‘SOVA_yourname’. You can google for more information, however please note down your own opinion first before sourcing for info. Please organise your writings neatly.
Vincent van Gogh Starry Night 1889
Wassily Kandinsky Composition IV 1911
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty 1970 Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Nam June Paik TV Clock Installation of 24 colour TV monitors, each 81 x 17 x 22 inch
Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937
Piet Mondrian Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930
Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm: No. 30,
* Submission: 4 Mar 2010 Please complete and your ‘SOVA_yourname’ to by 4 Mar 2010, Thursday.