1. Art Appreciation Week 1: Introduction to the Course
The Nature of Art (Ch. 1)
Awareness, Creativity, and Communication (Ch. 2)

3. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917)

4. Every time you look at an art work, think: “What is art?”

5. “What is art?”
Plato
Aristotle
Kant

6. Plato

7. Plato
His answer to “what is art”: art tries to reach the ideal (the God-like)

8. Aristotle

9. Aristotle
His answer to “what is art”: art should express harmony

10. Kant

11. Kant
His answer to “what is art”: art is the product of genius

12. “What is art?”
Plato
Aristotle
Kant

13. Every time you look at an art work, think: “What is art?”

14. Deer and Hands, Las Manos Cave, Argentina (15,000 B.C.)

15. The purposes of art

16. The purposes of art
Picturing everyday life

17. The purposes of art

18. The purposes of art
Personal expression

19. Deer and Hands, Las Manos Cave, Argentina (15,000 B.C.)

20. Barnett Newman, Cathedra (1951)

21. Barnett Newman, Cathedra (1951)

22. What does Cathedra teach us?

23. What does Cathedra teach us?
Artists have intentions

24. What does Cathedra teach us?
Artists have intentions
Our experience of art does not always match artists’ intentions

25. What does Cathedra teach us?
Artists have intentions
Our experience of art does not always match artists’ intentions
Art can cause emotions, sometimes quite extreme

27. The nature of creativity

28. The nature of creativity
All humans are creative: we create relationships, a home, goals for ourselves

29. The nature of creativity
All humans are creative: we create relationships, a home, goals for ourselves
Artists create art objects

30. The nature of creativity
All humans are creative: we create relationships, a home, goals for ourselves
Artists create art objects
We create our responses to those art objects

31. What is art?
On a piece of paper, answer, in your own words, the following:
1. Art is _____________________________.
2. Art is not __________________________.

32. Vocabulary
the arts - "music, dance, theater, literature, and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, architecture)”

33. Vocabulary
Medium / media (plural)

34. Vocabulary Medium / media (plural)
The material and technique through which a work of art is made

35. The media we will study

36. The media we will study
Painting

37. Types of media
Oil painting

38. The media we will study
Painting
Sculpture

39. Types of media
Sculpture

40. The media we will study
Painting
Sculpture
Architecture

41. Types of media
Architecture

42. The media we will study Painting Sculpture Architecture
Film / photography

43. Types of media
Film and photography

44. The media we will study Painting Sculpture Architecture
Film / photography

45. Purposes and Functions of Art

46. Purposes and Functions of Art
Communicating information

47. The Tree of Jesse ( )

48. The Tree of Jesse ( )

49. Purposes and Functions of Art
Communicating information

50. Purposes and Functions of Art
Communicating information
Art for day-to-day living

51. Purposes and Functions of Art
Communicating information
Art for day-to-day living
Art for worship and ritual

52. Purposes and Functions of Art
Communicating information
Art for day-to-day living
Art for worship and ritual
Art as personal expression

53. Other purposes and functions
Social causes

54. Goya, The Disasters of War

55. Global Warning (Chaz Maviyane-Davies, 1997)

56. Other purposes and functions
Social causes
Art for visual delight

57. Miriam Schapiro, Heartland (1985)

58. Exercise # 1 1. What media is used?
2. What do you think inspired the artist to create this piece? What is the artist trying to express and how do you know? (What might the title of this painting be?)
3. How do you feel about the piece? (If opinions in your group differ, and they likely will, record everyone’s different thoughts).

60. Edvard Munch, Jealousy (1895)

61. Munch vs. Goya

64. For next time
Skim Chapter 1 and 2. Read Chapter 3 (Visual Elements) and Chapter 4 (Principles of Design)
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