1. Craft, Context, and Content In Art
OPHS Art History
Mrs. Abbott

2. How Artists Make Art
Craft
Content
Art
Context

3. Craft in Art
Craft: The tools, techniques and skills that an artist uses to create art.

4. Context in Art
Context: When a work of art was made, where, how and for what purpose.

5. Content in Art
Content: The emotional or intellectual message of the artwork.

6. Final Product Choose a piece contemporary artwork
Write a 2 page report that explains the craft, content and context of the artwork in terms of:
How the art was made, and a description of the art (using the elements and principles of art)
Essential meaning of the art (why the art was made)
Significance of the art in terms of culture and art history
Aesthetic value of a work of art

7. Choosing Your Art Your piece must be:
Contemporary (the artist must have been alive at some point during your life)
Well known (can be googled)
The artist must have spoken about his art (this will help you to answer why the art was made)

8. Example Trevi Fountain By Bernini Material: Marble
Location: Rome, Italy

9. Example
"I always want to do things on a heroic scale. And thinking about mortality, it just seemed a fountain and cardboard seemed to be a perfect vehicle to do something heroic and at the same time ridiculous.”
Jimmy Grashaw

10. Example
The Cardboard Bernini
By Jimmy Grashaw
Material: Cardboard

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“All art decays. Why not embark on a grand work that admits its own mortality, that embraces its own destruction?”
Jimmy Grashaw

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"Trying to do something permanent and forever, and at the same time always knowing you are mortal and chained to reality."
Jimmy Grashaw
The fountain was created to be destroyed, a working fountain, exposed to the elements, that took 4 YEARS to create! It took 6 weeks to disintegrate.

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