1. What is Art? What is Art? What is Art? What is Art? What is Art?
1. Ask the Class to define “Art”
2. Name some different types of art.
What is Art?
What is Art?
What is Art? What is Art?
What is Art?

2. a piece of ART is the visual expression of an idea or experience

3. Art is COMMUNICATION Guernica Pablo Picasso 1937
137.4 x in. In Madrid.
Commissioned by Spanish Government for the World’s Fair in Paris 1937
Guernica
Pablo Picasso 1937
Depicts the Bombing of Spain by Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War

4. Before you can truly experience art you must first learn to Perceive .
This means using your senses to analyze and interpret a piece of artwork in order to understand it.
Just to look at something means you can recognize it as a car or a chair. To find the details in an object you have to spend time looking at it… sometimes touching it… sometimes listening to it (The Guitar).
Can you remember the first time you saw an instrument? A video game? Someone doing a new style of dance… you were intrigued and wanted to look longer and study it.
In this class I want you to look at things like it’s the first time you have seen them. Don’t take a still life or object for granted. Study every detail.
Perception is to truly SEEING
what the art is Communicating.

5. Why Do artists create Art?

6. The Purpose or Functions of Art
Personal Function:
The artist tries to express his or her
personal feelings through the artwork.
Social Function:
Art that conveys a sense of family,
community, or civilization. Cultural.
Spiritual Function:
An artist may create a work to support
the Religious or Spiritual beliefs of a culture.
Physical Function:
Functional Art: objects use in everyday life— such as architecture, jewelry, pottery, furniture, etc.
Educational Function:
Art that has been used throughout time as a way
to pass on historical facts. Teaches about cultures.

7. Where do the Ideas come from?
Ask class where they think ideas come from? Answers should vary…Books, Imagination, Stories, Myths, Legends, People (culture), Events (historical), Nature (environment), Movies, Spiritual Beliefs, etc.

8. NATURE
Andy Goldsworthy

9. Inspiration comes from natural materials found in the environment

10. People & Events Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange 1936 Street Crossing
George Segal
1992

11. Tilted Arc Richard Serra 1981
Tourist II
Duane Hanson
1988

12. Vietnam veterans Memorial mayan lin 1981-82 washington D.C
Historical Events
from the past

13. Myths & Legends Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli 1486
Hades God of the Underworld
with Cerberus
Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
1486

14. Spiritual & Religious Pieta Michelangelo 1499 The Lamentation Giotto
1305

15. Techniques Self-Portrait Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Number One
Jackson Pollock
1948

16. Past Artists or Movements
ALSO
Commissioned by an Employee

17. The Language of Art Elements of Design Principles of Design Line
The rules that govern how
artists organize the Elements
of Design into an art work.
The basic Visual symbols of art.
Visual building blocks of an art work.
Line
Shape
Value
Form
Texture
Space
Color
Rhythm
Movement
Balance
Emphasis
Contrast
Pattern
Unity

18. 3 Components of an Art Work
Subject:
The image viewers can easily
identify in a work of art.
Non-Objective Art has no
recognizable subject matter.
Composition:
The way the Principles of Design
are used to organize the
Elements of Design
Content:
The message the work
communicates.

19. 4 Steps to Critiquing Art
1. Describe
Describe what you see. What is the Subject?
Do you know what medium (material) is used
to make the piece. What is visually in the work?
2. Analyze
How is the work organized? Describe the
composition in terms of the Elements and
Principles of Design.
3. Interpret
What is the artist trying to communicate?
What is the content of the piece? Guess
the meaning.
4. Judge
What do you think of the work? Think objectively.
Is the piece successful in communicating the
ideas of the artist?