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What are issues of Aesthetics?
- What is art?
- Can we apply our concept of art to art of the past?
- Can we apply our concept of art to art of
- different cultures?
- Is there one correct standard for judging art?
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What Do Artists Do?
- •To create places for some human purpose
- •To create extra-ordinary versions of ordinary objects
- •To record and commemorate
- •To give tangible form to the unknown
- •To give tangible form to feelings and ideas
- •To refresh our vision and see the world in a new way
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Who created the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial?
Maya Lin
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Selective Perception
Filtering information to allow us to focus on the immediate tasks at hand
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Vanitas
Refers to the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness
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Disinterested Contemplation
Refers to looking beyond the actual, practical, and personal in search of beauty and pleasure
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Representational
art resembles forms found in the natural world. The result is a recognizable likeness of objects and forms
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Trompe l’oeil
French for “fool the eye”
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Naturalistic
Artwork that is very faithful to visual experience
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Abstract
art distorts, exaggerates, or simplifies the natural world to provide essence or universality
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Style
refers to visual characteristics recognized as constant, recurring, or coherent
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Embodied Meaning
Art is always about something
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Form
The way a work looks
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Content
What a work of art is about or its subject matter
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Style
Constant, recurring or coherent traits
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Composition
The organization of design elements & principles
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Content includes:
- •Subject Matter
- •Message
- •Iconography
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Subject Matter
General idea
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Message
More specific meaning
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Iconography
The story of a work of art (including symbols or references, people, events, etc.) requires knowledge of a specific time, beliefs or culture
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Context
To understand a work of art as created by an artist, at a specific time, and in a particular culture
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Themes of art
- •Themes and purposes may differ within a work of art
- •A work of art may reflect more than one theme
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Who often created statues of their emperors in public places and civic buildings?
The Romans
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What was Pablo Picasso's Guernica used for?
Made for the World’s Fair and was a protest against the bombing of the town Guernica in Spain
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What are the 2 broad categories of shapes and masses?
Geometric and organic
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Geometric forms
Can be mathematically defined
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Organic forms
Are irregular and suggest forms found in nature
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What are several value techniques that artists use to imply light within works of art?
- •Shading/Modeling
- •Value
- •Chiaroscuro
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Shading/Modeling
Using chiaroscuro or values to create mass
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Value
Relative lightness or darkness
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Chiaroscuro
Italian for light/dark; contrasts of light and shadow
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