What is Art?

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What is Art?

• Visual Medium expresses ideas about our human
  existence

• Using art decoration, display, performance,
  ritual and prayer, entertainment, leadership and
  power displays
• Keeping art museums, collections, restoration
• When art is not saved destruction of art, art in
  rituals, non-object art
• Studying art art history, aesthetics, art
  criticism, archaeology, cultural anthropology,
  human development

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What is Art?

• Function, Form, Content (Subject Matter),Meaning
• Function-promote spiritual or physical well being
• Form-materials, formal elements, composition

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What is the Medium?

• INTRODUCTION
• Medium can be defined as the material substance
  used to create an artwork-the substance used to
  make up the artwork
• Disciplines are the various branches of art
  making activity, like painting, sculpture or
  photography

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Artists show details and movement with the
elements of Art
Line- a Moving Point having length and width in
art
Fig. 1.1 Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait, Oil on
Canvas, 1889
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Twisting Lines The Language of Art and
Architecture
Serpentine Twists
Peter Paul Rubens, 1618, Oil on Canvas, Munich,
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
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The Lines in this Painting Create What kind of
Shape?
Raphael, 1505, Madonna of the Meadow
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Light Value What is the Source of Light?
Second Formal Element Light Value
-Value can be demonstrated by Shading Is there
any seen here in this fresco panel by Giotto, The
Flight into Egypt? Why or Why not?
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How is Light demonstrated here?
Pieter De Hooch, 1664, A Boy Bringing Bread, Oil
on Canvas, Wallace Collection, London
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Artificial Light The Language of Art and
Architecture
Edgar Degas, Retiring, Pastel, 1883, Art
Institute of Chicago
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Class question
Rene Magritte, Empire of Lights, Oil on Canvas,
1954, Brussels, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de
Belgique
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Space Is there a lack of visual
information?
Roger Hilton, Oi Yoi Yoi, 1963, Oil on Canvas
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Yves Klein, IKB 79, 1959, acrylic, fabric
and wood
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Museum History

• Role of Museums
• Preserve cultural heritage
• Educate the public
• First museums 16th and 17th centuries
• Cabinets of curiosities
• Why do we collect?

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Musei Wormiani Historia", the frontispiece from
the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worm's cabinet
of curiosities. 1655
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Class Question?
Art used dynamically in ritualssee Fig. 6. 23
Bis or Bisj Poles of the Asmat people, mid-20th
century. New Guinea, Irian Jaya.
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Great Public Museums-British Museum, 1759 open to
public
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First specialized art museum open to public The
Hermitage, St. Petersburg Russia, in 1764
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Great Public Museums-The Louvre, Paris France
1793-open to public
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When Art is Not Saved

• Class will cover the loss of art and art that is
  meant to be temporary
• Art destroyed in conflicts
• Art stolen from museums and galleries
• Art that is forged