INTRODUCTION: REVIEW

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INTRODUCTION REVIEW
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What is Art?

• Form of expression with aesthetic
• Organize perception
• A work of art is the visual expression of an idea
  or experience created with skill
• Is communication it is a language that artists
  use to express everyday words can not express

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Perceive

• Is to become deeply aware through the senses of
  the special nature of a visual object.
• You train your eye to perceive

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Purposes of Art

• Personal Function
• Social Function
• Spiritual Function
• Physical Function
• Educational Function

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Personal Function

• Artists create art to express personal feelings

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Social Function

• Artists may produce art to reinforce and enhance
  the shared sense of identity of those in a
  family, community or civilization

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Spiritual Function

• Artists may produce art to express spiritual
  beliefs about destiny of life controlled by the
  force of a higher power

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Physical Function

• Artists and craftspeople constantly invent new
  ways to create functional art

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Educational Function

• Artist produce artworks, such as symbols, painted
  signs, to impart information.

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Where Do Artists get Ideas?

• Outward to their natural and cultural environment
• Inward within themselves for creative motivation
• Nature
• People World Events
• Myths Legends
• Spiritual Religious Beliefs
• Creative Techniques
• Artists of the Past
• Ideas Commissioned by Employers

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Aesthetics

• The values that allow you to judge art as
  satisfying
• The philosophy or study of the nature of beauty
  and art
• Sensitivity to beauty in the eye of the beholder

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Art Criticism

• An organized system for studying a work of art

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Criteria

• Standards of judgment

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A Four Step System

• Description
• Analysis
• Interpretation
• Judgment

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Description

• What do you see?
• Just the facts no opinions

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Analysis

• How is the work organized?
• The elements and principles

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Interpretation

• What is the artist saying?
• You explain the mood or meaning of the work.
• Your interpretation is determined by the first
  two steps.

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Judgment

• Is this work successful?
• You use the aesthetic theories and qualities of
  art.

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Aesthetic Theories Qualities of Art

• Literal Qualities / Imitationalism
• Design Qualities / Formalism
• Expressive Qualities / Emotionalism

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Literal Qualities / Imitationalism

• Are the realistic qualities that appear in the
  subject of work.
• It has to look life like to be considered
  successful
• Focus on realistic presentation

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Design Qualities / Formalism

• Places the emphasis on the design
• The arrangement of the elements of art using the
  principles of design

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Expressive Qualities / Emotionalism

• Is concerned with the content
• It requires the work to have a strong
  communication of feelings, moods or ideas from
  the work to the viewer

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Forms of Expression

• Realism
• Representational
• Abstract
• Non-Objective (Non-Representational)

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Realism

• Represents the external world in an objective
  factual manner
• This art deals with a subject matter

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Representational

• To reproduce recognizable subject manner with a
  slight distortion due to personal interpretation
  and style
• This art form deals with a subject matter

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Abstract

• Imagery that simplifies, distorts or exaggerates
  the concept with personal interpretation and
  style.
• Technique overrides the representation
• This art form deals with a subject matter

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Non-Objective (Non-Representational)

• Not intending to represent actual objects or
  elements of nature.
• Does not deal with a subject matter

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Types of Art

• Visual Arts
• Performing Arts

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Visual Arts

• Permanent
• Audience primarily uses sight
• Fine Art
• Deals with process
• Motivation is self, enjoyed for owns sake
• Commercial Art
• Deals with product
• Motivation is client needs, commerce relationship
  and/or trade

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Performing Arts

• The human body is the medium
• Occupies space and time within a moment
• Audience uses sight and hearing
• Process- rehearsal
• Product- performance/shownever exactly the same
• Fine Art
• Commercial Art

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The Basic Properties of Art

• Subject
• Composition
• Content

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Subject

• The image viewers can easily identify in a work
  of art

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Composition

• The way the principles of art are used to
  organize the elements of art

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Content

• The message the work is trying to communicate

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Credit Line

• Is a list of important facts about the work of
  art
• Most credit lines contain at least six facts
• Name of Artist
• Title of Work, This always appears in italics
• Year the work was created
• Medium
• Size
• Location of ownership

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Art Basics

• Materials
• Tools
• Medium

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Materials

• The object used as the base of the creation of art

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Medium

• Method of Expression
• The material that is manipulated to create the
  image
• Paint
• Pastel
• Charcoal

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Tool

• The object that manipulates the medium to apply
  it to the material

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Symbol

• Something that stands or represents for something
  else

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The Elements of Art

• The basic visual symbols in the language of art
• Line
• Shape
• Form
• Space
• Color
• Value
• Texture

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Principles of Design

• The rules that govern how the artists organize
  the elements of art
• Proportion
• Balance
• Unity
• Variety
• Rhythm
• Emphasis

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Harmony

• When all the Principles of Design are working
  together