What is Art?What is Art?

How do we judge art?How do we judge art?

• Monetary Value

• Personal Opinion

• The Opinion of Experts

• On Technical Accuracy

• On the works ability to shock

• On the works ability to make the observer question

Monetary ValueMonetary Value

• The next slides show the 10 most expensive paintings sold in the last 20 years.

The Card PlayersThe Card Players

Artist: Paul Cézanne

Price tag: $259,000,000

Purchased: Royal Family of Qatar (April 2011)

No. 5, 1948No. 5, 1948

Artist: Jackson Pollock

Price tag: $140,000,000

Purchased: Sotheby's, New York (November 2006)

Woman IIIWoman III

Artist: Willem de Kooning

Price tag: $137,500,000

Purchased: Steven A. Cohen (November 2006)

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer IPortrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Artist: Gustav Klimt

Price tag: $135,000,000

Purchased: Neue Galerie(June 2006)

The Scream (Skrik) IVThe Scream (Skrik) IV

Artist: Edvard Munch

Price tag:$119,922,600

Purchased: Leon Black (May 2012)

. . Nude, Green Leaves & Bust

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Price tag: $106,500,000

Purchased: Christie's, New York (May 2010)

Garçon à la pipeGarçon à la pipe

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Price tag: $104,168,000

Purchased: Guido Barilla (May 2004)

Eight ElvisesEight Elvises

Artist: Andy Warhol

Price tag: $100,000,000

Purchased: Philippe Ségalot (2009)

Dora Maar au ChatDora Maar au Chat

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Price tag: $95,200,000

Purchased: Boris Ivanishvili (May, 2006)

Adele Bloch-Bauer IIAdele Bloch-Bauer II

Artist: Gustav Klimt

Price tag: $87,900,000

Purchased: Christie's, New York (November, 2006)

Personal OpinionPersonal Opinion

• Is this art?• Describe the art –

line, shape, colour, texture, space

• What is the media?

Callalilyby Anna Claire

AnalysisAnalysis

• Consider the quality of the size, shape, colour and texture of the art

• Does it show movement, unity and contrast?

Rainbow by Chi Chi

Interpretation and JudgementInterpretation and Judgement

• How creative and rewarding is the work?

• What is the artist trying to say?

• Why were certain colours used?

• Why was it created?• What is your final

judgement?• Remember judgements can

be positive or negative but must be supported with stated reason

Bailey – Dreams of a Rainforest

The Artists The Artists

Jungle Friends - Primate Sanctuaryand Rehabilitation – Fund raising initiative

Pollack – Pollack

To Shock?To Shock?

Emin – Unmade Bed

Constable – Flatford Mill

Millais – Ophelia

Unknown Artist – Tattoo

Von Hagens – Human Head

Von Hagens – Cowboy

Warhol – Campbell’s Soup Can

Warhol – Marilyn Monroe

Britney Spears – Oops Album Cover

Beatles – Sgt. Peppers Album Cover

Hinrichs – Breaking Heart

Unknown Artist - Manga

Installation artist Simon Starling, winner of Installation artist Simon Starling, winner of this year's £25,000 Turner Prize, recycles this year's £25,000 Turner Prize, recycles

objects by reframing and reforming them.objects by reframing and reforming them.

• Simon Starling is fascinated by the processes involved in transforming one object or substance into another. He makes objects, installations, and pilgrimage-like journeys which draw out an array of ideas  About nature, technology and economics. Starling describes his work as ‘the physical manifestation of a thought process’, revealing hidden histories and relationships.

Art and me..Art and me..

• Why is art important to me?• Where does art, design and image

appear in my life?• What does art provide for me in my life?• What areas of art do I enjoy?• What areas of art do I dislike?• Do you believe that we should all have

an art?