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Figure 1.3 Chauvet cave, Lion panel, c. 25,000-17,000 B.C.E.
The Impulse for Art
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Figure 1.4 Stonehenge, c. 2000-1500 B.C.E., Salisbury Plain, England; concentric circles of megaliths
The Impulse for Art
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The Impulse for Art
Figure 1.5 Stemmed Vessel, c. 2000 B.C.E.
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Figure 1.6 Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982
What Do Artists Do?
Create places for some human purpose
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Cologne Cathedral, Germany, begun 1248. Bildagentur Huber/Friedmar Damm
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Figure 1.7 Kente cloth, Ghana, mid-20th century.
What Do Artists Do?
Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
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The Impulse for Art
Figure 1.5 Stemmed Vessel, c. 2000 B.C.E.
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Figure 1.8 Manohar, Jahangir Receives a Cup from Khusrau, 1605-06.
What Do Artists Do?
Record and commemorate
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Figure 4.8 and 4.9 Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19.
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Figure 1.9 Shiva Nataraja, anonymous, India, 10th century C.E.
What Do Artists Do?
Give tangible form to the unknown
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Figure 4.12 Bill Reid, The Raven and the First Men, completed 1983.
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Figure 1.10 Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889.
What Do Artists Do?
Give tangible form to feeling
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Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940. Oil on canvas
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Figure 1.11 Ernst Haas, Peeling Paint on Iron Bench, Kyoto, 1981, 1981.
What Do Artists Do?Refresh our vision and
see the world in new ways
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Figure 6.4 Leonardo daVinci, Star of Bethlehem and Other Plants, 1506-08.
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• 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
What Do Artists Do?
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Looking and Responding
Vanitas: a meditation on the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness
Figure 1.14 Juan de Valdés Leal, Vanitas, 1660.
Figure 1.15 Audrey Flack, Wheel of Fortune (Vanitas), 1977-78.
Jackson Pollock,Shimmering Substance (Sounds in the Grass series)1946, oil on canvas, 30 x 24“