Art And You

Chapter One

Survey of Fine ArtsBallenger

Vocabulary

• Visual arts• Fine arts• Applied arts• Aesthetics• Criteria• This chapter also covers the purposes for creating

art. Page 10 in your book. • We will discuss where we can find art and you

will look at different careers in art.

Purposes For Creating Art.• Let’s define these terms. 1. Aesthetics

2. Morals/Ethics

3. Spirituality

4. History

5. Politics

Examples

• Look at the following images. • What purpose for creating would you place

them in?• Ask yourself these questions. 1.What is going on in the artwork?2.Is it telling a story?3.What do I notice about it right away?4.Which of the 5 purposes would you assign it?

Janet Fish, Red Vase and Yellow Tulips

Aesthetics

Pieter Bruegel, The Parable of the Blind, 1568Morals/Ethics

Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation Pieta, 1305, Fresco Scovegne Chapel Padau, ItalySpiritual

1801 Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Jacques-Louis DavidHistorical

Propaganda / Persuasion

Propaganda / Persuasion

Visual Arts

• Visual Arts: unique expressions of ideas, beliefs, experiences and feelings presented in well-designed visual forms.

Stuart Davis, Hot Still Scape for Six Colors 7th avenue style

Fine Art

• painting, sculpture and some architecture, art which have no practical function and are valued in terms of the visual pleasure they provide of their success in communicating ideas or feelings.

Examples

• Georgia O’Keefe, Calla Lilies with Red Anemone .

• Is this a sculpture?• Is this Architecture?• Is this a Painting?• Is this Fine Art?• Why do you think it is/is not Fine Art?

Applied Arts

• Most often used to describe the design or decoration of functional objects to make them pleasing to the eye.

• Is this a functional object?• Is this Fine Art, or Applied Art?• What are some other examples• of Applied art?

Aesthetics

• A branch of philosophy concerned with identifying the criteria that are used to understand, judge, and defend judgments about works of art.

Criteria: Visual Vocabulary of Art

• Understand, judge, and support your personal decisions about a variety of visual art forms. (page, 17)

• Standards of judgment• What will you use to make judgments and

how will you support those decisions.• Look at artwork more critically

Creative decisions an artist must face.

• Which subject to paint or sculpt.• Which medium and technique to use.• What colors, shapes, lines, and textures to

emphasize.• How to arrange those colors, shapes, lines and

textures.• How to recognize that the work is finished.

Some of the tasks of the serious viewer when critically examining a work of art

• Identify the subject depicted.• Determine the medium and technique used.• Identify the colors, shapes, lines and textures

and note how they are organized.• Decide whether the work is successful.

Judith Leyster

Starry Night

• Self Expression