What is Art?
Using art: decoration, display, performance, ritual and prayer, entertainment, leadership and power displaysKeeping art: museums, collections, restoration When art is not saved: destruction of art, art in rituals, non-object artStudying art: art history, aesthetics, art criticism, archaeology, cultural anthropology, human development
Visual Medium expresses ideas about our human existence
What is Art?
Function, Form, Content (Subject Matter),Meaning
Function-promote spiritual or physical well being
Form-materials, formal elements, composition
What is the Medium?
INTRODUCTIONMedium 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
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
Twisting Lines: The Language of Art and Architecture
Peter Paul Rubens, 1618, Oil on Canvas, Munich, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
SerpentineTwists
Light & Value: What is the Source of Light?
Second Formal Element: Light & Value
-Value can be demonstrated by ShadingIs there any seen here in this fresco panel by Giotto, The Flight into Egypt?Why or Why not?
How is Light demonstrated here?
Pieter De Hooch, 1664, A Boy Bringing Bread, Oil on Canvas, Wallace Collection, London
Artificial Light: The Language of Art and Architecture
Edgar Degas, Retiring, Pastel, 1883, Art Institute of Chicago
Rene Magritte, Empire of Lights, Oil on Canvas, 1954, Brussels, Musées RoyauxDes Beaux-Arts de Belgique
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Museum History
Role of MuseumsPreserve cultural heritageEducate the public
First museums 16th and 17th centuries
Cabinets of curiosities
Why do we collect?
Musei Wormiani Historia", the frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities. 1655
Art used dynamically in rituals…see Fig. 6. 23 Bis or Bisj Poles of the Asmat people, mid-20th century. New Guinea, Irian Jaya.
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