Art 121 Chapter 1

Wheel of Fortune

Audrey Flack Skull - death Hourglass, calendar, guttering candle - time and its passing Necklace, mirrors, powder puff, and lipstick - personal vanity Die, tarot card - roles of chance and fate in our lives Vanitas

Henge

Circle of stones or posts surrounded by a ditch with built up embankments

Tangible Form to the Unknown

They portray what cannot be seen with the eyes or events that can only be imagined Shiva

Wheel of Fortune Quote

Time passes quickly, beauty fades, chance plays a bigger role in our lives than we think, death awaits

Seeing

A mode of perception which recognizes and interprets sensory data uses 5 senses

Vincent Can Gogh

A painfully disturbed, tormented man who in spite of his great anguish, managed to create extraordinary art Introduced light and brilliant colors into his palette Most of the work we admire so much was done in the last two and a half years of his life

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

A place of contemplation and remembrance

Fluency

A readiness to allow the free flow of ideas

Playfulness

A sense of humor and an ability to experiment freely

Analytical Skill

A talent for exploring problems, taking them apart,and finding out how things work

Organizational skill

Ability to put things back together in a coherent order

Creativity

Although the exact nature of creativity remains elusive, there is general agreement that creative people tend to possess certain traits Being creative means learning to trust one's own interests, experiences, and references, and to use them to enhance life and work Develops when the eyes and the mind are wide open

Flexibility

An ability to adapt to new situations and to see their possibilities; willingness to find innovative relationships

Art Acts as a Record and Commemoration

Artists create images that help us remember the present after it slips into the past, that keep us in mind of our history, and that will speak of our times to the future Lincoln Memorial

What do Artists Do?

Create places for some human purpose Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects Record and commemorate Give tangible form to the unknown Give tangible form to feelings and ideas Refresh our vision and help us see the world in new ways

Tim Hawkinson

Emoter Links specific facial expressions to specific emotions

Peeling Paint

Ernst Haas Singles our a small detail of an ordinary day and asks us to notice how rich it is if we really take the time to look We may find ourselves more attentive to the world around us which is stranger, more mysterious, more various, and more beautiful than we usually realize

Chauvet Cave

France Oldest painting in human existence Later part of the stone age 30,000 B.C.

Sensitivity

Heightened awareness of what one sees, hears, and touches, as well as responsiveness to other people and their feelings

Shiva

Hindu God (India) Creator and destroyer of worlds 4 arms are charged with tasks of this idea One hand holds the drum that beats creation One hand holds the flame of destruction One hand points to his foot, beneath which worshipers may seek refuge One hand is raised with its palm toward the viewer, a gesture that means fear not

Cave Painting of France and Spain

Horses, bison, mammoths and cattle, hand prints, and geometric shapes Few images of people

Perception

Is information in detail As humans we select information we deem important in our sight and the rest falls to the background Mood, culture, gender, and education can influence your perception

Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects

Kente Cloth made of cotton but used for ceremonial occasion Made from hundreds of pattern expressing historical content Asante

Vanitas

Latin for vanity

Theories on Cave Paintings

Many experts believed that ancient cave paintings were done for magical assistance in the hunt, to ensure success in bringing down game animals Several animals depicted at Chauvet were not in the customary diet of early peoples

Neolithic Era

New stone age New stone tools invented Domestication of animals and crops Development of the technology of pottery

Pottery

People discovered fire could harden clay With pottery came storage jars, food bowls, and other objects

Looking

See details Understand visual relationships Explore feelings and inspiration Apply knowledge Put what we see into words

Traits of Creativity

Sensitivity Flexibility Originality Playfulness Productivity Fluency Analytical Organizational

Living With Art

Since the genesis of human existence, there has been a need for creating and expressing visual signs and symbols Art is a part of our daily, it captures our attention, imagination and intelligence

Give tangible form to feelings and ideas

Starry Night gives Ban Gogh's personal feelings The statue of Shiva gives tangible form to the ideas about the cynical nature of time that are part of the religious culture of Hinduism

Create Places for some Human Purpose

Stonehenge Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Productivity

The ability to generate ideas easily and frequently, and to follow through on those ideas

Ability to Make Images

The ability to make images is uniquely human We do it so naturally and so constantly that we take it for granted We make them with our hands and minds

Building Stonehenge

The average stone weighs 50 tons Closest - 23 miles Farthest - over 250 miles

The impulse for art

The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained in us as the ability to learn language No society that we know of has lived without some form of art

Originality

Uncommon responses to situations and to solving problems

Megaliths

Very large stones Stonehenge is the best know megalith

Maya Lin

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Lin created the design in response to an open call for proposals for the memorial while enrolled as an undergrad at Yale

Refresh our vision and help us see the world in new ways

What we see every day we no longer marvel, because it has become familiar Through art we can see the world through someone else's eyes and recover the intensity of looking for the first time

Prehistoric Artifacts

Without written word, using line and color they communicated their story

Stonehenge

megaliths surrounded in turn by a circular ditch Was built in several phases over many centuries Marks a graveyard Did not stand alone but was part of a larger complex, religious complex used for funerary rituals