Living with art chapter 1
Giving tangible form to the unknown
Shiva
Van Gogh and Toulouse were
Social outcast
To create extra ordinary visions of ordinary objects
Stemmed cup china & kente cloth Africa
The oldest cave paintings known today were around
30,000 BC
Nonrepresentational
Artwork that doesn't represent any being, place or thing
What artist do
Create extra ordinary versions of ordinary objects
Sensitivity flexibility originality playfulness pro ductility fluency analytical skills and organizational skills
Creative people have
The list of traits a creative people seem to possess includes all of the following except
Efficiency
To refresh your vision
Ernest hass iron bench
Aesthetics
Feelings aroused and us by sensory experiences
Two-dimensional art refers to the object depicted and it's backdrops are
Figure/ground
The reason they painted the Walls
For hunting magic
Calligraphy
Handwriting considered as art especially practice in China Japan and Aslami cultures Greek meaning beautiful writing
What it means to the viewer
Important meaning of artwork
Guernica
It depicts the events that took place during the Spanish Civil War when a collision of conservative traditional forces led by general Francisco Franco bombed Guernica
What's the message meant to convey in Guernica
It's black and white and saying that is nothing colorful about war
Vincent van Gogh thoughts and feelings about many of his paintings
Letters he wrote to his family and relatives
Representational
Looks like something realistic
Paleolithic means
Old Stone Age
Allegory
Represents Abstract ideas principles by characters figures and events in picture form
Negative space
Shapes of the ground
Iconography
The identification and description and interpretation of subject matters in art
Tangible feelings
The starry night
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
They were art collectors
What artist do ?
To create places for human purposes
What do artist do
To give tangible form to feelings and ideas
What do Artist do
To give tangible form to the unknown
Not a task for artists
To help see the world in the same way we see it
Last supper Leonardo da Vinci
To record and commemorate
What artist do
To record and commentate
What do artist do
To refresh our visions and see the world in a new way
Appreciation involves a combination of
Understanding and enjoyment
Valdez and flack
Vanitas paintings
Maya Lin work
Vietnam veterans memorial
To recording and commemorate
Washington/lincoln monuments
Positive space
We perceive as image
