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Chapter 1

• The Nature of Art and Creativity

What Is Art?

• Work of art-visual expression of an idea or experience formed with skill through use of a medium

• Media/medium-type of tools used to create the artwork– clay, fiber, stone, wood, paint, video,

photography, • Some communication can only be

expressed through visual form or music...

Purposes and Functions of Art

• Art can:– tell us things– elevate our spirits– show beauty– show injustice

Art for Communicating Information

• Through the ages, art has been used to impart information

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Lauren Greenfield. The View North, toward Burj Dubai. 2009.

Dorothea Lange

Robert Frank

James Nachtwey

Art for Day to Day Living

• Objects made to delight the eye as well as serve useful functions


Yves Behar. Mission One. 2009.


Dish. East Iran. 10th Century.Diameter 8-1/4".

Art for Worship and Ritual

• Through the ages people have used art to use for prayer, worship, magic, and ceremony


Dance Wand in Honor of Eshu. Elegba Cult. Yoruba, Nigeria.Height 19-3/4".


Beatrice Wood (1893–1998). Chalice. 1986.7-5/8" × 7/8".


Stephen Cox. St. Anselm's Altar. 2006.Height 35".

Art for Personal Expression

• The artist uses their medium to express their personality and/or feelings to the viewer


Rembrandt van Rijn. Self-Portrait. 1658.52-5/8" × 40-7/8".


Yong Soon Min. Dwelling. 1994.72" × 42" × 28".


Romare Bearden. Rocket to the Moon. 1971.13" × 9-1/4".

Romare Bearden

• “ The biggest thing I learned was reaching into your consciousness of black experience and relating it to the universal.”


Romare Bearden.


Romare Bearden. Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings. 1967.

Art For Social Causes

• Humans are influenced by what they see• Artists can use their art to influence the

public


Francisco Goya. The Disasters of War, No. 18: Bury Them and Say Nothing. 1818.5-7/8" × 8-3/8".


Félix González-Torres. Untitled (Death by Gun). Installation view. 1990.44-1/2" × 32-1/2".


Félix González-Torres. Untitled (Death by Gun). Single sheet. 1990.44-1/2" × 32-1/2".

Christian Boltanski


Chaz Maviyane-Davies. Global Warning. 1997.

Art for Visual Pleasure

• Art is often identified solely by this definition

• Art made to be visually attractive and well crafted


Decorative Panel from the Alhambra. Granada, Spain. Nasrid Period, 14th Century.

60" × 50-5/8".


Miriam Schapiro. Heartland. 1985.85" × 94".

What is Creativity?

• The ability to bring forth something new that has value


Robin Rhode. He Got Game. 2000.

Untrained Artists

• Outsider artists or folk artists- people with no formal art education– folk artists work within a tradition– outsider artists rarely know about the

trends and history of art• they work outside of traditional art

guidelines


Anna Zemankova. Untitled (M). c. 1970s.24-1/4" × 17-3/4" (61.6 × 45.1 cm).


Sabatino "Simon" Rodia. Nuestro Pueblo. Watts, Calif. Distant view.1921–1954. Height 100'.


Sabatino "Simon" Rodia. Nuestro Pueblo. Watts, Calif.Detail of enclosing wall with construction tool impressions. 1921–1954.

Height 100'.


James Hampton. Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly. c. 1950–1964.

10'6" × 27' × 14'6".

Mola Embroidery

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