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

The Lines in this Painting Create What kind of Shape?

Raphael, 1505, Madonna of the Meadow

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

Class question

Space: Is there a lack of visual information?

Roger Hilton, Oi Yoi Yoi, 1963, Oil on Canvas

Yves Klein, IKB 79, 1959, acrylic, fabric and wood

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.

Class Question?

Great Public Museums-British Museum, 1759 open to public

First specialized art museum open to public –The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Russia, in 1764

Great Public Museums-The Louvre, Paris France 1793-open to public

When Art is Not Saved

Class will cover the loss of art and art that is meant to be temporary

Art destroyed in conflicts

Art stolen from museums and galleries

Art that is forged