About the Arts: In Preparation for the Research Project

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About the ArtsIn Preparation for the
Research Project
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What are the arts?(A few definitions from
dictionary.com)

• Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or
  counteract the work of nature.
• A nonscientific branch of learning one of the
  liberal arts.
• High quality of conception or execution, as found
  in works of beauty aesthetic value.
• A field or category of art, such as music,
  ballet, or literature.

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The Five Main Arts

• Visual Art (painting, sculpture, etc.)
• Literature (fiction, poetry, drama)
• Dance (ballet, modern, jazz, etc.)
• Music (jazz, rock, classical, country)
• Cinema (feature length and short films)

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Visual Art

• Artist (example Renoir)
• An individual work of art (example Van Goghs
  Starry Night)
• A movement (example Cubism)

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Visual Arts Artist
Pierre Auguste Renoir

• Famous artist in the Impressionism movement

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Renoir, continued
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Renoir, continued
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Visual Arts Individual Work
Vincent Van Goghs Starry Night
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Visual Arts Movement
Cubism

• Defined as a nonobjective school of painting and
  sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th
  century, characterized by the reduction and
  fragmentation of natural forms into abstract,
  often geometric structures usually rendered as a
  set of discrete planes.
• dictionary.com

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Literature

• Artist (example Hemingway, Dickinson)
• An individual work of art (example
• Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire)
• A movement (example modernist poetry)

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Literature Artists

• Ernest Hemingway
• Author of
• A Farewell to Arms
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Sun Also Rises
• and many more novels and stories
• Emily Dickinson
• Author of more than 1500 poems, all of them found
  and published after her death in 1886.

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Literature Individual Work

• Tennessee Williams play,
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

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Literature Movement

• Modernist Poetry

T.S. Eliot
W.B. Yeats
William Carlos Williams
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Music Individual Artist

• Miles Davis
• Best-selling jazz album Kind of Blue

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Music Individual Work

• The Clashs London Calling
• Released in 1979
• One of the best punk albums ever
• Influenced musicians from punk to rock to pop to
  dance

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Music Movement

• Electric Piano
• Innovative new instrument
• Changed pop, blues, and rock music
• Ray Charles

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Dance Artist

• Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Popularized ballet throughout the world in the
  20th century, especially in America
• Starred in several films (White Nights)

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Dance Genre

• Modern Dance
• Serious theatrical dance forms that are distinct
  from both ballet and the show dancing of the
  musical comedy or variety stage.

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Dance Historical Theatre

• Kirov Theatre
• in Moscow, Russia
• Dates back to 1738

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Cinema Artist

• Orson Welles
• Writer, director, and star of
• Citizen Kane

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Cinema Technique

• Method Acting
• Created by Stanislavski, implemented by Spolin,,
  Hagen and Chekhov
• Incorporates improvisation, stage movement and
  physical theatre techniques
• Good example Marlon Brando peeling the orange or
  petting the cat in Francis Ford Coppolas
• The Godfather

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Cinema Technological Advancement

• CGI Animation
• computer-generated
• imagery
• For cartoons and realistic films, such as Star
  Wars Attack of the Clones, Lord of the Rings,
  and Spider-Man

Mike Wazowksi, digital character from Disneys
Monsters, Inc.
Rob Coleman, from Industrial Light and Magic