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What is Art?
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What is Art?

• Art is a collection of ideas produced by human
  skill, imagination and invention
• Art can be
• Visual
• Music
• Literature
• Dance
• Theater
• Or a combination of these

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Why make art?To decorate our world
Interior of a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Contemporary ceramic pieces
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Why make art?To describe or explain our past
Cave painting from Lascaux, France
Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks
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Why make art?To use in ceremonies
African masks
Aboriginal painting
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Why make art?To explore our world
Frederick Church
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Why make art?To express our moods, feelings or
ideas
Keith Haring
Dorothea Lange
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Why does art look like it does?

• What is the function of the artwork?
• Who is it being made for?
• What materials are available to make the artwork?
• When and where did the artist live?

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When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must
decide on
Subject or theme (landscape, portrait,
object, event)
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When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must
decide on
Medium (paint, pencil, marble, wood, computer,
photograph)
Computer generated art
Wood sculpture
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When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must
decide on
Composition (focal point, balance, rhythm,
unity, variety)
Edward Hopper
Beverly Buchanan
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When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must
decide on
a message
Keith Haring
Dustin Shuler
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When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must
decide on
a mood
Mark Rothko
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How do we make sense of art?

• What we see when we look at a work of art depends
  on
• Our experience
• Our knowledge
• Our imagination
• Our mood
• And what the artist wants to show us

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Look closely!

• What is happening here?
• What mood or feeling is the artist expressing?
• How do you feel when you look at this image?

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What is abstract art?

• A work of art that uses lines, shapes, colors,
  forms, patterns and textures rather than showing
  objects, scenes and people as they appear in real
  life
• The artwork focuses more on the language of art

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Abstract art
Kenneth Noland
Frank Stella
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Abstract art
Christo and Jean-Claude
Andy Goldsworthy
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Abstract art
Robert Smithson
Andy Goldsworthy
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What is the future of art?

• The future of art depends on the future of life
  on earth and how artists react to it.
• Art will always be affected by personal emotions,
  opinions, world events and new technology.

Nam June Paik, Global Encoder
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