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Chapter One

Chapter One. Art in your world. What is Art?. A work of art is the visual expression of an idea or experience created with skill. Perceive : To become deeply aware through the senses of the special nature of a visual object. Edvard Munch. The Sick Child. Some Background Info.

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Chapter One

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  1. Chapter One Art in your world

  2. What is Art? • A work of art is the visual expression of an idea or experience created with skill. • Perceive: To become deeply aware through the senses of the special nature of a visual object.

  3. Edvard Munch. The Sick Child

  4. Some Background Info • Painted in 1885 • Portrait of his older and favorite sister who died of tuberculosis years earlier at the age of 15. • What has the artist done to focus your attention on the sick child?

  5. The purposes of Art • Personal function: To express personal feelings. • Social function: To reinforce and enhance the shared sense of identity to those in a family, community, or civilization. • Spiritual function: To express spiritual beliefs about the destiny of life controlled by the force of a higher power.

  6. Purposes Continued… • Physical function: To create/invent functional art. • Educational function: Art is sometimes used to provide visual instruction. When not everyone could read, artists would use symbols to provide information.

  7. Why do artists creat? • The urge to create is universal! • Artists: Creative individuals who use imagination and skill to communicate in visual form.

  8. Where do artists get ideas? • Nature • People and World Events • Myth Legends • Creative Techniques • Artists of the past • Ideas commissioned by employers

  9. Nature *The Lackawanna Valley *George Inness *Morning Suprise *Terry Redlin

  10. People The Symbols in this picture tell a story: *The gothic window represents the couple’s European heritage. *The pitchfork represents their determination. *American Gothic *Grant Wood

  11. Popularity of American Gothic…

  12. Real World Events *Twin Towers Crying *Tone Granberg

  13. Myths and Legends Depicting the return of a legendary hero, Ulysses. Dragons

  14. Creative Techniques Jackson Pollock

  15. Artists of the past *Las Meninas *Pablo Picasso 1957 *Las Meninas *Diego Velazquez 1656

  16. Ideas Commissioned by Employers *Leonardo Davinci *Ginevra de’ Benci Commissioned by her husband at the age of 16.

  17. The Language of Art • Symbol: Something that stands for, or represents, something else. • Elements of Art: Basic Visual symbols in the language of art. • Line • Shape and Form • Space • Color • Value • Texture

  18. Principles of Art: Rules that govern how artists organize the elements of art. • Rhythm • Movement • Balance • Proportion • Variety • Emphasis • Harmony • Unity

  19. Vocab… • Subject: The image viewers can easily identify in a work of art. • Nonobjective Art: Art that has no recognizable matter. • Composition: The way the principles of art are used to organized the elements of art.

  20. More Vocab • Content: The message the work communicates. • Credit Line: A list of important facts about a work of art. • Medium: The materials used to make art.

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