Chapter OneArt 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

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?

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.

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.

Why do artists creat?

The urge to create is universal! Artists: Creative individuals who use

imagination and skill to communicate in visual form.

Where do artists get ideas?

Nature People and World Events Myth Legends Creative Techniques Artists of the past Ideas commissioned by employers

Nature

*The Lackawanna Valley*George Inness

*Morning Suprise*Terry Redlin

PeopleThe 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

Popularity of American Gothic…

Real World Events*Twin Towers Crying

*Tone Granberg

Myths and Legends

Dragons

Depicting the return of a legendary hero, Ulysses.

Creative Techniques

Jackson Pollock

Artists of the past

*Las Meninas*Diego Velazquez1656

*Las Meninas*Pablo Picasso1957

Ideas Commissioned by Employers

*Leonardo Davinci*Ginevra de’ Benci

Commissioned by her husband at the age of 16.

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

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

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.

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.