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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Friday 9/3/10 Lecture Summary

What is Art?
  • Artist thought of it
  • image of a person
  • like the look of it (object, art piece, architecture...)
  • Someone made it
  • artifact
  • usefulness
  • expresses emotion

During class we came up with this list of what we think art is. But after discussing it, we saw that it is different for everybody. It was surprising when we were making this list how I agreed and disagreed with different examples that were put up on whether it was art or not.

The Impulse for Art

Commercial messages- clarity, style
Can be expression of society or individual
Styles through history change where impulse doesn't

The Present or Re-Present? Non-Representational Art


Representation- one thing stands in for another
Styles of Representation
Naturalistic- as in nature
realistic- true to life
Stylistic- Simplified to emphasize important details
Abstract- highly stylized (may not be recognizable)

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