Art Appreciation: 2019

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Reason for Making Art

Spiritual
http://theartedge.faso.com/blog/73876/the-spiritual-significance-of-art

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=reason%20for%20art%20spiritual&rs=typed&term_meta[]=reason%20for%20art%20spiritual%7Ctyped

Utilitarian Art
Literally speaking utilitarian art would be art that prioritises function over other values such as formal aesthetics.

Crafts of various kinds could clearly be called utilitarian arts. The Bauhaus School might be a good historical example of this way of thinking.

- However, the term is incredibly broad and is broken up into numerous sub-categories that lead to utilitarian, decorative, therapeutic, communicative, and intellectual ends.
- The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to everyday objects, such as a glass or a chair, transforming them from a mere utilitarian object to something aesthetically beautiful.
- Examine the communication, utilitarian, aesthetic, therapeutic, and intellectual purposes of art
Using Art
- The decorative arts are widely used and utilitarian by their very nature.
- Typically, their purposes are obvious, and their aesthetic value is often secondary to their utilitarian function.
- While these art objects often have no specific utilitarian purpose, anthropologists have proven they hold very specific cultural importance.
- https://www.google.com/search?q=utilitarian+art&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikutj__bTkAhUQbawKHZOBDAMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1195&bih=515

https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+pictures+of+animals&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=EZG96xdYM3WJVM%253A%252CeM8t4U1X01XKLM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQ7Hj2YsZVNbtSIhNNQ1mppO6_f6w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwih6aCR9LTkAhUSLK0KHT7dASsQ9QEwAHoECAQQBA#imgrc=EZG96xdYM3WJVM:

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

What is art... what is not art?

Classification Dispute- defining what high art or fine art is or is not...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Albrecht Durer- It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught (possibly by the mathematician Luca Pacioli) the principles of linear perspective. Here we have an illustration from a work published in 1535 based on or possibly a reprint of Unterweysung des Messung .

Dürer’s illustration shows apparatus for drawing a classic set-piece, a foreshortened lute. A pointer is attached to a thread running through a pulley on the wall. The thread represents a ray of light passing through the picture plane to the theoretical eye-point denoted by the pulley. As one man fixes key points on the lute, his assistant records the vertical and horizontal co-ordinates of the thread as it passes through the frame, and plots each new point to create a drawing.

One Point Perspective

While still in the early phase of his architectural career (probably c. 1410–15), Brunelleschi rediscovered the principles of linear-perspective construction known to the Greeks and Romans but buried along with many other aspects of ancient civilization during the European Middle Ages. Brunelleschi had understood the concept of a single vanishing point, toward which all parallel lines drawn on the same plane appear to converge, and the principle of the relationship between distance and the diminution of objects as they appear to recede in space.

Boxes Drawn in one point perspective.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

CREATE AN LOGO

Symbols and Icons

Icon

1. a graphic symbol on a computer display screen that represents an app, an object (such as a file), or a function (such as the command to save)

b: a sign (such as a word or graphic symbol) whose form suggests its meaning

2: an object of uncritical devotion : IDOL

3: EMBLEM, SYMBOL

the house became an icon of 1960's residential architecture

4 Late Greek eikōn, from Greek ] : a conventional religious image typically painted on a small wooden panel and used in the devotions of Eastern Christians

5: a usually pictorial representation : IMAGE

6: a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract."the limousine was another symbol of his wealth and authority"

SYMBOL

a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.
Symbol-1. a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.a thing that represents or stands
Stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract."the limousine was another symbol of his wealth and authority"

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

All Elements and Principles of Design In Pinterest

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Art Outside Art School Training

Naive Art is done by untrained artists. These works are describing art made in the 20th century or earlier. According to the free dictionary, naive art work is by self taught artists whose fresh, untutored style is simple and innocent. Examples include Grandma Moses and Rousseau.

Grandma Moses, Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City, 1946, oil on canvas.

COURTESY SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM/© GRANDMA MOSES PROPERTIES

Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910.

Folk Art According to Brittanica.com is the art of the people, as distinguished from the elite or professional product that constitutes the mainstream of art in highly developed societies. Folk Art "may be considered as the art created among groups that exist within the framework of a developed society but, for geographic or cultural reasons, are largely separated from the cosmopolitan artistic developments of their time and that produce distinctive styles and objects for local needs and tastes."

Madhubani Art

Unidentified Artist from American Folk Art Museum.

Outsider Art according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, is any work of art produced by an untrained artist who is typically unconnected to the conventional art world—not by choice but by circumstance. They have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions.

Bill Taylor, an artist born into slavery, made drawings of people and life on plantation.

"Henry Darger created a war-inspired fantasy around pre-pubescent girls with boy parts while toiling as a janitor and never receiving recognition until his artist landlord unearthed his treasure trove shortly before his death."

The Art Brut Phenomenon began bu Jean Dubuffet favored who this uniqueness, honesty, and authenticity that he thought were lost in the pretentious and fashionable world of Paris salons. This is why he obsessively started visiting mental hospitals and prisons, gathering paintings and drawings created by the patients that would in 1948 become part of Compagnie de l’Art Brut, a collection on which he founded this movement.

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Write about your Art work using the elements and Principles of Design

The first element in this work that stands out to me is color. I used a complementary color scheme in making it which uses the colors of red and green. The second element of design that I see is organic shape. The big green and red shapes in the sky are organic in nature, The third element I see is line. There are dark jagged lines as well and the general outlines for the shapes. The last element that I see is space. There is an illusion of a far away landscape in this with the dark color making the land and the moon in the distance of the sky.

The firs principle of design that stands out to me is symmetrical balance. Because the moon is in the middle it has an approximate symmetry. The second principle that stands out to me is proportion or size. The moon is very small which creates deeper space and its size is important to the piece. The next principle that I see is a kind of repetition in the green stripes in the sky, which create subtle movement. The focal point is the moon, and it is has unity in the way it is painted, but variety in shades of green.