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Art Appreciation
What is art?
Art is dependent on their own experiences, prejudices,
beliefs, and values.
Art appreciation does not require knowledge of historical
context whereas art history does.
Appreciation art is never just a question of accepting visual
stimuli but of intelligently contemplating why and how works
of art come to be made and have meaning
Terms
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Visual literacy
Convention
Abstract art
Realistic art
Naturalistic
Calligraphy
Form
Ethnocentric
Hubris
Representational Art
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Nonrepresentational Art
Illusionistic
Composition
Content
Nonobjective Art
Ledger Drawing
Iconography
Mudra
Bismillah
Form: The literal shape and mass of an object or figure
Content: The meaning of an image, beyond its overt
subject matter; as opposed to form
There is a danger with viewing and interpreting artwork
with 21st Century Art
Art is Culturally Determined and must be viewed
according to the context of the time and place it was
created.
Do not judge with your own cultural standards.
1. What is the function of art?
2. Artist’s Intention?
3. Perception and Creative
Processes?
4. What is the symbolism of space
and color?
5. Temporary art
6. Public Art installations vs.
sculptures or painting for the
museum
7. 3 Dimensional work within a
space or setting.
8. What is the purpose?
9. What is the artists Intention?
10.Is this art?
11.It shows how projects
demonstrate two different cultures
might understand the value of the
same landscape
Title: The Gates, New York City, Central Park (aerial view)
Artist: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Date: 1979-2005
Source/Museum: Photo: Wolfgang Volz. © 2005 Christo and
Jeanne-Claude.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Creative process.
Title: Spiral Jetty (Movie Treatment)
Artist: Robert Smithson
Date: 1970
Title: The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City
Artist: Christo
Date: 2003
Title: The Gates, New York City, Central Park
Artist: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Date: 1979-2005
Source/Museum: Photo: Wolfgang Volz. © 2005 Christo and
Jeanne-Claude.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
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Title: Torii gates, Fushimi Inari Shrine
Source/Museum: Kyoto, Japan. Photo: Dan Hagerman.
Artist: n/a
Medium: n/a
Date: 8th century
Size: n/a
The World as Artist See it
The creative process according to Sayre
1. Artist sees things in new way
2. The artist imagines
3. The artist creates
4. The artist enters the critical thinking phase
5. The artist presents
Roles of the Artist
1. Artists help us see the world in new or
innovative ways
2. Artists make a visual record of the people,
places, and events of their time and place
3. Artists make functional objects and
structures (buildings) more pleasurable and
elevate them or imbue them with meaning
4. Artists give form to the immaterial— hidden
or universal truths, spiritual forces, personal
feelings
1. Artists help us see the world in new or
innovative ways
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Title: You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,
Artist: Yayoi Kusama
Date: 2005
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1st role of the artist- to help us see the world in
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Great Salt Lake-Americas Dead Sea
Culture. Symbolism with modern ecology.
Temporal made of rocks, earth, and other
natural elements. Water and nature, weather.
Landscape created by man
Spiral- relationship between unity and
multiplicity
death –lifeFor the artist
motion-stasis
expansion and contraction
life and death
1. Temporary
2. What does the environment dictate? Weather,
natural elements, natural light vs. indoor
lighting (museum) Constraint of space, and
possible view points for the viewer.
3. How does it different from nature and man
made.
Title: Spiral Jetty
Artist: Robert Smithson
Date: April, 1970
Source/Museum: Great
Salt Lake, Utah. Photo: by Gianfranco Gorgoni. ©
Estate of Robert Smithson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Medium: Mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks and water, coil
Size: 1,500 x 1.500 ft.
Title: Spiral Jetty
Source/Museum: Photo: Sandy Brooke
Artist: Robert Smithson
Medium: n/a
Date: As it appeared in August, 2003
Size: n/a
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An interior earth sculpture.
250 cubic yards of earth (197 cubic meters)
3,600 square feet of floor space (335 square meters)
22 inch depth of material (56 centimeters)
Total weight of sculpture: 280,000 lbs. (127,300 kilos)
The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in
Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt,
Germany in 1974. The first two works no longer exist.
Title: Lightning Field
Artist: Walter de Maria
Date: 1977
2. Artists make a visual record of the people,
places, and events of their time and place
1. Realistic Representation of a person
2. Made from life
1. made from cast.
Title: Pat
Artist: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres
Date: 1982
Source/Museum: Courtesy Alexander
and Bonin, New York. Collection
Norma and William Roth, Winter Haven, Florida. Photo courtesy of Sotheby's.
Medium: Painted cast plaster
Size: 28 ½ x 16 ½ x 11 in.
Title:The Matterhorn
Artist: Albert Bierstadt
Date: Undated
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An American Vista
We now move into the view of artist and how they portray it to the viewer.
1st Is this artist recording the world, visual record of people, places and events that surround them.
Here we see a depiction of an American landscape through the eyes of a European artist.
Sublime: it captured an immensity so large that it could hardly be comprehended by the imagination.
Democratic painting that the depicted the views of the nation. The Rocky Mountains as symbol of a nation of
prosperity and untold heights.
Not an actual landscape. Painted the Alps. Central peak the Matterhorn.
What is actual depiction and what is not?
Title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Artist: Albert Bierstadt
Date: 1863
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York. Rogers
Fund, 1907 (07.123). Photo © 1979 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 73 ½ x 120 ¾ in.
3. Artists make functional objects and
structures (buildings) more pleasurable and
elevate them or imbue them with meaning
1. Functional: coffin
1. Celebrating a
successful life
2. Aesthetic: beautiful
1. Art Dealer from San
Francisco imported the
coffins for the art
market
The Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop
staged by Guy Hersant on January 10, 2010
Title: Coffin Orange, in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod
Artist: Kane Kwei (Teshi tribe, Ghana, Africa)
Date: c. 1970
Source/Museum: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Gift of Vivian Burns, Inc., 74.8.
Medium: Polychrome wood
Size: 34 x 105 ½ x 24 in.
1. Clothing: Taste, self image, and
social status
2. Made for Noh Theater
1. Status and dignity of the
character
2. Male character playing part of
female character
3. Autumn grass, leaves, and flowers
4. Aesthetic beauty: stimulate a
sense of beauty to the viewer
Title: Karaori kimono, Middle Edo period, Japan
Source/Museum: Tokyo National Museum.
Artist: n/a
Medium: Brocaded silk
Date: c. 1700
Size: Length 60 in.
1. Green architecture
1. self sufficiency: lack of reliance on no
sustainable energy such as coal
2. use of sustainable building materials
3. Suitability to the climate and culture in which
it was built.
Title: Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center
Artist: Renzo Piano
Date: n/a
1. Kanak, the indigenous people of the island
1. Named after their leader
2. Ten pavilions left to look unfinished. Staves or lancets force air down through
the walls and into the lower areas of the buildings
3. Made of bamboo
4. Similar in shape and function as the indigenous dwellings (only has and archaic
appearance since the inside has many modern amenities
5. Linked by a covered pathway, representing the cultures integrity and
togetherness
4. Artists give form to the immaterial— hidden or
universal truths, spiritual forces, personal
feelings
1. Sacred instrument which carries meaning
2. Minkisi, (nkisi) sacred medicine
1. Kongo region of Africa
3. Cultural symbol
1. Used to harness the spirits of the
dead in order to be heal, divine, and
defend the dead
2. Animism: belief in the existence of
soul and the conviction that
nonhuman things can also have a
soul
4. Minkonde, (nkonde) use to pursue
witches, thieves, and adulteress
1. One of the most controversial
acts in western art is the idea
of daring to portray the
Christian God
2. Imagination as a means to
represent and universal truth
3. 1st international famed artist
4. Saint John the Baptist/John
the Evangelist
5. Notice how the frame casts a
shadow on the picture
Figure 20-5 JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent
Altarpiece (closed), Saint Bavo Cathedral,
Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Oil on
wood, 11’ 6" X 7’ 6".
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Figure 20-6 JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (open), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium,
completed 1432. Oil on wood, 11’ 5" X 15’ 1”.
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1st Attempt at depiction of God
Center bottom
1. Apostles
2. Prophets
3. Virgin Martyrs
4. Holy Confessors
Hermits, temperance (self control)
Pilgrims, Prudence (discretion)
Knights, Fortitude (strength)
Judges, Justice (righteousness)
Narrative theme of Salvation
(Story from the Bible)
1. Cycle
1. From Fall to Redemption
2. Divided into 2 registers
1. Bottom register has an
episode in middle
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss
Request. Photo © 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed by Scala-Art
Resource, New York. © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York.
Date: 1907
Medium: Oil on canvas
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Size: 8 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.
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A Chinese landscape
Goal of the artist is to show his feelings that the Tao is present within nature.
Artists here attempts to give a visual and tangible form to ideas, philosophies, or feelings.
Teachings of the Tao
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source of life
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gives form to all things
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yin and yang- unity within diversity in perfect harmony
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yin-nurturing and passive (earth and cool valleys)
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yang-generative and active (sun and mountains)
Two different representations of landscape.
The function of art therefore acts on different levels of aesthetics and can be visually appealing while also expressing the
artist’s personal concerns.
The process of seeing is different from one individual to the next because of their cultural. Someone from Aboriginal
descent vs. Asian descent.
Style: Simplistic
No people to distract us
Balance between sky and earth and from left to right with a central peak anchoring the balance.
Title: The Central Mountain
Source/Museum: Collection of the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Artist: Wu Chen
Medium: Handscroll, ink on paper
Date: 1336
Size: 10 1//6 x 35 1/3 in.
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Aboriginal ―Dreaming‖
Hidden and universal truths in two different cultures
ideologies.
Dreamtime: it functions as the foundation of Australian
creation myth as well as a record of their ancestral
spirits.
What is the Dreaming? A god which exist within the
world.
Landscape as a series of marks that the Dreaming leave
behind
Record of ancestral beings.
Designs with ceremonial power
Corroboree- a celebration ceremony
Title: Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming
Artist: Erna Motna
Date: 1988
Source/Museum: Australia Gallery, New York.
Courtesy of the Australian Consulate General.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 48 x 32 in.
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Operation ―Peter Pan‖ (Iowa)
Reclaiming her roots from Cuba
Red paint-oppression, genocide of the
conquest of Americas
Title: From Silueta Works in Mexico
Source/Museum: The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles. Purchased with a grant provided by The
Judith Rothschild Foundation. 97.119.2.
Artist: Ana Mendieta
Medium: Color photograph
Date: 1973
Size: 20 x 16 in.
I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on
my own silhouette). . . . I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the
womb (nature). Through my earth/ body sculptures I become one with the earth . . . I
become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body.
The Physical Process of Seeing
How do we see the world?
ReceptionExtractionInference
Seeing as a creative process
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Physical Process of Seeing
Reception- external stimuli enter the nervous system though our eyes
Extract – the retina extracts the basic information and send it to brain
and visual cortex
Inference – what you see is the extract after your retina has filtered
out things such as color, motion, orientation and size to creat an
image
In The Language of Art, what, according to Nelson Goodman, ―selects,
rejects, organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyzes, and
constructs‖?
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The eye mirrors each
individual’s complex
perceptions of the world.
What is Johns intentions and
what we see.
Looking vs.
―seeing=understanding‖
Images that are looked at but
never seen.
Each person perceives object
differently
Artist: Jasper Johns
Source/Museum: Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York. 50th Anniversary Gift of the Gilman Foundation, Inc.,
The Lauder Foundation, A. Alfred Taubman, an anonymous donor,
and purchase 80.32. Photo: Geoffrey Clements. © Jasper
Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Date: 1958
Medium: Encaustic on canvas
Title: Three Flags
Size: 30 ⅞. X 45 ½ x 5 in.
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Painted during the Civil Rights
Movement
Flag turned into prison cell
Women both as a Patriot and a Racist
1. Denying the right to vote
2. Pledging allegiance
Women as symbol of founding fathers
and of women rights
Both the historical and the
contemporary
1. Old and young
Title: God Bless America
Source/Museum: © Faith Ringgold, Inc.
Artist: Faith Ringgold
Date: 1964
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 31 x 19 in.
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Directly address: Yanagi wanted to show that Japan was not an entity that could survive alone
The ants are integration of unknown outcome into the artwork
No entity, culture, individual or state is alone in this world we are all affected by the environment and cultures
around us.
Some art critics view the artwork as a microchip which represents internet through connectivity and Japans
workforce
Title: The World Flag Ant Farm
Artist: Yukinori Yanagi
Date: 1990
Source/Museum: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa,
Japan. Photo: Norihiro Ueno.
Medium: Ants, colored sand,
Size: Each 8 x 12 in.
plastic boxes, and plastic tubes, 170 boxes
Title: America
Artist: Yukinori Yanagi
Date: 1994
1. Directly address: Border crossing
2. the ―border crossings‖ and the dispersion of its sand from one box to another
show the integration or mixing of cultures into a universal whole
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What is the Subject?
Is the artist being and
activist, observer, or
he documenting.
Time specific artwork
embodying current
events.
What are the
elements used for
emotional impact?
Title: Race Riot
Source/Museum: © 2003 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Artist: Andy Warhol
Medium: Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, four panels
Date: 1963
Size: Each panel 20 x 33 in.