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Art History
Lecture 1
21 February 2013
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What Role does Art Play in Society?
Art plays a lot of roles in society. Music is one
form of art that is interpreted from real life
into music and helps portray deeper
understanding of life by listening to different
styles of musician's work. Art also provides
spectators the chance to immerse themselves
into paintings of famous artists and interpretthe meaning of another form of art.
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The role an artist plays in society is largely
dependent on the personality of the artist and
on that artist's chosen subject matter. An
artist can lead, follow, uplift or provoke with
their work. Art is often a reflection or
extension of personality. Art is so versatile
that the artist can take whatever role theywish, given the right art for a given set of
social circumstances. Teresa Dye
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The artist records history for future
generations, art reaches out & touches people
around the world, it can lift people when they
are down or create controversy, art is a very
important part of society. Pearl Roger
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The artist provides society with emotions, color,and texture. Scientists think up of ways to makelife easier, builders and technicians turn thosescientific ideas into tangible objects. These things
help us - they blend our foods, put roofs over ourheads, make mowing the lawn easier - but theynever add real emotion. Artists come in to playon our emotions and subconscious thoughts.
Amazingly, artists know how to elicit these strongfeelings by creating images on canvas and clay.Andre Deherra
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The artist brings color and light to society. A
dull and dreary day can be brightened up with
a visit to an art gallery. Art in the home or
office can totally transform a place, it
becomes a focus point. A little ray of sunshine.
Neil Stewart
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Artists see things in a totally different way,
they challenge the boundaries of rules, society
and imagination yet also keep us in touch with
the past.Linda Hoey
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Art is a huge part of all communities being
that it creates a sense of culture! Without
culture how can any community truly consider
themselves a community?-Robbie Craig
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Art takes us out of ourselves. It allows us to
address the big questions in life. It makes us
think of ourselves and mortality-Alice Helwig
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The artist is one that takes risks, makes
changes and always develops new ways at
looking at old trends and shaping them into
something amazing... The artist is a different
bread of human with an understanding of
creativity and invention.- Darryn Rae
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What Is the Role of the Artist-
Intellectual in Society?
What is the role of the artist the intellectual
artist in modern society? If the role of the
artist is obviously and intrinsically tied to the
role of art, then what is the role of art? In
modern society? Or in any society?
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Art reflects reality at the very least. Art is
humanitys attempts to recreate reality, to
create reflections of reality and imagination
& creativity are part of reality thus also
reflections of imagination; but then what is
good art? How is it separate & distinct from
ordinary or bad art?
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The role of the artist then is connected to the
role of art, in whatever medium oil on
canvas, watercolor, charcoal, pencil, colored
pens, other canvas work, photography,computer art, sculpture, performance art,
theater, movies, TV, poetry, novels, literature,
music, dance, cave paintings,
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The artist creates the art but not out of thin
air but within a societal context, supported
and buffetted by the conditions of the time
the resources, the technology, theintelligence, the knowledge, the economic,
political, social, cultural and religious /
philosophical conditions of the moment of thecreation of the art.
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What is art? Is everything the artist creates
art? Is there bad art and good art?
Why does art reflect reality? Is that all it does?
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Art projects back to humanity knowledge and
awareness of the reality which in turn allows
humanity to understand reality better better
than what? Better than it did before the art.The essence of good art then is that it does
this in a qualitative different and higher level
than bad art.
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Within the context of the conditions of society
at the moment of the creation of the art, the
artist as a human then through the creation of
his or her or their art creates something that ifit is good art is able to reflect the reality of
the artist and the community and project back
to that community communication aboutreality that allows the community to better
understand that reality.
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If the reality is not a good reality, then the art
the good art is able to communicate more
to the majority of the community than simply
an awareness of the reality; it can projectways and avenues to change that reality. Or at
least project back to the community of
humanity that reality needs to be changed forthe good of the community.
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What is reality? Is this beyond the question
before us? If art reflects reality and can be
used to change that reality then we must
know what reality is? Art reflects the humanconditions of the time if those conditions or
part of them are inhumane, then art can be
instrumental in changing those conditions forthe better.
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Human conditions include the materialobjective context that humanity finds itselfliving in, the environmental conditions, the
economic, political, social, cultural conditionsof the moment, what humanity knows, theknowledge of the time. Of course, humanitydoes not live in a moment alone; conditions
are constantly changing. But there aresufficient time-place equilibriums to be ableto say there are historical moments.
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The Role of the Artist
The artist then creates the art in whatevermedium at a historical moment; the art notonly reflects that historical moment, it is areflection of that reality, that historical moment.
Through the creation and presentation and thenabsorption by others within the community ofthe art, the artist is able to reflect the historicalmoment and project into the community an
awareness of the moment, an awareness of thehumane or inhumane conditions of that moment,and an awareness that the inhumane conditionsneed to be changed for the better.
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What about the artist who does not do this,
who does not understand this, or does not try
to do this say, the artist who creates
commercial renditions of an original purely forfinancial reasons? Is this an artist? Does one
have to create original works of art to be an
artist? Is this person not an artist or at least abad artist who creates bad art?
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The role of the good artist, then, is that of one
who creates or helps to create good art, that
reflects reality, projects an awareness of the
inhumane conditions of that reality, and waysto change those conditions.
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Is the Mona Lisa good art?
Now we have to qualify and quantify. How
does the Mona Lisa project an awareness of
the inhumane conditions of reality and ways
to change those conditions? How can we say
the Mona Lisa is not good art? In fact, isnt it
great art that has stood the test of history?
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The Mona Lisa is excellent art because it hasstood the test of time, that it projects theawareness of the history of humanity, how an
ambiguous smile is able to remain so overhundreds of years, projecting back to us anawareness of the history of humanity, that asmile was a smile five hundred years ago. Not
all good or great art has to project back to ushow to create barricades and topplegovernments.
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If art to be great, only has to remind us of our
humanity and our history, then wouldnt a lot
of artifacts and daily instruments of former
times amount to that ?
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The more the art projects back to humanity its
conditions, the more humanity is able to
understand its conditions. And if they need to
be changed for the good of humanity, thengood art can instruct.
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The role of the artist then when confronted withinhumane conditions of humanity is to create artthat is instructive to humanity so the members ofthe community can change those conditions. One
way to achieve that is to reflect an awareness andunderstanding of our own humanity, to remind usof our beauty, our fragility, our limitations, ourtemporal experience, our strengths, our fears,
dreams. The Mona Lisa does this despite a labelof solely being a portrait of a ruling class woman because it does these other things remindingus hundreds of years of the ambiguity of life.
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Pre-Historic Art Mesopotamia
Ancient Greek and Egyptian Art
Roman Art and Byzantine Art
Christian and Islamic Art
Gothic Art
Early High Renaissance Art
Baroque and Rococo Art Art History Development from 19th to 21st
Century.