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Living With Art Arts, Man and Society
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Our simplest worlds are often the deepest
in meaning: birth, kiss, flight, dream, love.
Sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his lifesearching for forms as simple and pure as
those words ± forms that seem to have
existed forever, outside time
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Born a peasant in a remote area in
Romania, he spent most of his adult life in
Paris, where he lived in a single smallroom adjoining a sky lit studio.
Upon his death in 1957, he willed the
contents of his studio to the French
Government and they re-created the
studio itself into a museum
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Living with Art Near the center are
the three versions of
an idea Brancusicalled Endless
Column. Pulsing
upward with great
energy, the columnsseem as though they
could go on forever
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Living with Art
Bird in Space.Brancusi said
that the work
represents ³the
soul liberatedfrom matter´
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You probably live already with more art
than you think you do.
Very likely the walls of your home aredecorated with posters, photographs, or
even paintings you chose because you
find them beautif ul or meaningf ul.
Sometimes just by walking around your
community, you can see many appealing
sites
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Aesthetic experience: it is the feelings
aroused in us by sensory experiences ±
experiences we have throu
gh ou
r fivesenses.
Aesthetics concerns itself with our
responses to the natural world and to the
world we make, especially the world of art
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On the afternoon of December 18, 1994,
to men and women found an astonishing
discovery. They found a cave f ull of
paintings on the wall.
There are more than 300 images painted
on the wall
It is now called Chauvet cave
The paintings were made 30,000 BC
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What artist do?
± Create places for some human purpose
± Create extra-ordinary versions of ordinaryobjects
± Record and commemorate
± Give tangible form to the unknown
± Give tangible form to feelings
± Refresh our vision and help us see the world
in new ways
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Living with Art Vincent van Gogh
The Starry Night
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Peeling Paint on Iron Bench
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Living with Art Creating and Creativity
± Sensitivity ± heightened awareness of what
one sees, hears and touches, as well asresponsiveness to other people and their
feelings
± Flexibility ± an ability to adapt to new
situations and to see their possibilities;willingness to find innovative relationships
± Originality ± uncommon responses to
situations and to solving problems
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Living with Art ± Playf ulness ± a sense of humor and an ability
to experiment freely
± Productivity ± the ability to generate ideas
easily and frequently, and to follow through on
those ideas
± Fluency ± a readiness to allow the free flow of
ideas ± Analytical skill ± a talent for exploring
problems, taking them apart, and finding out
how things work
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Living with Art ± Organizational skill ± ability to put things back
together in a coherent order
Alan Rath