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WHAT IS ART?
•FORM?•CONTENT?•STYLE?•MEDIUM?
IS IT
LINE
SHAPE
COMPOSITION
MASS
SPACE An element of art, space refers to distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece. Space can be positive (white or light) or negative (black or dark), open or closed, shallow or deep and two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Sometimes space isn't actually within a piece, but the illusion of it is.
&
COLOR
HUEVALUE
SATURATION
Maybe Art is a point of view- the angle from which we see the world.
Perspective is an attempt to reproduce objects on a flat surface as they appear to the eye.
Form refers to the visible elements of a piece, independent of their meaning. For example, in Leonardo's Mona Lisa, the formal elements are color, dimension, lines, mass, shape, etc., while the feelings of mystery and intrigue the piece evokes are informal products of the viewer's imagination.
Form is an element of art. At its most basic, a form is a three-dimensional geometrical figure (i.e.: sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, etc.), as opposed to a shape, which is two-dimensional, or flat.
But what does it mean?
•Subject matter•Context (social, political, and economic)•Intention (artist)•Reception or interpretation (of and by the viewer)•Iconography and symbolism
Meaning is a question of CONTENT, which includes:
DOES IT ALL COME DOWN TO
STYLE ?
REPUBLICAN IMPERIAL
Aulus Metellus Augustus
ILLUSIONISM
IDEALISM
REPRESENTATION STYLES
Title: Flower Piece with Curtain
Artist: Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans van Mieris
Date: 1658
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 18¼ X 25¼" (46.5 X 64 cm)
Title: The Medici Venus
Date: Roman Copy of a 1st-Century BCE Greek statue
Museum: Villa Medici, Florence, Italy
Medium: Marble
Size: height 5' (1.53 m) without base
Title: Charles V Triumphing over Fury, without Armor
Artist: Leone Leoni
Date: c. 1549-1555
Museum: Museo Nacional del Prado
Medium: Bronze
Size: height to top of head 5'8" (1.74 m)
“I know I cannot paint a flower. I cannot paint the sun on the desert on a bright sunny morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower significant to me at that particular time.”
Georgia O’Keefe November 1, 1930
The ESSENCE that is Abstraction
Title:
Artist:
Date:
Title: Cubi XIX
Artist: David Smith
Date: 1964
Medium: Stainless steel
Size: 9' 5/8" X 1' 9 ¾" X 1' 8" (2.88 x .55 X .51 m)
The opposite realism: Nonrepresentational
or Nonobjective Art
• No reference to objects from the physical world
• Only pure elements of design… lines, shapes, forms, space, texture, color.
What does it mean?
NONREPRESENTATIONAL ABSTRACT
DIFFERENCES IN NON-FIGURAL STYLES
Title: The Great Sphinx
Artist: N/A
Date: Dynasty 4, c. 2613-2494 BCE
Source/Museum: Giza, Egypt
Medium: Sandstone
Size: height approx. 65’
Public and Propagandistic Art
Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Artist: Maya Ying Lin
Date: 1982
Source: The Mall, Washington, D.C.
Medium: Black granite
Size: length 500' (152 m)
In the end,does art, or the meaning of art, always comes down to a confrontation between an object and a viewer.?
SO,
WHAT
IS
ART???
I look forward to hearing your opinions!