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What is Art?

What is Art?. According to Tolstoy, art must create a specific emotional link between artist and audience, one that "infects" the viewer. Thus, real art requires the capacity to unite people via communication (clearness and genuineness are therefore crucial values). . What is art?.

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What is Art?

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  1. What is Art? According to Tolstoy, art must create a specific emotional link between artist and audience, one that "infects" the viewer. Thus, real art requires the capacity to unite people via communication (clearness and genuineness are therefore crucial values).

  2. What is art? • Does medium make a difference? • How about subject? • Take a few minutes and take the quiz on pages 4-5 of your book. When done, close the book.

  3. Pick one of the quotes above and using your own words explain what the quotation is trying to say about art. Write it in the space below . 1. Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell 2. Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.G. K. Chesterton Art is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.George Tooker 3. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher 4. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy 5. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.Pablo Picasso 6. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams

  4. How did you do? Whaam!, 1963, Roy Lichtenstein Why can this be art? Why not?

  5. Does the artist’s INTENT matter? Does the story behind the work matter? Felt Suit, 1970, Joseph Beuys

  6. Does time/permenance matter? Does location matter?

  7. Does the medium matter? Does the subject matter? H.R.H. Briefcase, 1985, Marilyn Levien

  8. Again, does medium matter? Does the artist have to make the medium or is assemblage from found objects ok? Monogram, 1959, Robert Rauschenberg

  9. On the same piece of paper that you took the quiz, complete questions 1-6 on page 11. • Turn in on the front table, in front of the tape/stapler, make sure your name is on it.

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