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AE 610 Survey of Art Education

AE 610 Survey of Art Education. OR 2,500 years of Art Education in 30 slides or less…. The Greeks-Living the Good Life. Behavior. Mind. Science. Travelled around Greece teaching rhetoric/ persuasion. No absolute truth Reliance on individual.

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AE 610 Survey of Art Education

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  1. AE 610 Survey of Art Education OR 2,500 years of Art Education in 30 slides or less…

  2. The Greeks-Living the Good Life • Behavior • Mind • Science Travelled around Greece teaching rhetoric/ persuasion No absolute truth Reliance on individual Abandoned science in favor of winning arguments • Sophists • Plato • Aristotle Natural Desires Will Reason Academy-School for Philosophers Ideal form/ Imitation (therefore music most supreme art Nomos/ Order (math, music, architecture Physis/ Nature Order out of chaos Classification Artists were those skilled in imitation Scientific Method Biology

  3. The Romans- Expanding Empire • Cicero • De Oratore • Plotinus • Neoplatonic Beauty • Emperor Honorius • Left Rome • Behavior • Mind • Science Question/ Wide Culture Oratory/ Skilled speaking Art not merely imitation, but also revelation Artists represent platonic solids through materials Took over western Roman Empire after father’s death Left ruling duties to advisors

  4. Teaching Art in the Renaissance • Behavior • Mind • Science Humanist Aesthetics valued Arts similar to literature and history and therefore important Printed texts verses lecture Neoplatonic Artist valued as uniquely endowed individual Allegorical / focus on love and beauty = influence on arts

  5. Absolutism/ French Academy Absolutism French Academy • Behavior • Mind • Science Power and prestige of state Art is a powerful influence of hearts and minds No exceptions for laws of universe Rotating instructors Architecture, geometry, perspective, arithmetic, anatomy, astronomy, and history.

  6. Enlightenment Enlightenment • Behavior • Mind • Science Adam Smith- natural divisions of labor/ free market Belief in progress Laissez-faire economics Democratic ethic Individuals able to secure own happiness Improved technology, Newton’s Principia People should follow rules of nature instead of society

  7. Colonial America Colonial America • Behavior • Mind • Science Boston Latin School- Classical education Law-every child must be taught to read/ understand languages in order to study scriptures Franklin criticized Latin School and proposed academy in Philadelphia to teach practical subjects such as English, modern languages, arithmetic, navigation, and drawing. Schools founded not for political reasons (like French academy) but for economic/ manufacturing reasons

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