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The Arts

The Arts. What Is Art?. Art is the creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process.

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The Arts

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  1. The Arts

  2. What Is Art? • Art is the creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process. • Most societies past and present have used art to give meaningful expression to almost every part of their culture, including ideas about religion, kinship, and ethnic identity.

  3. Views About Art • American View • Nonessential • Communicate • Feelings • Make statements • Share values Marcel Duchamp, The Fountain, 1917.

  4. Art and Anthropology • Why study art? • Cultural insight • Religion • Social Structure • Lifeways • Subsistence • Resources

  5. What Are the Functions of Art? • Myths offer basic explanations about the world and set cultural standards for right behavior. • Verbal arts transmit and preserve a culture’s customs and values. • Any art form may contribute to the cohesiveness or solidarity of that society.

  6. Social Functions of Art • Individuality – express individual tastes • Social Identity – identify with specific group • Social Status – can show wealth, expressed through cars, clothing, etc.

  7. Art • The creative use of the human imagination to interpret, express, and enjoy life. • From the uniquely human ability to use symbols to give shape and significance to the physical world for more than just a utilitarian purpose.

  8. Art for Arts Sake • Art for Ritual • Not to be seen by all • Tutankhamen • Not to be saved for posterity • Navajo • Johann Sebastian Bach

  9. Types of Art • Verbal arts • Folklore • Music • Verbal • Nonverbal • Pictorial Arts • Painting • Sculpture

  10. Verbal arts • Stories within a culture reflecting a history, gender relationships, proper or improper behavior, or religious beliefs. • Examples: Narratives, dramas, poetry, incantations, proverbs, compliments, and insults. art

  11. Verbal Arts - Myth • Religious • A myth provides rationale for religious beliefs and practices. • Creation myths

  12. Verbal Arts – Legend • Stories told as true • Common elements • No known author • Multiple versions • Detail • Insight to society

  13. Verbal Arts - Tale • Common elements • Secular • Nonhistorical • Entertainment • May be moralistic • Motif • Story situation

  14. Verbal Arts – Poetry and Epics • Poetry - Allows for inappropriate subjects to be talked about • Epics - Long oral narratives, sometimes in poetry or rhythmic prose, recounting the glorious events in the life of a real or legendary person.

  15. Music • Ethnomusicology – Study of music in a specific culture. • Anthropology studies how a culture defines music. art

  16. Music • Verbal and nonverbal • Abstract emotion • Define • Indigenous terms • Musical lingo • Melody, rhythm, form • Components • Repetition • Tonality

  17. Functions of Music • Group identification • Self-identification • Political commentary • Social commentary • Social function • Entertainment • Work • Oral tradition

  18. Pictorial Arts • A type of symbolic expression that can be realistic or abstract. • Aesthetic approach - Looks at technique and form. • Narrative approach - Looks at what is depicted. • Interpretive approach – Looks at symbols and beliefs that are depicted in art, a knowledge of these must first be understood. art

  19. Pictorial Art • Various mediums • Drawing, painting, sketching, etc… • Walls, rock, fibers, wood, animal hide, plants, clay, etc… • Symbolic expression

  20. Rock Art • Pictographs • Painting • Petroglyph • Pecking • Anthropomorphic • Animals • Abstract • Ritualistic

  21. Non-Representational • Meaning • Entoptic phenomena • Trance phase 1 • Nervous system • Geometric patterns • Construal • Trance phase 2 • Brain makes sense of image

  22. Representational • Naturalistic • Western art • Abstracted • Style • Technique • Ability

  23. Art and Iconography • Symbols • Colors • Meaning to culture • Hard to decipher

  24. Sculpture • Many forms • Relief • In the round • Media • Marble • Mixed

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