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What exactly is art?

What exactly is art?. Art expresses things that cannot be understood by strictly intellectual means. Knowledge can be broken into 2 types:. 1. Intellectual Knowledge. There is also Experiential Knowledge. Some things you know through direct experience.

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What exactly is art?

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  1. What exactly is art?

  2. Art expresses things that cannot be understood by strictly intellectual means • Knowledge can be broken into 2 types: 1. Intellectual Knowledge

  3. There is also Experiential Knowledge Some things you know through direct experience

  4. Theatre approximates experiential knowledge to elicit empathy. Sympathy – having compassion for someone – not necessarily understanding them Empathy – compassion born out of common experience or understanding

  5. Theatre is a performing art Wilson and Goldfarb identify 3 categories of art: • literary • visual • performing

  6. Perform • To pretend to do something or be someone else Children Actors Deceivers

  7. Perform • To perform is also to do – to complete a function or task • The pretending and the doing do not necessarily exclude one another

  8. Represent • To present again – to re-present • If it wasn’t you the first time, this involves pretending - performing

  9. Represent • Lindsey Graham, Senator for South Carolina • Represent also means to stand-in for someone, to speak for them • This word has a political as well as artistic meaning

  10. Why should we study Theatre? There are only two reasons for doing anything: 1. You like it 2. It’s good for you

  11. Why theatre is ‘important’ • Theater is the foundation art of all drama - pantomime, opera, film, television, etc. • Theater creates a relationship between performer and audience • Live • Personal • Immediate (unmediated) • Theater teaches “timeless observations about the human condition” • Commonalities • Differences

  12. Essentially, theater entertains and teaches. In that order. Theatre is the most effective art at teaching empathy.

  13. Wilson and Goldfarb identify 6 elements of theatre • Audience • Dramatic Action Embodied in a Script • Structure • Focus • Point of view • Performers – someone who adopts a character other than their own • Talent • Skill • Believability

  14. 4. Director 5. Theater Space 6. Design Elements Costume Lighting Scene 4. Sound Finally: Theatre is collaborative

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