Emotion

1. Amy, Chelsea, Emily, & Susan Art Emotion

2. Art is… -The process or product of deliberately and creatively arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions -Human creativity as distinguished from nature

3. Emotion is… -A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes -A feeling: emotion, joy, sorrow, fear

4. How do Art and Emotion relate? Art often evokes an emotion from the observer Art is an expression of the artists feelings The artist uses art to express emotion

5. Art comes in many different forms. Each of these forms expresses emotion from the artist. Art can be music, paintings, sculptures, poems, etc.. Art is subjective. The observer may not feel the same emotions when viewing the art that the artist wanted to express. Observers also have different opinions on what is art.

6. Many famous artists used texture, color, and similar things in paintings to express emotion. Colors are often associated with emotions and artist utilize this to their advantage. Sculptors utilized facial emotions/expressions and body positions to express feeelings. Famous artists such as Da Vinci, Monet, Picasso, Renoir, Van Gogh, Michelangelo are still viewed as influential today because of the emotions gathered from their works.

8. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is often referred to as art. Why? Her poetry conveys subtle and obvious emotion that intrigues the reader and allows the reader to connect with the writer. Her poem “I taste a liquor never brewed” she conveys the beauty of nature and how it is intoxicating. Unlike most of her poems, this one is happy, enthusiastic and light-hearted.

9. I taste a liquor never brewed,From tankards scooped in pearl;Not all the vats upon the RhineYield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I,And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. When landlords turn the drunken bee Out of the foxglove's door, When butterflies renounce their drams, I shall but drink the more! Till seraphs swing their snowy hats, And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun!

10. Many musicians such as Mozart are also seen as artists. Music employs harmonious and cacophonous sounds to convey emotions. This musical piece by Mozart is often viewed as incredibly beautiful. Handel’s Hallelujah chorus is still very famous today and sung throughout churches across the globe. Modern musicians also use their music to convey emotions. Carrie Underwood sings of her “bitterness and anger” in “Think Before He Cheats”, Rappers’ music is often centered around desire or betrayal, each musical artist uses a song to convey some form of emotion.

11. Connecting Art And Emotion Artwork can tell stories or depict ideas; it can be realistic or abstract. However, for some people, the most important issue in art is that it expresses or stirs emotions. Art can be a record of what the artist is feeling and, at the same time, it can bring about emotional reactions in the viewer. In the 20th century, this type of art has been called Expressionist Art. There are expressionistic features within many different art styles and movements. Artists make choices about color, line, texture, and composition to evoke or express feelings. Sometimes this leads to abstracting a subject to make it more expressive. http://schools.walkerart.org

12. Franz Marc The Large Blue Horses Marc's The Large Blue Horses is an excellent example of The Blue Rider's use of color and line to symbolize universal principles. Marc chose animals as his subject because he believed in their "purer, more sublime relationship with the world," and he used abstract color (a brilliant blue) and line (the curving of the horses' necks) to communicate their spiritual harmony with nature. http://collections.walkerart.org

13. Georgia O’Keeffe Lake George Barns Within the rugged Gaspe country of Canada, O’Keeffe’s attention was captured by the “hideous houses and beautiful barns. The barns looked old, as if they belonged to the land, while the houses looked like bad accidents.” http://walkerart.org

14. Kazuo Shiraga Untitled In May 1957, Shiraga, dressed in a red Pinocchio suit, suspended himself by a rope from the ceiling of a gallery in Osaka and, dangling in space, began to kick oil paint around on a piece of paper lying on the floor. The resultant image was, roughly speaking, an action painting, although of a highly specialised kind. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/

15. Carle John BlennerPeonies in a blue vase Blenner, Carle (1864-1952) Blenner graduated from the Yale Art School and studied at the Academie Julien in Paris and exhibited at the Paris Salon at age 23. His work was selected for exhbition at the Chicago World's Fair, the National Academy of Design and numerous others. http://www.easterdayantiques.com/art.html

16. BanksyWeston-Super-Mare twin canvas Banksy once painted a warning on the steps of Tate Britain - "mind the crap". It's the kind of cheeky subversive comment his fans love him for, and in this case the target was the pretentious, institutionalised contemporary "art world". https://blogs.guardian.co.uk

17. Laura Keeble Astronomical Faith

18. Juergen Teller Harmony and Girl with Flower (both looking), Nashville Teller worked for more than a year in his London studio photographing girls, just as they presented themselves as they knocked on his door, plain or refined, beautiful or not. Girls, who called at teller's studio for an informal meeting in the hope of securing the modeling contract that would lead to fame, fortune and a life of 'glamour'. What emerges from these shots (the girls are portrayed in no other pose than that of them ringing the doorbell) is a study which addresses the subject photographed far more than the formal aspects. http://www.designboom.com/portrait/teller.html

19. Edvard Munch The Scream “I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.” Edvard Munch

20. How does art fulfill emotional needs? • “Art is a pathway to emotional and spiritual development.” John Ruskan • “The expression of the emotions within the paintings should somehow be appropriate to the kind of subject to be depicted… and a composition may be put together in such a way as to arouse the soul of the spectator to particular emotions.” David Freedberg • “If it is true that art happens only after displaying a given information so that it may be valued (or talked about) in a specific way, the valuing attitude may naturally get emotionally involved, for whatever reasons the individual might have. The fact that some of these reasons are universal or innate (or both or neither) does not seem to be relevant for art -at least as far as I am able to understand it.” Jose Luis Guijarro • http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcog

21. No matter what form the art is in, it is always accompanied by emotion. Disagree? If you look at a painting and feel unmoved then there is a feeling of indifference about the painting. If you here a song and you do not like it because of the words it may disgust you. No matter what, art will always evoke an emotion.

22. Questions?