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Perceiving The Arts

Perceiving The Arts. An Introduction to the Humanities. Humanities. What it means to be human Humans have the ability to intuit Humans have the ability to symbolize Disciplines that are described as Humanities are Fine Arts, History, Literature, Philosophy and Architecture.

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Perceiving The Arts

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  1. Perceiving The Arts An Introduction to the Humanities

  2. Humanities • What it means to be human • Humans have the ability to intuit • Humans have the ability to symbolize Disciplines that are described as Humanities are Fine Arts, History, Literature, Philosophy and Architecture

  3. Introduction: What Are The Arts And How Do We Respond To And Evaluate Them?

  4. What is (are) Art (s) • Visual arts which give us color and texture and form. Painting, Sculpture, Pottery, textiles. • Performing arts which give us sound and movement and form. Music, dance, theatre, and cinema. • Architecture and Landscape Architecture which gives us structure and form.

  5. OBJECT OF THIS CLASS To learn about our “humanness” by studying the arts.

  6. And How Do We Do That? • We rely on the perceptive capabilities we already have by looking at the examples of art we have all around us. • We learn how art fits into the big scheme of examining, communicating with and responding to the world around us.

  7. Creativity • Humans are a creative species. We depend on our creativity to meet the demands of daily life. • Creativity is the act of bring forth new forces and new forms. • Creativity takes chaos, formlessness, vagueness and the unknown and give them form, function, design, invention, discovery and ideas. • Creativity allows scientists to discover cures for diseases, inventors to make new machines and artists to create works of art.

  8. Creativity “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the very moment a single man contemplates it, bearing in his mind a cathedral.” Antoine de St. Exupery “Flight to Arras”

  9. Creativity Imagination is more important than knowledge . While knowledge defines all that we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Albert Einstein “On Science”

  10. What are Artists? • Experimenters • Reporters • Analysts

  11. Art and Communication • Art involves communication. When art and humans interact, there are many possible outcomes. • Aesthetics is the study of the nature of beauty. • Perception of a work of art should involve a subjective, but informed judgment. • Art often uses symbols as a means of communication.

  12. Sharpening Aesthetic Perceptions • Identify those items that can be seen and heard in works of art. • Learn-just as we learn any subject-some of the terminology related to those terms. • Understand why and how what we perceive relates to our response.

  13. Template To Sharpen Perception • What is it? (Formal response) • How is it put together? (Technical response) • How does it appeal to the senses? (Experiential response) • What does it mean? (Contextual, personal response)

  14. The Purpose Of Art What does it do? 1. It provides a record. 2. It gives visible or other form to feelings. 3. It reveals metaphysical or spiritual truths. 4. It helps people experience the world in new and innovative ways.

  15. The Function of Art How does it do what it does? • Provides enjoyment • Provides political and social commentary • Provides therapy • Acts as an artifact

  16. Style In The Arts • Style is the manner in which artists express themselves. • Style is the body of characteristics that identifies an artwork with an individual, a historical period, a school of artists or a nation. • Applying the term “style” means assimilating materials and drawing conclusions.

  17. Evaluating Art • Criticism is the process of evaluating artworks using a detailed process of analysis to gain an understanding and appreciation of the work. • Identifying the formal elements, what to look for in an art work. • Describe the artwork by examining its many facets and understanding how they work together to create communicate a response. • State what the meaning or experience is. • Make an evaluating judgment.

  18. Evaluating Art, cont. • Criticism without value judgment. • Describe and analyze line, color, melody, harmony, texture, plot, character, and/or message. • Observe how these factors affect people and their responses.

  19. Approaches to Criticism • Criticism focuses on : What is it? What does it do? What is it worth? • Formal Criticism is the process of analyzing an artwork just as we find it, see it, hear it. Looking only at the artwork and nothing else. • Contextual Criticism seeks meaning of an art work by adding to formal criticism an examination of related information outside the artwork, i. e. putting it into a context.

  20. Back to Communication • What is the artist trying to say • Does he or she succeed? • Was the artwork worth the effort? • Does it offer important or unique perceptions, or profound insights?

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