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WHAT IS ART? WHAT SHOULD ART CONVEY?

WHAT IS ART? WHAT SHOULD ART CONVEY?. ART IS :. the presentation or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance layered, complex, susceptible to many different interpretations the source of questions and ruminations, not tidy solutions. SURREALISM:.

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WHAT IS ART? WHAT SHOULD ART CONVEY?

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  1. WHAT IS ART?WHAT SHOULD ART CONVEY?

  2. ART IS: • the presentation or expression ofwhat is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance • layered, complex, susceptible to many different interpretations • the source of questions and ruminations, not tidy solutions

  3. SURREALISM: • is the imagination of the unconscious • is a positive expression • is an unification of the conscious / unconscious • is where dreams and fantasy are joined to the rational, everyday world in an absolute reality = surreality

  4. SURREALITY: • is surprising, spontaneous, unexpected, irrational • Andre Breton, Paris art critic, coined the name “Manifesto of Surrealism” in the 1920’s • Breton admired Sigmund Freud • Breton trained in medicine and psychiatry • disdained traditional art forms

  5. EXAMPLES OF SURREALISTS: • Salvador Dali • Maxwell Ernst • Rene Magritte • Joan Miró • Picasso • Jackson Pollock(an abstractionist who greatly admired the surrealists)

  6. The Persistence of MemorySalvador Dali, 1931 6

  7. The Tilled FieldJoan Miró, 1923-24

  8. SURREALISM AUTHORS: • authors considered surrealist • Jean CocteauE.E. CummingsGarcia LorcaHenry MillerAnais NinDylan ThomasWilliam Carlos Williams

  9. REALISM: • is an art movement from France inthe 1850’s • is an objective reality – true to life • honesty / accuracy • subjects in art appear as they do in everyday life • no embellishment

  10. REALISM: • the realists rejected romanticism and neoclassicism from the late 1700’s / early 1800’s • painters who painted from the world around them • examples of realists: • John Singleton CopleyGustave CourbetHonore DaumierThomas EakinsJean-François MilletWilliam Sidney Mount

  11. The Death of Major PiersonJohn Singleton Copley - 1784

  12. The GleanersJean-François Millet, 1857 12

  13. REALISM AUTHORS: • authors considered realists • William DefoeHenry FieldingHamlin GarlandWilliam Dean HowellsHenry JamesSarah Orne JewettUpton SinclairMark TwainEdith WhartonWalt Whitman

  14. IMPRESSIONISM: • began in the 1860’s after the Paris World’s Fair • accurately, objectively recording of visual reality in terms of transient effects of color and light • the term comes from Monet’s painting “Impression, Sunrise”

  15. FEATURES OF IMPRESSIONISM: • visible brush strokes • unusual angles • light and changing light • considered radical in its time • very open composition, movement • unmixed color not smoothly blended • how the eye views the subject /not a re-creation of the subject

  16. examples of impressionists • Mary CassatPaul CezanneEdgar DegasEdouard ManetClaude MonetBerthe MorisotCamille PissarroPierre Auguste RenoirJohn Singer SargentAlfred Sisley

  17. Impression, SunriseClaude Monet, 1873

  18. The Boating PartyMary Cassat, 1893-94

  19. IMPRESSIONISM AUTHORS: • the Romantic writers • William BlakeEmily BronteWilkie CollinsMary ShelleyWilliam WordsworthandJoseph ConradArthur RimbaudVirginia Woolf

  20. ABSTRACTIONISM: • no concrete objects –at least no recognizable ones • morally loaded themes(rebellion, a disgust with society) • emphasis is on individual, spontaneity, mood, feelings, & revolt(without being an actual representation) • uses form / color / line to create composition existing independently of visual references to the world

  21. WHY ABSTRACTIONISM? • at the end of the 19th century, artists felt they needed a new kind of art to encompass changes in Science / Technology / Philosophy • it reflects diversity / turmoil of Western society • artists include: • Theo van DoesburgWassily KandinskyPieter Cornelius “Piet” MondrianJackson Pollock

  22. Composition XWassily Kandinsky, 1939

  23. 23 23 Composition with Yellow, Blue, and RedPiet Mondrian, 1937-42 23

  24. ASSIGNMENT • form groups of FOUR students • choose from ONE of the four genres: • birthday partycafeteriasporting eventwedding • illustrate your choice in each of the FOUR genres: • surrealismrealismimpressionismabstractionism • your group will have FOUR total illustrations

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