Learning Objectives: Part I                   Cuyamaca College

ART 100: Art Appreciation                                           
Instructor: Diane Weintraub           

 By the end of Part I of your Art 100 class you will know these words and their definitions, and use them comfortably when talking about art:

Content
Representational art
Aesthetics
Visual thinking
Abstract art
Aesthetics
Content
Folk Artist
Form
Iconography
Non-representational art
Representational art     
Plane
Shapes
Mass
Organic shape
Picture plane
Perspective
Linear perspective
Vanishing point
Horizon line
Aerial perspective
Primary colors
Secondary colors
Warm and cool colors
Monochrome
Analogous
Complementary

You will be able to quote the exact definition of art, from the official textbooks, ARTORMS.

You will be able to discuss the ways in which art is necessary in our lives.

You will know and understand the purposes and functions of art, especially as it applies to your life.

You will be able to distinguish the difference between looking and seeing, and know when you are looking versus when you are seeing, as well as be able to give examples of each.

You will be able to define visual thinking and give an example of it from your everyday life.

You will be able to compare and contrast the uses and meanings of aesthetics, art, and beauty.

You will be able to compare and contrast the experiences and work of untrained or so-called “outsider” artists and folk artists.

You will know, understand, and be able to recognize as such representational art, abstract art, and non-objective art

You will be able to discuss the differences between form and content in a work of art.

You will understand the meaning and uses of iconography and be able to recognize uses of iconography in a work of art.

You will be able to identify various characteristics of line in a work of art.

You will know the difference between shape and mass.

You will be able to recognize in a work of art the three clues to spatial depth.

You will be able to explain in simple terms how linear perspective works in Western art and be able to point out its use in two-dimensional works of art.

You will be able to recognize the use of the illusion of light in two-dimensional works of art.

You will make a color wheel using primary and secondary colors and identify the cool versus the warm colors.

You will be able to compare and discuss the use of color schemes in a work of art.

You will have a basic working knowledge of design principles such as unity and variety, balance, emphasis and subordination, directional forces, contrast, repetition and rhythm, and scale and proportion, and be able to point them out in a work of art.

You will have a working knowledge of the differences between cultural style, period style, regional style, group style, and personal style.

You will know and understand the difference between criticism and evaluation.