ART 100: Art Appreciation: Part I
Instructor: Diane Weintraub
Looking and Seeing Tips: What’s the difference?
Looking
is:
Seeing is:
Chapter One: The Nature of Art
Reading assignment: Chapter One, pages 2 – 14.
Be sure to keep up with the reading assignment!
What is art? Please note the dictionary
definition on page 2.
Is art necessary?
Purposes and functions of art:
Communicating information
Day-to-day living
Spiritual sustenance
Personal and cultural
expression
Social and political purposes
Visual delight
Be sure to read about Romare Bearden on page 11. You’ll
enjoy it!
Chapter Two: Awareness, Creativity, and Communication
Reading assignment:
Chapter Two, pages 15 – 38. Be sure to keep up with the reading assignment!
Visual thinking
Perception and awareness
Looking and seeing
Aesthetics, art, beauty
Art and experience
Untrained and Folk artists
Trained artists
Visual communication
Art and appearances
Representational art
Abstract art
Nonrepresentational art
Form and content
Seeing and responding to form
Iconography
Tools of the art trade
“I found that I could say things with colors
and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way – things I had no words
for.”Georgia O’Keeffe
Looking and Seeing Tips: Getting started
What is
this I’m looking at?
Where and
when was it made?
Who made
it?
Why did
they make it?
NOW: How
do I respond to it?
Chapter Three: Visual Elements
Reading assignment: Chapter Three, pages 40 –
71. Be sure to keep up with the reading assignment!
Line: Characteristics of line
Implied line
Shape
Geometric shapes
Organic shapes
Positive or figure shapes
Negative or ground shapes
Figure-ground
Mass
In three dimensions
Closed form
Open form
In two dimensions
Space
Space in three dimensions
Space in two dimensions
Clues to spatial depth
Overlap
Diminishing
size
Vertical placement
All of the above
Linear
perspective
Horizon line
Vanishing point
Eye level
Vantage point or
viewpoint
Atmospheric perspective: color,
value, detail
Isometric perspective
Time and Motion
Approaches to depicting time: linear and
non-linear
Stopped time
Manipulated time
Implied motion
Actual motion
Light
Seeing light
Implied light
Light as a medium
Color
Local color
A trip to the color wheel!
Color schemes
Monochrome
Analogous
Complementary
Cool/ warm
Texture
Actual
Simulated
Chapter Four: Principles of Design
Reading assignment: Chapter Four, pages 72 – 90.
Be sure to keep up with the reading assignment!
Unity and variety
Balance
Symmetrical balance
Asymmetrical balance
Emphasis and subordination
Focal point
Directional forces
Repetition and rhythm
Scale and proportion
Style, Evaluation & Criticism
Looking and Seeing Tips:
Tips
for visiting a museum:
- Find out what there is to see.
- Ask where the collection’s strengths are.
- Pick things you like and see them first.
- Move on to other areas after seeing your favorites.
- Take frequent breaks to sit and enjoy the work on
exhibit.
- Consider asking for a docent tour, or asking the
docent questions.
Chapter Five: Style
Reading assignment: Chapter Five, pages 91 -103.
Be sure to keep up with the reading assignment!
Style: A consistent characteristic handling of media,
elements of form and principles of design that makes a work identifiable as
the product of a particular culture, period, group, or person.
Cultural style
Period style
Regional style
Group style
Personal style
Chapter Six: Evaluation & Criticism
Reading assignment: Chapter Six, pages 104 -
109. Be sure to keep up with the reading assignment!
Evaluation
Criticism
Art criticism
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