...HUMA205 Unit 1 IP Understanding and Evaluating the Arts Stacy Mashburn American Intercontinental University online Abstract For this assignment, I will list two definitions for the word art. Also, I will provide one example of the eight following words: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, printmaking, conceptual art, installation art, and performance art. Understanding & Evaluating the Arts The first definition that I found for the word art is a person who shows exceptional creative ability or skill whether it be on canvas, in the kitchen, or anything that could be considered artistic (Free Dictionary, 2012). The second definition for art I found to be rather interesting. The definition states that art is the conscious ability to produce or arrange colors, forms, sound, movement, and other essential things that one may see as beauty when viewed (Free Dictionary, 2012). I chose a painting by one of my favorite artists, Vincent Van Gogh. The painting is titled “The Starry Night”, http://www.lifeofvangogh.com/meaning-of-starry-night.html. I feel that this painting by Vincent Van Gogh exemplifies the definition of art because this particular painting is unique yet exquisite. What I find most fascinating about this particular painting is the blend of colors. Vincent Van Gogh was known for expressing his inner feelings into his paintings. His style of art created a new style of painting known as Expressionism. The Kiss by Auguste Rodin is the piece I...
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...Definition of Art According to Oxford Dictionary Art is defined as: “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power” Another definition of art by George Dickie in 1969, as “A work of art in the classificatory sense is (1) an artifact (2) a set of the aspects of which has had conferred upon it the status of candidate for appreciation by some person or persons acting on behalf of a certain social institution” (Torres & Kamhi) Painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh is one of Van Gogh’s most renowned paintings. Van Gogh painted Starry Night shortly after a stint in a psychiatric hospital. It is one of the most replicated images in history. The features of this painting, the stars, moon and village beyond are a bit embellished, but still very realistic and most people feel at ease and can identify with it. Thomas Kinkade is one of my most favorite artists; one of his most renowned pieces is called A Christmas Welcome. This painting shows a small country home with warmth coming from it. It gives the observers a Welcoming feeling of wanting to go inside and join in the festivities. Sculpture The Hermes of Praxiteles is dated back to 343 BC and made from Parian Marble. The Hermes is the only original work still intact. This statue was sculptured by Praxiteles and “dedicated to the sacred Altis from the Eleians...
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...Key to notes listed a = also approved for Analyzing the Natural World b = also approved for Understanding the Individual and Society c = also approved for Understanding the Past d = also approved for Understanding the Creative Arts e = also approved for Exploring World Cultures f = also approved for Understanding U.S. Society g = Indicated courses specifically designed for those majoring in areas other than science and mathematics h = LAS nonlaboratory courses Anthropology (ANTH) | 102 | Introduction to Archaeology | 4 hourscg | 105 | Human Evolution | 4 hourscg | 218 | Anthropology of Children and Childhood | 3 hoursbh | 238 | Biology of Women Same as GWS 238 | 3 hoursgh | | | | Biological Sciences (BIOS) | 100 | Biology of Cells and Organisms | 5 hours | 101 | Biology of Populations and Communities | 5 hours | 104 | Life Evolving | 5 hoursg | | | | Chemistry (CHEM) | 100 | Chemistry and Life | 5 hoursg | 112 | General College Chemistry I | 5 hours | 114 | General College Chemistry II | 5 hours | 116 | Honors General Chemistry I | 5 hours | 118 | Honors General Chemistry II | 5 hours | 130 | Survey of Organic and Biochemistry | 5 hours | | | | Computer Science (CS) | 100 | Discovering Computer Science | 3 hoursh | | | | Earth and Environmental Sciences (EAES) | 101 | Global Environmental Change | 4 hours | 111 | Earth, Energy, and the Environment | 4 hours | 200 | Field Work in Missouri | 2 hours...
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...& 15. It is a “position paper” on the place of the fine arts in the life of a believer. Your paper should be 3-4 single-spaced pages in a Word file with Times New Roman, 12 point font. Make sure to include and cite your resources consistently (6-8 scholarly sources is suggested). Wikipedia is NOT a scholarly source. Submit your Final Paper as an attachment in Moodle. How You’ll Be Graded An excellent paper (90-100%) will deal with the following subjects: 1. What art is, is not, and the part God has designed it to play in the life and spiritual experience of every person – using the course material, the Scriptures, and scholarly outside sources. 2. Why it is important for believers to understand what artists are saying, and what tools to use in order to be accurate in our understanding, before accepting or rejecting the work of art. 3. What you intend to do in your own family going forward, to ensure that your children and grandchildren will come from a family where culture is understood and valued as part of every Christian’s experience. It is highly encouraged for a Christian to be involved in the world of art, but it is important that the Christian viewer has a good understanding of art before they become too involved or make false assumptions due to a lack of understanding. For example, nudity is present in a vast amount of art that was created in the past. One who is not properly educated on art cannot possibly comprehend what the artist is trying to say...
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...HUM312 Introduction to Art 3 credit hours FALL 2012 Switzerland Instructor: Instructor: Denis Ducatel Office location: Hotel Miramonte, BBA’s Lecturers Office,1st floor Work Phone: 021 966.48.48 Email: denis.ducatel@him.ch Office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday by appointment Texts/Course materials: T. Köster - 50 Artists You Should Know (Prestel Verlag) Other Resources Omniquest : main websites : artmovements.co.uk – witcomb.sbc.edu/ARTHlinks.html – ibiblio.org/wm/paint – wikipedia.org – historyguide.org – http://arthistory.about.com – http://wwar.com/artists – www.metmuseum.org/toah/ Other Resources Handouts : A Brief Survey of Western Art – Understanding a work of Art – Glossary of Art Movements – «Beauty will save the world» (Nobel Price Speech – Soljenitsyne), Letters to A Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke) The Expressionists , Wolf Dieter Dube, Thames & Hudson (London, 1972). Great Paintings that Changed the World (Prestel) Course description: This course is meant to lead the students to a personal appreciation of Art. It offers a survey of visual media (painting, sculpture, architecture)), past and present, with particular emphasis on Impressionism, Post impressionism and Expressionism and on the philosophical rift between classical (academic) art and modern art. Technique as well as theory is discussed Goals and Objectives: By the end of this course, Northwood wants students...
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...“ultimate” graduate profile. Following program chairs’ agreement, the material will go to the full faculty for discussion and vote. I will also gather input from Student Affairs so that we understand their contribution to the success of our students. Readings about assessment and what it is are attached.* As I mentioned earlier, we will be working our way through this process together, and developing our assessment program in relationship to the goals and values unique (and/or integral) to this institution. Additional readings are on reserve in the library, and an enormous amount of information is available on the web. *Distributed at the Program Chairs meeting on 9.9.2008 MISSION Maine College of Art delivers a demanding and enlivening education in visual art and design within an intimate learning community. We teach each student how to transform aspirations and values into a creative practice that serves as the foundation for a lifelong pursuit of personal and professional goals. VALUES o Maine College of Art’s educational philosophy is built on the premise that focused individual attention and meaningful collective inquiry produce the conditions in which students’ voices can find strength, clarity, and purpose. o Our faculty of practicing professional artists, designers, writers, and scholars are committed and passionate educators who consider their classrooms to be extensions of their creative work. o We give our students the tools they need to take risks...
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...3 Art in early years of the 21st Century .............................................................................................. 4 Actor Network Theory .................................................................................................................... 6 Networking art connections in museums ....................................................................................... 8 Dhari a Krar ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Strategy for translation ................................................................................................................. 11 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 13 2 Abstract This paper will attempt to highlight in what manner western museums curate contemporary indigenous art in this modern setting. The main focus of this paper is how current means of understanding of non-western indigenous art does not completely allow to translate the culture successfully in order for museums to represent other cultures not just to appreciate art but also translate it accurately. Ruth B. Phillips took a personal interest into this matter after travelling to West Africa and documenting the practices and the culture of the Sande society. After her journey Phillips felt that non-western indigenous art such...
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...of the book (Art Theory) of Robert Williams is generally refers to the existence of art history and art theory at the same time. As far as the importance is concerned, there is no significant difference between art history and art theory. These two always correlated in every way in one aspect, learning art theory; obviously it will provide you the importance of art history at the same time, in studying, and engagement with art. When understanding art, philosophy attempts to come up with theories about art. This theory is maybe a set of principles that define and explains the full meaning of art. However, sometimes, just because a theory is wrong doesn't mean it has no value, we can describe the importance of every art theory even if it is wrong or right. For that reason, an art theory may satisfy necessary or enough conditions, and it will always find exceptions. As we go to the purpose of studying art theory, history should always be part of it. According to Robert Williams, Studying theory should be approached historically, that it is within a comprehensive history of art that the study of theory has most to offer. For example the contemporary art, that involves multifaceted of artists, artwork, audience, institutions. All of these aspects demonstrate with each other, and changes through history. This complex ideas change through history and produce tension between common and uncommon creativity. Works Cited The Introduction of the book (Art Theory) of Robert...
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...Since my childhood, art has been my direction and an essential part of my life, from designing and making the sets and costumes for plays to making my own jewelries. When I walk down the path of art until now, I still find myself willing to discover new things, and getting excited and inspired by the simplest thing around us. I wish to study the Art and Design program at the University of Ryerson because I want to devote my passion to art and design under an insightful guidance, broaden my understanding of the art world and strengthen my painting and creating skills. Last year, I took an Art and Design course to build up a solid foundation for painting and designing skills as preparation for my first year at university. In the course, I was captured by mixing and testing with colors, discovering diverse concepts and using several types of mediums to illustrate my idea. Additionally, in a group project under a topic of “Life and Sky”, I contributed to design and make a pen with my team members, which had the shape as a scaling airplane with two wings at both sides. It can be used by pushing two wings with springs back into the pen and this pen was acknowledged as an excellent sample for my juniors with a mark of 96%. Afterwards, I realized that art is closely linked with our daily life. This course has strengthened my ability to be creative and unremitting as well as provided me with eyes of discovering the beauty in our daily life. As I knew that the Art and Design program...
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...symbolically represent ideas and feelings and their consequences. ΅΅ Drama has the capacity to move and transform participants and audiences. It can affirm and challenge values, cultures and identities. ΅΅ Drama includes a wide range of experiences, such as dramatic play, improvisation, role-play, text interpretation, theatrical performance and multi-modal/hybrid texts. It includes the processes of making, presenting and responding. ΅΅ Drama draws on many different contexts, from past and present societies and cultures. Drama is one of the five arts subjects that make up the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. View website » Drama Australia uses the term drama broadly to represent related fields of artistic activity including theatre and performance. Drama encompasses a range of activities that both share conceptual similarities as well as specific differences relating to form and purpose. Drama is recognised and celebrated as a relevant and significant art form that both reflects and contributes to culture. An Education in Drama Drama in the school curriculum can develop students’ artistic skills and creative dispositions. It can also enable students to generate new knowledge and skills that are transferable to a variety of artistic, social and work-related contexts. An education in drama can: ΅΅ Humanise learning by providing lifelike learning contexts in which students can actively participate in...
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...and Preforming Arts The Arts have been around, as long as man has had imagination. They define humans as a species, recording history, defining the present, and pursuing the future. The Arts encompasses many meanings. What one person views as art, another may view as worthless expressionism. Exploring this subject will cause one to open their horizons to enable one to see the world from a different perspective. Defining visual and performing arts. Visual and performing arts have evolved over the centuries. Originally the arts were limited to the fine arts, such as paintings, sculpture, music, theater, and dance. It also included the cinema in the twentieth century. Applied arts were considered decorative not expressive and was excluded in the definition of art (Sporre, 2011). To myself, art is a myriad of things, visual perception, and emotion. My experiences in the Arts. I find art has many forms. Visual art can be found everywhere. It is in the architecture around us such as the mantel in an ornate fireplace to the buildings created by an architect such as Frank Lloyd Wright (Steffensen, 2009). It is found in the drawing a small child makes to the masterpieces of Michelangelo found in the cathedrals of Europe. It may be viewed by one as the simple elegance found in a crystal vase, to the sculptures found in the Great Pyramids. Nature is another place to find art, from the simplest flower to the intricacies of a wasp nest. The performing arts have exploded...
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...Art can serve a variety of purposes in society, both positive and negative. The contributions of art to society can be evaluated through pragmatic philosophy. Art can bring awareness to people. It is a powerful means of presenting truths about humankind that cannot be expressed any other way. Art also connects people in a society by presenting an idea that everyone can relate to in a universal way. The awareness that comes from art will only lead to a better society if the people take action based on the ideas they discover in art. Art has the possibility of making society better, but there are several steps involved. First, the art must reach the public. Then the people must appreciate the value of the art. The last step involves people changing their behavior to improve the society. The initial action of making art available to the public is necessary for the art to have any impact on society, but it is not necessary in classifying the piece as art. John Dewey was an advocate for bringing art to the common people. His pragmatic approach has some value because art will not change society until the people can experience the art. One problem with the theory is that art may have value aside from promoting positive social changes. A wonderful novel may be burned before it could ever reach the public, but the novel could still be art. The possible impact was never realized, and it is a loss to society. The second step toward changing society involves the reader, viewer, or...
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...Circuits of African Art/ Paths of Wood: Exploring an Anthropological Trail Before reading this article I researched Paul Stoller, in effort to get a better understanding of who he is and to also get a better understanding of the origin and nature of his works. In doing so I found out that Paul Stoller is an anthropologist was has been conducting research for about 30 years. His studies of West African immigrant in New York started in 1992, which has resulted in involving topics like the cultural dynamics of informal market economies and politics of immigration. His work has resulted in 11 publications which are widely read and recognized. ("Anthropology & Sociology) In this article Paul Stoller investigates the effects that evolution has on African Art. He starts with a scene set at The Ney York International Tribal Antiques Show at the Seventh Regent Armory on Park Avenue. As he highlights that African Art has been altered in the way the Western World perceived the art to be, he continues to provide evidence that indeed economic and social forces of globalization has changed the world of art. “There is a vast and varied literature on the social and economic impact of the globalization. Several analysts argue that globalization has fundamentally altered the nature of cultural processes, political dynamics and social interaction.” (Stoller 209) After reflecting on this statement, I believe that the Western World interpretation of the art may have predicted the way in...
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...crucial and problematic aspects of a reflective judgment in our analysis of an artwork. Kant’s critiques about art are based on his previous studies regarding the perception and judgment of beauty in the natural world, and at its core are three major themes of aesthetic judgment; disinterested interest, being purposive without a purpose, and expression of feeling (intuition) rather an a concept. However, by the constant cognitive process of attempting to apply a concept to a work of art, we are engaging with the process of contemplation,...
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...suggests that art therapy began in Australia in 1950’s. Artists like Guy Grey-Smith and psychiatrists like Eric Cunningham-Dax and Ainslie Mears were pioneers in this field. Cunningham-Dax (1908-2008) a leading psychologist who migrated from UK emphasised on the separation of art activity and art psychotherapy (Westwood & Linnell, 2001). The period of 1950s and 1960s marked the growth of art therapy in UK and USA. Several Australians travelled overseas to undertake education and returned in 1980s to contribute to this growing profession. Art therapy in Australia has been largely influenced by these returning Australians and conferences that supported the professions emergence (Westwood & Linnell, 2001). As art therapy...
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