Why Art Matters

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? I Don’t Get It? Hate it! Love it!

I Don’t Get It? Hate it! Love it! The Goal: To REACT

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Perception and Awareness The Physical Process of Seeing ,[object Object],External stimuli enter the nervous system through our eyes: “ We see the light.”

Perception and Awareness The Physical Process of Seeing ,[object Object],The retina EXTRACTS the basic information it needs and sends this information to the visual cortex. There are approx. 100 million sensors in the retina, but only 5 million channels to the brain.

Perception and Awareness The Physical Process of Seeing ,[object Object],Your retina edits out a lot of information - so your brain has to INFER what is actually seen. Seeing, therefore, is an inherently creative process.

Perception and Awareness http://www. youtube .com/watch?v= hwCzasHBXNc

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Some Vocabulary Representational Art Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art

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The Nature of Art The Nature of Art: an abbreviated History = roots of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism 2,000 = roots of Judaism 4,000 = roots of oldest practicing religion: Hinduism 7,500 = DATED FIRST ART 35,000 = earliest upright human 4,400,000 = extinction of the dinosaur 65,000,000 = lands and oceans full 100,000,000 = birds and animals began to fill the earth 600,000,000 = single-cell life of green algae began 3,900,000,000 = the age of the earth 4,500,000,000

The Nature of Art Communication The Purpose & function of Art Masaccio. The Tribute Money. ca 1423.

The Nature of Art The Purpose & function of Art Communication Utilitarian Purposes Hon'ami Koetsu. Tea bowl. 17th century

The Nature of Art The Purpose & function of Art Communication Utilitarian Purposes Express the Spiritual Gianlorenzo Bernini. The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. 1645-52.

The Nature of Art The Purpose & function of Art Communication Utilitarian Purposes Express the Spiritual Personal Expression Albrecht Durer. Self Portrait. 1500.

The Nature of Art The Purpose & function of Art Communication Utilitarian Purposes Express the Spiritual Personal Expression Social/Political Margaret Bourke-White. At the Time of the Louisville Flood. 1937.

The Nature of Art The Purpose & function of Art Visual delight Communication Utilitarian Purposes Express the Spiritual Personal Expression Social/Political Georgia O’Keeffe. Red Canna. 1923.

Henri Matisse. The Red Studio . 1911. Oil on Canvas

Jasper Johns. Three Flags . 1958. Encaustic on Canvas

Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus . ca. 1485. Tempera on panel.

Marcel Duchamp. Bicycle Wheel . 1913. Assemblage

J.M.W. Turner. Slave Ship or Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying -- Typhoon Coming On. 1840. Oil on canvas.

Pablo Picasso. Guernica . 1937. Oil on Canvas.

Female Figure. ca. 3500 BCE. Romania.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Pieta . 1498. Marble.

Meret Oppenheim. Object . 1936. Fur-covered teacup, saucer, and spoon.

Jeff Koons. Michael Jackson and Bubbles. 1988. Porcelain.

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