ART APP o Point out what is happening with the specific

elements and principles.

Art – related to “ars” meaning art, skill, or craft. 3. Interpretation
Variants of art – artem, eart, etc. o Look for the meaning of the artwork
4. Judgment
Subtext of art: o Is this work of art successful?
1. Essential nature of art Artist – someone engaged in an activity related to creating art,
2. Its social importance or lack of it practicing arts, or demonstrating an art.
Categories of art: Art – making of tangible or intangible products as an
expression of creativity and imagination for purely aesthetic
1. Representation
reasons.
2. Expression
3. Form Artisan – produces crafts which are meant for decoration and
are designed to be practical or useful.
Mimesis – greek word which means copying or imitation.
Subject – foundation of the creation of the work of art.
Art – the representation or replication of something that is
beautiful or meaningful. Subject matter – most obvious aspect of an artwork or what
the work of art depicts or represents.
Art as expression of emotional content – artwork expressing a
definite feeling, as in the sublime or dramatic. - Literal, visible image in a work.
Immanuel Kant – one of the most influential of the early Subject matter may be:
theorists toward the end of the 18th century.
1. Person
H.W Janson – author of the classic art textbook “The History 2. Object
of art….” 3. Scene
4. Event
11th through end of 17th century – art was defined was
5. Still life
anything with skill as the result of knowledge and practice.
6. portrait
Romantic period – art was created in the pursuit of beauty and
Content – includes the connotative, symbolic and suggestive
to express the artists emotions.
aspects of the image.
Avant garde art movement – began in the 1850s with the
- The communication of ideas, feelings, and reactions
realism Gustave Courbet.
connected with the subject.
Other modern art movements:
Types of Visual art:
o Cubism
1. Representational/Figurative art
o Futurism
o Aims to represent actual objects or subjects from
o surrealism
reality.
Other forms of art: o Based on images which can be found in the objective
world, images that can be named or recognized.
o digital art o The oldest of the three types of art.
o performance art o The easiest to identify from a viewers perspective.
o conceptual art o Represents largest collection of artwork created.
o environmental art
o electronic art, etc. Subcategories under Representational art:

Four steps in art criticism: o Realism

o Impressionism
1. description o Idealism
o general information that is present. o Stylization
o What is seen in the artwork
2. Analysis Other examples:
o How we see the elements and principles of art.
o Painting
o We take in the lines, values, and colors of the
o Sculpture
artwork.
o Graphic arts
o Also take note of balance, proportion, rhythm, and
o Literature
unity.
 o Theater arts Examples of common paint media:
2. Non- representational/Non- Objective art.
o Artwork does not represent or depict a person, o Acrylic paint
place or thing in the natural world. o Encaustic
o Content of the work is color, shape, o Fresco
brushstrokes, size, scale, and sometime process. o Gouache
o Magna paint
Abstract – artist begins with a subject from reality o Oil paint
o Pastel
Non-objective – artist is creating with no reference to reality. o Tempera
Architecture o Watercolor

o Non-objective Materials used in sculpture:

o Does not depict or portray a subject. 1. Hard materials
o It is its own form o the most recognizable and most popular form of
Function – refers to direct and practical usefulness of the art. sculpture
o the oldest form of sculpture
Functions of arts:
Examples:
1. Personal
o Most difficult to explain o Kinetic sculpture
o Created out of a need for self expression or o Statues
gratification. o Environmental sculpture
2. Social Some materials used:
o Addresses aspects of collective life as opposed to
one person’s point of view or experience. o Concrete
o Depicts social conditions o Bronze
o Francisco De goys went this route o Clay
o Satire performs social functions o Stone
o Marble
Example: o Granite
o Political art o Limestone
3. Physical o Alabaster
o Most easily dealt with o Sandstone
o Work of art that are created to perform some service o Schist
o Soapstone
Example: o Wood
o Glass
o Architecture
o Stainless steel
o Craftworks
o Aluminum
o Industrial design
o Antimony
Medium – materials which are used by an artist to create o Chrome
works of art to interpret his feelings or thoughts. o Copper
o Gold
- Plural of medium is media o Iron
- Denotes the means by which an artist communicates o Lead
his idea. o Nichrome
- Without a medium, there is no art. o Nickel
o Palladium
Technique – the manner in which the artist controls the
o Platinum
medium to achieve a desired effect.
o Silver
- The ability which the artist fulfills the technical o Tin
requirements of his particular work of art. o Titanium
o Zinc
Media – in painting, it refers to both the type of paint used and o Diamond
the base or ground to which it is applied. o Jade
o Ivory
Paint’s medium – carries a paint’s pigments and is also called
o Ceramics
as vehicle or base.
Some alternatives: o Texture

o Ice
o Sand
o Plastic
o Found objects
2. Sound
o Also known as sound installation
o Sculptures are regularly installed in art galleries
o They are not manipulated by a human player to
make sound
o They make sound on their own due to design

Some artists known for this type of art:

o Alexander Calder
o Hugh Davies
o Nigel Helyer
3. Light
o Use a various form of light or lighting to create
and aesthetic effect
o Medium may use fractal manipulations or
gaseous form of light to produce an image.

Some famous light sculptors:

1. Olafur eliasson
2. Dan flavin

Man Made Material – material that is manufactured through

human effort often using natural raw materials.

Examples:

o Glass
o Steel
o Concrete cement

Collage – work of art composed of numerous materials.

Coller – French word that means to glue

Organization – refers to order in a work of art

- Refers to the ways elements are arranged, combined,

and configured to make a whole.
- Must make sense and must be interesting.

Plan – skeleton of the work of art which holds the work

together.

Elements of art – the building blocks used to create a work of

art.

Some fundamental elements of art:

o Distance
o Space
o Color
o Perspective
o Line
o Shape
o Form