Art Chapter 1 09 06 2012 The Gates created by Christo and Jeanne Claude New York City Central Park Art Project Cost of the project was 21 Million Financed entirely by the artists Materials used in the project were recycled Rejuvenation of the city after the tragedy of 9 11 Appreciating art is never just a question of accepting visual stimulin but of intelligently contemplating why and how works of art come to be made and have meaning The World as Artists See It The Gates Project demonstrates how two different cultures might understand and value the same work of art in different ways o Both share the fundamental diesire to CREATE o Artist must always be open to new ways of seeing o John Constable the art of seeing nature o Creativity is the sum of this process from seeing to imagining to making o Artist is also a critical thinker and the creative process is at least in part an exercise in critical thinking Roles of the Artist 1 they help us to see the world in new and innovative ways o Christo and Jeanne Claude work is designed to transform our experience fo the world jar us out of our complacency and create new ways for us to see and think about the world around us o You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies is an example of the sense of the infinity of endless time Yayoi Kusama o 2 they create a visual record of their time and place o The sculpture of Pat looks as if it is alive and certainly anyone meeting the real Pat would recognize her from this sculpture o Pat by John Ahearn o Portraitrue is in fact one of the longest standing traditions in art and was the only way to preserve the physical likeness of a human being o In the 16th century portraiture became especially valued by the Muslims Mughal leaders and they created a school of painting o Jahangir in Darbar is a piece that explains this portrait mentality o Claude Monet Le Pont de I Europe Gare Saint Lazare 1877 3 they make functional objects and structures more pleasurable by imbuing them with beauty and meaning o African artist Kane Kwei o Clothing serves many more purposes than just protecting us from the elecments It announces the wearer s taste self image and above all Social Status o The Karaoria Kimono o Public space is particularly susceptible to aesthetic treatments o The Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea New Caledonia o The buildings are constructed of wood and bamboo easily renewable resources of the region o Piano describes the project as an expression of the harmonious relationship with the environment that is typical of local culture o For many people the main purpose of art is to satisfy our aesthetic sense our desire to see and experience the beautiful Ex Pablo Picasso 4 they give form to the immaterial ideas and feelings o Minkisi Sacred medicine figures embodied their own resistance to the imposition of foreign ideas as European states colonized the continent o Figures designed to evoke awe in the spectator o Animism a foundation to many religions referring to the belief in the existence of souls and the conviction that nonhuman things can also be endowed with a soul o In the West the desire to give form to spiritual belief is especially apparent in the traditions of Christian religious art o Jan van Eyck God o Van Eyck s God is almost frail surprisingly young apparently merciful and kind The World as We Perceive It The Process of Seeing o Reception external stimuli enter the nervous system through our eyes o Next the our eye extreacts the basic information it needs and sends this information to the visual cortex o Last step is to infer what you see and attempt to understand it Active Seeing o Jasper Johns s Three Flags presents an opportunity to look closely at a familiar image o The work asks us to consider what the flag may represent o Faith Tinggold s God Bless America has its historical context the Civil Rights movement American Flag has been turned into a prison cell Painted during a time when white prejudice against African Americans was enforced by the legal system Flags inevitably raise questions of national pride and identity America by Yukinori Yanagi Yanagi work directly addresses the permeable boundaries that exist between countries sharing a single land mass his other work makes a similar statement about border crossing on a global scale There s is not question of its power to draw us into a closer examination of our perceptions of the world 09 06 2012 Exam September 10th Part 1 Chapter 1 A World of Art Chapter 2 Developing Visual Literacy Chapter 3 Seeing the Value of Art Final Exam October Throughout most of Western History perceptions Great nations write their autobiographies in 3 manuscripts The book of their deeds The book of their words The book of their art Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the other two but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last the book of their art More truth through art than the other two Art is an intellectual pursuit and as such is one of the essential tools of culture Elliot Eisner Art is one of the key aspects of art The Gates Christo and Jeanne Claude Couple that brings this art across the globe to different areas around the world 7 000 bright orange gates and saffron colored panels cost 21 million 4 million spectators and great financial success Displayed through New York Central Park o Rejuvenation of the city after 9 11 tragedy Celebration of pure joy Vast populist spectacle of good will and simple eloquence First great public art of the 21st century Simple colors Linked to the past by the Tori Gates Kyoto Japan 1997 Has the same color base and structure set 1997 Kyoto Protocol international global warming agreement Politics run through the art What is the purpose of this work of art What is the purpose of art in general What qualities in the art work affect my reaction Form overall structure of a work of Art Painting sculpture Subject Matter What is literally depicted the recognizable image Content What it means Complex social statement o o o o o Art is perceived by the artist as a way of conveying beauty and or ideas through different artistic means Artists work in 4 major ways Help us see the world in new ways o Ex The Gates in New York o Ex Kusama You who are getting obliterated in the dancing swarm of fireflies 2005 Create a visual record of their time and place o Ex John Ahern and Rigoberto Torres 1982 o Ex Monet Le Pont de I Europe 1877 Make functional objects beautiful and