Intro to Art: Appreciation and Creativity

• Art is an essential part of human life that provides meaning, purpose, and reflection on culture.
• The word "art" comes from the Latin "ars," originally meaning "skills" and "crafts," signifying making or creating.

Importance of Art

• Art is valuable in its reflective and process-driven capacities and emphasizes both process and experience.
• Art offers connection, insight, and expression which allows people to think more profoundly and feel emotions more freely.

Art Appreciation

• Art appreciation involves understanding the universal and timeless qualities that define great art.
• It goes beyond observation, enabling the interpretation, understanding, and enjoyment of man-made arts through experience with art tools and materials.
• It includes gaining knowledge, acquiring methods to discuss art, identifying movements, and evaluating artwork.

Creativity

• Creativity, inherent in everyone, involves generating original ideas that have value.
• Creativity is essential for innovation, requiring both idea generators and those who can refine ideas.
• Art enriches lives, stimulates senses, prompts thought and provides insight into the human condition.

Forms of Art

• Painting: Creating effects on a flat surface using pigments.
• Sculpture: Designing and constructing three-dimensional forms, representing natural or imaginary shapes.
• Architecture: Designing and constructing buildings and other structures.
• Music: Combining and regulating sounds to express ideas and emotions.
• Dance: Direct art using the human body as its medium.
• Theater: Re-creating stories on stage through actors to convey a message.
• Motion Picture: A popular form of theatre.
• Literature: Combining spoken or written words with artistic and emotional appeal.

Function of Arts

• Directly Functional Art: Serves a purpose while exhibiting aesthetic qualities.
• Indirectly Functional Art: Perceived through the senses, including fine arts, performances, and literature.

Functions of Art

• Personal Function: Art expresses artists' feelings and ideas and provides therapeutic value, offering new perspectives.
• Social Function: Art influences social behavior, commemorates important figures, records historical events, and expresses social aspects of existence.
• Physical Function: Art creates objects that enhance physical comfort.

Subject in Art

• Subject: The visual focus or image extracted from artwork.
• Representational Art: Depicts real-world objects or events, easy to recognize.
• Non-Representational Art: Uses visual elements to translate feelings, emotions, or concepts without real-world references.

Elements of Art

• Line: A mark on a surface with length and direction
• Color: Includes hue, intensity and value

Artist and Artisan

• Artists and artisans make creative arts for appreciation, progress, and cultural preservation.
• Artist: Talented in visual arts for aesthetic value.
• Artisan: Skilled in practical and decorative crafts such as furniture and jewelry.

Art Making

• Production process where artists use medium and technique to materialize their concepts.

Art Making Medium

• Includes things like watercolors, stone, melody and much more.

Art Making Techniques

• Use appropriate techniques as method, or means of using medium to finish an art.
• Techniques include blowing air to molten glass, throwing for pottery, coloring for painting, cutting for wood carving

Art Management

• Art management stakeholders do sales, purchase collect, exhibit and promote arts

Social Roles

• Art managers plan art projects, gallerists exhibit arts and artists, collectors collect and curators acquire arts

Art Movements

• Art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific shared philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists in a specific time.
• Art movements were important in modern art, and are considered new "avant-garde".
• Postmodernist theorists claim that ideas of art movements are no longer as applicable in the postmodern era
• Art movements refer to tendencies in art, novel ideas in architecture, and sometimes in literature.

Top 25 Art Movements

• Abstract expressionism: American 20th-century art with large abstract canvases.
• Art Nouveau: Decorative style from 1890-1910 in Europe and the US.
• Avant-garde: Experimental concepts in culture, politics, and art.
• Baroque: Art and architecture from the early 17th to mid-18th century in Europe.
• Conceptual art: Arose during the 1960s, prioritizing ideas and theoretical practices.
• Classicism: Styles, theories, or philosophies inspired from ancient Greece and Rome.
• Constructivism: Russian avant-garde, rejects "art for art's sake" and directs art towards social purposes.
• Cubism: Artistic movement begun in 1907 challenging conventions of representation.
• Dada/Dadaism: Literary and artistic movement formed during World War I, reacting to traditional values and practices.
• Fauvism: Characterized by strong color and brushstrokes over realistic qualities.
• Expressionism: Artistic movement in architecture, literature, and performance that sought to express emotional experience over physical reality.
• Futurism: Italian movement to capture dynamism, speed, and energy of the mechanical world.
• Impressionism: Attempted to record impressions using visible brushstrokes to coalesce a scene, emphasizing movement and light.
• Installation art: Characterized by large-scale to be often designed for a specific temporary place
• Land art/ Earth art: Simple art movement that emerged in 1960s, Sculpting the land itself or earthworks
• Minimalism: Typified by simple geometric shapes devoid of representational content.
• Neo-Impressionism: Avant-garde, renounced spontaneity for measured painting techniques.
• Neoclassicism: Inspired by classical art of ancient Greece and Rome.
• Performance art: actions performed by artists, spontaneous or scripted.
• Pointillism: Used dots of pure color.
• Pop art: Drew inspiration from popular imagery and products.
• Post-Impressionism: Reaction against naturalistic depiction, of light and color.
• Rococo: Elaborate ornamentation and sensuous, including scroll, foliage, and animal forms.
• Surrealism: Liberate human experience from rationalism by liberating the irrational or poetic
• Suprematism: Conforms to abstract geometric forms.