Art Appreciation & Aesthetics

• What are the three human faculties

  • Mind
  • Will
  • Sense
• Level of the Will

  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Anger, etc.

  Emotional Suggestions
• Level of the Mind

  • Ideas
  • Concepts
  • Insights
  • Perspectives
  • Symbolism

  Intellectual Meaning
• Two types of Level of the Senses

  • Perceptual / visual elements
  • Representations
• Sense-Data: Shapes, Lines, Colors, etc.

  Perceptual / visual elements
• People, objects, events, nature, etc.

  Representations
• Example art of visual elements:

  "Red, Blue, and Yellow" by Piet Mondrain
• Example art for Emotional suggestions

  "La Madonna della Pietà" by Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Example art for Representations

  "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai,
• Example art for intellectual meaning

  "Christina’s World" by Andrew Wyeth
• Who painted "Planting Rice"

  Fernando Amorsolo
• Who painted Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho

  Félix Hidalgo
• Who painted Spoliarium

  Juan Luna
• as spectator/viewer

  Person
• Work of art as...

  object
• Fascination -- Positive

  Sense-data and Representations -- Perceptual

  Feelings -- Emotional

  Meanings -- Intellectual

  Communication and reaction -- Response

  Value that delights -- Beauty

  Visual, Music, Performing, etc. -- Artwork
• WHISTLER’S MOTHER / 1871, by James McNeill Whistler

  
• FOUNTAIN / 1917, by Marcel Duchamp

  
• LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON / 1907, by Pablo Picasso

  
• BLACK SQUARE / 1915 by Kazimir Malevich

  
• Persistence of Memory by, Salvador Dali, 1931

  
• "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" by Édouard Manet, 1882

  
• "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt

  
• The person who used the word‘aesthetics’ to describe his process of understanding ‘aesthetics’ to describe his process of understandingwhat makes something beautiful or ugly and how we what makes something beautiful or ugly and how wemake these judgements. The term 'make these judgements.

  Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
• The term 'aesthetics' is derived from the Greek word ‘derived from the Greek word...

  aesthesis that means perception
• The creation and appreciation of beautiful human made objects

  Art
• Two ways of considering beauty

  • Subject - Relative
  • Object - Objective
• Beauty = Delights

  Ugly = Glooms
• technical artistic skills are cultivated, recognizedand admired

  Expertise or Virtuosity
• people enjoy art for art's sake, and don't demand practical value of it

  Non-Utilitarian Pleasure
• artistic objects and performances satisfy rules of composition that place them in recognizable styles

  Style
• people make a point of judging, appreciating and interpreting works of art

  Criticism
• with a few important exceptions (e.g. music, abstract), works of art simulate experiences of the world

  imitation
• art is set aside from ordinary life and made a dramatic focus of experience

  Special Focus
• artists and their audiences entertain hypothetical worlds in the theatre of the imagination

  Imagination
• Forms of Art:

  • Visual art
  • Auditory art
  • Tactile art
  • Gustatory art
  • Olfactory art
• Label this

  A) Sublime

  B) Grand

  C) Elegant

  D) Charming

  E) Comic

  F) Tragic

  G) Terrible

  
• Label this

  A) Pathetic

  B) Rustic

  C) Perverse

  D) Poignant

  E) Bizarre

  F) Horrible

  G) Scary

  
• A way people look at the universe. People’s picture of the universe that lies deep in the heart of culture.

  World view
• A system of symbols and meanings people use to organize theirideas which they express through language

  Culture