HMN101

• Ars


  Ability or skill (Latin)
• Art


  • Develop critical thinking skills
  • Questioning frame of mind
  • Dominated by images
  • About culture and values
  • Contains information
  • Creativity
  • Art is an expression, artist is an expressor
• Relevance of art appreciation is significant role
• Art is not meant to be looked at only for what it is
• Humanities


  Analysis and exchange of ideas
• Art History


  • Study of objects of art in their historical development
  • Distinguished from art criticism
  • Not only a biographical endeavor
• Imagination


  Things that are impossible
• Creativity


  Doing something meaningful with your imagination (unleash potential)
• Assumption


  Accepted as true without proof
• Nature of Arts


  • Diverse range
  • Reality
  • Expression
  • Means of communication
  • Art matters
  • Universal
  • Creation
• Nature is the most common inspiration and subject matter for art
• Subjects of nature in art

  • Animals
  • Landscape
• Philosophy


  Love of/for wisdom
• Social function of art

  • During displays and celebrations
• Personal function of art

  • For self-expression or gratification
• Physical function of art

  • Created to form some service
  • Form and function
  • Architecture
  • Community planning
  • Function and beauty
• Function and beauty - things stay in shape throughout the years and allow greater variations in their form
• Principles of Design


  • Balance
  • Emphasis
  • Texture
  • Pattern
  • Harmony
• Principles of design


  • Balance
  • Emphasis
  • Rhythm
  • Movement
  • Pattern
  • Proportion
  • Variety
  • Unity
• Rule of thirds


  Guideline, golden ratio, focal points
• Non-Representational or Non objective

  Compositions which do not rely on representation or mimesis to any extent
• Figures


  • Full body; figure painting
• Sculpture and Painting


  • For commemoration of important personages in society
• Factual meaning


  Literal meaning or a narrative content
• Conventional meaning


  Special meaning that a certain object has in a particular culture or group
• Plato: 'All artist creation is a form of imitation'
• Leonardo Aitkin - famous work "Fantasy"
• Subjects of art


  • History - events taking place in the world
  • Dreams and Fantasies - usually vague and illogical
  • Religion and Mythology - art has been the handmaiden of religion
• Greek and Roman Mythology - gods and goddesses
• The Judeo Christian Tradition - Religion and art, Bible, Apocrypha
• Portrait


  • Realistic likeness of a person in sculpture, painting, drawing, or paint
  • Showing a person or several people
• Subject of Chinese and Japanese painters are seascape, landscape, and cityscape
• Subjects of landscape art

  • Landscape - outdoor view of nature (mountains, river, desert, fields)
  • Seascape - scene at sea
  • Cityscape - including city buildings
• Stencil Prints


  Made by passing inks through a porous fine fresh matrix
• Drawing


  Most basic tool of the artist and the designer
• Mosaic


  Created by small pieces of colored glass or stone
• Types of Printmaking


  • Engraving
  • Relief
  • Intaglio
• Shapes


  Enclosed space that are two-dimensional
• Color


  Most prominent element of art
• Planes of meaning in art

  • Semiotic plane - related to signs (images)
  • Iconic plane - concerned with particular aspects and features (political)
  • Contextual plane - when the viewer knows about the society's history
  • Evaluative plane - how meaning is generated