subjective and objective perspective

• Subjective


  Knowledge residing in the emotions and thoughts of the viewer
• Objective


  Focusing on the object's physical characteristics as the main source of information
• An objective view does not mean removing or invalidating subjective feelings, it allows finding clues to meaning and understanding how art reflects and affects our lives
• Humans perceive flat images as having a "reality" to them, while dogs cannot perceive flat images as containing any meaning
• Seeing is partly a result of cultural conditioning and biases
• Artistic roles


  • Description
  • Portraits
  • Landscapes
  • Scientific illustration
  • Enhancing our world
• Description


  Traditional role of visual art to describe self and surroundings
• Portraits


  Capture accuracy of physical characteristics and transfer a sense of an individual's unique personality
• Landscapes


  Give detailed information about natural and human-made surroundings
• Scientific illustration


  Use traditional mediums of painting and drawing to record the world around us
• Enhancing our world


  Utilitarian role of art including textiles, product design, decorative embellishments
• Artistic categories


  • Fine art
  • Popular culture
  • Craft
• Fine art


  Drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and new media in museum collections and commercial art galleries
• Popular culture


  Posters, graffiti, advertising, popular music, television, digital imagery, magazines, books, movies
• Craft


  Art showing a high degree of skilled workmanship, often with utilitarian purposes
• Artistic styles


  • Naturalistic
  • Abstract
  • Non-objective
  • Cultural
• Naturalistic style


  Uses recognizable images with a high level of accuracy
• Abstract style


  Based on a recognizable object but manipulated by distortion, scale issues or other artistic devices
• Non-objective style


  Imagery has no relation to the 'real' world, based solely upon itself
• Cultural styles


  Distinctive characteristics in artworks throughout a particular society or culture, formed over hundreds or thousands of years
• an example of a portrait, that's dated around 1300 BCE which exemplifies beauty and royalty

  Egyptian Queen Nefertiti
• Landscape made by a German artist Albrecht Durer from 1495

  Young Hare
• a scientific illustration of the physical anatomy of the head of a sheep by Lenda Berkley

  Merino Ram
• they belong to the popular culture and gives that street level texture to the urban environment

  handbills
• an example of craft

  mexican ceramic vessel
• an example of naturalistic style

  William Sydney Mount's The Bone Player
• an example of non-objective imagery

  Frank Stella's Pergusa Tree
• Yup'ik dance mask from alaska
• Groundhog Mask from the Tlingit culture in coastal northwestern canada
• groundhog visage takes on the form of a human
• yup'ik mask takes on the form of a bird
• celtic art from great britain and ireland
• pinnacle of celtic style

  The book of Kells
• To look objectively is to get an unbiased overview of our field of vision. Subjective seeing speaks more to understanding.
• refers to a particular kind of appearance in works of art. It’s a characteristic of an individual artist or a collective relationship based on an idea, culture or artistic movement.

  style
• also includes the idealized object: one that is modified to achieve a kind of perfection within the bounds of aesthetics and form.

  Naturalism
• can be created by exaggerating form, simplifying shapes or the use of strong colors. Questions of abstraction can also emerge from something as simple as our distance from an artwork.

  Abstraction
• this style rose from the modern art movement in Europe, Russia and the United States during the first half of the 20th century.

  non-objective imager