A R TTHE NATURE OF ART

some activities or creations of human beings that have importance to the human mind

The first and broadest sense of "art" means "arrangement" or "to arrange." In this sense, art is created when someone arranges things found in the world into a new or different design or form; or when someone arranges colors next to each other in a painting to make an image or just to make a pretty or interesting design.

Art can also be a form of expression of emotion. The artist may feel a certain emotion and feels there is no other way to express it than to create something that mean something to them. Most of the art created in this case is made for the artist rather than an audience.

WHAT DOES A R T DO?

What are the various forms of art?

When you think of art, what do you think of?

Rodin – The Thinker, Chicago Henry Moore – Reclining nude series

Visual Art/The Graphic Arts (expression by making images and sights): drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, filming, fashion

Auditory Art (expression by making sounds): music, singing

Performing Art/The Dramatic Arts (expression using the body): dance, acting, singing

Fine Art (expression by making something beautiful or appealing to the emotions): poetry, writing (literature)

Culinary Art (expression by making flavors and tastes): cooking

The Mechanical Arts (expression by building objects and structures): architecture

T Y P E S O F A R T

1) cognitive functionWorks of art let us know about what the author knew, and about what the surrounding of the author were like.

2) aesthetic functionWorks of art are more or less harmonic and bring pleasure, a sensation of beauty.

3) prognostic functionSome artists draw what they see the future like, and some of them are right...

4) recreation functionArt makes us think about it, not about reality; we have a rest.

5) value functionWhat did the artist value? What aims did he like/dislike in human activity? This usually is clearly seen in artists' works.

F U N C T I ON S O F A R T

Self Portrait by artist RembrandtOldenburg Eraser

COGNITIVE FUNCTION

Van Eyck documents the Arnolfini wedding with an eye for detailed images, texture and symbolism.

Example: The single candle, faithful dog and the light of God which unifies all.

COGNITIVE FUNCTION

AESTHETIC FUNCTION

PROGNOSTIC FUNCTION

RECREATION FUNCTION

RECREATION FUNCTION

Andy Warhol print

VALUE FUNCTION

Christo – The Wall - Nylon fence,18 feet high and 24 miles long BOOK ART

Art can come in all sizes, from massive public art to dainty table top pieces.

Is art defined by its materials? We're all used to thinking of paintings as art. Or bronze or marble sculptures. But art can be made from all kinds of materials.

Bicycle Tire by Duchaump Collage Michelangelo – Emerging series

A work can even combine art forms!

For example, at left, Robert Rauschenberg uses many items in his assemblage collage work, Monogram is created with a stuffed goat, a tire and a painting.

Some art moves! A piece may turn in the breeze, like the Calder mobiles. Or have a motor or they can have sound. The mobiles below are by Calder and were made with metal and called kinetic sculpture.

Abstract art? It can suggest many things, create many moods, or simply celebrate something as basic as form or color. You'll notice that when you look at abstract art you tend to describe it in terms of feelings. It makes you feel happy. It makes you feel tense. Or this painting looks angry. Or quiet and peaceful. This is a great way to interpret art!

Kandinsky Klee

A representational drawing of a cow is abstracted into colorful squares

Theo van DoesburgAbstraction of a cowc. 1916

Does art have to be beautiful? What about a piece that looks truly ugly to you? Is Perhaps the artist is communicating something with that "ugliness". Sometimes the artist is trying to shock the viewer, or to make you feel uncomfortable. Perhaps to make people see things in a new way.

daVinci’s Ugly Man Jean-Michel Basquiat – Mona Lisa

ART VS ARCHITECTURE

•A building offers different perspectives. Thus Large component of the craft of architecture becomes the translation from two to three dimensions.

• The cubist approach changed the art world’s perception of space.• Instead of representing a scene from a single point of view, the cubist fused several visual perspectives into one.

COMPARISON : Each composition reflects a desire to unfold the drama through a process of abstraction, many angles are captured and recreated.

• The window illuminates passages, provides vistas, gives a sense of the world beyond and within walls.

• The ancient Greek agora (above) is a striking parallel to the painting.• The opening becomes both an eye to the outside world and a point of illumination for the interior composition.

WADE RESIDENCE

Repeated forms can be used to create variety and patterning whether in colour and line , as in a painting, or in three dimensional space and form.

Continuity leads familiarity to a new environment, making a place easier to navigate

• Some artists create work that transforms space in a magical sense.• The way they alters, accumulates and recombines these objects transforms them.

Ann Hamilton, STILL LIFE

Andy Goldsworthy works with the elements of the landscape, creating new arrangements with the materials already present on the site.

Work in progress by andy,1992

A R T vs ARCHITECTUREOPEN DISCUSSION

R. Piano, R. Rogers et G. Franchini - Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris, France.

R. Piano, R. Rogers et G. Franchini - Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris, France.

Johann Otto von Spreckelsen – La Défense - Paris, France.

La Défense - Paris, France.

Franck Gherry - Musée Guggenheim - Bilbao, Espagne.

Franck Gherry - Musée Guggenheim - Bilbao, Espagne.

Franck Gherry - Musée Guggenheim - Bilbao, Espagne.

Santiago Calatrava - Bilbao, Espagne.

Santiago Calatrava - Santa Cruz de Tenerife Concert Hall – Îles Canaries, Espagne.

Antonio Gaudì - Parc Güell - Barcelone, Espagne.

Will Alsop - Ontario College of Art and Design - Toronto, Canada.

Daniel Libeskind et Bregman + Hamann Architects – Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto, Canada.

Jean Pierre Morin – Espace fractal - Montréal, Québec.

Jean Pierre Morin – Espace fractal - Montréal, Québec.

Alexander Calder – L’homme - Montréal, Canada.

Mario V. Petrone – Théâtre de la ville - Longueuil

Mario V. Petrone – Théâtre de la ville - Longueuil

Mario V. Petrone - École primaire de l’Envolée-du Boisé - Saint-Amable

Mario V. Petrone - École primaire de l’Envolée-du Boisé - Saint-Amable

Marcelle Ferron – Vitrail au Métro Vendôme – Montréal, Québec.

Marcelle Ferron – Vitrail au Métro Champ-de-Mars – Montréal, Québec.

Atrium Bibliothèque – Montréal, Québec.

Métro Montmorency – Laval, Québec.

Antonio Gaudì - Casa Batllo - Barcelone, Espagne.

Dancing House -

Prague

Pavillon du golf Parcours du Cerf - Longueuil, Québec.

Mario V. Petrone – Hydroïde 94_ La Ronde - Montréal, Québec.

Mario V. Pétrone – Hôtel de ville - Longueuil, Québec.

Mario V. Petrone – Écran acoustique - Longueuil, Québec.

Mario V. Petrone – Écran acoustique - Longueuil, Québec.

Mario V. Petrone – Résidence Corriveau-Petrone - Bromont, Québec.

Mario V. Petrone – Résidence Corriveau-Petrone - Bromont, Québec.

Mario V. Petrone – Résidence Corriveau-Petrone - Bromont, Québec.

Mario V. Petrone – Résidence Corriveau-Petrone - Bromont, Québec.

•Based on that discussion, define whether these items are art with perfect examples and proper study of each example -

printed coffee mugprinted t shirtphotographfilm postermagazine ad

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•Present your discussion to the class

Activity #1 ContinuedWhat is Art?