Art Appreciation Chapters 1-4

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THE GATES

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Created by Christo and Jeanne- Claude
Located in Central Park

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Creativity

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The ability to bring to produce whatever is imagined or envisioned

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Creative Process

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Have an idea
Negotiate the process
Finishing the piece

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Four Traditional Roles of the Artist

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Record the world
Give visible or tangilbe form to ideas and philosophies
Reveal hidden or universal truths
Help see the world in a new, innovative way

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THE CENTRAL MOUTAIN

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Gives visible or tangible form to an idea/philosophy
Yin & Yang

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THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

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Created by Albert Bierstadt
Records the world

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SPIRLA JETTY

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Created by Robert Smithson
Earth art

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ALLIES DAY, MAY 1917

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Created by Childe Hassam

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THREE FLAGS

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Created by Jasper Johns

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"This is not a pipe"

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Rene Magritte
A painting of a pipe

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Representational

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Seeks to resemble the world of natural appearance

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Abstract

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Images and objects (from nature) in a stylized or simplified way

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Nonobjective

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Art that makes no reference to the natural world
Discussion limited to form

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PAT

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John Ahearn, Rigoberto Torres
Representational art

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Subject matter

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The literal image in a work of art

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SUPREMATIST PAINTING, BLACK RECTANGLE, BLUE TRIANGLE

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Kasimir Malevich
Nonobjective

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Form

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The physical composition of a work of art

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Content

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What the work of art expresses or means

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Ethnocentric

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The imposition of the point of view of one culture upon the works of another

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Iconography

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Images and symbols conventionally associated with a given subject

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THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT

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Jon Van Eyck
Dresses, background, loyalty, well fed, candle

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Three Themes in Art

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Representation of the world
Power of imagination
Idea of the beautiful

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THE GREAT PIECE OF TURF

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Albrecht Durer
Representation of the world

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THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY

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Salvador Dali
Power of imagination
Surrealism

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Subjective

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Influenced by personal emotions
Biased

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Objective

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Free of personal feelings
Unbiased

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GERTRUDE STEIN

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Pablo Picasso
Subjective

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LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY

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Auguste Renoir
Genre painting

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Genre Painting

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Representation of scenes from daily life

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First Piece of Art Funded by the NEA;
Who was the Audience?

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Alexander Calder, Grand Vitesse;
The public

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LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS

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Eduard Manet
Woman is naked, me are clothed
Woman in background, distorted sense of space
Brush strokes, slipshod

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STONE FIELD SCULPTURE

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Rejected because it was just rocks

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TILTED ARC

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Removed and sold for scrap metal

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NUDE DESCENDING THE STAIRCASE

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Marcel Duchamp
The Armory Show

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DAVID

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Michelangelo
Medici