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Living With Art Arts, Man and Society

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Our simplest worlds are often the deepest

in meaning: birth, kiss, flight, dream, love.

Sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his lifesearching for forms as simple and pure as

those words ± forms that seem to have

existed forever, outside time

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Born a peasant in a remote area in

Romania, he spent most of his adult life in

Paris, where he lived in a single smallroom adjoining a sky lit studio.

Upon his death in 1957, he willed the

contents of his studio to the French

Government and they re-created the

studio itself into a museum

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Living with Art Near the center are

the three versions of 

an idea Brancusicalled Endless

Column. Pulsing 

upward with great 

energy, the columnsseem as though they 

could go on forever 

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Living with Art 

Bird in Space.Brancusi said

that the work

represents ³the

soul liberatedfrom matter´

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You probably live already with more art

than you think you do.

Very likely the walls of your home aredecorated with posters, photographs, or 

even paintings you chose because you 

find them beautif ul or meaningf ul.

Sometimes just by walking around your 

community, you can see many appealing

sites

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 Aesthetic experience: it is the feelings

aroused in us by sensory experiences ±

experiences we have throu

gh ou

r fivesenses.

 Aesthetics concerns itself with our 

responses to the natural world and to the

world we make, especially the world of art

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On the afternoon of December 18, 1994,

to men and women found an astonishing

discovery. They found a cave f ull of 

paintings on the wall.

There are more than 300 images painted

on the wall

It is now called Chauvet cave

The paintings were made 30,000 BC

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What artist do?

 ± Create places for some human purpose

 ± Create extra-ordinary versions of ordinaryobjects

 ± Record and commemorate

 ± Give tangible form to the unknown

 ± Give tangible form to feelings

 ± Refresh our vision and help us see the world

in new ways

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Living with Art Maya Lin

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Living with Art Vincent van Gogh

The Starry Night

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Living with Art Ernst Haas

Peeling Paint on Iron Bench

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Living with Art  Creating and Creativity

 ± Sensitivity ± heightened awareness of what

one sees, hears and touches, as well asresponsiveness to other people and their 

feelings

 ± Flexibility ± an ability to adapt to new

situations and to see their possibilities;willingness to find innovative relationships

 ± Originality ± uncommon responses to

situations and to solving problems

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Living with Art  ± Playf ulness ± a sense of humor and an ability

to experiment freely

 ± Productivity ± the ability to generate ideas

easily and frequently, and to follow through on

those ideas

 ± Fluency ± a readiness to allow the free flow of 

ideas ± Analytical skill ± a talent for exploring

problems, taking them apart, and finding out

how things work

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Living with Art  ± Organizational skill ± ability to put things back

together in a coherent order 

 Alan Rath