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WHAT IS ART?
A conversation about: The Visual Arts
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Dictionary definition
• The disposition or modification of things by human skill, to answer the purpose intended. In this sense art stands against nature.
• Creative work generally, or its principles; the making and doing of things that have beauty
(Websters)
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TOK definition• What is the origin and nature of a sense of beauty? Is
this specific to the individual or to the culture, or is it universal?
• To what extent is ‘art’ a culturally relevant term?• Do all the arts have features in common?• What roles do the arts play in people’s lives?• Are the arts a kind of knowledge, or are they a
means of expressing knowledge?• What are the implications of the following claim?
‘Life is very nice but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some” Anouilh
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A Visual language
Beginnings
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Cave Painting
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States of consciousness• Waking consciousness• Realistic fantasy - reverie• Hypnagogic states• Dreaming
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• rational states • altered states of consciousness • the 'irrational‘ thought of the poet • the rational thought of the [laboratory] • historical evolution of ideas in the real
world • Finally, since people are not computers,
we must ask how emotional and motivational factors affect cognition.
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Altamira
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Art and universality
Are there connections?
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Bush Meeting Tanya Price
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Corroboree
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Women’s ceremony Tanya Price
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Japanese buddha
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Japanese painting
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Thai Buddha
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Islam
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Vatican
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Christian Icon
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Creation of Adam
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Balinese
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Hindu
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Western
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Cezanne
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Media and
art
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Real V Emotional
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Goya
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Yue Minjun
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Tracey Emin – My Bed 1998
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What is Art?
• A transcendental experience• Man’s desire to make sense of his world• The abstract made visual• Order in chaos• A desire to translate belief • A means of knowing
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Who are artists?
• Visionaries• Seers• Monastic beings• Allies• Protagonists• Shaman
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TOK definition
• What is the origin and nature of a sense of beauty? Is this specific to the individual or to the culture, or is it universal?
• To what extent is ‘art’ a culturally relevant term?• Do all the arts have features in common?• What roles do the arts play in people’s lives?• Are the arts a kind of knowledge, or are they a
means of expressing knowledge?• What are the implications of the following claim?
‘Life is very nice but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some” Anouilh
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Can/does art have ?
• Reason• Belief• Emotion• Language