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What is Crea+vity? What is Art?
Reading Ar+orms, 1-‐18 Terms/Concepts Art, ar+st, crea+vity, art as informa+on, art as tool, art as prac+ce, art as expression, art as form, art for art’s sake, aesthete,
Why this Class?
What is your rela+onship to art?
What is Crea+vity?
Crea+ve A?tudes
Curiosity “What if…” Big Picture Openness New Point of View Find Order in Disorder Risk Taking Flexible Iden+ty
Empathe+c Spontaneity Dynamic Experien+al Experimental Mul+cultural Unconven+onal Divergent Thinking
Crea+ve Exercise
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house. Bob and Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is lying deadon the floor in a puddle of water and glass. It is obvious that Ted killed her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished.
Remote Associates Test
Law, birthday, swim Twister, lash, +ed Super, ship, gazer Bear, comb, moon Trap, market, brown
What is Art? Ar+orms: “the visual expression of an idea or experience, formed with skill, through the use of medium…When a medium is used in such a way that the object or performance contributes to our understanding or enjoyment of life.”
People of Bali: “We have no art. We just do the best we can.”
Ancient Greeks: (Techne) technical know-‐how.
Marquesans: (a’ a’kakai) An+quity or Curiosity
Concise Oxford English DicDonary: art, n. 1 the expression or applica+on of crea+ve skill and imagina+on, especially through a visual medium such as pain+ng or sculpture.
What is Art?
Defining Art.
1. Form 2. Func+on 3. Form and Func+on
Form
What should art look like?
What should art be made from?
What form should art take?
Are certain forms more ar`ul?
What is Art?
High vs. Low
High vs. Low
Bill Waterson Roy Lichtenstein
Func+on
What func+on(s) should art serve in society?
Should art have a func+on?
Are certain func+ons more ar`ul?
What is Art?
Art as Form
Clement Greenberg
Victor Cousin
Art as Form
James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room, 1876
Art as Form
Barnef Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimus, 1950-‐1951
Art as Informa+on
Denver Day of Rock Poster, 2011
Art as Informa+on
Last Judgment Tympanum, Autun Cathedral, Romanesque, 1146
Art as Informa+on
Tree of Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral, Gothic, 1193-‐1250
Art as Expression
Paul Klee, Schoolhouse, 1920
Art as Expression
Wasily Kandinsky, Improvisa+on 28, 1912
Art as Tool
Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair, 1925
Art as Prac+ce
Karensanui, Ryoan-‐ji, 17th century-‐Present
MASQUERADES: Masks in performance, wood, mineral pigments, & fiber, height approx. 7’, 1984, Burkina Faso, Bwa culture
Art as Prac+ce
hfp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ZkR1X6s7E
Closing performance of "Constructive Interference," an installation by David Fodel and
Paco Proano.
With Janet Feder, Paul Fowler, Matt Pass, and 3rd Law Dance
Company.
Emmanuel Gallery
7:00 – 9:00 PM, Thursday, August 25
Free.
What is Art?