Transcript Aesthetics - The Andy Warhol Museum

Aesthetics
Part 1
The Andy Warhol Museum
Carnegie Museum of Art
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Objectives:
• Develop and use a common language for
aesthetics.
• Increase knowledge of aesthetics in
meaning and in application.
• Analyze an artist’s motivation for making
aesthetic choices.
• Improve listening and reasoning skills
through group dialogue.
Vocabulary Check
Intuition
1.a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use
of rational processes: immediate cognition. b. Knowledge
gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.
2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an
impression.
Perception
The word, perception, comes from the Latin word:
Capere - to take Per (the prefix) - ‘completely’
1.The process, act, or faculty of perceiving: OBSERVATION
2.The effect or product of perceiving: CONCEPT
3. Psychol. a. Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli
based chiefly on memory.
In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the
process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing
sensory information.
3 Definitions for Aesthetics:
1. a particular taste for, or approach to, what is
pleasing to the senses--especially sight;
2. a branch of philosophy dealing with the
nature of art and beauty;
3. a particular theory or conception of beauty
or art.
Definition one: Aesthetics
Function: noun
1. a particular taste for or
approach to what is
pleasing to the senses-especially sight.
Aesthetics in this definition is something that appeals to the
senses. Someone’s aesthetic has to do with his or her
perceptual or artistic judgment.
It comes from the root word:
Aesthesia: the ability to feel or
perceive; being awake and
able to feel senses.
The opposite is:
Anesthesia: the inability to feel
or perceive; to be asleep or
non-feeling.
We make informal
aesthetic choices every
day.
From what we wear . . .
to the things we
buy: books,
music, and
objects for our
homes.
Public figures make aesthetic
choices to convey something
about who they are.
Andy Warhol wore various
silver wigs throughout the
’60s, ’70s, and ’80s to change
his personal appearance--to
create a signature look.
Who does this in today’s
popular culture?
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Fright Wig), 1986,
Polaroid™ Polacolor ER, 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 8.6
cm.). ©AWF
The aesthetic choices we make influence many
parts of our lives.
We all have a personal aesthetic
(preferences and tastes based on what we see).
How would you
describe the aesthetic
quality of your
classroom at school?
How would you
describe the aesthetic
quality of your
bedroom?
What aesthetic qualities do
you perceive in this
photograph of Andy Warhol
in his Silver Factory?
Andy Warhol at the Silver Factory with Cow wallpaper and Silver
Clouds, 1965-1966, Photo ©Stephen Shore
Warhol used some of
the aesthetic qualities
of his environment in
his artwork.
Andy Warhol
Silver Liz Studio Type (1963). ©AWF
What are the
similarities between
this portrait and the
photograph in the
previous slide?