Transcript What is Art?

What is Art?
How do we judge art?
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Monetary Value
Personal Opinion
The Opinion of Experts
On Technical Accuracy
On the works ability to shock
On the works ability to make the
observer question
Monetary Value
• The next slides show the 10 most
expensive paintings sold in the last 20
years.
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Artist: Vincent
Van Gogh
Price tag:
$82,500,000
Purchased:
Christie's,
New York
(May 15th,
1990)
Au Moulin de la Galette
Artist:
PierreAuguste
Renoir
Price tag:
$78,100,00
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Purchased:
Sotheby's,
New York
(May 17th,
1990)
Portrait de l'artiste sans
barbe
Artist: Vincent Van
Gogh
Price tag:
$71,500,000
Purchased:
Christie's, New York
(November 19th,
1998)
Still Life with Curtain, Pitcher,
and Bowl of Fruit
Artist: Paul
Cezanne
Price tag:
$60,500,000
Purchased:
Sotheby's,
New York
(May 10th,
1999)
Les Noces de Pierrette
Artist:
Picasso
Price tag:
$51,671,9
20
Purchase
dBinoche et
Godeau,
Paris
(Novembe
r 30th,
1989)
Woman Seated in a Garden
Artist: Picasso
Price tag:
$49,500,000
Purchased:
Sotheby's, New York
(November 10th,
1999)
Irises
Artist: Vincent
Van Gogh
Price tag:
$49,000,000
Purchased:
Sotheby's,
New York
(November
11th, 1987)
. Le rêve
Artist: Picasso
Price
tag:$48,402,500
Purchased:
Christie's, New
York (November
10th, 1997)
. Nude in a Black Armchair
Artist: Picasso
Price tag:
$45,102,500
Purchased:
Christie's, New
York
(November
9th, 1999)
. Self-Portrait: Yo Picasso
Artist: Pablo
Picasso
Price tag:
$43,500,000
Purchased:
Sotheby's, New
York (May 9th,
1989)
Personal Opinion
• Is this art?
• Describe the art –
line, shape, colour,
texture, space
• What is the media?
Callalily
by Anna Claire
Analysis
• Consider the
quality of the
size, shape,
colour and
texture of the
art
• Does it show
movement,
unity and
contrast?
Rainbow by Chi
Chi
Interpretation and
Judgement
• How creative and rewarding
is the work?
• What is the artist trying to
say?
• Why were certain colours
used?
• Why was it created?
• What is your final
judgement?
• Remember judgements can
be positive or negative but
must be supported with
stated reason
Bailey – Dreams of a Rainforest
The Artists
Jungle Friends - Primate Sanctuary
and Rehabilitation – Fund raising
initiative
Pollack – Pollack
To Shock?
Emin – Unmade Bed
Constable – Flatford Mill
Millais – Ophelia
Unknown Artist – Tattoo
Von Hagens – Human Head
Von Hagens – Cowboy
Warhol – Campbell’s Soup
Can
Warhol – Marilyn Monroe
Britney Spears – Oops Album
Cover
Beatles – Sgt. Peppers Album
Cover
Hinrichs – Breaking Heart
Unknown Artist - Manga
Installation artist Simon Starling, winner of
this year's £25,000 Turner Prize, recycles
objects by reframing and reforming them.
• Simon Starling is fascinated by the
processes involved in transforming one object
or substance into another. He makes objects,
installations, and pilgrimage-like journeys
which draw out an array of ideas About
nature, technology and economics. Starling
describes his work as ‘the physical
manifestation of a thought process’, revealing
hidden histories and relationships.
Art and me..
• Why is art important to me?
• Where does art, design and image
appear in my life?
• What does art provide for me in my life?
• What areas of art do I enjoy?
• What areas of art do I dislike?
• Do you believe that we should all have
an art?