Saturday, September 18, 2010

Lecture Summary, Sept. 3




What is art?
  • Something an artist thought of: requires effort
  • An image of a person
  • You like the way it looks
  • An artifact, something someone made
  • There has to be a conscious decision that went into making the piece
To Present of Re-present
  • representation- one thing stands in for another
Styles of Representation
  • naturalistic- nature
  • realistic- true to life
  • stylized- simplified to emphasize important detail
  • abstract- highly stylized

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