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What qualifies something as a work of Art?

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  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019

    work of art

     noun phrase

    Definition of work of art

    1: a product of one of the fine artsespecially : a painting or sculpture of high artistic quality
    2: something giving high aesthetic satisfaction to the viewer or listener

    First Known Use of work of art

    1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1 

  • YeshuaBoughtYeshuaBought 669 Pts   -  
    Love is the greatest quality, and an artform to be perfected.
  • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -  
    @TKDB

    1: a product of one of the fine artsespecially : a painting or sculpture of high artistic quality

    Whats high artistic quality?



    2: something giving high aesthetic satisfaction to the viewer or listener

    If it doesn’t then it’s not art? 

    piloteer
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -  
    @Dee

    Art, from my experience, is something, that is original, and one of a kind.

    Whether its a 3D sculpture, a water color painting, an acrylic painting, an oil painting, or maybe a mural done with spray cans, and various tapestries.

    Picasso, Rembrandt, Dali, Van Gogh, Cassatt, Warhol, Michelangelo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lichtenstein, and Bob Ross, are some of the artists who stand out, amongst many others. 

    Some of the artists above, experimented, with different techniques, and colors.

  • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -  
    @TKDB


    You say ......Art, from my experience, is something, that is original, and one of a kind.

    Whether its a 3D sculpture, a water color painting, an acrylic painting, an oil painting, or maybe a mural done with spray cans, and various tapestries.

    Picasso, Rembrandt, Dali, Van Gogh, Cassatt, Warhol, Michelangelo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lichtenstein, and Bob Ross, are some of the artists who stand out, amongst many others. 

    Some of the artists above, experimented, with different techniques, and colors.


    My reply ....An Italian Artist has his excrement put in tins , this was original and one of a kind.Van Gogh was thought an appalling artist in his time but has since been elevated to god like status , how can ones work be viewed as appalling to one generation and brilliant to the next.

    On a side note I laughed out loud when I saw Bob Ross in a list that included Michelangelo and Rembrandt 
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @Dee

    The artist you mentioned, sounds like his art approach is more about attitude, than about art?

    I can only begin, to imagine what some of the "artists" of this day and age, have been taught, and are learning?

    In an age where socialism, is trying to be pushed on others, in the U.S.?

    Just like the illegal immigrants, or aliens have been trying to push themselves unto the United States, since the late 1980's?

    Where some of the marijuana addicts, view their marijuana use, as socially acceptable, because 11 or so states, have legalized Weed in their states?

    And where a unborn baby, can be viewed as a "thing," by an individual on the internet?

    "An Italian Artist has his excrement put in tins , this was original and one of a kind.Van Gogh was thought an appalling artist in his time but has since been elevated to god like status , how can ones work be viewed as appalling to one generation and brilliant to the next."

    "The Italian invented concept art in which the content of the art is less about content and more about the intent of the artist. In this case, Manzoni was an alchemist turning poop literally into gold.

    In 2000, the Tate museum in Britain bought a can for $30,000. Fast forward 16 years and an art auction in Milan sold a can for a world record of $300,000 in December of 2016. If the record auction sold the can that once belonged to Lucia, that’s an 8,100 percent return on investment over 55 years. That’s pretty good by anyone’s standards.

    His work is not without controversy. Some people question Manzoni’s cans are really full of his excrement. The cans are made of steel and therefore cannot be scanned by x-rays to determine their contents. One can exploded open, and it contained plaster much to the dismay of the art world."


    Just to put your perspective into a correlation?


  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -  
    "Art" is a term used by elitists to make them feel better about their hobbies, in an attempt to differentiate themselves from the rest of society, but "art" is just another way of saying communication. Everybody communicates. Everybody is an "artist". We shouldn't use the word art if all it does is make socially disaffected elitists feel like they have a better understanding of something that they don't actually have. Those people should be allowed to be dissatisfied and disaffected because their dismay was caused by themselves. 

    In the end it can be argued that everything we do is art!!!
    PlaffelvohfenDee
  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -  
    @Dee

    Bob Ross did a lot of eyebrow raising and thought provoking works that he never would have shown on his tv show. Like for instance the one of a cartoon child who is saying a prayer before bed which reads, "dear God. Please kill everybody. Amen.

  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @piloteer

    Who in your Art Appreciation, class educated you with your below opinion?

    "Art" is a term used by elitists to make them feel better about their hobbies, in an attempt to differentiate themselves from the rest of society, but "art" is just another way of saying communication. Everybody communicates.
    Everybody is an "artist".

    Your rationale sounds very Millinialish.

    Some of the parents who raised their kids in the late 1990-2000's, really did a number, on their own kids brains, via their perceptions, and thought processes?

    piloteer
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -  
    @piloteer

    Care to share a link, to support your individual perception, on your Bob Ross claim?

    piloteer
  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @TKDB

    Please stop injecting yourself into topics you know nothing of. I've taken countless classes on "art". I would be considered a multimedia, or multiplatform "artist" among the so called "certified artists". I'm what would be considered a "musician" (piano, guitar, singer, sampling) , a "painter" and a "sculptor", a "writer", a "journalist", and a "craft maker". I went to a liberal arts college. I reject those terms even more so than "art", because they represent elitism among "artists" themselves, and it is an attempt to differentiate and elevate themselves above other "artists". I alone came up with my feelings. I'm not sure why you think nobody is capable of an original idea, just because you're not. If you have an issue with anything I've said, then try and actually dispute the argument I've made. Where and how that argument came about is of no value. 
    Plaffelvohfen
  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -  
    @TKDB

    I've looked into the paintings that Bod Ross did that weren't on his show. I guess I was mistaken. They were fakes. 
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @piloteer

    You getting huffy, shows how defensive you individualy got over my words?

    The artists I mentioned, their works of art continue to stand on their own artistical merit.

    Look at how you, and how you're trying to stand on your own faulty merits, via your individual opinions? 

    Because your opinion states it as such?

    You don't have anything, over on Picasso, Dali, Rembrandt, Dali, Van Gogh, Cassatt, Warhol, Michelangelo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lichtenstein, amongst other artists, whose art globally expresses more, than you, maybe understand?

    Joe Satriani, Malmstein, SRV, Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, and other guitar artists, as well, stand on their own merits?

    Great writers, Steven King, Harper Lee, and John Steinbeck, all stand on their own merits as well? 

    Apparently, maybe to some "Opinion Journalism," could be viewed as an art?

    The art of telling a one sided, self serving, and a biased point of view, and this type of a biased journalist, expects their opinion journalism, to be viewed as viable news? 

    When real Journalism, is unbiased, impartial, as well as educational, and informative, to the public, by telling both sides, of a news story, without compromising itself, to tell a news story, and letting the public, decide for themselves based on unbiased news reporting?

    Four different perspectives, on the word, Art.



  • AlexOlandAlexOland 313 Pts   -   edited July 2019
     Well, I personally separate art into 2 categories:

    1- It is considered art because the mentioned piece of art requires skill to create. Also, there is an originality to it. Painters and sculptors are artists in the sense that they are skilled people who can create things.

    2- It is considered art because there is a deep and beautiful idea to grasp behind the piece. To be honest, I have never really looked at a painting and felt a deep connection to it. But some mathematical ideas, problems, puzzle games, pieces of code and solutions to open-ended problems seem astonishing to me. There is something so deep and beautiful about them... They are things that you just feel the world would have been poorer without. And this does not have to do anything with sciency stuff. Philosophical ideas, books, movies... everything can be art if it has a deep and beautiful idea to grasp behind it. 

     It is pretty apparent that the concept of "art" is highly subjective. I also would like to note that the second category can kind of contain the first but I think the difference is noticable enough that they can be separated. Sorry if it seemed like I was trying to sound sublime when talking about the second category... It is just that it is a huge part of my life and I am very passionate about it. 
  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @TKDB

    There's no such thing as truly unbiased journalism, that's why it's an art. There's no such thing as "real journalism" either. All journalists have a bias, and are trying to make a point, but that doesn't mean it's not informative. You are obviously anti-journalistic (like most people are now). The point of journalism is to get as many different points of views and angles on a specific topic, as opposed to reject all the work that doesn't fit in with your point of view. You're not supposed to develop a point of view based only on a select few works, you're supposed to read as many different works as you can and gain a better perspective that way. This is all good for you though because this means you're not at all unique because of your point of view, we know you hate originality. Nobody understands journalism anymore.

    I'd like to point out how much you don't actually know about this subject or debating altogether. Someone on this thread argued that "Art, from my experience, is something, that is original, and one of a kind." Just to be clear, it was you who said that. But now all of the sudden, I don't understand "art" because I can't hold a candle to Eddie Van Halen of Jimi, or Steven King or Harper Lee or Andy Warhol, but your original argument was that "art is something that is original, but now to attempt to degrade me, I can't know anything about it because I'm not better or as good as the people you've mentioned. Nobody is a carbon copy of anybody else, so everything we are or do is original. Everything we do is art. Also, I'm not sure why you didn't mention Truman Capote or Franz Kafka when you were mentioning writers. They're among the greatest. You could easily consider Capote and Harper Lee as journalists also, they wrote "in cold blood" together.

     You haven't begun to refute the arguments I made about everybody being an artist, even you. Obviously you and I are not as renowned or widely known as all the others you've mentioned, but since when did being world renowned become the true meaning of being an artist? Not for nothing, but simply being on DI makes us all journalists. How good someone is at being an "artist" is not an argument for whether they are, or are not an artist. Just to make this debate easier for you, I'm arguing we are all artists. For you to actually make a convincing case against that, you need to disprove that we are all artists. Just claiming that because I'm not as popular as all those people doesn't disprove what I'm saying. Especially since "art is something that is original, and one of a kind". Nowhere in your argument did it say that art has to be popular and world renowned.
  • PlaffelvohfenPlaffelvohfen 3985 Pts   -  
    First and foremost, Art is something that doesn't occur naturally, Nature is not an artist, art requires intention...  "Beauty" is also not a prerequisite for something to be considered "Art"... 

    Beyond that, it's just personal taste imo...
    " Adversus absurdum, contumaciter ac ridens! "
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @piloteer

    Prove it, piloteer?

    "This is all good for you though because this means you're not at all unique because of your point of view, we know you hate originality."


    Prove it piloteer?

    "Nobody understands journalism anymore."


    Prove it, piloteer?

    "Not for nothing, but simply being on DDO makes us all journalists."



    Let me get your biased opinion on the public record?

    "There's no such thing as truly unbiased journalism, that's why it's an art."
    (Prove your statement?)

    When some of the people on the streets, are "playing phone journalist," because their brave selves, pulled out a cell phone, to record an apparent, criminal, or an offender, after committing a crime, and because the same criminal, or offender, ran from the Police, he's going to cry, while he's on the ground, and getting taken into custody by the police, and recorded by a bystander, who failed to call the police, to begin with?

    But because, the "street cell phone journalist," might apparently, have an "anti law attitude," hidden in the middle of their head, and failed to call the police, when the street criminal, or offender, as the same criminal, or offender, was committing their crimes, or crime, at the time? 

    That's how your individual definition of Journalism comes across to me? 

    "There's no such thing as "real journalism" either." (Instead of making an opinion based statement, prove it?)

    "All journalists have a bias, and are trying to make a point, but that doesn't mean it's not informative." (Prove it?)

    You are obviously anti-journalistic (like most people are now). The point of journalism is to get as many different points of views and angles on a specific topic, as opposed to reject all the work that doesn't fit in with your point of view.
    (Prove it?)

    CNN, MSNBC, ABC, OAN, NPR, PBS, CBS, FOX news?

    Of the above national news media outlets, who is, maybe fibbing, and who is telling the truth, in how they present the news according to your various definitions about the "Art of Journalism?"

    Are the Opinion Journalists, maybe fibbing? 

    Or are the old school journalists, maybe fibber?

    Do you want me to present some nationwide news media news anchors, and you can tell the public, who you view as a probable, journalistic fibber?




    PlaffelvohfenDee
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -  
    @piloteer

    If you have an issue with the below definition, why not take it up with
    Merriam-Webster.com?

    Below, is their link:


    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work of art

    work of art

     noun phrase

    Definition of work of art

    1: a product of one of the fine artsespecially : a painting or sculpture of high artistic quality
    2: something giving high aesthetic satisfaction to the viewer or listener

    First Known Use of work of art

    1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1



     


  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    The other side of the "Work of Art conversation."

    https://news-artnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.artnet.com/art-world/10-millennial-art-strategies-that-are-shaping-the-future-of-contemporary-art-1243430/amp-page?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQA#referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s&ampshare=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/10-millennial-art-strategies-that-are-shaping-the-future-of-contemporary-art-1243430 

    Rule #1: Find Your People


    Rule #2: Organize Some Shows—Even if You Don’t Have a Gallery


    Rule #3: Haters Will Say It’s Photoshopped, and It Is


    Rule #4: Up Your Insta Game


    Rule #5: Pretend to Be Someone You’re Not


    Rule #6: Buy Followers. (Yes, Really.)


    Rule #7: Become a Meme God


    Rule #8: Ask Your Internet Friends to Cough Up Some Dough


    Rule #9: Give Your Stuff to Celebrities




  • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @piloteer

    Yes , that’s pretty much the way I see it also, it’s a form of communication. I’m a full time artist and paint mainly in watercolour.It’s  always astonished me that art experts are normally those who don’t actually paint but hold forth on art and deem what is good and bad art , it’s like a going to a dentist that doesn’t do dental work but merely gives his opinions on your pearly whites.

    The more expensive  abstract art is described in terms that sound like absolute gibberish and that’s because the terminology used is indeed gibberish , there are now university courses in Art Speak , this to me is merely about making money for the gallery’s it’s basically applying intellectual importance to the work and thus by implication the buyer of the work.


    Here are some Hilarious examples of Art Speak I got from the internet ......


    “…THIS SUGGESTION OF PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGICALLY INVOLVES THE VIEWER WITH THE MAKING PROCESS, PROVOKING INSTINCTIVE RESPONSES TO HER PRECARIOUS ASSEMBLAGES”



    “MY WORK CENTERS ON AN INTEREST IN THE UNIVERSALITY OF OUR BIOLOGICAL MAKE-UP AND LANDSCAPE; COMBINED WITH THE COLLECTIVE SENSE OF THE SUBLIME…”


    This for me below has no equal when it comes to pure horse  ......


    MY PRACTICE EXAMINES HESITATION AS PART OF THE PROCESS OF DECISION-MAKING, WHERE THE OBJECT IS NEITHER THE OBJECT OF OBJECTHOOD NOR THE ART-OBJECT. IT IS RATHER THE OBLIQUE OBJECT OF MY INTENTIONS. …”

     

    piloteer
  • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -  
    @piloteer

    Thanks for that , I didn’t know that at all. I read he was an ex army man and a pretty tough one at that. I admire his skills as a business man but his chocolate box paintings made me (almost ) ill.
  • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @AlexOland


    You say - It is considered art because the mentioned piece of art requires skill to create. Also, there is an originality to it. Painters and sculptors are artists in the sense that they are skilled people who can create things.**

    My reply ....Thats interesting and as a full time artist if you or others told me you’re an artist I would expect you to at least have a certain amount of skill in depicting a subject with the tools of the trade. It’s interesting historically during renaissance times Art was seen as craft like carpentry and building it’s claimed Vassari who wrote Lives of the Artists elevated it into an Art form through his influence 

    You say ......It is considered art because there is a deep and beautiful idea to grasp behind the piece. To be honest, I have never really looked at a painting and felt a deep connection to it. **

    My reply .....That again is most interesting to me , have you never looked at a painting and it’s reminded you of a childhood memory of a fleeting memory of past times and felt a connection of sorts  etc , etc

    You say .....But some mathematical ideas, problems, puzzle games, pieces of code and solutions to open-ended problems seem astonishing to me. There is something so deep and beautiful about them... They are things that you just feel the world would have been poorer without. 

    My reply .....I agree, such stuff fascinates me as well , as a younger man I was obsessed with such things and this lead to an interest in close up magic with cards coins etc , etc , I ended up working as a mentalist and psychic magician for many years the methods employed are mind blowing and in some cases incredibly easy in others ingeniously devious , it’s a fascinating other world of mysteries, puzzles , mathematical concepts that has a beauty of its own 

    You say .......And this does not have to do anything with sciency stuff. Philosophical ideas, books, movies... everything can be art if it has a deep and beautiful idea to grasp behind it. **

    My reply .....Sometimes as well shock art can be extremely powerful as Francis Bacons works when I first saw them were like a visual slap in the face truly disturbing but once seen for real never forgotten by most 

     You say ......It is pretty apparent that the concept of "art" is highly subjective. I also would like to note that the second category can kind of contain the first but I think the difference is noticable enough that they can be separated. Sorry if it seemed like I was trying to sound sublime when talking about the second category... It is just that it is a huge part of my life and I am very passionate about it. **

    My reply .......Thank you for your piece , no need for apologies at all I’m on the very same page and life without passion to me is meaningless , I like @piloteers definition of Art as in communication, that works for me


  • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -  
    @TKDB

    Why do you always totally miss the point of debates and go off on the most bizarre tangents ......wait! You’re not back on the “sauce” again are you ?
    Plaffelvohfenpiloteer
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019
    @Dee

    @piloteer

    What I learned about Millinial artists.

    Rule #1: Find Your People


    Rule #2: Organize Some Shows—Even If You Don’t Have A Gallery


    Rule #3: Haters Will Say It’s Photoshopped, And It Is


    Rule #4: Up Your Insta Game


    Rule #5: Pretend To Be Someone You’re Not


    Rule #6: Buy Followers. (Yes, Really.)


    Rule #7: Become A Meme God


    Rule #8: Ask Your Internet Friends To Cough Up Some Dough


    Rule #9: Give Your Stuff To Celebrities

  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -  
    https://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/nypost.com/2013/05/15/43-8-million-for-this/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQA#referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s&ampshare=https://nypost.com/2013/05/15/43-8-million-for-this/ 


    "$43.8 million for this?!

    By Joe Tacopino

    May 15, 2013 | 4:00am

    CROSSING THE LINE: A bidder plunked down nearly $44M for this simple, or simplistic, Barnett Newman canvas.AFP/Getty Images

    An abstract painting by New York artist Barnett Newman that features a field of blue paint crossed by a ragged white line sold last night for $43.8 million — more than most Manhattan penthouses — to conclude a bidding war at Sotheby’s.

    Previously owned by Microsft co-founder Paul Allen, the work was bought by an unidentified bidder over the phone.

    The nearly $44 million price tag for “Onement VI” — which looks like a canvas version of the video game Pong — surpassed the estimated $30 million to $40 million price. "

    A perception about a piece of "art work," when an individual creates something, and an explanation has to be thought up to accompany the individuals work, it begs the question, if an explanation has to accompany someone's work, exactly how much imagination, creativity, and heart, was put into the individuals art project to begin with?

    A piece of art, should be engaging to an individuals eyes, and mind.

    If it has to be explained, because an art project comes across as odd, or out of place, or doesn't make sense, then I would suggest the individual gaining some outside inspiration.

    Excrement in a can, is an explanation compromised of attitude. (Explanation Art.)

    I saw a movie, where a guy threw a plate of spaghetti against a wall, and the remaining residue, was viewed as art by the character, in the movie. (Or Explanation Art)

    Another individual placed a single dot, in the middle of a white canvas, and that was viewed as art?

    Again, another example of "Explanation Art."

    Art should be able to tell a visual story, engage the eyes, and, engage, the mind of an individual.

    If it has to be explained, then that individuals art project, has missed the point, and is outside, of the basic fundamental art forms.


  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -  
    @TKDB

    It's time to stop pretending you're a valid debater. You literally just made an argument as to why no journalism is unbiased. Here it is!!!!

    ***"""But because, the "street cell phone journalist," might apparently, have an "ANTI LAW ATTITUDE," HIDDEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR HEAD, and failed to call the police, when the street criminal, or offender, as the same criminal, or offender, was committing their crimes, or crime, at the time?"""***

    Oh my Goddddddddddddd! I don't even know where to begin here. You tried to disprove my statement that no journalism is unbiased and all journalists have an agenda, but instead you had one of your incoherent rants, which in the end ended up lending credence to my argument that all journalism is biased and has an agenda. If someone has an "anti-law attitude", that IS a bias. If they "failed to call the police", that would be an anti-law agenda that they're acting out. When countries have strict limitations on inhibiting freedom of speech, then it can only be expected that any journalist is not immune from injecting personal biases in their work. The same is also true for countries that do have strict limitations on freedom of speech. If a journalists work is subject to the scrutiny of the company or government they work for, then it can only be expected that they are working under a strict guideline that inhibits their ability to write about they have or have not witnessed. It's unavoidable, journalism is always at least somewhat  biased and has an agenda. You also misrepresented my argument by saying I consider journalists "fibbers". You wouldn't be able to find a quote where I claimed all journalists are "fibbers"(who says fibbers anyway. What are you 5years old?), and you wouldn't be able to find a quote where I said biases are the same as "fibbing", because I never said anything like that. Why you mentioned those corporate media outlets to try and prove that journalism is NOT biased and devoid of an agenda is beyond me. Do you really not understand when you undermine your own arguments better than any of your opponents?


    art1
    /ärt/
    noun
    noun: art; plural noun: arts; plural noun: the arts
    1. 1.
      the EXPRESSION or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
      "the art of the Renaissance"
      synonyms:fine art, artwork, creative activity
      "he studied art"
      • works produced by human creative skill and imagination.
        "his collection of modern art"
        synonyms:fine art, artwork, creative activity
        "he studied art"
      • creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture.
        "she's good at art"
    2. 2.
      the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.
      "the visual arts"
    3. 3.
      subjects of study primarily concerned with the processes and products of human creativity and social life, such as languages, literature, and history (as contrasted with scientific or technical subjects).
      "the belief that the arts and sciences were incompatible"
    4. 4.
      a skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice.
      "the art of conversation"
      synonyms:skill, craft, technique; More
      aptitude, talent, flair, gift, genius, knack, facility, ability, capability, competence;
      artistry, mastery, dexterity, dexterousness, craftsmanship, expertness, expertise, proficiency, skillfulness, adroitness, adeptness, deftness, cleverness, ingenuity, virtuosity;
      informalknow-how
      "the art of writing"
    We all express ideas. Whether they may be abstract or definitive, or even surreal. We all express ourselves, so we ALL are artists. Our entire lives are based on art. TKDB thinks that is incorrect. PROVE IT!!!!!! It's plain to see in the definition that it doesn't rule anybody out as far as being artists.
  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -  
    @Dee

    By the way, I was totally wrong about the Bob Ross paintings. I found out they were fakes. I still think he should have his place among the greats though. He could paint insanely fast because when he was in the air force, he only had limited time on his lunch breaks to be able to paint. 
  • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -  

    High Schools across the country, teach a high school version, similar to the below.


    And its offered from freshman year, all the way up to senior year.

    Drawing, (The student, is responsible for maintaining a journal of drawings)
    Where the students, are taught to draw, what they see, and not what they think, they are seeing?
    This way they are true to the subject that they are drawing, and true to their individual efforts.

    3D Sculpture, and ceramics.

    Painting (including Oil, or acrylics, and or watercolors.)

    Water color, Photography, along with book reports, (on any individual artist, at the art teachers discretion.)
    This helps the students, learn how an artist paints, by being able to identify the artists painting techniques, and what styles, or periods, that an artist went through, in creating their works of art.
    (Picasso, did that. He pushed himself.)

    Along with the probability of assisting in helping, to put a high schools yearbook together.

    See, that's the joy over art, creating art, that tells a story, without the need, to come up with an "Explanation," that came from a student's heart, mind, and creative drive.

    Instead of the below mess.



    What I learned about Millinial artists.

    Rule #1: Find Your People


    Rule #2: Organize Some Shows—Even If You Don’t Have A Gallery


    Rule #3: Haters Will Say It’s Photoshopped, And It Is


    Rule #4: Up Your Insta Game


    Rule #5: Pretend To Be Someone You’re Not


    Rule #6: Buy Followers. (Yes, Really.)


    Rule #7: Become A Meme God


    Rule #8: Ask Your Internet Friends To Cough Up Some Dough


    Rule #9: Give Your Stuff To Celebrities





    ARTH101: Art Appreciation and Techniques

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        • Course Introduction

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            Time: 35 hours
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          This course is an exploration of visual art forms and their cultural connections across historical periods, designed for the student with little experience in the visual arts. It includes brief studies in art history, and in-depth inquiry into the elements, media and methods used in a wide range of creative processes. At the beginning of this course, you will learn a five-step system for developing an understanding of visual art in all forms, based on:

          1. Description: A work of art from an objective point of view – its physical attributes and formal construction.
          2. Analysis: A detailed look at a work of art that combines physical attributes with subjective statements based on the viewer's reaction to the work.
          3. Context: Historical, religious or environmental information that surrounds a particular work of art and which helps to understand the work's meaning.
          4. Meaning: A statement of the work's content. A message or narrative expressed by the subject matter.
          5. Judgment: A critical point of view about a work of art concerning its aesthetic or cultural value.

          After completing this course, you will be able to interpret works of art based on this five-step system; explain the processes involved in artistic production; identify the many kinds of issues that artists examine in their work; and explain the role and effect of the visual arts in different social, historical and cultural contexts.

          • Keep this list of links to great external art resources, collections, and libraries handy. Several activities in this course will ask you to find works of art at these links. This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the great online galleries. If you find another collection you like, let us know about it!

        • Unit 1: Defining Art

          How do you define art? For many people, art is a tangible thing: a painting, sculpture, photograph, dance, poem or play. Art is uniquely human and tied directly to culture. As an expressive medium, it allows us to experience wide ranges of emotion, between joy or sorrow, or confusion and clarity. It gives voice to ideas and feelings, connects us to the past, reflects the present, and anticipates the future. Visual art is a rich and complex subject, and its definition is in flux as the culture around it changes. This unit examines how art is defined, and the different ways it functions in societies and cultures.

          Completing this unit should take you approximately 4 hours.

        • Unit 2: Who Makes Art – Process and Training

          This unit explores artistic processes in their social contexts, covering individual artists turning their ideas into works of art, forms of collaborative creative projects, public art, and the role of the viewer.

          Completing this unit should take you approximately 3 hours.

        • Unit 3: How Art Speaks – Finding Meaning

          Art asks questions and conveys meaning. It expresses ideas, uncovers truths, manifests what is beautiful, and tells stories. In this unit, we will begin to explore the meaning behind particular works of art within the context of various styles and cultures.

          Completing this unit should take you approximately 4 hours.

        • Unit 4: How Art Works – The Principles of Visual Language

          In this unit, you will begin to learn the terms that used to describe and analyze any work of art, and you will explore the principles of design – the means by which the elements in a work of art are arranged and orchestrated. Just as spoken language is based on phonemes, syntax, and semantics, visual art is based on elements and principles that, when used together, create works that communicate ideas and meaning to the viewer. We can think of them as the building blocks of an artwork's composition – the organized layout of an image or object, according to the principles of design.

          Completing this unit should take approximately 8 hours.

        • Unit 5: Artistic Media

          Artists find ways to express themselves with almost any resource available. It is a mark of creativity to make extraordinary images and objects from various, but often somewhat ordinary, materials. Using charcoal, paper, thread, paint, ink – and even found objects such as leaves – artists continue to search for ways to construct and deliver their message. In this unit, we look at artworks created from two- and three-dimensional media and arts made using different types of cameras.

          Completing this unit should take you approximately 10 hours.

        • Unit 6: Architecture

          This unit explores architecture, its history, and its relation to visual art. Architecture is the art and science of designing structures and spaces for human use. Architectural design is an art form realized through considerations of spatial design and aesthetics. Related to sculpture, architecture creates three-dimensional objects that serve human purposes and forms visual relationships with the surrounding areas.

          Completing this unit should take you approximately 5 hours. 


      Anyone can look up Art Appreciation 101:

      A perception about a piece of "art work," when an individual creates something, and an explanation has to be thought up to accompany the individuals work, it begs the question, if an explanation has to accompany someone's work, exactly how much imagination, creativity, and heart, was put into the individuals art project to begin with?

      A piece of art, should be engaging to an individuals eyes, and mind.

      If it has to be explained, because an art project comes across as odd, or out of place, or doesn't make sense, then I would suggest the individual gaining some outside inspiration.

      Excrement in a can, is an explanation compromised of attitude. (Explanation Art.)

      I saw a movie, where a guy threw a plate of spaghetti against a wall, and the remaining residue, was viewed as art by the character, in the movie. (Or Explanation Art)

      Another individual placed a single dot, in the middle of a white canvas, and that was viewed as art?

      Again, another example of "Explanation Art."

      Art should be able to tell a visual story, engage the eyes, and, engage, the mind of an individual.

      If it has to be explained, then that individuals art project, has missed the point, and is outside, of the basic fundamental art forms. 

    • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -   edited July 2019
      @piloteer

      Where are your counter arguments for the below?

      Prove it, piloteer?

      "This is all good for you though because this means you're not at all unique because of your point of view, we know you hate originality."


      Prove it piloteer?

      "Nobody understands journalism anymore."


      Prove it, piloteer?

      "Not for nothing, but simply being on DDO makes us all journalists."



      Let me get your biased opinion on the public record?

      "There's no such thing as truly unbiased journalism, that's why it's an art."
      (Prove your statement?) 


      Because you took the time to express the below?

      ***"""But because, the "street cell phone journalist," might apparently, have an "ANTI LAW ATTITUDE," HIDDEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR HEAD, and failed to call the police, when the street criminal, or offender, as the same criminal, or offender, was committing their crimes, or crime, at the time?"""***

      Oh my Goddddddddddddd! I don't even know where to begin here. You tried to disprove my statement that no journalism is unbiased and all journalists have an agenda, but instead you had one of your incoherent rants, which in the end ended up lending credence to my argument that all journalism is biased and has an agenda. If someone has an "anti-law attitude", that IS a bias. If they "failed to call the police", that would be an anti-law agenda that they're acting out. When countries have strict limitations on inhibiting freedom of speech, then it can only be expected that any journalist is not immune from injecting personal biases in their work. The same is also true for countries that do have strict limitations on freedom of speech. If a journalists work is subject to the scrutiny of the company or government they work for, then it can only be expected that they are working under a strict guideline that inhibits their ability to write about they have or have not witnessed. It's unavoidable, journalism is always at least somewhat  biased and has an agenda. You also misrepresented my argument by saying I consider journalists "fibbers". You wouldn't be able to find a quote where I claimed all journalists are "fibbers"(who says fibbers anyway. What are you 5years old?), and you wouldn't be able to find a quote where I said biases are the same as "fibbing", because I never said anything like that. Why you mentioned those corporate media outlets to try and prove that journalism is NOT biased and devoid of an agenda is beyond me. Do you really not understand when you undermine your own arguments better than any of your opponents? 

      I understand how you individualy choose to comment on some things, verses not commenting on other talking points? 

      It's a rant to you?

      Go to YouTube, and see how many individuals, took the time to record a police officer, dealing with an offender, rather than calling 911?

      They're cell phone journalists because, they're recording one side of the story, while, on the other hand, police officers are wearing body cams, that record a situation, after 911 has been called, and they showing up after, a crime has been committed?

      Because some of the public, view a police officer wearing a body cam, as an accountability tool for the police officers? 

      Here's a thought, how about the offenders, and criminals, wearing a body cam as well?

      This way the criminals, and offenders, can be accountable for themselves, and their own actions? 
    • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -  
      @piloteer

      I admire Ross for his skill and business brain I’m afraid though his work to me was the sort of stuff one sees on a chocolate box or a print hanging in your grandmothers sitting room , isn’t it wonderful we all see things differently 
    • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -  
      @Dee

      One reason I love Andy Warhols work so much was because he showed us how advertisement can be art. Before Andy, nobody even took advertisements into consideration when it came to art. If I ever saw a chocolate box with happy little clouds and snow capped mountains, I would definitely admire the skill it took to get that picture there.
    • DeeDee 5395 Pts   -  
      @piloteer

      I agree about Warhol and indeed about skill which requires a lot of hard work to make it seem effortless , I guess art is like all our tastes purely subjective 
      piloteer
    • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -  
      @piloteer

      What does the below have to do with the theme of the forum?

      "Don't bother posting a retort. You are only a troll. You have NO argumentive skill, and you just disagree for the sake of disagreeing. The very moment you post a retort, I Will block you. I'm so sick of your (bleep)
    • TKDBTKDB 694 Pts   -  
      @Dee

      "Subjective words are used in forming an opinion and assessing the art. ... A mostly subjective endeavor. Subjective
      opinion cannot lend itself to being right or wrong. The process is entirely a personal and individual process.Jul 4, 2017 "

      https://medium.com/the-scene-heard/to-be-truthful-art-is-not-subjective-4670762e84f3

      To Be Truthful, Art Is Not Subjective


      Jul 4, 2017 · 7 min read
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