Art basics

1. Art
Basic concepts

2. Jan Vermeer
The girl with the pearl earring
1665
Oil on canvas

3. Barbara Kruger
Untitled
1987
Photographic silkscreen/
vinyl

4. Brancusi Antonio Canova
The Kiss (1908) The Kiss (1786)

5. Kazemir Malevich
Suprematist
composition
Oil on Canvas (1915)

6. What is art?

7. Marcel Duchamp
Bycicle wheel
Ready-made (1913)

8. Raphael
Alba Madonna
Oil on canvas (1509)

9. Art
 Art is a vital and persistent impulse of
human experience.
 Transcendence
 Creation
 Performance
 Exhibition.
It depends on the Culture

10. Culture
 Way of life of a group
 Symbolic communication.
 Skills
 Knowledge
 Attitudes
 Values
 Motives.
 Beliefs

11. How can we
evaluate the
artistic value of a
piece?
Purpose vs. result

12. Reasons for art
Technical mastering

13. Reasons for art
Education

14. Reasons for art
Spirituality

15. Reasons for art
History

16. Reasons for art
Politics

17. Reasons for art
Aesthetical

18. What is aesthetics?
 Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy
related with the essence and perception
of beauty and ugliness.
 Art pieces: aesthetics is the value in a
piece of art based on its capacity to
evoke a response.

19. Jean Michel
Basquiat,
Self
portratit
1982

20. Claude Monet
Autumn Effect at Argenteuil
1867

21. Jackson Pollock,
Number 5
1948

22. $ 72,840,000 USD
Mark Rothko,
WHITE
CENTER
(YELLOW, PINK
AND
LAVENDER ON
ROSE)
1950

23. $ 72,840,000 USD
Mark Rothko,
Black painting
1969

24. 1. $ 11 millions Euros
2. $ 744,750 Euros
3. $ 140 millions Euros
4. $ 54 millions Euros
5. $ 15 million Dollars

25. Values of art
 Material value.
 Intrinsic value.
 Religious / educational value.

26. Types of art
Means of expression

27. Media and processes
 Art media consists of the
materials
 Art process is the action involved
in making art

28. Painting
Oil painting

29. Painting
Fresco

30. Painting
Tempera / Temple

31. Painting
Watercolor

32. Painting
Pastel

33. Sculpture
According to
its materials:
In Metal:
bronze,
gold, etc.

34. Sculpture
Clay sculpture

35. Sculpture
Marble

36. Sculpture
According to its
technique:
In Round.

37. Sculpture
In relief

38. Architecture

39. Stained-glass

40. Collage

41. Installation /
Ready mades

42. Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
WrgdiB5_HTo

43. Photography

44. Films