Faculty: Dr. Crystal LI-chin Huang
Dept. of Humanities, Behavioral and Social Sciences

1. Welcome to Art Appreciation.
2. Let’s get to know each other.
3. Syllabus and course outlook.
4. Expectation between you and me.
5. Information for next class.
6. Discussion and suggestion.

Day 1
– Get to know one another
Introduce yourself by providing
1. Your name
2. Your major (if you have claimed one)
3. Share your art experiences
or ask a question about this class.

For example:
My name is _________________________.
May majors are: Sociology focusing on Social Psychology,
Socio-political science,
Studio art,
Art Education, and
Instructional Technologies
minors are: Women’s studies,
Journalism,
Computer science. And
Military education.
My art experiences: “The Earth without art becomes _____. ”

The following slides are Today’s Course Introductory Notes. It will be available on Youtube.

Why do we need arts?
What is art?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

https://mycreativejourney2015.wordpress.com/
The 5 core attitudes for Creative Practice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFRfJb2ONk Think like artisits

Think critically.
Model integrity.
Communicate effectively.
Value diversity.

It’s all about
Imagination,
Creativity, and
Critical Thinking!!

https://tinyurl.com/yc4zy7j4
Our current state of the world.
An animation by Steve Cutts
http://www.stevecutts.com/animation.html
The current state of the world
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Prank

https://tinyurl.com/yd424vjo
Loyalty
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“The technical component of
education focuses primary on
preparing students to become
economically productive citizens,
while the critical component of
education, in contrast, attempts
to expose students to multiple
and conflicting perspectives on
themselves and their society.”
– M. Gordon

This course, mainly, is
about Critical Thinking !!
What ? But, How…

Men with
the Visual Impairment and an Elephant

Out of all the five senses, our vision seems the most
important.
Humans are fairly unique in their reliance on sight as
the dominant sense and this is reflected in how
complicated our eyes are relative to other creatures.
Many animals gain most of their information about the
environment through their sense of smell. For example, your
dog’s nose tells him much more about his world and who is in
it than his eyes (which can actually see some color). In contrast,
you can’t smell all the wildlife that visited your yard but you
could see them in vivid color.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Xe70oqMDA
Roy Lichtenstein, House I
beam behold browse be apprised of
contemplate clock catch a glimpse of catch sight of
descry discern detect distinguish
espy examine eye
flash
gape gawk gaze glare glimpse get a load of
heed
identify inspect
look, look at lay eyes on
mark mind make out
note notice
observe
peek peep peer peg penetrate perceive pierce pay attention to
remark recognize regard
scan scope scrutinize see see through skim sight spot spy stare
survey
take notice
view
watch witness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

For example: What do you see?

PERCEPTION-
can be manipulated-
just an example in daily life
The Size-Distance
Relationship:
Given the perceived distance
of an object
and the size of its image on
our retinas, we unconsciously
infer the object’s size.

1. Physiological Limitations in
perception
a. Optical illusion
b. Neurological Inhibition
c. Innate limitations and Salience
2. Socio-psychological
Limitations in perception
a. Selective Perception
b. Socio-cultural experience
c. Psychological and Emotional
states
Fallibility - The limitations in Perception

We live in a world that requires us to fit in with normalcy.
What are the possible cognitive and emotional benefits from the rationality?

George Tooker

Art is not a thing — it is a way.-Elbert Hubbard in a 1908 volume of Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers:
Let each man exercise the art he knows.- The Greek philosopher Aristophanes, writing in the 4th century B.C.:
Art begins with resistance — at the point where
resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has
ever been created without great labor. - André Gide in Poétique
We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth.- Friedrich Nietzsche, made famous all over again by Ray Bradbury in Zen in the Art of Writing:
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.-Hugh MacLeod in Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity:
What is Art ?
Why do people make arts?http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_we_make_art

Life is short; art is long.
Arturo Fallico’s book Art and
Existentialism, saying
“In art, everything is;
nothing is becoming or has need to
become.’ Only art conquers time.
Like Faust, in Goethe’s drama,
crying out to time, “Stay!”.
But time does not stay.
In art, time does stay.

Frank Lloyd Wright : Art is a discovery and development of
elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for
human use.
Thomas Merton : Art enables us to find ourselves and lose
ourselves at the same time.
Pablo Picasso : The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily
life off our souls.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca : All art is but imitation of nature.
Edgar Degas : Art is not what you see, but what you make
others see.
Jean Sibelius: Art is the signature of civilizations.
Leo Tolstoy : Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one
man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to
others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected
by these feelings and also experience them.

Imagination vs. Creativity
Creative activity aims to do something
purposeful.
The imagination is something that emerges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXJUDyqobbM Creativities and innovation

Creativity is to generate ideas, creating something from nothing
Innovation is ideas implemented. Put ideas into practice.
Creativity vs. Innovation

Dexterity.
https://www.facebook.com/drawingthesoul/videos/1895920447099910/?hc_ref=ARSKvSpONfWkHAZYSLFwNPqTi8iTCNWIhVokDKEJhVLpNf
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Creative thoughts for climate issues
https://www.facebook.com/Un.Shine.v/videos/1652602155012747/?pnref=story
Case study: Shoes design:
Something to do constantly to be creative:
• Ask the right question. ...
• Become an expert. ...
• Be open and aware. ...
• Play and pretend. ...
• Generate lots of ideas. ...
• Fuse ideas. ...
• Choose the best ideas. ...
• 8Make something out of your great ideas.
Conclusion: 1 Comfort with Ambiguity, 2. Idea Generation, and 3. Transdisciplinary Research serves for curiosity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEusrD8g-dM Creative thinking

Talent vs. Genius
1. ‘Doing easily what others find difficult is talent;
doing what is impossible for talent is genius.’
2. ‘Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited;
genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.’
3. ‘Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on
application and industry; it is a voluntary power,
while genius is involuntary.’
4. ‘Talent is that which is in man’s power.
Genius is that whose power a man is.’
5. ‘Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.’

Can you train yourself to be talented?
http://upliftconnect.com/talent-or-practice/
Fixed Mindset versus Growth Mindset
1. “If people knew how hard I work to gain my mastery,
it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo
2. Jordan on practice: “I never feared about my skills
because I put in the work.
Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing?
You know what you’re capable of doing and what you’re not.”
“Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was God-given gift
and not something I worked for, every single day of my life.”

All children are artists.
The problem is how to remain an
artist once s/he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
Research says: Children
are Intuitive and creative in sense of composition.
Depict world symbolically until about age 6
Begin to doubt creativity by age 9 to 10.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pablo_picasso.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qjVYHUMsRQ Iris and Thula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjtK32mGJQ alike

Visual Arts
The language of visual experience Art as culture heritage
The Media of Art The modern and postmodern world
6. Drawing 7. Painting
8. Printmaking 9. Photography
10. Moving images
11. Design principles
12. Sculpture
13. Craft Media
14. Architecture
21. The Modern world
22. Early 20th Century
23. Between World Wars
24. Postwar Modern Movements
25. The Postmodern world
Art and Social Forces
1. The nature of art and creativity
2. The purposes and functions of art
3. The visual elements
4. The principles of design
5. Evaluating art
15. The earliest art to the Bronze age
16. The Classical and Medieval West
17. Renaissance and Baroque Europe
18. Traditional arts of Asia
19. The Islamic World
20. Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Max-Neef classifies the fundamental human needs as:
subsistence
protection
affection
understanding
participation
leisure
creation
identity
Freedom.

As humans form works of art, we in turn are formed by
what we have created. Visual arts as unique forms of
human communication and to convey the idea that the
arts enrich life best when we experience, understand,
and enjoy them as integral parts of the process of living.
We form art. Art forms us.

What does the brain look like ?
Root Bound
Root Expanded

The society is not so transparent
as you perceive or as you think.

“The technical component of
education focuses primary on
preparing students to become
economically productive citizens,
while the critical component of
education, in contrast, attempts
to expose students to multiple
and conflicting perspectives on
themselves and their society.”
– M. Gordon

Learning Pyramid

East, west, home is the best! Here, in this old home - 62 years ago, Taipei,
Taiwan ( was remodeled in 1966).

The Furry Superb Beings

The Furry Superb Beings

Homework: Jerimiah. Charcoal drawing

Homework: Charcoal Drawing

Live Drawing: in-class work

Still Life: Surreal Hat. In-class work

Homework – 3 Womyn. Pastel Drawing

Mixed media: Modern 3 kingdoms.

Homework – Acrylic Painting

In-class Acrylic Painting

Homework- Acrylic Painting

Homework – Watercolor painting

Sculptures
Reincarnation
Bird in Space

Art is more than a
mirror held to
reality,
but a hammer with
which to _____ it.
What do you think?

‘CQ + PQ > IQ’
That’s “Curiosity Quotient” plus
“Passion Quotient”
is greater than “Intelligent Quotient.”
-The World is Flat - by Thomas Friedman

Always remind yourself
Think
Start small.
Act NOW!
Obstacles bring you opportunities and challenges!

Xena Crystal LC Huang’s Art Gallery

Thanks your patience and attention!

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to
avoid conforming to my own taste. - Marcel Duchamp
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Living is more a question of what one spends than what
one makes.
I haven't been in the Louvre for 20 years.
It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about
the value of the judgments which decided that all these
pictures should be presented to the Louvre
instead of others which weren't even considered.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marcel_duchamp.html

Q&A

Free Animation software
https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/best-free-open-source-
animation-software/
Top 5 animation software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAmaKut0MGc

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