Art is a product of human experience that captures and preserves both beautiful and ugly aspects of life. It serves several functions, including bringing order to human experiences, enriching life by intensifying experience, and acting as a witness and record of the times and places that produced it. Art reflects the essence of societies through use of various elements like color, form, line, shape, space, texture and value. It guides viewers' eyes through compositional lines and communicates information and emotions. Art also depicts war in different ways like through pictorial records, propaganda, or protest against violence and suffering.

1. ArtArt
A Product of Human A Product of Human
ExperienceExperience

2. What is Art?What is Art?
1.1. Art is the creativity of man as distinguishedArt is the creativity of man as distinguished
from the world of naturefrom the world of nature
2.2. Art distills and preserves human experience –Art distills and preserves human experience –
whether it is beautiful or ugly, pleasurable orwhether it is beautiful or ugly, pleasurable or
painful, even humorous and absurdpainful, even humorous and absurd

3. What is the Function of Art?What is the Function of Art?
1.1. To be pleasing to the eyeTo be pleasing to the eye
2.2. To help us understand our lives by bringingTo help us understand our lives by bringing
order to the chaos of human experienceorder to the chaos of human experience
3.3. To enrich our lives by clarifying, intensifyingTo enrich our lives by clarifying, intensifying
or otherwise enlarging our experience of lifeor otherwise enlarging our experience of life

4. 4.4. Art is a witness to the nature of the times andArt is a witness to the nature of the times and
places that produced itplaces that produced it
a)a) Art is a record describing how things, places andArt is a record describing how things, places and
people have really lookedpeople have really looked
b)b) Art purifies and presents the essence of the faith orArt purifies and presents the essence of the faith or
philosophy by which people of that time lived, orphilosophy by which people of that time lived, or
tried to livetried to live
A Mirror of SocietyA Mirror of Society

5. Example #1: Example #1:
The ParthenonThe Parthenon
 A work of art that is perfectlyA work of art that is perfectly
ordered, with no confusionordered, with no confusion
or uglinessor ugliness
 Represents harmony andRepresents harmony and
clarityclarity
 Clearly depicts the ancientClearly depicts the ancient
Greek rationality andGreek rationality and
celebration of beautycelebration of beauty

6. Example #2: Example #2:
Gothic CathedralsGothic Cathedrals
• Medieval structures thatMedieval structures that
rose into the heavensrose into the heavens
and seemed built ofand seemed built of
lightlight
• By constructing vaultsBy constructing vaults
to create a space thatto create a space that
was the symbol of God,was the symbol of God,
they represent the Agethey represent the Age
of Faithof Faith

7. Elements of ArtElements of Art
 colorcolor
 formform
 lineline
 shapeshape
 spacespace
 texturetexture
 value.value.

8. ColorColor
 How does colorHow does color
affect theaffect the
impression that aimpression that a
work of art makeswork of art makes
on a viewer?on a viewer?
Sir Isaac Newton used a prism to
divide white light into the
spectrum of colors

9. A Rose, Thomas
Anshutz, 1907

10. Saida, Kees van
Dongen, c. 1913

11. The Tragedy, Pablo
Picasso, 1903

12. Pianist and Checkers Players, Henri Matisse, 1924

13. Harlem Street, William H. Johnson, 1941

14. CompositionCompositionHow theHow the
differentdifferent
elements of anelements of an
artistic workartistic work
relate to onerelate to one
another toanother to
create acreate a
coherent wholecoherent whole
and produceand produce
expressiveexpressive
contentcontent
The Raft of Medusa,The Raft of Medusa,
GericaultGericault

15. Adoration of the Magi, Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482

16. Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787

17. Snow Shoe Dance – Ojibway, George Catlin, 1869

18. LineLine
 How doesHow does
compositional linecompositional line
guide a viewer’sguide a viewer’s
eyes around aeyes around a
painting, orpainting, or
communicatecommunicate
information orinformation or
emotional contentemotional content

19. The Choir
and North
Ambulatory
of the
Church of
Saint Bavo,
Haarlem,
Pieter
Jansz.
Saenredam,
1634

20. A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast, Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1767

21. Oedipus Cursing his son, Polynices,
Henry Fusili, 1786

22. Haying, Grant Woods, 1939

23. Function of Art in WartimeFunction of Art in Wartime
 Depicting war –Depicting war –
pictorial record,pictorial record,
how war shapeshow war shapes
lives (explore thelives (explore the
visual and sensoryvisual and sensory
dimensions of war)dimensions of war)
 Propaganda –Propaganda –
promoting orpromoting or
glorifying warglorifying war
 Protest – depictingProtest – depicting
violence andviolence and
suffering of war,suffering of war,
questioningquestioning
necessity of warnecessity of war