About art and aesthetic

1. Chapter 15
Art and the Aesthetic

2. Chapter Outline
 The Pervasiveness of Art
 Forms of Artistic Expression
 Art and Culture

3. Art
 When something's purely utilitarian or
functional nature is modified for the
purpose of enhancing it's aesthetic
qualities and thus making it more
pleasurable for our senses.

4. Aesthetic
 Qualities that make objects, actions, or
language more beautiful or pleasurable,
according to culturally relative and
variable standards.

5. Art
 A cultural universal.
 Art is not viewed as something separate
and distinct among most traditional
peoples.
 American Indian peoples had no word for
art in their languages.

6. Body Arts
 Artificial artistic enhancement or
beautification of the human body by
painting, tattooing, scarification, or other
means.
 Physical Alterations: hair styles, head
shaping, food binding
 Body painting
 Tattooing and scarification

7. Visual Arts
 Arts that are produced in a material or
tangible form, including basketry, pottery,
textiles, paintings, drawings, sculptures,
masks, carvings, and the like.

8. Visual Arts
 Basketry
 Ceramics
 Paintings
 Jewelry
 Clothing
 Masks
 Sculpture

9. Visual Arts: 2 Factors
 Form - the result of a combination of
style and function.
 Ornamentation - design added to the
physical form of an object.

10. Performance Arts
 Forms of art such as music, percussion,
song, dance, and drama that involve
sound and/or stylized body movements.

11. Performance Arts
Refers to arts that use sound and
movement.
 Music
 Song
 Dance
 Theater/drama

12. Art in a Cultural Context
 Religion
 Gender
 Identity

13. Social Functions of Art
 Express individuality.
 Define and reinforce gender differences.
 Public display of ethnic or group affiliation.
 Social status or rank.

14. Quick Quiz

15. 1. Which of the following is not considered
artistic?
a) hair styles
b) adding trees in the yard
c) seasoning our food
d) none of the above

16. Answer: d
 Hairstyles, adding trees in the yard and
seasoning our food are all considered to
be artistic.

17. 2. Which of the following is not a form of
artistic expression?
a) scarification
b) music
c) the use of human or animal pictorial
representations among Muslims
d) dance

18. Answer: c
 The use of human or animal pictorial
representations among Muslims is not
considered a form of artistic expression.

19. 3. Which of the following is true?
a) Western art is mostly religious in its
themes
b) Classical Greek art was mostly secular
c) Western art has become increasingly
secular since about 1700
d) in ancient Greek drama the roles of men
were played by women

20. Answer: c
 It is true that Western art has become
increasingly secular since about 1700.