art, styles, history of art

2. What defines beauty…?
• Groups: work together to answer the
above question.
• WHO defines beauty?

3. Aesthetics: Art and Beauty
• Philosophies
concerned with the
meanings of beauty.
• What is beautiful
associated with
cultural value
• Enormous range of
meaning

4. Beauty Is Subjective
• Subjective: full of
personal emotions
and feelings
• Objective: free of
personal feelings or
emotion; hence,
without bias

5. STYLE CATEGORIES
• Naturalistic, Representational
• Idealized
• Abstract
• Expressive or expressionist
• Nonobjective
• Cultural style
• Artist Style

6. Naturalism
• Fully representational with specific details

7. Realism
• Representational but emphasizes the
emotional not specific

8. Semi Abstraction
• Partly representational but simplified and
rearranged.

9. Objective Abstraction
• Based on a physical object but simplified
and rearranged so that it appears
nonobjective.

10. Non Objective Abstraction
• Started without any reference to a physical
object. Based on pure design.

11. VISUAL FORM
• MATERIALS
• FORMAL ELEMENTS
• OVERALL COMPOSITION OR
ARRANGEMENT

12. CONTENT
• The art’s imagery
• It’s surroundings where it is used or
displayed
• Its symbolic meaning
• The customs, beliefs, and values of the
culture that uses it
• Text incorporated in work, or writings
about work