TOK - Theory of Knowledge presentation script (To what extent does sense perception play a part in our emotional response to abstract expressionist paintings?)
1) An experiment showed that people responded physically and emotionally differently to Jackson Pollock's abstract paintings, with some finding them relaxing.
2) A presentation analyzed elements/principles in Pollock's works and their relationship to emotional responses through a survey.
3) The survey found that different elements/principles elicited different emotions, though responses also depended on individual characteristics and level of knowledge. While sense perception influences emotions, it is not the sole factor in responses to abstract expressionist works.
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How Art Works: Week 1 The ‘unruly discipline’ DeborahJ
This lecture will:
introduce ways to think about art and its history and help you to understand how art historians go about their practice
look at some of the issues and debates that make up the disciple of Art History
offer some reconsiderations of art history
consider the importance of the gallery and museum
How Art Works: Week 1 The ‘unruly discipline’ DeborahJ
This lecture will:
introduce ways to think about art and its history and help you to understand how art historians go about their practice
look at some of the issues and debates that make up the disciple of Art History
offer some reconsiderations of art history
consider the importance of the gallery and museum
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Week 3
The Visual Arts
This week we look at the visual arts and the role of the artist. Sometimes, people look at a painting by Jackson Pollack and say, "My kid could have done that." However, the visual arts are about much more than the actual piece of art itself. Pollack was doing more than just splashing paint on a canvas, much more than a kid could have done. Visual art is not only about what is, so to speak, on the canvas. It can often be about impacting the way we think about the world around us and the world inside of us.
After this week, students will be able to:
· Describe the possible roles of visual artists within their communities
· Identify several significant visual artists, movements and/or styles of visual art
· Identify the impact of technological advances on visual art and artists
Introduction
This week, we will look at the visual arts and the role of the artist. Sometimes, people look at a painting by an artist such as Jackson Pollock and say, "My kid could have done that." However, the visual arts are about much more than the piece of art itself. Pollock was doing more than just splashing paint on a canvas, much more than a kid could have done. Visual art is not only about what is on the canvas. It speaks to the ways in which we think about the world around us and the world inside of us. When you look at this week's materials, think about not only how the works of art appear visually, but what they say about the human condition, as well as how they impacted the communities out of which they emerged.
Outcomes
After this week, you should be able to
· describe the possible roles of visual artists within their communities
· identify several significant visual artists, movements, and styles of visual art
· identify the impact of technological advances on visual art and artists
Cultural Diversity Paper
Instructions
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1. Offer a brief description of the work or the person's point of view.
2. Argue for the importance and relevance of the work or person's point of view in communicating the experience of a particular ethnic or racial group within the American context.
For instance, you could discuss how Elijah Muhammad’s view on race relations expressed the early 19th century post-slavery African American experience, or discuss how an Amy Tan novel represents the female Chinese American experience, or how a sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas communicates something about the history of the African American experience, or how a Sherman Alexie poem communicates the Native American experience.
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Type: Individual Project
Unit: Offender Treatment Plans
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When looking at various assessment and diagnostic techniques, an individual must know how to accurately classify offenders. The best way to get this experience is by completing the Adult Offender Matrix. The purpose of the matrix is to assess both the types of crime and offender.
Complete the Adult Offender Matrix linked below by placing an x in the appropriate cells. Write a 1-page summary explaining why you made the decisions for your offense classifications.
Complete the Adult Offenders Classification Matrix by categorizing the characteristics of status, non-violent, violent, chronic, and serious offenses.
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Status Offense
Non-violent Offense
Violent
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WK3 ART ASSIGNMENT PART ONE of TWO
Homework for Week Three
Week Three: A Dialog With Europe________________________________
• Read Chapter 3: A Dialog with Europe
Homework assignment:
Please annotate one artwork you like from Chapter Three: A Dialog with Europe in your textbook. My CHOICE Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1953
Whenever I am writing for research presentation or publication, this is how I begin. The point is to make sure you’re not missing anything in terms of basic data or interpretive frameworks.
When I take notes on a lecture at a conference, this is the way I like to organize my notes, as well.
Structure outline to follow
Identify the artwork
Identify Period Style
Identify Subject Matter:
Discuss Historical Context:
Discuss Visual Elements (Line, Color, Texture, Composition etc.)
Discuss It’s Place in Ideas of Time:
EXAMPLE of mine from another class I taught:
1.)See the artwork here: http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=78699
Jackson Pollock. Untitled No.1A. Oil and enamel on unprimed canvas. 1948. PLEASE include HYPERLINK ON LINE 1.
2.) Identify Period Style: Abstract Expressionism
3.)Identify Subject: The painting is non-representational. It is designed not
to have an explicit subject. Pollock was asked why he didn’t paint the external, natural world. He sharply replied: “I am nature”
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The painting is himself, and he is his action. The style of the painting emphasizes a moving, acting person, operating in the context ...
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Assignment Topic 1
Choose a contemporary painting, sculpture, or piece of art that captures your interest. This should be a piece created between the end of World War II (about 1945) and today. You may choose one of the illustrations or color inserts in the textbook, or try a virtual museum (check the links in this week's My Humanities Kit).
Before you begin writing your post, view the “Closer Look” art critiques from the unit My Humanities Kit resources. Consider what features are discussed in the piece you select. Aim for an evaluation that notes small details in a work, considers the purpose of various elements, and perhaps investigates the artist’s life.
In the post, begin by introducing the piece of contemporary art created between 1945 and present. What is the title? Who created it and when? What is the style? How would you describe it to someone who had not seen it? Finally, explain why viewing this work is a valuable experience. Connect the Unit 5 reading material in your response; include APA formatting.
Student 1
Hello Class and Professor,
For my piece of Art I have chosen Andy Warhol’s painting “Diamond Dust Shoes 1980”. I not only love the colors that are presented in the piece but the meaning to me signifies how many shoes women fill in our daily lives such as a mother, a friend, a lover, a daughter and etc. I fell a since of gratitude when I look at this colorful piece.
Andy Warhol was born in 1928; he left a huge legacy behind when he passed away in 1987 (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012, p. 142). From drawings, paintings and prints to videography, publishing and performance, he produced more than art -- he was essentially his own brand. From haunting black and white self-portraits to Polaroid snapshots of celebrities, many of the photos in the collection later became the inspiration for Warhol's most well-known Pop Art pieces (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012, p. 142).
Warhol's focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggest a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized (A & E Television Networks, 1996-2013). When looking at this piece of work you have a sense of what life is everyday!
Please look at the link provided below to take a look at this peice of Art. (The last reference below)
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A & E Television Networks, L. (1996-2013). bio.true story. Retrieved from Andy Warhol Biography: http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875?page=2
Student 2
Hello Class and Professor,
For some reason many of the illustrations in our text I cannot view. So I decided to search for contemporary art photos. There were quite a few interesting images but I found a sculpture or performance piece by Rook Floro that really caught my eye. Oddly, there is no title; at least I have not been able to locate one. Parts of this three-dimensional art look like it has some kind of wiry texture. The piece seems to be an imitation of human emotion. .
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Instructions
ART 103 Instructions for Writing Assignment | Critical Analysis - WA/Interpretations and
Meanings
Writing Assignment-Interpretations and Meanings essay
Resources
Review and Read Chapter 1-5 and 13, Exploring Art, A Global, Thematic Approach.
Objective
This critical analysis | writing assignment-Meanings and Interpretations essay will
demonstrate your ability to analyze a work of art from an artist of your choosing based on the
formal elements, principles of composition, and to form an opinion about the selected work.
Students will indicate insight to the intent of the artist; as well as expand writing skills and
research abilities.
Students first writing assignment consists of multiple parts: a biographical sketch of an artist
of your choosing, plus a critical analysis of a work of art by an artist resonates with you but
You cannot use an image of an artwork that we have already studied, ALWAYS CHOOSE
new works of art); and finally, a Work Cited page documenting your source materials.
See example attached to give you an idea of what I'm looking for - do not use this work or
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Instructions
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biographical information on an artist of your choice.
* Length: At least 3 complete paragraphs but no less than 400 words
* Suggestions for material: Name, date and place of birth and death, family information,
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Online sources are ok, but do not forget to use your textbook. If you fail to provide a Work
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the work or state whether or not you "like" the work.
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TOK - Theory of Knowledge presentation script (To what extent does sense perception play a part in our emotional response to abstract expressionist paintings?)
1. TOK – Presentation (script)
Done by: Sarah Lee Shan Yun and Lionel Liew, 6TOK
Slide 2 – Real life situation
• First, let us start by introducing our real life situation.
• An experiment conducted by the University of Oregon, published in 2011,
showed that people responded in different ways, physically, to the same visual
of Pollock’s paintings, in terms of eye movements, heart rate and skin
conductivity. Some patients were tested to becoming more relaxed, having a
lower heart rate, blood pressure and blood cortisol levels (a stress hormone)
after viewing Jackson Pollock’s work for a short period of time. This
investigation could be useful in the incorporation of art into hospitals or
psychiatric wards to aid in relieving patients of stress.
Slide 3 – Elements and principles
• As an art student, I understand the importance of the elements and principles
of art in conveying emotions. Elements include line, color, value, shape, space
and texture, while principles include balance, contrast, rhythm, unity and
variety. Abstract expressionism may contain any of these elements and
principles, but depending on the painting, some may show through more than
others.
Slide 4 – Questions to be asked
• The questions of investigation here would thus be: can abstract expressionism
really be considered art? Which elements and principles of Pollock’s paintings
evoked which kinds of emotions in the viewer and why? Other than sense
perception, do other ways of knowing or areas of knowledge affect our
emotions when we see abstract expressionist art?
Slide 5 – Knowledge issue
• We then brought about the knowledge issue: To what extent does sense
perception play a part in our emotional response to abstract expressionist
paintings?
Slide 6 – What is art?
• It is hard to define art because there are many medias, genres, forms, periods
and eras of art.
According to the dictionary, art is the expression or application of human
creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for
their beauty or emotional power
• Art can take many forms and is definitely not only bound to strict genres of
painting, or even to visual forms of art. Paintings, installations, photography,
sculpture, music, theatre, dance, literature and film, amongst many others, are
all forms of art. These may be visual, sound, performance, written, etc., any of
which requires some form of expression or creative input or skill.
2. Slide 7 – What is art? (Continued)
• Art, itself, is an entire area of knowledge in TOK, and is a broad area of study.
The ways of knowing normally associated with art include emotion, sense
perception, seeing as how art is an expression of ones emotions and are
viewed, heard or experienced by the audience through the use of the senses
(seeing, hearing, feeling, etc.)
Slide 8 – What is art? (Continued)
• Art cannot be defined to one particular purpose.
• An artist can have many different motives, whether to project a certain
expression, emotion and idea, or to send out a cultural, social or political
message. However, in this presentation, we will be focusing specifically on art
with the purpose of the expression of emotions because of its strong links with
our knowledge issue.
• As illustrated by the quote by Raul D. Arellano, “As an artist my mission in
relation to the universe is to realize and actualize the mirror of the human
psyche”
• Aristotle also noted that “the aim of art is to represent not the outward
appearance of things, but their inward significance”
Slide 9 – Abstract expressionism
• Abstract expressionism is an artistic movement comprising diverse styles and
techniques, emphasizing an artist's liberty to convey attitudes and emotions
through nontraditional and usually nonrepresentational means
• The movement occurred after World War II in 1946
• Why abstract expressionism? Many people believe that abstract expressionist
artists lack technical skill in comparison with other artists (such as renaissance
painters). However, the theory that ‘art must be is intentional’ is still,
nonetheless, present, because artists like Jackson Pollock create this type of art
for a specific purpose. The purpose of abstract expressionism is NOT to
portray works with high technical brilliance, but rather as a way to decrease
the distance between high art and low art. Works were often described as
spontaneous, improvised, impulsive and unplanned. Artists created paintings
out of spur-of-the-moment emotions, though still with consideration of how
they could reflect those emotions, therefore yes, abstract expressionism is an
art.
An abstract expressionist allows his audience to have their own individual and
personal response towards a painting, leading to differing experiences,
reactions and feedback. Abstract expressionism moves away from correlations
with political, social and cultural meaning and there is no specific subject
matter, thus it is described to be “nonrepresentational”. In a way, abstract
expressionism can be regarded to be closer to the theory of “universal art” as
opposed to “cultural art”. Because of this, abstract expressionist art allows for
more ambiguity in emotional response compared to most of the other art forms
and genres, thus creating a curiosity into the role in which emotion and sense
perception play in the way we respond to art.
3. Slide 10 – Jackson Pollock
• Jackson Pollock, one of the most well known artist, let alone abstract
expressionists, of all time invented his famous ‘drip’ technique in 1947.
• His works grew greatly in popularity in the 1950s and has stirred an enormous
amount of controversy in the art world up to present day.
• Jackson Pollock once said, “Today painters do not have to go to a subject
matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different
source. They work from within. The modern artist is working with space and
time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
• Jackson Pollock understood the role of emotion in art. He reduced his work
down to the fundamental individual psyche. How can you project what you are
feeling at a particular moment in time without the use of a specific subject or
any visual representation that is instantly recognizable?
Slide 11 – Survey conducted (continued)
• In attempt to better understand the connections between the elements and
principles of art and emotion, as well as to comprehend how opinions differ
through different perspectives, we conducted a survey amongst 40 people in
different age groups, genders, races, nationalities and occupational
backgrounds. We showed them 2 different action paintings done by Jackson
Pollock and asked them to comment on them.
We showed them this painting entitled ‘number 1’ by Pollock.
We asked our candidates to choose which element or principle they first
noticed in the painting, then, which other parts of the painting they felt were
substantial.
Following that, we asked them to describe their emotional reaction to the
painting with one or two words.
Also, we asked them to include any other comments which they felt should be
shared (e.g., what it reminded them of, or what they thought of the painting as
being called ‘art’)
Slide 12 – Survey results ‘Number 1’
• Firstly, we found that the first thing people noticed in Pollock’s ‘number 1’
was line.
Slide 13 – Survey results ‘Number 1’ (continued)
• We also found that people found its visual texture to be more significant than
the other elements and principles of art.
Slide 14 – Survey results ‘Number 1’ (continued)
• When asked how they responded to the painting emotionally, the same words
such as violence, chaos, confusion, messiness and sadness were recurrently
used. All of which were very negative and opposing in nature.
There were, however, some anomalies, with people responding with no
emotions, calling it happy and peaceful as well as calm.
Slide 15 – Survey results ‘Number 1’ (continued)
• We also found that people normally associated the painting to look like trees
or a forest, often comparing it to vegetation. Some even believed it to appear
like fabric. Other responses like ‘ship masts’ and ‘concentration camps’ were
also present.
4. Slide 16 – Survey conducted ‘Number 11’ (continued)
• Likewise, the same questions were asked in response to another one of
Pollock’s paintings entitled, “Blue Poles: Number11”.
Slide 17 – Survey results ‘Number 11’
• Immediately, we noticed that people responded very differently to a different
painting with different characteristics.
Most noticed the color first, followed by line and pattern.
This is substantially different from the results from the first survey because
instead of the results concentrating on a particular element or principle such as
‘line’, they are spread out amongst a few.
Slide 18 – Survey results ‘Number 11’ (continued)
• Surprisingly, the same result was noticed for the second question, where
responses were spread out amongst different elements and principles such as
color, contrast, line, texture, rhythm and movement, pattern and balance.
Slide 19 – Survey results ‘Number 11’ (continued)
• When asked how they responded to the painting emotionally, responses were,
again, mixed, ranging from negative answers like ‘anguish’, ‘anger’,
‘confused’, ‘disgusted’, ‘disorganized’
• To positive answers like ‘brightness’, ‘jovial’, ‘adventurous, ‘happy’,
‘beauty’, ‘curious’ and ‘amazing’.
We also noticed that there was a trend, that when people noticed ‘color’ and
‘rhythm and movement’ first, they perceived the painting in a more positive
light. When people noticed ‘line’, ‘texture’ and ‘contrast’ first, however, they
responded negatively.
Slide 20 – Survey results ‘Number 11’ (continued)
• When asked what it reminded them of, responses were again, mixed. Some
thought they looked like bamboo trees, the forest, nature and the seasons.
Others felt it looked like fabric, wallpaper, batik and tablecloth. Some
interesting opinions aroused such as “the integration of different cultures” and
“machine guns”.
We also correlated the fact that more Caucasians usually associated the
painting to look like fabric and wallpaper, while more Asians usually
associated the painting to look like vegetation and trees, thought this is not
100% true in some cases. This shows that the cultural backgrounds of
individuals could sometimes affect how they responded to the art piece.
Slide 21 – Conclusion (continued)
• We can see that there are strong links between certain elements and principles
and the emotions they are associated with. When people noticed ‘color’,
‘rhythm’ and ‘movement’ first, they were more likely to respond positively,
identifying the painting with the emotions of happiness and joviality and
aggressive lines with the emotions of anger and disorientation.
• When people noticed ‘line’ and ‘texture’, they were more likely to respond
negatively, making the painting disorientating, confusing and disorganized.
This is regardless of their individual characteristics such as age, cultural
background, education level or gender, and was found to be a universal
response, though this was not 100% consistent throughout our survey results.
This proves that yes, sense perception greatly affects our emotional response
towards abstract art, yet why was this not the case for every single candidate?
5. Slide 22 – Conclusion
• We found that the extent to which people’s responses varied depended on the
painting’s own properties. In short, we cannot assume that people are going to
respond to the same painting in the same way, because as the amount of visual
stimulus or the complexity of the painting varies, the properties that people
focus on differs, thus they respond differently, even though physically they are
visually perceiving the same painting.
Slide 23– Conclusion (continued)
• We also know from this survey that emotion itself cannot be strictly triggered
by sense perception alone. Emotion can arise from many places, whether
through reasoning (e.g., feeling that the painting has no real value) or due to
sense perception.
• The significance of the role of these sources of emotion differs varyingly from
one individual to the other…
• Depending on their age, cultural background, education level, gender, etc. For
example, a very young child, of say, 4 years of age, would have little or no
understanding of the cultural purpose and significance of the art and would
thus respond to the painting based more on its physical properties.
Slide 24 – Conclusion (continued)
• Emotional response is also affected by other areas of knowledge
• When we interviewed a doctor, asking her why people responded so
negatively to line, we found that people tend to follow its pathway, so the eye
is constantly moving instead of being in a fixed position. Sense perception,
therefore, has an impact on emotion due to scientific reasons (the movement
of the eye that leads to a feeling of disorientation).
• Our mathematics teacher even noted that abstract expressionist art was known
to possess mathematical patterns known as “fractals”, which trigger a sense of
harmony and balance in the viewer.
• Here is a pictured example of one of Pollock’s painting’s fractal pattern
• Our art teacher told us about the significance of abstract expressionist art in
the context of history – and that Pollock’s work was beautiful because it
represented the rebellion of traditionalism and the freedom of artists after
World War II.
Slide 25 – Conclusion (continued)
• To conclude, while Pollock’s work might invoke a sense of calm and serenity
in some individuals, this is not definitely so for every single person and for
every one of his paintings, thus we don’t think abstract paintings would be
found hanging on the walls of every hospital or psychiatric ward anytime
soon.
Slide 26 – Conclusion (continued)
• Yes, sense perception affects the way we respond to abstract expressionist
paintings, but only to a certain extent. It is not the only factor in human
response. Reasoning, science, mathematics, maybe even history and the
natural sciences, depending on the individual’s level of knowledge or cultural
background are all other factors that play a part in the way we respond to
abstract expressionist paintings.