Introduction to Art History The Arts Appreciation of

Introduction to Art History

The Arts • Appreciation of the art is defined as: • Creating, performing and responding to dance, drama/theatre, music and visual arts

Appreciating • To appreciate the art there are three processes • Creating new works • Performing works for expressive purposes • Responding to artworks • The artist creates or performs and the audience responds.

The creative process • An artist must respond to their own work • Self-evaluating one’s own work allows the artist to judge how they can make it better • The visual artist literally steps back and views their paintings, portraits, drawings, etc • The actor/dancer/musician has others to critique their work to make improvements • American Idol, So you think you can dance.

Communication • Artists create works to communicate ideas, feelings or beliefs. • Most visual artists work independently. • Visual art is non-temporal (without time) • Meaning the person viewing Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa today is seeing the same painting that was finished 400 years ago.

Performing • Performing Arts (music, dance, drama/theatre) are temporal • Meaning it takes time to experience the art form. • The performance is meant for a live audience • The audience responds to the artistic expression either emotionally and/or intellectually • the reaction of the audience can determine the quality of the play

Branches of Humanities • including languages, art, literature, history, mathematics, and philosophy • We will learn about • Dance • Drama/Theatre • Visual Arts • Music

Interrelationships among the Arts • The arts share commonalities in structures, purposes, creative process and their ability to express ideas, feelings and emotions.

Students will be able to… • Compare and contrast one art form (music) to another (visual arts) from the same time period • Be able to analyze/explain how ideas and emotions expressed in one art form (theatre) are similar/different to ideas and emotions expressed another art form (dance)