Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Media1. Why is drawing

considered the foundation for all other art forms?

2. Which medias do you respond to the most? Why?

3. How does media relate to style?

Claude Monet Venice Twilight Painting

Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Method1. How do artists

create illusion through perspective, trompe l’oiel, and juxtaposition?

2. What is the difference between objective and non-objective art?

John Byrne, Spiderman1970’s

Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Voice1. How does art

“speak”? 2. How is art the

“voice” of the artist?

3. How do we know what s/he is saying? How do we listen?

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818

Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Sensory1. What are the

sensory experiences of art?

2. How does sensation go beyond just the visual? How do we sense with our emotions or other perceptions?

Francisco Goya de Lucientes’ "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"

Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Dynamics1. How do content

and context differ? How does each inform the other?

2. What are the psychological qualities of art? How do artists manipulate these?

William Blake, The Ancient of Days setting a Compass to the Earth

Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Critical Analysis

1. What degree of chiaroscuro has the artist used?

2. How does the illusion of three-dimensionality change our response?

3. What is the focal area? Why is this important?

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (Lovers), oil and gold leaf on canvas, 1907–1908

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Composition

1. How is an image organized?

2. Why is the rule of thirds useful when placing images on the page?

3. What rules help make an image “readable”?

4. What is dominance?

Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893)

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Line and shape

1. How does line create all other forms of art?

2. Why do we see lines in the world, when they are not really there?

3. Why do we seek shapes and patterns?

the first card in the Rorschach inkblot test

Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Color

1. How does color impact emotional responses and mood?

2. What are the properties of color that influence the way we see the world?

3. How is color spiritual?

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923

Unity in 2D Space How do we respond to and evaluate the arts?

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Unity1. What is

harmony?2. What is an s-

curve? 3. How does

gestalt philosophy/ psychology work when creating unity?

Annie Leibovitz, Vogue magazine