Making Art

PROCESS

• The series of activities and decisions that lead to a finished artifact.

• Processes generally unique to the artist• Most contain common activities

– Conceiving of a work– Deciding its purpose– Creating, showing, and assessing the workC

Processes and Purposes

Processes and Purposes

• Purpose or intended function of the work– Commercial

expression– Personal

expression

NONREPRESENTATIONAL (NONOBJECTIVE) ART

• Artifacts that use colors, textures, shapes, and brushstrokes to express thoughts and feelings in themselves rather that to make representational artifacts.

REPRESENTATIONAL ART

• Artifacts that render figures, objects, or scenes as they appear in the real or visible world and as they might appear in the imagined world, with varying degrees of accuracy, distortion, and stylization.

SUBJECT MATTER AND MEANING

Choice and Uses of the Medium

• Medium as Material• Medium as Artform• Medium and Craftsmanship

Aspects of Form

• Design elements include:– Line– Texture– Shape– Mass– Volume– Color– Time

• Design principles include:– Balance– Emphasis– Patterns– Unity

Contexts

• Viewing• Internal• Artist’s• Social• Art Historical

FORM

• How an artwork is composed structurally according to its intended functional and expressive purposes.

CONTEXT• VIEWING CONTEXT: Where

and how an artifact is placed for viewing.

• INTERNAL CONTEXT: The juxtaposition of parts within a whole artifact and the meanings they evoke through proximity to one another.

• ARTIST’S CONTEXT: The life history, experiences, and time influencing an artist’s work.

• SOCIAL CONTEXT: The time and place in which an artifiact is mad.

• ART HISTORICAL CONTEXT: The artifact in relation to all other artifacts past and present.

MEANINGS

• Expressive content of an artifact and the artifact’s inferred implications.

Conclusion: The Components and Meanings• Components

– Subject Matter– Medium– Form– Contexts

• Meanings– The results of

interpretations

INTERPRETATION

• A process and result of deciphering what an artifact is about, means, or expresses.

• SUBJECT MATTER + MEDIUM + FORM + CONTEXTS = MEANING