OR2,500 years of Art Education

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AE 610 Survey of Art Education

The Greeks-Living the Good Life

Sophists

Plato Aristotle

Behavior Mind Science

Natural DesiresWillReason

Academy-School for Philosophers

Ideal form/ Imitation (therefore music most supreme art

Scientific MethodBiology

Order out of chaosClassificationArtists were those skilled in imitation

Nomos/ Order (math, music, architecturePhysis/ Nature

Travelled around Greece teaching rhetoric/ persuasion

Abandoned science in favor of winning arguments

No absolute truthReliance on individual

The Romans- Expanding Empire

Cicero De Oratore

Plotinus Neoplatonic

Beauty Emperor Honorius

Left Rome

Behavior Mind Science

Oratory/ Skilled speaking

Question/ Wide CultureArt not merely imitation, but also revelation

Artists represent platonic solids through materials

Took over western Roman Empire after father’s death

Left ruling duties to advisors

Behavior Mind Science

Teaching Art in the Renaissance

Humanist

Neoplatonic

Arts similar to literature and history and therefore important

Printed texts verses lecture

Aesthetics valued

Artist valued as uniquely endowed individual

Allegorical / focus on love and beauty = influence on arts

Absolutism/ French Academy

Absolutism

French Academy

Behavior Mind Science

No exceptions for laws of universe

Power and prestige of state

Architecture, geometry, perspective, arithmetic, anatomy, astronomy, and history.

Art is a powerful influence of hearts and minds

Rotating instructors

Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Behavior Mind Science

Improved technology, Newton’s PrincipiaPeople should follow rules of nature instead of society

Adam Smith- natural divisions of labor/ free market

Belief in progressLaissez-faire economicsDemocratic ethicIndividuals able to secure own happiness

Colonial America

Colonial America

Behavior Mind Science

Schools founded not for political reasons (like French academy) but for economic/ manufacturing reasons

Boston Latin School- Classical educationLaw-every child must be taught to read/ understand languages in order to study scriptures

Franklin criticized Latin School and proposed academy in Philadelphia to teach practical subjects such as English, modern languages, arithmetic, navigation, and drawing.