1. What is Art? Imitates Life Expresses Emotion
Beautifies/Entertains/Pleases
Challenges Convention
Affects Change
Chronicles History
Provokes Reaction/Inspires
Narrates History

2. Art As Imitation? Plato – a mere imitation of life
Aristotle – an imitation, but it reflects an understanding of life and a catharsis of feelings
A mere picture of reality?
An artifact?
Commentary?
Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer

3. An Expression of Emotion?
An expression of the feelings of the artist
Art is intuitive or expressive knowledge (Croce)
Rock music does not imitate reality, but it expresses emotion
Poetry expresses emotion metaphorically
Performance art seeks to evoke reaction from its audience

4. Aesthetics
Art is an expression of emotion, which arouses a special feeling.
Art pleases us when we see it. (Aquinas)
Art is pleasing because of the way the parts are arranged.
Are only beautiful things art?

5. What the Art World Says It Is?
An artist understands that he is creating a work of art
An artist creates art knowing that it will be shown
An artworld is prepared to view the art
An artworld is a framework, which allows an artist to create art and a viewing audience to look at it.

6. Impressionism Sunrise Sunday Afternoon Georges Seurat Claude Monet

7. Portraits Marilyn Monroe Lady with An Ermine Isabella Stewart Gardner
Andy Warhol
Lady with An Ermine
Leonardo daVinci
Isabella Stewart Gardner
John Singer Sargent

8. Shepard Fairey

9. Portrait Photography Annie Leibovitz

10. Social Commentary Raise awareness of problems in society
Create a conversation
Make a connection (experiment with new forms of media)
Influence change
Present a different perspective
Chronicle the debate
Bring enlightenment
Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera

11. News Photography Picture Power
Sharbat Gula
Steve McMurry
Vietnam – Kim Phuc
Nick Ut

12. The Dark Night of the Soul
One dark night,
fired with love's urgent longings
- ah, the sheer grace! -
I went out unseen,
my house being now all stilled.
-St. John of the Cross
Ana Maria Pacheco
Peter Paul Rubens
Ana Maria Pacheco

13. Abu Ghraib
Fernando Botero

14. Hanging Fire
An impressive example of Cornelia Parker's signature suspended sculptures, Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson) is a major installation piece constructed from found materials-the charred remains of an alleged arson incident. (ICA installation)

15. Gassed John Singer Sargent
A very large oil painting completed in It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station. Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war. He visited the Western Front and was deeply moved by the images he witnessed.  
1919

16. Guernica Pablo Picasso

17. Prisoners Front Winslow Homer
Civil War

18. Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp – The Pit Aba Bayefsky

19. The End of Art? Camera invented in the nineteenth century
Could create a more accurate imitation of reality than an artist
Artists developed a new kind of art – Impressionism
Other popular forms like Cubism and Fauvism came and went
Art began to express emotion
Later it became a form in and of itself
Now what?

20. What is the Future of Art?
Street Art
Computer Art
Performance Art
Video Art
Modern Art

21. Art is very much alive Cinematography Rock Music Novels Picture books
Graphic novels
Film Scores

22. Google Doodles – commemorates special events and holidays on website
Google Art Project – features virtual tours of 46 museums around the world including MOMA, MET, MFA, and Art Institute of Chicago – also create your own collection

23. Art in the 21st Century Art 21 www.pbs.org/art21
Art21 is a nonprofit dedicated to engaging audiences with contemporary visual art, inspiring creative thinking, and educating a new generation about artists working today.
Series #6 premiered April 13, 2012 – features four videos of four artists each