1. What is Art?

2. Art is a collection of ideas produced by human skill, imagination and invention Art can be Visual Music Literature Dance Theater Or a combination of these

3. Why make art? To decorate our world Interior of a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Contemporary ceramic pieces

4. Why make art? To describe or explain our past Cave painting from Lascaux, FrancePeaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks

5. Why make art? To use in ceremonies African masks Aboriginal painting

6. Why make art? To explore our world Frederick Church

7. Why make art? To express our moods, feelings or ideas Keith Haring Dorothea Lange

8. Why does art look like it does? What is the function of the artwork? Who is it being made for? What materials are available to make the artwork? When and where did the artist live?

9. When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must decide on Subject or theme (landscape, portrait, object, event…)

10. When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must decide on Medium (paint, pencil, marble, wood, computer, photograph) Computer generated art Wood sculpture

11. When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must decide on Composition (focal point, balance, rhythm, unity, variety) Edward Hopper Beverly Buchanan

12. When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must decide on a message Keith Haring Dustin Shuler

13. When an artist creates a work of art, he/she must decide on a mood Mark Rothko

14. How do we make sense of art? What we see when we look at a work of art depends on Our experience Our knowledge Our imagination Our mood And what the artist wants to show us

15. Look closely! What is happening here? What mood or feeling is the artist expressing? How do you feel when you look at this image?

16. What is abstract art? A work of art that uses lines, shapes, colors, forms, patterns and textures rather than showing objects, scenes and people as they appear in real life The artwork focuses more on the “language of art”

17. Abstract art Frank Stella Kenneth Noland

18. Abstract art Christo and Jean-Claude Andy Goldsworthy

19. Abstract art Andy Goldsworthy Robert Smithson

20. What is the future of art? The future of art depends on the future of life on earth and how artists react to it. Art will always be affected by personal emotions, opinions, world events and new technology. Nam June Paik, Global Encoder