Culture and Values How Aesthetics Expresses a World View Introduction.
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Culture and ValuesHow Aesthetics Expresses a World View
Introduction
Art is always a part of the culture from which it is made……………
Understanding culture helps us to understand the aesthetic creations of a period.
The power of images
Personal Style
Traditional standards of excellence
Political Context
Psychological Content
Emotional Impact
Formal Elements
If art is produced, taught and even sold under particularassumptions about quality and attractiveness, it follows that art must be at least as susceptible to external pressures as any other expression or “statement.”
Art is a study, therefore, of what it means to behuman
Vision is one of the fundamental waysIn which we gather information.
Culture creates a shared code
Pictorial devices used by artists are called conventions
Levels of Meaning
Aesthetic objects and events can be seen to have meaning in terms of the following 4 aspects:
•Appearance – The manner in which the work conveys meaning based on its physical properties
•Historical Context – The manner in which the events surrounding the work’s creation influenced its creation and interpretation
•Cultural Continuum – The manner in which a work exists among other works in a sequence of aesthetic and cultural evolution
•Universal Ideas – The manner in which the work conveys philosophical concepts that are universal to the human condition
Elements of Art
• Line
• Value
• Color
• Harmonies and Discords
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• Composition – Arrangement of Elements
Line is the path made by a moving point
Characteristics of line:Weight Speeddensityrhythm
Value refers to the lightness or darkness of A line or tone
ColorThe primary colors are: red, yellow, blueWhen two primaries are mixed theyForm secondary colors: Purple, green,
orangeDefining properties Of color:HueValueTint
Color Relationships
Harmonies and DiscordsThe most common color schemes are:
Monochromatic
Complementary
Analogous
Monochromatic color schemes use one dominant color
Complementary color schemes use Colors opposite each other on the Color Wheel
Analogous Color Schemes areColors next to each other on theColor Wheel
Composition refers to the arrangement of elements within the frame
The Changing Faceof Quality
• Culture is fundamental to how art is viewed
Manifestation refers to a visual code thatis understood by a certain culture in a particular time
• Familiar conventions: halo, angel wings, previous portrayals
of Mary• Religious Postures• Linear Perspective• Symbolic content• Italian Landscape
Art is always a part of the culture from which it is made……………
Understanding culture helps us to understand the aesthetic creations of a period.
Review
Because aesthetic expressions are based on aesthetic concepts and techniques, a formalunderstanding of these parameters and their development is essential to an appreciation of their value.