The ArtsThe Intention Criterion, Canonisation, Aesthetics

and YOU!

‘Bahini’Very famous photo...highlighted lack of protein in the diet of the

subject who died shortly a&erwards thereby making it

internationa#y famous.

‘I was living in Nepal back in 2002 when this photo became famous.’ (Mr Wi#iamson)

Intention & Context

Like Nachtwey’s work, this photo had an intention, namely to raise awareness about poverty.

BUT, the context (e.g. The death of the girl transformed this photo into a widely discussed and analysed example)

ContextIn pairs, can you think of an example of ‘art’ which was transformed by the context? (e.g. Toscani’s work for Benetton on this page)

Or, think of ‘art’ you have created and explain what the intention was.(Think WOK)

Musical Clip...

Double click on the icon above. Students to have a nice rest. You deserve it! Close your eyes and use the sensory perception of sound. For those of you who don’t understand the language, does this change your ability to evaluate it as a piece of art? What do you think the intention was?

European Unification

The piece of classical music was written by Zbigniew Preisner, a Polish composer, for the Kieslowski film, Three Colours: Blue.

It was intended (Intention criterion) to represent an anthem for the unification of Europe. Does this extra piece of information change the way you view this text? Does this make it more likely for you to consider it art?

Canonisation...FR Leavis created a canon of great literature back in 1932. Most of it was specific to British literature and included ‘artists’ such as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Chaucer etc.

Forest Whitaker won an oscar for his role as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. Are we persuaded when the critics tell us that a piece of work is art? John Ruskin (Art) and Barry Norman (film) were both highly influential critics but were not artists? So what?

Journal TaskJournal: Name 5 pieces of art (art, music, film, TV, literature, advertising etc) which you think should be canonised...(Individual task) Why? Here are my examples (Mr Williamson)

Art- Capella Sistina (Michelangelo, 1508-1512)

Music- Bach (Toccato & Fugue in D Minor)

Film- Bicycle Thieves (d. Vittorio de Sica, 1948)

Literature- The Silmarillion (JRR Tolkien)

Advertising- ‘Surfer’ (d. Jonathan Glazer, 1999)

Ms Wilson

Art- David (Michelangelo)

Music- ACDC: ‘Thunderstruck’

Film- Terminator (d. James Cameron, 1984)

Literature- Shakespeare

Advertising- British Airways ‘Face-Aria’

Advertising & art?Does selling a product through advertising invalidate art? Jot down your reaction to the following three adverts in your journal. (We will revisit later)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC-wPteyl6U

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY1T4YAzs14&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6G1C6c0uw

Ms Wilson- ‘20 years later and I can’t get this ad out of my head’

How do we make meaning *om audio-visual stimulus like this? From emotion, sensory perception, reason or our aesthetic appreciation of beauty?

British Airways (1989)...introduced idea of global village