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6125. ART 100: INTRODUCTION TO
THE VISUAL ARTS; U of U (1989)
Instructor: Nathan Winters, Ph.D.
1. VISUAL THINKING:
Art = Science. Science = Art.
Art is not PROBLEM SOLVING.
Art is PROBLEM FINDING.
Right Brain/left brain explained.
IMAGERY:
If there is no Imagery, there is
no cognition. The soul never
thinks without an image.
2. VINCENT VAN GOGH.
Psychotic. Wanted to be a
Priest. Mailed his ear to a
young prostitute who didn't listen.
3. LIFE VALUES. ART VALUES.
Rhythm.
Five purposes for making art.
4. THE CREATIVE PROCESS:
Concept. C=f(KIE)
Knowledge. Imagination. Evaluation.
5. PRODUCTIVE THINKING;
Convergent thinking. Only one.
Divergent thinking. Many.
Evaluative thinking.. Judgemental,
Sensory thinking. Visualize.

6126. ART 100: INTRO. TO VISUAL
ARTS; U of U. (1989)
5. PRODUCTIVE THINKING. (concl.)
Visual memory is longest lasting.
Art is a mirror of the culture
that produces it.
6. VISUAL LITERACY: HISTORY PORTION
OF ART. Art is the true historian.
Art literacy means the ability to
"read" the symbols. (Personal and
general)
Examples of "cave art" and the
pre-history pyramids, 10,000 BC.
Egypt celebrated D E A T H .
Greeks celebrated L I F E . Amphitheaters.
ROME became BLOODTHIRSTY. (Collesum).
7. VISUAL CLUES: Clip-on symbolism.
GREEKS: "We are all Greeks" Shelley.
Classical means Greek.
1. Archaic. (Primitive)
2. Hellenic. (Idealism, Humanism)
3. Hellenistic. (Realism, Empiricism,
Individualism) degraded into Rome.
8. ROMAN IDEAS: Organizational, Legal
and Utilitarianism.
Keystone Arch Significant Interiors

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6127. ART 100: INTRO. TO THE
VISUAL ARTS; U of U. (1989)
Nathan Winters, Ph.D.
9. Film on Egypt.
Dr. Winters at ice sculpture
Fudal/Romanesque Cathedrals.
EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA:
(Churches classified by floor plan)
RENAISSANCE CHANGES:
Murals. Oil Paint (previously
Tempura paint used). Patrons.
Artist hero. Man is measure of all.
MICHALANGELO. (Film).
Filler: How To: sculpt pottery.
Special: Don't Eat the Pictures:
Sesame Street Goes to the Metro-
politan Museum of Art.
HERMITAGE: A RUSSIAN ODYSSEY: The
History of the great museum in St.
Petersburg. (Inclp.) 6/13/95

6128. ART 100: INTRO. TO THE
VISUAL ARTS; U of U. (1989)
Nathan Winters, Ph.D.
10. ROMANTICISM:
We have come from: RENAISSANCE
To MANNERIST (Awkward) To
BAROQUE To ROCOCO To
ROMANTICISM (Escapism)(Eclecticism)
(Revivals- copy any above)
Neo-classicism. (American painters)
(After all, early American Artists
came from Europe & were so taught)
REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT:
The buyers of art create the taste.
Film: THE SPIRIT OF ROMANTICISM.
11. AMERICAN ART: Paul Revier portrait.
Series of Geo. Washington portraits.
Film. w/Gordon Jump. Revolution
Film on Expressionism.
FAUVEISM = Wild use of color.
SURREALISTS = Beyond Reality.
Fascism, Naziism, etc. have art.
is to frilly- get a gun & get the
job done. America reaped the
reward as the great German artists
fled Nazi Germany & came to U.Y.
AND TAUGHT ART which when combined
with American art FREEDOM caused
an explosion of great new art. The
rest of the world still has not
caught up.