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## HEADING: ART ## LEFT COLUMN ART 7. ART 100, INTRODUCTION TO THE VISUAL ARTS: 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. Visual memory is longest lasting. Art is a mirror of the culture ART 8. ART 100, INTRODUCTION TO THE VISUAL ARTS. 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, Function. Verticality. (High, tall) Film: ATHENS: THE GOLDEN AGE. Film: THE ROMAN WORLD. Film: THE ART OF THE MIDDLE AGES. ## RIGHT COLUMN ART 9. ART 100, INTRODUCTION TO THE VISUAL ARTS: 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. HERMITAGE: A RUSSIAN ODYSSEY: The History of the great museum in St. Petersburg. (Incompl.) 6/13/95 ART 10. ART 100 INTRODUCTION TO THE VISUAL ARTS 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.(77') 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. it 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. 12. CONCLUDING CLASS. Intv. w/Kim of movie RAIN MAN. POP ART: CRITICAL ILLUSION ART. CONCEPTUAL ART: Earth Art. Great S.L. Spiral Jetty, Bingham open Pit Mine. Nevada Desert Art. Colorado Valley Curtain. Wrap Art: Coast of Australia. The Running Fence. Crop Earth Art. Photo-realism Art. Op Art. (Optical Illusion. Maurice Usher. Film: Discovering Elegance. Conclusion of Art course 100.