Why art?
The perception
The reality
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* "Art" in college should really be called "Visual Studies". Visual studies (art) considers the elements and visual language used to communicate. Understanding how to communicate using images is a powerful and important skill in the 21st century.
How do we experience "art"?
Traditionally we believe humans understand the world through 5 senses; Smell, Taste, Touch, Sight and Sound. (There are some researchers claim we have 9 or 11)
Through the centuries we have derived various forms of communication based on these senses. Where smell, taste and touch certainly have their place, our main forms of communication utilize sight and sound.
Lets consider Site and Sound:
Sound
vocal communication
• Awareness of the presence and location of sound.
• Discrimination of the sound from others comparing differences in pitch, rate, intensity, and duration.
• Identification, including attributing a meaning and monitoring the sound.
• Ongoing comprehension including remembering and re-using the sound.
• Discrimination of the sound from others comparing differences in pitch, rate, intensity, and duration.
• Identification, including attributing a meaning and monitoring the sound.
• Ongoing comprehension including remembering and re-using the sound.
There is a difference between "hearing" and "listening". What is it?
Visual
image based communication (includes text)
• Visual discrimination: the ability to discriminate dominant features of objects.
• Visual memory: the ability to recognize something when it reappears.
• Visual spatial relationships: the ability to perceive the position of objects.
• Form constancy: the ability to categorize similar objects with different features.
• Sequential memory: the ability to recognize a sequence of objects when they reappear.
• Visual figure ground: the ability to identify an object from surrounding objects.
• Visual closure: the ability to identify a whole figure when only parts are shown.
• Visual memory: the ability to recognize something when it reappears.
• Visual spatial relationships: the ability to perceive the position of objects.
• Form constancy: the ability to categorize similar objects with different features.
• Sequential memory: the ability to recognize a sequence of objects when they reappear.
• Visual figure ground: the ability to identify an object from surrounding objects.
• Visual closure: the ability to identify a whole figure when only parts are shown.
*What I find interesting is that humanity managed to develop language. Language if fully developed is a form of communication that integrates a vocal component and and image component seamlessly. Beyond that, our ability to understand what we are thinking (to organize our thoughts) is based on utilizing this system. It is also interesting that the same system has been designed differently for people living in various locations through out the world.
Visuals in business: Keller Visual Strategies
Art Jobs & Art Tracks
So what is art?
- art is produced in a variety of 'mediums' both 2 dimensional(2D) and 3 dimensional(3D)
Dave McKean Drawing/Illustration
Andy Warhol Printmaking
Pablo Picaso Painting
Pendleton Ward Animation
Rodin Sculpture
Banksey Street Art
Greek Vase Ceramics
Jerry Uelsmann Photography
Glass
Google Photos
The Google Photos app helps you organize and store your photos in the cloud that you can access on your phone or computer. It can also be used to organize images in albums that can be shared with other people. You will be using the Google Photos App to upload most of your assignments and projects for this class through out the semester.
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1. Download and Install Google Photos App
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2. Open App and sign in with your Hartwick gmail account information
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3. At the bottom of the screen you will see "Sharing". This is where you can find the albums for the class. Put your images for the bad photographs assignment use the “Art116 Bad Photos S-1” album.
Assignment due Friday:
Take 25 photographs exploring Hartwick with the camera on your cellphone. The goal is to take 25 terrible photographs. You need to break all the rules. Try taking a picture while running or getting so close the image is blurry. Take images from a high angle, get low, get close, get far, hold your camera at an angle instead of perfectly horizontally.
Upload your favorite 25 images to the “Art116 Bad Photos S-1” album
Semester Long Project: Visual Diary
[assigned] Wed Feb 8th
[due] One image uploaded 1 hour before class starts (Mon, Wed, Fri)
