13. arts as knowledge

1. Agenda 10/3/16
1. Intro to Arts as AOK
2. Art Criticism and
Paradigms
3. Lit Circle 4 Final
meeting
4. EE meeting on
10/13
1. 3000 words finished
5. CAS and E-Board
meeting

2. Art as an Area of Knowing
AIO: “What is Beautiful?”
Philosopher Portrait: Winklemann, Wolfflin, Picasso
Special Audio Notes:
Ted Talk: http://tinyurl.com/darwinbeauty
 Readings (notes on all pages,
expert on 1 of 3):
1. 257-265
2. 266-271
3. 272-277

3.  Problem of Knowledge:
To what extent do humans participate in Art as both an
introspective, as well as communicative process?

5. Change Blindness
1. In the same way as the Taste
Test, how might we be
“blind” to certain changes
around us? Why might this
lack of observation be
useful? How might it be a
disadvantage?
2. What is the crossover with
the Human Sciences?

7. What would you name this?

8. Juxtaposition?
Meaning?
Artist’s purpose?

9. 3 Ideas for the Week
1. Art is a way in which humans seek knowledge from the senses;
ultimately becoming indistinguishable from one’s own mental
reality.
2. Art is a scientific process and a crafted technology; one that often
results in academies, schools of thought/criticism, and cycles of
Avant Garde.
3. Art often communicates historical, ethical, iconographic, religious,
and thematic representations of “the human condition”, often
summarized in the question “what is beautiful?”

10. The true order of going is to use the beauties
of the earth as steps along which to mount
upwards for the sake of that other beauty:
from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair
practices to fair notions until he arrives at the
idea of absolute beauty
Plato’s Symposium, 211

12. What is Art?
 noun 1 the expression of
creative skill through a visual
medium such as painting or
sculpture. 2 the product of such a
process; paintings, drawings, and
sculpture collectively. 3 (the
arts) the various branches of
creative activity, such as painting,
music, and drama. 4
(arts) subjects of study primarily
concerned with human culture (as
contrasted with scientific or
technical subjects). 5 a skill: the
art of conversation.
 How do the 5 definitions differ
from each other?

13. Developing Patterns

14. What is Art?
1. Art is Self-Expression
1. Language of the mind.
2. Record of the body.
2. Art is Language
1. Symbols, icons and records
2. Cultic ritual, pervasive belief
3. Power and propaganda
3. Art is Identity
1. Schools of thought (Surrealist, Avant Garde, Christian,
la Art Brute
2. Art as a craft that is learned (formalism), a record of
history (art criticism), or a description of behavior
(empiricism)
4. Art is Culture
1. “Othering” is endemic to art (even in the very
principles that define art)
2. Geo-political landscapes produce different art
emphases
3. BRUCEP FaSTCaLVES
Ann Hamilton. parallel lines. Two parts of an
installation in two rooms, Sao Paulo Bienal, Septemb
December 1991. Mixed media.

16. BASILICA OF HAGIA SOFIA, 563 ce. Istanbul, Turkey

17. Art As Knowing: Class
Discussion
 Team discussion (10
minutes): Review your
chapter notes.
 What TOK questions are
discussed in your section?
Develop 2
 Summarize your
Philosopher portrait. How
does he interact with your
section?
 Describe your argue it out
problem of knowledge and
thesis. Any research to
support your argument?
 Class Discussion (10 min)

18. Art and Technology/Science
 Art implies precision, innovation, risk
behavior, experimentation, predictive
knowing
 Often compliments the major scientific
paradigms throughout history.
 Consider:
 Artist as scientific Vocation
 Heliocentricity and Printing press
 Germ theory and specialized drawing
 Architecture and Mathematical
presuppositions
 Illusionism and perspective theory

19. Art History and Criticism
 Art Historical method
 16th century archeological response to
Baroque ideals
 Promotes classical balance
 Understands work in context
 Stylistic Analysis
 Scientific Approach to art history
 Comparative method
 Psychology, art rooted in the human
form.
 2nd Vienna School
 Complete Formalism (student of art in
and of itself)
 Artwork is only aesthetic (principles and
elements of design)

20. Art History and Criticism
 Archetypal and Iconographic
schools
 Theories about artist’s intention
 psychoanalyzing artist’s only
through clues in the artwork
 Marxist School
 Classism, movements of art and
kitsch in social history
 Post-modern Semiotics
 Boundaries of interpretation
from viewer’s supremacy

21. Describe both works: