What is Art?

1. What is Art?

2. Let’s Play a Game. . . • Examine the following series of images • Decide if they are Art or not • Be prepared to defend your answer with full explanations (not just “good” or “bad”)

3. Is this Art? Why or why not?

30. Popular Definitions of “Art” • “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” –Hubbard (writer) • “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” –Merton (writer) • "Art is either plagiarism or revolution.“ –Gaugin (painter) • "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." – Tharp (choreographer) • "Art is a kind of illness.“ –Puccini (composer) • "Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures." –Braque (painter) • "Art is like soup. There will be some vegetables you don't like but as long as you get some soup down you it doesn't matter." -Wyllie (sculptor) • "Art is childish and childlike." -Hirst (visual artist) • "Art is a bang/blast." -Okamoto (abstract artist) • "Art is art. Everything else is everything else." -Reinhardt (visual artist)

34. Who is allowed to define Art? • Artists • People who buy art • Teachers • Me • You • Anyone Fountain’ by Marcel Duchamp Owned by the Tate Museum in London

35. Who determines the “worth” of an artwork? • The artist who made it • The artists who criticize it • The person who buys it • The viewer who sees it • Should the worth of an artwork only based on money? The Card Players Paul Cezanne Most expensive painting ever sold Sold for more than $250 million in 2011

36. Did You Win the Game? • All of the images are Art

38. What is your definition of Art?

What is Art?

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