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"The artist is not a
different kind of person, but every person is a
different kind of artist”
From: Eric
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“Twenty-six Harvard
Institute for Learning in retirement members,
aged 62-85 years, have enrolled in Anne
Pirrera's course on Postmodernism. The 19 women
and seven men are eager to explore the concept
that has lately bedeviled fields such as art and
architecture, aesthetics and culture, politics
and feminism—areas in which many of them have
labored with distinction in their lives and
careers. Once a week for 13 sessions of the
semester, they come prepared for vigorous
debate, having wrestled with one more demanding
chapter in their assigned textbook.”
From: Leonie Gordon
and Michael Shinagel. “New Goals for Continuing
Higher Education: The Older Learner.”
Harvard Generations Policy Journal ,
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"Art is the most
intense mode of individualism that the world has
known."
From: Oscar
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"The work of art may
have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose
from the artist is to make him ruin his
work.”
From: Johann Wolfgang
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"Essentially, every
image is nothing but a dab of colour, a hunk of
stone, a trick of light on the retina that
triggers the illusion of discovery or
recollection, just as we are nothing more than a
multiplicity of infinitesimal spirals in whose
molecules, we are told, every one of our traits
and tremors are contained. And yet, such
reductions offer no explanation, no clue as to
what is constellated in our mind when we see a
work of art that,implacably, seems to demand
reaction, translation, learning of some kind --
and perhaps, if we are lucky, a small
epiphany."
From: Alberto
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"True art is too
complex to reflect the party line. Art that
tries hard to tell the truth unretouched is
difficult and often offensive. It tears down our
heroes and heart-warming convictions, violates
canons of politeness and humane
compromise."
From: John
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"From the beginning,
people around the world have had an impulse -- a
need some would say -- to make visual their
memories, pleasures, pains, hopes, and
histories. We call both the process and the
product "visual art."
From: Tonya
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"Composing a sonata,
writing a play, painting a painting, or writing
a poem forces us to think in alternative ways,
to hold different assumptions and to entertain
different and often more instructive ways of
making connections and ways of looking at
things. Imagination and a sense of discovery are
often as important as knowledge. Rousseau once
said that the world of reality has its limits;
the world of imagination is boundless. Creating
is a form of play. It is a sensing of the
possibilities, it is a free speculation, a
learning to be ourselves. "Painting," said
Picasso, "is just another way of keeping a
diary."
From: Thomas E.
Cronin
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Art IS
Life
“Without art, the crudeness of reality
would make the world
unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw
An Online Art
Journey
This online art journey is an example of
a concept that could be applied for any subject
area or audience. Its intent is for users to
gain familiarity with a range of art resources
available on the WWW. All are encouraged to
search for their favorite sites on a personal
itinerary and then to invite others to share the
experience of visiting these sites.
The philosopher, Susanne K. Langer wrote
in Problems of Art: "A work of art is an
expressive form created for our perception
through sense or imagination, and what it
expresses is human feeling. The word "feeling"
must be taken here in its broadest sense,
meaning everything that can be felt, from
physical sensation, pain and comfort, excitement
and repose, to the most complex emotions,
intellectual tensions, or the steady
feeling-tones of a conscious human life."
Thomas M. Messer wrote "We meet and our
met by paintings, sculptures and other
manifestations of visual creativity much as we
meet or are met by people. Encounters vary in
depth and significance from the casual and
trivial to the significant and moving. The
former is an everyday occurrence, the latter is
rare. But even among extraordinary experiences
the range varies from the stimulating and
worthwhile to the determining and unique, from
ordinary enrichment to the realization that what
we have experienced changes our perception of
life and reality."
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THE MYSTERY & MAGIC OF
ART
A. Pintura, Art Detective is a
playful way to examine a piece of art
work.
ArtsEdge: Linking the Arts and
Education Through Technology. This site was
established and continues its development under
a cooperative agreement between the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the
National Endowment for the Arts (with additional
support from the U.S. Department of
Education).
Eyes on Art. This project is part
of the Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer.
Seven excellent art experiences for children are
provided and may be used by interested
adults.
Art can and should inspire
analysis. To carry out such analysis,
however, requires understanding what questions
to ask of a work. Let us take an obscure
statuette as an example, and attempt to draw
forth as much information as
possible.
Inside Art traps the viewer
inside a painting in order to solve a mystery in
art history.
Why Is the Mona Lisa
Smiling? is the web site which was
created as a result of an international
collaboration between high school students in
Borlange Sweden and The Bronx called Why is the
Mona Lisa Smiling? This interdisciplinary
inquiry explores the mystery behind the smile,
and features original Da Vinci music, an
interactive quiz, a dozen Da Vinci diversions,
and an oportunity to create and send
postcards
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AND
ILLUSTRATORS
Diego Rivera Web Museum is a
powerful display of his magnificent works of
art. Diego Rivera (1886-l957), muralist painter,
was one of the greatest artists in the XXth
century.
Georgia O'Keeffe is a powerful
artist that captured the eye of the public. Of
her flowers, she wrote: "Most people in the city
rush around so, they have no time to look at a
flower. I want them to see it whether they want
to or not."
Gargoyles and Grotesques are the
work of sculptor, Walter S. Arnold in Chicago.
Do you wonder how a sculptor creates such
creatures from blocks of stone? You are invited
to an explanation of the tools and techniques of
stone and marble carving.
Frida Kahlo Frida's art was
influenced greatly by pain: she contracted polio
at age six, and was a victim of a bus accident
in her teens.
Chris Van Allsburg This is an
illustrated walk through Van Allsburg's books
such as The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Jumanji, and
The Polar Express.
MUSEUMS AND OTHER
RESOURCES
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is
an outstanding presentation of the contents of
this museum. Its collections include more than
two million works of art -- several hundred
thousand of which are on view at any given time
-- spanning more than 5,000 years of world
culture, from prehistory to the present.
Please visit the education
page.
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
houses an outstanding collection of modern art.
"Nearly 40,000 historical and contemporary
prints and books reflect the history of modern
art in both range and depth. Examples of such
traditional techniques as lithography, etching,
screenprinting, and woodcut are featured, as are
newer forms of printmaking."
MOCA: The Museum of Computer Art
MOCA is one of the most heavily-trafficked,
comprehensive, frequently-updated and respected
computer art museums on the Web. Extraordinary
images using a variety of
technologies.
The Louvre in Paris is well worth
a trip on the information highway. "Divided into
7 departments, the Louvre collections
incorporate works dating from the birth of the
great antique civilisations right up to the
first half of the XIXth century, thereby
confirming its encyclopedic
vocation."
Louvre Virtual Tour Here you will
find about 60 panoramic inside and outside-views
of the Museum. This "virtual tour" was made
possible thanks to QuickTime VR technology.
These pictures were designed to help the visitor
feel what it is like to be in the Museum, rather
than to show actual exhibits.
The George Eastman House of
International Photography and Film The
photography collection includes more than
400,000 photographs and negatives dating from
the invention of photography to the present day.
The collection embraces numerous landmark
processes, objects of great rarity, and
monuments of art history that trace the
evolution of the medium as a technology, as a
means of scientific and historical
documentation, and as one of the most potent and
accessible means of personal expression of the
modern era. More than 14,000 photographers are
represented in the collection, including
virtually all the major figures in the history
of the medium.
Ancient Greek Artifacts at the
British Museum. This is a carefully
structured tour of the holdings designed to help
anyone studying this era.
The DeCordova Museum is an
outstanding educational museum. The website
includes coverage of the exhibit Telling Stories
with Pictures: The Art of Children's Book
Illustration September 13 - December 28,
1997.
The Library of Congress is one of
the richest resources on the www and includes
digital access to untold resources.
African Art: Aesthetics and
Meaning. The objects selected for this
exhibit were chosen both to exemplify African
aesthetic and moral principles and to display
some of the finest pieces in the Bayly's large
collection at the University of Virginia. Most
of the pieces in the exhibit come from West
African societies.
World Art Treasures Thanks to the
100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard
Berger Foundation, all of them devoted to art,
and including the main civilizations, such as
Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe, its purpose
is to offer a different approach to art through
INTERNET via the World Wide Web.
The History of Art Virtual
Library provides an extremely comprehensive
listing of art resources on the www, including
Art History and Computer applications in Art
History. It is maintained by the Birkbeck
College, University of London.
The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL Includes, among many other
treasures, the 68 Thorne Miniature Rooms that
enable one to glimpse elements of European
interiors from the late 13th century to the
1930s and American furnishings from the 17th
century to the 1930s. Painstakingly constructed
on a scale of one inch to one foot, these
fascinating models were conceived by Mrs. James
Ward Thorne of Chicago and constructed between
1932 and 1940 by master craftsmen according to
her specifications.
National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC The National Gallery of Art and
its collections belong to the people of the
United States; its holdings include European and
American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts,
and selected works on paper. Full-screen views
of whole paintings and details allow close
study, includes information on artists and on
the museum's facilities and services.
The CyberMuse, National Gallery
of Canada provides nifty opportunities to
explore aspects of art.
National Museum of the American
Indian is a vast resource and filled with
beauty of the art and architecture.
Philadelphia Museum of Art is a
vast resource. The collection of Asian art, with
objects dating from the third millennium B.C. to
the present, includes ceramics, sculpture,
paintings, and decorative objects as well as a
Japanese ceremonial teahouse, a Chinese palace
hall, and a celebrated collection of Oriental
carpets.
Australian Center for Photography,
Paddington, Australia Established in 1973,
it is the ACP's mission to promote and enrich
the understanding of photo-based art in
Australia and this is achieved through a dynamic
mix of exhibition, education and
publication.
International Center of Photography,
New York, New York The International Center
of Photography is a museum, a school and a
center for photographers and photography. ICP's
mission is to present photography's vital and
central place in contemporary culture, and to
lead in interpretation of issues central to its
development.
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts,
Kiyosato, Japan The Museum embraces
photographic art made in the affirmation of
life. Work from all countries from 1900 to the
present is represented.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts The Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, was one of the earliest museums in the
country to collect photography, initiated in
1924 when Alfred Stieglitz donated twenty-seven
of his photographs.
The Israel Museum in Jerusalem
encompasses several museums in one campus.
Founded in 1965, the Israel Museum today has, in
a relatively short time, achieved world class
status with collections ranging from prehistoric
archaeology through contemporary art and with a
dynamic roster of temporary exhibitions,
publications, and educational activities. It is
the leading cultural institution in Israel and
is one of the largest encyclopedic museums in
the world.
The Guggenheim Museum The mission
of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is to
promote the understanding and appreciation of
art, architecture, and other manifestations of
modern and contemporary visual culture; to
collect, preserve, and research art objects; and
to make them accessible to scholars and an
increasingly diverse audience through its
network of museums, programs, educational
initiatives, and publications.
The Victoria & Albert Museum
is an extraordinary collection of resources
as the world's greatest museum of art and
design. Over the next few years it is undergoing
an exciting transformation. Their vision is to
open up the Museum, making the beautiful
building and world-class collections accessible
and inspiring for everyone.
ART TECHNIQUES AND
EXPERIENCES
The Use of Visual Information in
Art. This is a tutorial to demonstrate how
visual information is used in art. Some of the
factors considered are aspects of depth
perception, color perception, and form
perception.
Joseph Wu's Origami Page provides
the most detailed instructions and diagrams for
this art form. It also includes apage on
Japanese washi.
Kodak Education Site. This site
includes details and courses on digital
imaging.
How to Get a Paper Crane is a set
of pctures and directions for creating a paper
crane.
Art Studio Chalkboard are a
resource for artists and art students that focus
on the technical fundamentals of perspective,
shading, color and painting. They were compiled
and designed by Ralph Larmann, art faculty
member.
ON COLOR
Color Vision & Art: The Science
of Vision & the Emergence of Art is an
exhibit provided as a public service of the
Institute of Dynamic Educational Advancement
(IDEA), and is supported in part by the U.S.
Department of Education, Fund for the
Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
Color Matters is a nifty site.
Color can sway thinking, change actions, and
cause reactions. The concept of color can be
approached from several disciplines: physiology,
psychology, philosophy, and art. The following
will provide some starting points for an
exploration of color.
Color Wheel and Color Complements
is a useful and brief approach to this
issue.Color has value. This is the darkness or
lightness of a particular color. We can divide
these value changes into SHADES and TINTS. This
site on color saturation and intensity is
useful in exploring this.
Causes of Colors Why is the sky
blue? Why is fire yellow? What about flamingos
or emeralds? Scholars have learned that all the
colors in the universe originate from a mere
fifteen fundamental physical causes. These
causes appear over and over, lending color to
the world around us. Some common causes seem
logical -- for example, both light bulbs and
candles are colored by incandescence -- and
others are surprising -- did you know that the
colors of peacock feathers and bubbles are both
caused by interference?
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