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"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist”
From: Eric Gill
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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 , Vol 1, Winter 2004.
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| "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
From: Oscar Wilde
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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 von Goethe
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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 Manguel
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It tears down our heroes and heart-warming convictions, violates canons of politeness and humane compromise."
From: John Gardner
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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 Boldon
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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."
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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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