Why do people make Art?
People around the world make art to:
• seek personal enjoyment and satisfaction.
• express personal thoughts and feelings
• communicate with others.
• create a more favorable environment.
• make others see more clearly.
• provide us with new visual experiences.
• record a time, place, person, or object.
• commemorate important people or events.
• reinforce cultural ties and traditions.
• seek to affect social change.
• tell stories.
• heal the sick.
• adorn themselves.
• explain the unknown.
• worship.
• create an illusion or magic.
• predict the future or remember the past.
• earn a livelihood.
• do something no one else can (or has yet done).
• amuse themselves (or make us laugh).
• make the ordinary extraordinary.
• increase our global understanding.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
Choose 3 items from the list above that would compel you to make your own art.
People around the world make art to:
• seek personal enjoyment and satisfaction.
• express personal thoughts and feelings
• communicate with others.
• create a more favorable environment.
• make others see more clearly.
• provide us with new visual experiences.
• record a time, place, person, or object.
• commemorate important people or events.
• reinforce cultural ties and traditions.
• seek to affect social change.
• tell stories.
• heal the sick.
• adorn themselves.
• explain the unknown.
• worship.
• create an illusion or magic.
• predict the future or remember the past.
• earn a livelihood.
• do something no one else can (or has yet done).
• amuse themselves (or make us laugh).
• make the ordinary extraordinary.
• increase our global understanding.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
Choose 3 items from the list above that would compel you to make your own art.
" my criteria would be the three H's, which is head, heart and hands. And great art would have "head":it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have "heart" in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have "hand" in that it would be greatly crafted."
The central idea of my concentration is _____________________________.
I am passionate about this subject because ___________________________.
I will show skill and craftsmanship by _______________________________________
I am passionate about this subject because ___________________________.
I will show skill and craftsmanship by _______________________________________
Project Proposal:
Each student will develop a project proposal which will include all of the following in a standard 5 paragraph essay:
What are you going to do? What is your concentration about? What are you going to make? What are the main aspects of your project? Expand on the meaning of the concept.
- Learn new materials, techniques, processes
- Explore ideas, themes and feeling in your work
- Learn approaches inspired by the work of others
Why is this important to you? How is it relevant to you? Personal, practical, political, theoretical? Why does your theme intrigue you or is of particular interest to you?
- Have you struggled with the technique?
- Do you have something important to say?
- Are you inspired by someone else?
What materials and resources will you use? Be very specific.
- Is there anything unusual that you need?
- If you will be working from home, what will you do in class?
- List the artists or schools of art that are influencing your. How are they influencing you?
What difficulties do you envision and how will you solve them?
- List the artists or schools of art that are influencing your. How are they influencing you?
Project proposals must be typed and at least one page in length. Once the proposal is complete the student needs to schedule a meeting with the instructor for approval. Once accepted the student may begin.