VPHA46H3 Lecture Notes - Lagash, Hatshepsut, Signify
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The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. If someone calls is art, it"s art. Form: line, color (hue), value, saturation, texture, composition, perspective, mass, volume, etc. Content: subject matter, iconography, (symbols, ideas) meaning. Material from which work of art is produced. Sculptures could be made of marble, bronze, clay, etc. Painting could be done in oil paints, watercolours, pastel, ink, etc. , and be on canvas, board, or paper. Describes a method of producing an object. Lost-wax casting method (described in the textbook) Artist represent what they conceive, not what they perceive. They record not what they see, but what they know or. Personal vision joins with the artistic conventions of time and place to decide the manner and effects of the representation. It"s a reminder of our mortality, the we must die one day.
