The Arts: Usage
Historical development
- Conventions and values in the arts change over time
- Importance of the historical development of an art in making sense of its present form
Just like individuals, the arts’ styles and content develop over time as technology becomes more advanced. The purpose and perception of art has expanded, as well as what art has been considered to be acceptable in terms of shared knowledge.
The earliest known art was cave paintings found on cave walls and ceilings. These paintings consisted of things the painters saw around them. They might have been used for communication and religious or ceremonial purposes. Early paintings and sculptures depicted religious topics and aristocrats, but they later expanded to include normal people and everyday situations. The development has shifted from a realistic style to an abstract style, which over time has caused great controversy – even in artistic fields such as dance and music.
As art develops, the scope of what is considered to be art expands to keep the old and include the new. Whether the purpose of the artwork is to create a shock factor or not, it often leaves the audience scandalized, disturbed, and offended. In its time and place, it might evoke too much provocation and be rejected, only to be recognized and acknowledged in the future.
Just like individuals, the arts’ styles and content develop over time as technology becomes more advanced. The purpose and perception of art has expanded, as well as what art has been considered to be acceptable in terms of shared knowledge.
The earliest known art was cave paintings found on cave walls and ceilings. These paintings consisted of things the painters saw around them. They might have been used for communication and religious or ceremonial purposes. Early paintings and sculptures depicted religious topics and aristocrats, but they later expanded to include normal people and everyday situations. The development has shifted from a realistic style to an abstract style, which over time has caused great controversy – even in artistic fields such as dance and music.
As art develops, the scope of what is considered to be art expands to keep the old and include the new. Whether the purpose of the artwork is to create a shock factor or not, it often leaves the audience scandalized, disturbed, and offended. In its time and place, it might evoke too much provocation and be rejected, only to be recognized and acknowledged in the future.
- Conventions and values in the arts change over time
- Importance of the historical development of an art in making sense of its present form
Just like individuals, the arts’ styles and content develop over time as technology becomes more advanced. The purpose and perception of art has expanded, as well as what art has been considered to be acceptable in terms of shared knowledge.
The earliest known art was cave paintings found on cave walls and ceilings. These paintings consisted of things the painters saw around them. They might have been used for communication and religious or ceremonial purposes. Early paintings and sculptures depicted religious topics and aristocrats, but they later expanded to include normal people and everyday situations. The development has shifted from a realistic style to an abstract style, which over time has caused great controversy – even in artistic fields such as dance and music.
As art develops, the scope of what is considered to be art expands to keep the old and include the new. Whether the purpose of the artwork is to create a shock factor or not, it often leaves the audience scandalized, disturbed, and offended. In its time and place, it might evoke too much provocation and be rejected, only to be recognized and acknowledged in the future.
Just like individuals, the arts’ styles and content develop over time as technology becomes more advanced. The purpose and perception of art has expanded, as well as what art has been considered to be acceptable in terms of shared knowledge.
The earliest known art was cave paintings found on cave walls and ceilings. These paintings consisted of things the painters saw around them. They might have been used for communication and religious or ceremonial purposes. Early paintings and sculptures depicted religious topics and aristocrats, but they later expanded to include normal people and everyday situations. The development has shifted from a realistic style to an abstract style, which over time has caused great controversy – even in artistic fields such as dance and music.
As art develops, the scope of what is considered to be art expands to keep the old and include the new. Whether the purpose of the artwork is to create a shock factor or not, it often leaves the audience scandalized, disturbed, and offended. In its time and place, it might evoke too much provocation and be rejected, only to be recognized and acknowledged in the future.
Art Timeline
Stone age (30,000 b.c.- 2500 b.c.) - Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970-)
Stone age (30,000 b.c.- 2500 b.c.) - Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970-)
Relations to personal knowledge
Just as art is judged on the basis of both personal and shared standards, it is created by individuals and, to some degree, in groups. Those works of art created by individuals will be highly individual, depending upon the interests, skills and aims of the artist, while those which are the result of collaboration will reflect the highly personal input of each collaborator, then shaped by the collaboration. Sometimes one person's vision (the director's in a theatrical production, for example) will contribute more to determining the essential nature of the work, but even then, the input of the other collaborators (actors, in the case of a play) will naturally colour the outcome.
Each artist relies to differing degrees on the same ways of knowing that the audience w ill eventually use to interpret the art - emotion, intuition, imagination, memory, sense perception and reason. Some artists claim to work very intuitively (though remember that this is a trained intuition!), while others profess themselves to think long and hard about how to put together a work. Many, if not most, do drafts of their work as they try to figure out what final product will best embody what they want to convey.
Despite the importance of individual vision, artists influence each other. Movements such as the Impressionist, Cubist and Abstract-Impressionist schools arose from artists working together, discussing their work, and identifying values that underlay their final product.