We are as likely to communicate using easily interpretable pictures as we are text. Portable handheld devices enable us to tell others via social media what we are doing and thinking. Approximately 15,000 years ago, we also communicated in pictures—but with no written language.
Part 1: “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.” —Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) What do you think the artist means when she writes that using elements of art enabled her “to say things she had no words for”? Write your interpretation of the ideas she is expressing. Part 2: Art is more than just objects and images. It is a visual story of a people and their culture. It reveals their feelings, views, and beliefs. In a sense, art history mirrors the history of the world. It is a window on the past and the many cultures that enrich our lives. The artworks produced many thousands of years ago tell us a great deal about the earliest cultures and civilizations of our world. These ancient people left no written records. What we know of them has been learned from the objects and the art that they left behind. Choose one picture from the link here on the Khan Academy's Brief History of Western Culture or an image search for prehistoric art. Describe your choice. What does this artwork tell us about the people and culture in which it was made? Part 3: "We are immersed in our own time and it can be difficult to see the world around us objectively. One of the modern definitions of an artist, in fact, is someone who is particularly insightful about their own cultural moment. Thanks to global capitalism, social media and the internet, we are more interconnected and interdependent than at any other time in history. Some see this as a utopian moment. With internet access, we can all contribute to and benefit from what is being called the Information Revolution. For others, the prevalence of technology in our lives threatens our individuality and privacy, and reduces us to a data point that can be monetized by corporations like Facebook, Google, and Apple. One thing is certain, throughout the time periods sketched above, art has meant different things, and it is likely to be differently defined in the future. The history of humanity is recorded in our visual culture. Like the fate of previous civilizations, time will eventually destroy much of the visual culture that we are familiar with today. Future art historians will seek to reconstruct the world we now live in, to better understand the nuanced meanings that are so familiar to us. Perhaps someday an art historian will puzzle over an internet meme, a Torqued Ellipse by Richard Serra, or school-yard graffiti." --Essay by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker How do you imagine future peoples interpreting our cultural moment in 1,000 years? What will they say about our "Information Revolution"? What records of ours might remain? Part 4: The Google Arts & Culture Project is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative's partner museums. Choose one search term to plug in, and then describe several of the types of art that come up. What did you learn about how this category? What does the artwork say about humanity from this piece of our global art history record? E.C. Check out the TED Talk here and explain what this cultural Big Bang Looks like. What are the capabilities of Google Arts & Culture? How do they display this visually for the audience? Share your most insightful thoughts in 7-10+ sentence summary.
6 Comments
Paloma
11/9/2019 04:09:48 pm
Amit Sood argues that art is not an unreachable concept. It can be reached at ones fingertips. Even a child unable to travel to a museum half a world away, its not unreachable. Through high definition images you can see artwork, sculptures and the buildings themselves. In theory it is like the big bang. It fixates on the bigger picture and endless possibilities of art, all art forms.
Reply
Logan Ruddell
11/20/2019 02:28:20 pm
Artwork has involved throughout many centuries. We went from cave paintings to digital art and managing different forms of art that we use today. Art culture will never go away..it’ll continue to grow and grow. I think 1000 years from now, people will still look at our art and see how it has been improved over those course of years. Art will never die, but it will always continue to improve regardless of how it changes over the course of the years.
Reply
Alexis Banuelos
11/10/2020 01:20:33 pm
I believe that over thousands of years artwork has changed so much. I imagine that in 1,000 years artwork will look so different from how it looks now. In 1,000 years they will have come up with new techniques or even just ways to better the techniques that are used now especially when newer technology come out it will have helped how artwork come out in the future. I don't think that art can ever die but it definitely will keep on improving as we go through years.
Reply
Angel Cabrera
11/12/2020 10:19:08 am
Art has changed throughout the years. I believe it will continue to change as the years pass.Art culture will also continue to change and expand.I believe that art will always remain in our society and that it will never be forgotten.
Reply
Jessica Garcia
12/5/2020 02:06:34 pm
The traditional use of art had now become redundant and it needed to evolve if it wanted to stick around. Very soon, art slowly became less of what was depicted, and more of the ideas and concepts it represented. This shift of importance redefined art and it could now be found in everything in the world around us, if one looked hard enough. This opened up the use of different materials and techniques used to create artworks, paving the way for the Contemporary art we see today.
Reply
Fabian Baugh
12/4/2022 07:38:51 pm
Art is an expression of emotions. It allows a communication without words. To know the true expression would require acknowledging the artist themselves, interpretations resulting from not asking. Culture is involved in works, some using varying techniques and mediums due to them. People 1,000 years from now will look at our art how we have looked at the art from 1,000 years ago. New art will be made, ours rendered “obsolete”, and praised upon by being the stuff of legends. History repeats itself, and art is not dying anytime soon.
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
Art AppreciationClick comments to leave your comments on the discussion: A Leave a Reply form will appear. The reply button lets you comment on other's replies. Archives
April 2020
Categories |