Nude and Naked

According to an art teacher, nude is an idealized human form or "perfect" human form, naked is wrinkles, warts, and scars.

Art Quiz

Just for fun click on the following link and see how you do on the art quiz. I got 8 out of 10
http://www.phaidon.com/30000-years-of-art/quiz

Week 3

For this week, I'd like you to read the article from the following link about the importance of the arts. http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=eeb745c4-6ed2-4cda-952f-4fa432894cbd
It should be:

My church: the mind's 'theatre of simultaneous possibilities'

Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Saturday, December 22, 2007

Using this article and the reading for this week, compare and contrast your favorite works of art, literature, etc.

My favorite painting is Van Gogh's Starry Night. It was on display in the Guggenheim in NYC when I was in college and I got to see it and several other Van Gogh's that were on display. There were copies of his letters. I tried reading them, but couldn't. I thought his handwriting was bad, then I realized they were in French, so I had a moment to feel truly smart and humbled. My girlfriend and I got a big laugh out of that. I also like it because Don McLean wrote a song about Van Gogh and the painting. Yes, I have a small reproduction of it in my house.

I also like Frederick Remington and Charles Russell. Cowboy art is great. Do some more thinking. What are your standards? To whom or what are you comparing greatness to?

Week 2 Part 2

Using the questions from page 46 about the female nude, explain the difference between nude and naked. Why are these "art" and not "pornography?"

Week 2

Using the concepts of "artistic form," "participation," "content," and "subject matter," as they are defined in the book, describe an experience of you own as to how art affected, changed, or enriched you.
For example, several years ago I was in the St. Louis Museum of Art. There was a large sculpture called "Spilled Files." It was large file rack 15 feet tall and 30 feet wide, like x-ray or patient files in a physician's office, that were filled with glass sheets. The glass sheets had spilled into a 30 foot by 30 foot area of broken glass. The glass was roped off by poles and ropes around a foot and a half tall.
It was nothing but broken glass, and I felt cheated. I continued to look at the pre-Columbian exhibits, a Picasso, and a few modern sculptures and paintings, and I kept coming back to look at the broken glass. How did they dust it? How could they move it and keep it the same? Was this exhibit consciously arranged? I decided that it wasn't art and left the museum feeling disappointed.
When I walked outside, everything looked different. The way that I "viewed" the world, my perceptions of the world, had changed. I decided that it was art.

Week One

After reading the chapter and the selections from Evocative essays, take an abstract idea, then link it with a physical object or event. Place your 2-3 paragraph answer on the comments section of the blog.