Aesthetic Education & Art Appreciation
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Aesthetic
Education & Art
Appreciation
Lecture One :
The curriculum is divided into two parts: Aesthetic education and art appreciation.
Aesthetic Education:The first part
How to train and develop the feeling of
beauty inside yourself ?
This really isn’t less important than
psychological education or national
education.
- Human beings are in need to educate
themselves how to feel beauty and taste it and
this will surely influence their life in general.
In their appearance and in every day life.
Here we give importance to fine arts value.
What’s the meaning of fine arts (major arts)?
This is the work of art that only has a value of
:nd it includesabeauty ,
Sculpture, Painting, Drawing and Architecture.
Applied artsThere is another type of arts called
What’s the meaning of applied arts (minor arts)?
This is the work of art that is used in the
everyday life of human beings. And it includes:
Clay , glass , mosaic , cloth , metal , wood etc…….
Q. What’s the difference between fine arts and applied
arts?
What do we feel when we hear the word “Art”?
When we hear the word “Art” a world of ideas , colors and
shapes evokes in our mind.
What do you know about Art?
It’s a personal experience that the artist has gone through
and is reflected on his work of art either it is a picture , a
statue or any other artistic work with any material.
Sources of Art:
Art emerges from many sources ; Religious stories , Myths ,
Historical stories , Symbolical Expressions belonging to the
artist himself.
Art reflects the social , economical , political and religious
state of any society.
The artist is one of this society but he has evaluation
and creativity.
What’s the way of understanding any work of art?
When we talk about art for the first time we feel it’s difficult
to understand a work of art. The language of art isn’t that
if you look for them and find Keysdifficult , it has some
them you will surely understand this language.
Elements of Art:•Space: It’s the space in which the artist works (a square , a
rectangle , a circle , etc….) And the relation between it and the work
of art. Do you think which is more comfortable for vision a square or
a rectangular space?
•Proportion: It’s the relation between different shapes and the space
in the work of art. Between mass and space.
•Light: How is the work of art affected by light whether it’s day or
night, natural or artificial. Its direction and its relation to the shape.
Do you imagine life without light? Light draws shapes.
•Texture: For the success of any work of art the artist must feel the
material and respond to it so that his sight will create an image and
his hands will obey what his eyes want.
Q. Mention the elements of any work of art ? Giving examples from
the work of Rubens and Van Gogh?
(1452-1519)
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda). 1503-1506.Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France.
The Last Supper.c.1495-1498. Fresco . Santa Maria delle Grazie, Refectory, Milan, Italy..
Copy from: The Last Supper.Oil on Canvas.
(1853-1890)
Still Life with Open Bible.April 1885. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles. Saint-Rémy.
September 1889. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Self-Portrait in a Grey Felt Hat.1887. Oil on card. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mulberry Tree.October 1889. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Noon Rest (After Millet). Saint-Rémy.
January 1890. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte.
Summer 1887. Oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Fishing in Spring.1887. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
In the Garden du Luxembourg.1886. Oil on canvas. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA.
Montmartre. Paris.Autumn 1886. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Morning, Leaving for Work (Le matin, le départ au travail).1890. Oil on canvas. Collection of Otto Krebs, Holzdorf. Now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Starry Night. Saint-Rémy.
June 1889. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Fishing Boats on the Beach.June 1888. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
“Starry Night over the Rhone at Arles”Oil on canvas., 1888
“A Pair of Shoes”1885 , Oil on canvas , Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
“Pair of Shoes”Oil on canvas, 34.0 x 41.5 cm. Paris: early 1887
“The Potato-Eaters”April 1885. Oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
(1577-1640)
Rubens and Isabella c.1609. Oil on canvas.Munich, Germany.
The Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma.1603. Oil on canvas.Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Portrait of Alathea Howard, Countess of Arundel.1620. Oil on canvas. AltePinakothek, Munich, Germany.
An Old Woman with a Chafing-Dish.1616-1618. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.
Artist's Sons Albert and Nicholas.1624-1625. Oil on canvas
(1830-1903)
Self-Portrait.1873. Oil on canvas.Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Washerwomen.Oil on Canvas.
The Road from Versailles at Louveciennes.1870. Oil on canvas. Foundation E.G. Bührlecollection, Zurich, Switzerland.
Apple Picking 1888, Dallas Museum of Art
Woman Hanging Laundry.1887. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
The Hermitage at Pontoise.1874. Oil on canvas. Oscar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland.
A Cowherd at Pontoise.1874. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
The Shepherdess.1881. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
The Woodcutter.Oil on canvas, is part of the Robert Holmes à
Court Collection in Perth, Australia.
The Road to Louveciennes.1872. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
La Route de versailles a Louveciennes.1869. Oil on canvas. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Hoarfrost.1873. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Jallais Coast.Pontoise 1867 , Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
L'Hermitage.c. 1868. Oil on canvas. Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
La Foret1870. Oil on canvas. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesbourg, South Africa.
Lecture Two
Art in ancient civilizations
Art has a lot of privacy. Each civilization has its own
culture that develops and art is the product of the culture of
this civilization or this society.
had ideal proportions for each part The ancient Egyptians
of the figure.
a) The front eyes
b) The profile of the face
c) The front chest
d) The side of legs
For example: the mural paintings in Nefertary’s Tomb in
Luxor .When you look at any picture you don’t feel it’s
irregular and that’s the top of creativity and art which the old
Egyptian had.
Horus plaque
This ancient Egyptian plaque depicts the god Horus. The falcon-headed god, holds in his right hand the ankh, a symbol of life. The kings of Egypt associated themselves with Horus, who was the son of Isis and Osiris. Horus is an ancient god of Egyptian mythology,
The Bust of Nefertiti, by the sculptor Thutmose, is one of the most famous masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art.
Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as this golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun.
A tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer.
Akhenaten word meaning beautiful with the sun disk. Tried to unify the gods of ancient Egypt, including the god Amun-Re in the form of one god, Aten. And moved the capital from Thebes to the
new capital furnace sister queens. And showing the real art, particularly in sculpture and painting
The book of the dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife.
Anubis was an ancient Egyptian god associated with mummification and burial rituals; here, it attends to a mummy.
The goddess Isis to give the key to life Nefertari
The ancient Egyptians maintained a rich cultural heritage complete with feasts and festivals accompanied by music and dance.
Ancient Egyptians knew Ornaments and jewelry, which was characterized by technical precision and the beauty of composition, and decorative elements derived from nature such as papyrus,
palm trees, lotus flowers and precious stones used in the decorations and ornaments.
Craftsmen at Work. Tomb of Menkherperreseneb at Sheikh Abd elQurna
On the Tree Of Life, the birds represent the various stages of human life. Starting in the lower right-hand corner and proceeding counter-clockwise: - The light gray bird symbolizes infancy.- The red bird symbolizes childhood.- The green bird symbolizes youth.-The blue bird symbolizes adulthood.-The orange bird symbolizes old age.
Abu Simbel Temple dedicated to Rameses II , (1279-1213 B.C.)
Abu Simbel Temple dedicated to Rameses II , (1279-1213 B.C.)
Edfu Temple
Queen Hatshepsut Temple (female Pharaoh), Deir el-Bahri, Egypt (1490-1460 BCE .)
Front of Queen Hatshepsut Temple (female Pharaoh), Deir el-Bahri, Egypt (1490-1460 BCE .)
Three Hatshepsuts on the Upper Terrace.
Detailed and colorful murals in a portico.
Tomb Basreliefs
Hieroglyphics
Court of Amenhotep III at Luxor
The Greek Roman Civilization
had special points of view.
•They worshipped the human body
•All their gods were shaped as human beings
like Venus , Apollo and Zeus
Zeus,c. 460 B.C, National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
This masterpiece of classical sculpture was found by fishermen in their nets off the coast of Cape Artemisium in 1928. The figure is more than 2 m in height.
JupiterKing of the gods
Venus Goddess of Beauty
Apollo God of the sun
Pluto God of Death
Minerva Goddess of wisdom
DianaGoddess of the moon
Mercury Messenger of the gods
Cupid God of love
Mosaic – Empress Teudor
Hephaistos. temple
Olympia . temple
The Coptic art
had its own features because it had a motive.
•It was a primitive art.
•It was a popular art which had symbols
understood by all people like the fish ,
grapes and bread .
Adam & Eve
Nouh Ship
Islamic art
was unique in reflecting the philosophy of
monotheism
•It had connected chaps of plants and
geometrical figures to assure that there is no
God except Allah.
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