Lecture and Reading Summation 9/03/10

What is art? As a class we have came up with,

• a person who thought of it
• image of a person
• like the way it looks
• inspires thought and emotion
• effortfilled
• useful
• sometimes it's not art but it's nature
• an artifact
• someone made it
• not instictual
• conscious decisions

To present, or re-present?
      Representation- one hing stands in for another.

Styles of Representation-

• Naturalistic- as in nature
• Realistic- as in real life
• Stylized- simplified to emphasize important details
• Abstract- highly stylized (may be beyond recognition)

Non-Representational