P: THE NATURE AND POWER OF ART

What are the coverage or highlight of this lesson (Specifically 14)

The Power of Art for Tribal Peoples, The Power of Religious Art, Art Represents Ideals, Art as a Declaration of Power, The Power to Convey Immortality, The Power to Shock, The Power to Change Our Beliefs, The Power to Touch Our Emotions, The Power to Awaken Our Senses, The Power to Transform the Ordinary, The Power of Art for the Artist, Self-Expression, The Artist at Play, and The Artist’s Memory.

Painting and carving in rock walls, known as rock art, was not simply a prehistoric European phenomenon.

The Power of Art for Tribal Peoples

art gives visual expression to inner belief and has the ability to raise people’s spirits above the problems of daily life.

The Power of Religious Art

Statues of gods and goddesses also have the power to express the ideals of a particular culture in physical form.

Art Represents Ideals

Besides expressing spiritual beliefs or cultural ideals, art from the earliest times has been used to declare the power of rulers. The pharaohs of Egypt erected huge structures to declare their strength

Art as a Declaration of Power

The Emperor Jahangir sits on a throne supported by an hourglass whose sand has almost run out. Yet, on the glass, cupids are painting a prayer that he might live for a thousand years.

The Power to Convey Immortality

Related to art’s power to change our point of view is its power to shock us.

The Power to Shock

Art also has the power to change the way we think, the way we understand the world around us.

The Power to Change Our Beliefs

Art can also profoundly touch the emotions of the viewer.

The Power to Touch Our Emotions

Contemporary life is lived at a fast pace, and it is easy to miss what is going on around us, to have our senses dulled by overstimulation, and to literally lose focus.

The Power to Awaken Our Senses

One pleasure of looking at art is enjoying a feeling of amazement that an artist has magically transformed ordinary materials into a marvelous work of imagination.

The Power to Transform the Ordinary

without artists, there wouldn’t be any art.

The Power of Art for the Artist

Through their art, painters, sculptors, architects, photographers, printmakers, designers, and craftspeople are all able to express their personal visions.

Self-Expression

A sense of spontaneous playfulness, amusement, and imagination

The Artist at Play

A means of recording past experiences.

The Artist’s Memory