Instructor Manual: Lazzari/Schlesier, Exploring Art, 6e, 9798214144474; Chapter 1: Art and Art Making
Instructor Manual
Lazzari/Schlesier, Exploring Art, 6e, 9798214144474; Chapter 1: Art and Art Making
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Purpose and Perspective of the Chapter......................................................................2
Learning Objectives.......................................................................................................2
What’s New in This Chapter........................................................................................2
List of Images by Figure Number.................................................................................3
Chapter Outline.............................................................................................................4
Teaching Globally and Thematically............................................................................5
Food for Thought..........................................................................................................6
Topics for Discussion....................................................................................................6
Suggested Resources.....................................................................................................9
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PURPOSE AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHAPTER
The purpose of this chapter is to give students a framework for understanding the function of art and art
making, and ways to understand and appreciate art. The chapter gives a few working definitions of art and
covers examples from stone monuments of the past to today’s big screen projections. It also covers the
ways that we describe, classify, and study art, and how art fits into our overall visual culture. It examines
art in relation to popular culture and crafts; and finally, it looks at artists, creativity, and the making of art.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The following learning objectives are addressed in this chapter:
1-1 Describe the various functions of art.
1-2 Describe the significance of content and context when analyzing a work of art.
1-3 Use style vocabulary to describe a particular work of art.
1-4 Define fine art, craft, and popular culture and explain how they relate to visual culture.
1-5 Compare and contrast artists’ training, education, and role in society in various world cultures.
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WHAT’S NEW IN THIS CHAPTER
The following elements have been added to this chapter from the previous edition:
New Features (added to all chapters):
Learning Objectives
Key Vocabulary
Chapter Summary
18 New Images: See the list that follows.
New Content:
New to 6e is coverage of Artificial Intelligence as it relates to artists, art making, and creativity.
The entire chapter has been extensively revised to improve clarity.
The Visual Culture discussion has been rewritten.
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LIST OF IMAGES BY FIGURE NUMBER
Note: An Asterisk [*] next to the figure number indicates that it is a new image.
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*Part 1 Opener: Katsushika Hokusai. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa from the series Thirty-six Views of
Mt. Fuji, 1831. Woodblock print, ink, and colors on paper.
*Figure 1.1 Porch of the Caryatids, Erectheum, Acropolis, Athens, c. 421–405 BCE.
*Figure 1.2 Olowe of Ise. Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure, Yorubaland,
before 1938. Wood, pigment.
Figure 1.3 Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, c. 175 CE. Bronze.
*Figure 1.4 Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus, Italy, c. 1485. Tempera on canvas.
*Figure 1.5 Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Spain/France, 1907. Oil on canvas.
*Figure 1.6 Mask (Bwoom). Kuba. Western Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, late
nineteenth/mid-twentieth century. Wood, metal, glass beads, cowrie shells, fabric,
pigment, seeds, thread, and leather.
Figure 1.7 An illustration of, from left to right by row, A. naturalistic; B. idealized; C. expressive;
D. surreal; E. abstract; and F. nonobjective drawings.
*Figure 1.8 Grand Mosque, Djenné, Mali, 1906–1907.
*Figure 1.9 Badshahi Mosque, main entrance, Lahore, Pakistan, 1672–1674.
*Figure 1.10 Vincent van Gogh. Portrait of Mme. Ginoux (L’Arlesienne), 1890. Oil on canvas.
*Figure 1.11 Paul Gauguin. Woman in a Coffeehouse, Madame Ginoux in the Cafe de la Gare in Arles,
1888. Oil on canvas.
*Figure 1.12 A gallery in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*Figure 1.13 Sarah Sze. Triple Point (Pendulum), 2013. Salt, water, stone, string, projector, video,
pendulum, and other materials.
Figure 1.14 An example of street art in Cartegena de Indias, Colombia, 2017, which is a large
colorful mural of a fabulous bird along a public street.
*Figure 1.15 Interior of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, with permanent installations of the
arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
Figure 1.16 José Guadalupe Posada. Las bravisimas calaveras guatemaltecas de Mora y de Morales,
1907. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper, zinc
etching.
*Figure 1.17 Takashi Murakami. Kaikai Kiki. Manga sculpture in the Venus Drawing Room.
Exhibition in the state apartments and gardens of the Chateau Versailles outside of Paris
in 2010.
Figure 1.18 The Smithsonian Institution’s 150th Anniversary Float in the 1996 Rose Parade in
Pasadena, California.
Figure 1.19 Tim Hawkinson. Bear, 2005.
Figure 1.20 Ghiordes Prayer Rug, Turkey, eighteenth century. White mihrab (prayer niche) with two
Turkish floral columns. Wool.
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Figure 1.21 Imhotep. Stepped Pyramid of Djoser (right) and Tomb Complex, Saqqarah, Egypt, 2650–
2631 BCE.
Figure 1.22 James Hampton. The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General
Assembly, c. 1950–1964. Gold and silver aluminum foil, kraft paper, and plastic over
wood furniture, paperboard, and glass, 180 pieces in all, overall configuration.
Figure 1.23 Utagawa Hiroshige. Basket Ferry, Kagowatashi, Hida Province, 1853. Woodblock print.
*Figure 1.24 Displaying the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Washington, D.C., June 25, 2004.
Figure 1.25 Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Genesis, 1993. Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas.
*Figure 1.26 Sarad Offering. Bali, Indonesia, Undated.
Figure 1.27 Baule Seated Female Figure. Wood.
*Figure 1.28 Leonardo da Vinci. Proportions of the Human Figure (Vitruvian Man), c. 1492. Pen and
ink on paper.
Figure 1.29 Lee Alexander McQueen. Display from the 2015 exhibition Savage Beauty at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
*Figure 1.30 Refik Anadol, Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations—MoMA, 2022.
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
Chapter 1: Art and Art Making
Preview
Toward a Definition of Art
o Function
o Visual Form
o Content
o Aesthetics
o Art and Style Vocabulary
Art within Visual Culture
o Fine Art
o Popular Culture
o Craft
o Other Categories
About Artists
o The Context for Art Making
o Training Artists
o Making the Art Object
o Innovation and Self-Expression
o Creative People in Various Cultures
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Instructor Manual
Lazzari/Schlesier, Exploring Art, 6e, 9798214144474; Chapter 1: Art and Art Making
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Purpose and Perspective of the Chapter......................................................................2
Learning Objectives.......................................................................................................2
What’s New in This Chapter........................................................................................2
List of Images by Figure Number.................................................................................3
Chapter Outline.............................................................................................................4
Teaching Globally and Thematically............................................................................5
Food for Thought..........................................................................................................6
Topics for Discussion....................................................................................................6
Suggested Resources.....................................................................................................9
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, Instructor Manual: Lazzari/Schlesier, Exploring Art, 6e, 9798214144474; Chapter 1: Art and Art Making
PURPOSE AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHAPTER
The purpose of this chapter is to give students a framework for understanding the function of art and art
making, and ways to understand and appreciate art. The chapter gives a few working definitions of art and
covers examples from stone monuments of the past to today’s big screen projections. It also covers the
ways that we describe, classify, and study art, and how art fits into our overall visual culture. It examines
art in relation to popular culture and crafts; and finally, it looks at artists, creativity, and the making of art.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The following learning objectives are addressed in this chapter:
1-1 Describe the various functions of art.
1-2 Describe the significance of content and context when analyzing a work of art.
1-3 Use style vocabulary to describe a particular work of art.
1-4 Define fine art, craft, and popular culture and explain how they relate to visual culture.
1-5 Compare and contrast artists’ training, education, and role in society in various world cultures.
[return to top]
WHAT’S NEW IN THIS CHAPTER
The following elements have been added to this chapter from the previous edition:
New Features (added to all chapters):
Learning Objectives
Key Vocabulary
Chapter Summary
18 New Images: See the list that follows.
New Content:
New to 6e is coverage of Artificial Intelligence as it relates to artists, art making, and creativity.
The entire chapter has been extensively revised to improve clarity.
The Visual Culture discussion has been rewritten.
[return to top]
LIST OF IMAGES BY FIGURE NUMBER
Note: An Asterisk [*] next to the figure number indicates that it is a new image.
2
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posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. 2
, Instructor Manual: Lazzari/Schlesier, Exploring Art, 6e, 9798214144474; Chapter 1: Art and Art Making
*Part 1 Opener: Katsushika Hokusai. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa from the series Thirty-six Views of
Mt. Fuji, 1831. Woodblock print, ink, and colors on paper.
*Figure 1.1 Porch of the Caryatids, Erectheum, Acropolis, Athens, c. 421–405 BCE.
*Figure 1.2 Olowe of Ise. Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure, Yorubaland,
before 1938. Wood, pigment.
Figure 1.3 Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, c. 175 CE. Bronze.
*Figure 1.4 Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus, Italy, c. 1485. Tempera on canvas.
*Figure 1.5 Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Spain/France, 1907. Oil on canvas.
*Figure 1.6 Mask (Bwoom). Kuba. Western Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, late
nineteenth/mid-twentieth century. Wood, metal, glass beads, cowrie shells, fabric,
pigment, seeds, thread, and leather.
Figure 1.7 An illustration of, from left to right by row, A. naturalistic; B. idealized; C. expressive;
D. surreal; E. abstract; and F. nonobjective drawings.
*Figure 1.8 Grand Mosque, Djenné, Mali, 1906–1907.
*Figure 1.9 Badshahi Mosque, main entrance, Lahore, Pakistan, 1672–1674.
*Figure 1.10 Vincent van Gogh. Portrait of Mme. Ginoux (L’Arlesienne), 1890. Oil on canvas.
*Figure 1.11 Paul Gauguin. Woman in a Coffeehouse, Madame Ginoux in the Cafe de la Gare in Arles,
1888. Oil on canvas.
*Figure 1.12 A gallery in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*Figure 1.13 Sarah Sze. Triple Point (Pendulum), 2013. Salt, water, stone, string, projector, video,
pendulum, and other materials.
Figure 1.14 An example of street art in Cartegena de Indias, Colombia, 2017, which is a large
colorful mural of a fabulous bird along a public street.
*Figure 1.15 Interior of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, with permanent installations of the
arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
Figure 1.16 José Guadalupe Posada. Las bravisimas calaveras guatemaltecas de Mora y de Morales,
1907. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper, zinc
etching.
*Figure 1.17 Takashi Murakami. Kaikai Kiki. Manga sculpture in the Venus Drawing Room.
Exhibition in the state apartments and gardens of the Chateau Versailles outside of Paris
in 2010.
Figure 1.18 The Smithsonian Institution’s 150th Anniversary Float in the 1996 Rose Parade in
Pasadena, California.
Figure 1.19 Tim Hawkinson. Bear, 2005.
Figure 1.20 Ghiordes Prayer Rug, Turkey, eighteenth century. White mihrab (prayer niche) with two
Turkish floral columns. Wool.
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Figure 1.21 Imhotep. Stepped Pyramid of Djoser (right) and Tomb Complex, Saqqarah, Egypt, 2650–
2631 BCE.
Figure 1.22 James Hampton. The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General
Assembly, c. 1950–1964. Gold and silver aluminum foil, kraft paper, and plastic over
wood furniture, paperboard, and glass, 180 pieces in all, overall configuration.
Figure 1.23 Utagawa Hiroshige. Basket Ferry, Kagowatashi, Hida Province, 1853. Woodblock print.
*Figure 1.24 Displaying the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Washington, D.C., June 25, 2004.
Figure 1.25 Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Genesis, 1993. Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas.
*Figure 1.26 Sarad Offering. Bali, Indonesia, Undated.
Figure 1.27 Baule Seated Female Figure. Wood.
*Figure 1.28 Leonardo da Vinci. Proportions of the Human Figure (Vitruvian Man), c. 1492. Pen and
ink on paper.
Figure 1.29 Lee Alexander McQueen. Display from the 2015 exhibition Savage Beauty at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
*Figure 1.30 Refik Anadol, Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations—MoMA, 2022.
[return to top]
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Chapter 1: Art and Art Making
Preview
Toward a Definition of Art
o Function
o Visual Form
o Content
o Aesthetics
o Art and Style Vocabulary
Art within Visual Culture
o Fine Art
o Popular Culture
o Craft
o Other Categories
About Artists
o The Context for Art Making
o Training Artists
o Making the Art Object
o Innovation and Self-Expression
o Creative People in Various Cultures
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