What is ART?

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain

an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso
Art is …

Art is the expression of ideas and emotions through a physical medium,

like painting, sculpture, film, dance, writing, photography, or theatre.

Art is generally understood as any activity or product done by people with

a communicative or aesthetic purpose—something that expresses an
idea, an emotion or, more generally, a world view.
 Types of art:
Painting.

Sculpture.

Literature.

Architecture.

Cinema.

Music.

Theater.
 Styles of painting:

1.Abstract

2.Cubism

3.Expressionism

4.Realism

5.Surrealism
Abstract
In their paintings they did not try to show people, animals, or places exactly as they appeared in the
real world.  It is not painted to look like something specific.

Robert Delaunay Francis Picabia Pablo Picasso

Cubism
Cubism is modern art made up mostly of paintings. The paintings are not supposed to look real The artist
uses geometric shapes to show what he is trying to paint.

Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso
Expressionism
In Expressionist Art, the artist tries to express certain feelings about some thing. The artists that painted
in this style were more concerned with having their paintings express a feeling than in making the
painting look exactly like what they were painting.

Edvard Munch Ernst Ludwig Kirchner August Macke

 Realism
Realism is a type of art that shows things exactly as they appear in life.  Most Realists were from France,
but there were some famous American painters who were Realists also.

Stanisław Masłowski, Łubin – Droga

Francisco Goya, Charles IV of Spain and His Family
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Surrealism
Surrealist paintings were generally based on dreams. Their paintings were filled with familiar objects
which were painted to look strange or mysterious. They hoped their odd paintings would make peo-
ple look at things in a different way and change the way they felt about things. They thought that
their paintings might stir up feelings in the back of people’s minds.

Max Ernst, L'Ange du Foyer ou le Triomphe du Surréalisme

Giorgio de Chirico, The Red Tower (La Tour Rouge)
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