Reflection+4

As future artists and art educators, there are an array of concepts, ideas, and techniques, we should all be familiar with and where they came from. In these past four chapters, Design, Art Criticism, Art History, and Aesthetics, there were concepts and ideas there were relayed to us that have a great importance in the history and making of art, as well as its meaning. These aspects are looked to as the reasons behind art and what makes art so pleasing and a great investment in the future. Art all starts with the idea of design. What design however is a much different issue. Design consists of the principles and elements of design, the building blocks of art. The elements of design, line, shape, color, texture, and space are very important to the success of art, as are the principles of design: unity, rhythm, proportion, and balance. These two aspects of design are what create the other three chapters, the criticism, history, and aesthetics of art. Without the basics, you are left with nothing. The basics teach students the ideas concepts of art and how they are displayed in everyday work such as repetition of line or color, and the aesthetics it has on and individual when viewing work with these two aspects. The way these two types of design work however depends on the aesthetic prevelence it has on an individual. Aesthetics isn't just the impression a work of art has on a person, rather, it can be an expression, forms of art such as: mimesis, expressionism, an dformalism, or a way to compare and contrast reality from an expression of that reality. Aesthetics are what we learn throughout art history, the ages of art, and the development of it as well. As we study its development, we are studying the aesthetic value and impression on a person. We are studying the changes that have gone through time and the aestehtic appreciation that was once given to an art form, that may no longer exist. Therefore, it is important to understand these four aespects of art because these four aspecs play large roles in the success of a piece, as well as a style or generation of an art form. Throughout our class time, many of these topics are discussed, or fulfilled. We have so far since the beginning of class time, completed ideas with the aspect of design, as well as criticism, aesthetics, and art history. Some of them may not as in depth, but they have all ben touched on at least once. We have gone over the ideas of design as well as aesthetics of art with our trading cards. The elements and principels of design were added into each of our cards inorder for them to have a purpose, after which we discussed each of our ideas, critiquing while explaining the aesthetic impression it had on us, or reflection of an idea such as the stages of painting by age. In class discussions it is important that we touch on these ideas becuase it not only gets the ideas in our heads for our future careers, but also for the sole purpose of being able to use it in our own work. As an art educator, I must come to the realization that one day I must teach this to a group of students, and allow for them to understand it. However, it comes down to how to incorporate this into a lesson. The ideas can be discussed in formal critiques with students about their work and the reasons for the things they did, as well as doing research and informing a class on a specific era and the artists that inspired that era, their work and the purpose behind their work. Also, I must take into consideration a true meaning of these concepts so that I have a greater meaning and appreciation for them as well so that I can reflect it in my teachings.
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