The document provides information about an art appreciation course at UAA including field trips to local art museums and galleries. It discusses various art mediums like painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. Key concepts covered include the elements of art, principles of design, and definitions of what art is. Students are encouraged to use their creativity and express feelings, tell stories or create messages through their own artworks.

1. UAA Art Appreciation
SPRING 2012

4. FIELD TRIPS
Anchorage Museum
Alaska Native Medical Center
First Friday Downtown Art Event

7. Chevak Old People
Doll
• Artist: Rosalie Paniyak,
Chevak
• Medium:
seal gut, sealskin,
glass marble eyes

8. Power of Images

11. How We See

13. Optical Illusions

14. How many legs does this elephant
have?

15. What is Art?

16. What is Art?
• Art is Art, Art is everywhere.
• Art is a way for people to express themselves.
• Art is a form by which we perceive the beauty that is
around and within us.
• Art is something you can see, hear and experience in
a creative way.
• Art is something that touches a person’s soul. Art is
visual and emotional.
• Art is the unique ability human beings have to
celebrate themselves & their world, feelings, fear, and
dreams, etc.

17. Yong Soon Min. Dwelling. 1994.
72" × 42" × 28".

18. Nancy Graves
Footscray

19. Visual Elements Design Principles
• Line • Unity and Variety
• Shape • Balance
• Mass • Emphasis and Subordination
• Space • Directional Forces
• Time and Motion • Contrast
• Light • Repetition and Rhythm
• Color • Scale and Proportion
• Texture

20. Torii Kiyonobu

21. Marc Chagall,
I and the Village

22. M.C. Escher
Drawing Hands

23. Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

24. Use your Creativity
Name ______________
Title ______________
• Express a feeling
• Tell a story
• Create a message

32. Art Interpretation / Storytelling
Painting & Drawing

35. Aesthetics
• Aesthetic experience begin when the viewer
takes an interest in looking at things for
pleasure, for the sake of the visual
experience, and rather than a focused
interest in the function.
• Aesthetic experiences substantiate the
human need for intellectual thinking and
reasoning, rather than physical
provisioning.

36. Printmaking

45. Photography
Ansal Adams