Introduction to Art

Name: Introduction to Art
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Art as a State of Consciousness

Created byFederico von Borstel

Last updated 8/2021

English

What you'll learn

This is an Introduction to Art.
Increased appreciation of Art
The course enhances human development.
The course promotes self-learning.

Course content

1 section • 20 lectures • 2h 49m total length

Introduction2:34
Explore art as a state of consciousness through hands-on sketchbook work, studio learning from masters, and key topics like elements, color theory, texture, and composition across two and three dimensions.
Introduction to Art 213:50
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Explore how sketching and gesture drawing unlock graphic notes, develop your plastic consciousness, and transform quick sketches into finished art through stages from realism to abstraction to synthesis.
Introduction to Art 410:28
Explore the difference between objective art and non objective art by examining how imagery represents subjects and how abstract patterns and textures emerge.
Introduction to Art 58:20
Earth is the greatest artist and scientist, shaping canyons through manipulation, addition, subtraction, and substitution, as water, gravity, wind, sun, and life create continually evolving art.
Introduction to Art 64:19
Explore prehistoric art through ancient footprints and artifacts, and see how early works become a book of art that records human history.
Introduction to Art 710:01
Examine two dimensional and three dimensional art, from portable sculpture to paintings, with examples from Lascaux murals, Picasso’s Cubism, Pollock abstraction, and Rodin’s manipulation, addition, subtraction, and substitution in sculpture.
Introduction to Art 815:24
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Introduction to Art 1120:02
Explore line work and experimental mark-making through oriental grip and scribble exercises, from dot on ice to hit go hit lines, with techniques like professional gap and calligraphic variants.
Introduction to Art 1210:23
Explore fundamentals from close-packed dots to prisms, cones, and conic sections, and practice lines, angles, and basic shapes with pencil sketches and pen delineation.
Introduction to Art 135:44
Explore color theory by examining hue, saturation, and value within the month cell color system, and assemble palettes using primaries, secondaries, and tertiary colors.
Introduction to Art 147:43
Explore impressionism through Monet's direct painting method, short strokes, and overpainting to capture light, water reflections, and color perception.
Introduction to Art 155:32
Explore texture in art as surface texture and topography defined by lay, roughness, and waviness. See how zoom distance alters perception and artists convey texture with light and paint thickness.
Introduction to Art 166:32
Introduction to Art 171:43
Explore how artists extract aspects of nature through abstraction, using forms like the cylinder, sphere, and cone to reveal what lies behind our visual world.
Introduction to Art 188:11
Trace art's traditional subjects—from historical paintings, allegories, religious, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes—to modern non-objective and abstract works.
Introduction to Art 195:26
Course Catalog5:32
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Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Description

This course is an Introduction to the Fundamental elements of Art. The course begins by developing an understanding of what Art is. The basic premise of this course is that Art is a State of Consciousness of the person experiencing the art and also of the person making the art. The principles of art are illustrated with the works of the great masters from all styles and types of art. The course encourages you to learn by doing, but primarily seeks to make your learning productive and enjoyable.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone interested in Art.