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¶ … Art "Any brief definition of art would oversimplify the matter, but we can say that all the definitions offered over the centuries include some notion of human agency, whether through manual skills (as in the art of sailing or painting or photography), intellectual manipulation (as in the art of politics), or public or personal expression (as in the art of conversation). Recall that the word is etymologically related to artificial -- i.e., produced by human beings. Since this embraces many types of production that are not conventionally deemed to be art, perhaps a better term for them would be visual culture. This would explain why certain preindustrial cultures produce objects which Eurocentric interests characterize as art, even though the producing culture has no linguistic term to differentiate these objects from utilitarian artifacts. Having said that, we are still left with a class of objects, ideas and activities that are held to be separate or special in some...

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Even those things which become art even though they are not altered in any material way -- e.g., readymades -- are accorded some special status in a describable way. Because of this complexity, writers have developed a variety of ways to characterize the art impulse."
-- Dr. Robert J. Belton, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia

"All art is of value when involving self-expression, logic, and imagination."

-- Nicholas Lukowlak, TED Talks

Painting: Seurat, G. (1884, 1884-86). A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. [Oil on canvas]. The Art

Institute of Chicago. Retrieved from http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/27992

The painting is Seurat's largest and best-known. It is remarkable because it makes use of a technique called "pointillism." It is a "highly scientific and scientific technique" (The Art Institute of Chicago) that uses small horizontal brushstrokes and dots.…

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Photography: Leibovitz, A. (n.d.). John Lennon and Yoko Ono. [Photograph, color]. Photo

Gallery, AmericanMasters, PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/annie-leibovitz/photo-gallery/19/

Annie Leibovitz is famous for her celebrity portraits because of the unusual poses and backdrops she uses with her subjects. The portrait of John and Yoko is powerful. It is startling because John is nude astride a fully-clothed Yoko. John is kissing her tenderly, with his body curled around hers and his arms cradling her head. Yoko is completely passive. It seems Leibovitz captured the dynamics of the couple's relationship with this


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