All art works have their own sense of order and composition. All artists make decisions about how to compose their ideas, whether they work formally or rely on random occurrences. This unit focuses on how artists put things together for a purpose. Through interaction with art and the study of art works and visual images, students will begin to understand and use ideas from other artists and art forms. This mini-unit explores many aspects of time as it relates to ourselves and to art works.
Citations appear in full in the bibliography, alphabetized by title.
Compare the answers to how people spend their time today. The students might notice, for example, spontaneous line, simplicity, brushwork, texture, tone, etc. 68 Look at the prices of different works of art. Try to decide why they have the value that they do. Some reasons could be the artist's reputation, materials used, quality, originality, new idea, unusual approach, the times in which the artist lived, etc.