Blog #20: Art & The Artist Pre-Writing

•  CURIOSITA – What were you curious about as a child? How does that shape what you are curious about now? How might this affect your “artistic vision”?  Write one to two chunky paragraphs.

AS a child I was always curious about sports and numbers. I always looked out to see how sports worked and devised different games to play with my friends. I am still curious about the same things, sports and numbers. Instead of making games I ask my coaches questions like"What can I do to get better there?","What would have been the better decision?" My child curiosities has formed me to push to get better and see my sports as an art form

•   WATCH “TED TALK”: “HOW ART GIVES SHAPE TO CULTURAL CHANGE”.  Answer the Essential Questions in the way you think Thelma Golden answered them.  Recall specific things she said in the talk that helped lead you to your answers. Keep in mind that although she speaks of how she specifically used different art exhibits, her ideas are about a general way in which art can be utilized around the world.

What is Art? Art is something that reveals the essential or hidden truth

What is the artist's role in society? The Artists role in society is to get people to think and wonder

How can we effectively utilize art in our lives? We can utilize art to explain things. We can use art to display complexity in what seems at first just a beautiful sight

• READ THE SCHOLARLY ESSAY “THE VALUE OF ART”.  This essay is also in your planning packet. Write down at least THREE direct quotations.  

"Arts value, I suggest, is to be found in the value of its own existence"(Guest 2)

"These ideas, that art's worth is a matter judgement... invite comparisons between art an aspects of the natural world as both are subjected to aesthetic judgement" (Guest 3)

"When you see the original, it is not just that you are struck by their beauty, but by their history" (Guest 6)            

• BACK TO THE ICEBERG – SURFACE, SHALLOW AND DEEP CULTURE – Select a topic of artistic interest from your “surface culture”, then select areas of shallow and deep culture you could relate this to. Write this out.  Then, write one to two chunky paragraphs explaining how your topic could be considered art. 

SURFACE Games	SHALLOW: Rules of conduct, touching, body language, notions of leadership
	DEEP: patterns of group decision making,attitudes towards dependents, tolerance of physical pain.

Volleyball is an art through your play. Just how sloppy technique for an instrument results in an unpleasant performance, it is so with volleyball. My coach always says "Volleyball is a dance." We are constantly moving from one job to the next, first covering the setters dump, then driving to the line to get ready for the hit, then pass, cover and repeat. The constant movement reveals the dance about volleyball. You can never marvel at your performance because once you do your dance is broken.