Picasso Guernica

What is art?

What have you learned from going to

museums?

Cite three art works in your response.

NDEBELE

Waterworn pebble

resembling a human

face, from

Makapansgat, South

Africa, ca. 3,000,000

BCE.

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5

A (Visual) Sign signifies something. Its form is arbitrary and it simply has to be learned.

6

A (Visual) Symbol stands for something. It is connected to something through some form of relation (visual similarity, history, etc). It often depicts a real world object and is often metaphorical.

8

9

Nude woman

(Venus of

Willendorf),

from Willendorf,

Austria, ca.

28,000–25,000

BCE.

Limestone,

Aphrodite

Leonardo

Pollock

Daguerre

Rothko

Nadar

Shiva

Nataraj

Indian Stupa

Taj Mahal

18

Gabon Face Mask 19 -20th Century

Frida Kahlo Mexican 20th century

Bearden

Ethiopia 17th Century

Pahari painting India

Muybridge British 19th Century

Nadar French 19th Century