ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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What is ART? Latin word ARS meaning ARRANGEMENT Forms

Visual Performing Language Culinary Physical Many more … …

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Visual ARTS Painting Photography Printmaking Filmmaking Plastic Arts

Sculpture Architecture

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Performing ARTS Artist’s body, face

& presence as medium

Music Dance Theatre

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Language ARTS Novels Poetry Songs

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Culinary & Physical ARTS Culinary

ART of Cooking Physical

Sports

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Appreciating ARTS Visual

Visual Elements: Line, Shape, Texture, Value, Colour & Space

Design Principles: Harmony, Variety & Contrast, Balance, Movement, Dominance

Artistic Styles: Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism

Performing & Language Does it move you? Do you get the message from the artist(s)?

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Appreciating ARTS

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Movement & Illusion

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Realism

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Impressionism

Claude Monet, 1872, Impression -SunriseSPM Oct 2009

Expressionism

The Scream by Edward Munch, 1893

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Surrealism

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Appreciating ARTS Culinary

Colour, Smell, Taste, Theme Physical

Do you enjoy the game?

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Appreciating ARTS Who

Well-off Educated Old

Why Heighten Awareness Boredom Exposure Peer Pressure/Social Class

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Appreciating ARTS Barriers

Exclusivity Difficult to Comprehend Expensive

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Appreciating ARTS in SPore

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Appreciating ARTS in SPore

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Appreciating ARTS in SPore

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Appreciating ARTS in SPore

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ARTS Supply Artists

Commercial Subsidized (e.g. SAF Music & Dance Company)

Venues Commercial or Subsidized Receiving or Producing www.esplanade.com.sg www.vch.org.sg

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What is ENTERTAINMENT? Event, Performance or

Activity designed to give PLEASURE or RELAXATION

Active or Passive Participation

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ART versus ENTERTAINMENT What is ART?

Act or Product? 3 Schools of

Thought

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ART versus ENTERTAINMENT 1st School: All ART is entertaining but not

all ENTERTAINMENT is ART

But not all art entertains, what one finds enjoyable may seem boring to another

ENTERTAINMENT

ART

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ART versus ENTERTAINMENT 2nd School: ART & ENTERTAINMENT are not

mutually exclusive

Area of overlap pertains to PERFORMING ARTS

ENTERTAINMENT

ART

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ART versus ENTERTAINMENT 3RD School: ART & ENTERTAINMENT are

mutually exclusive

ENTERTAINMENT ART

EnjoymentPublic TastesPredictable

Short-Term ImpactAudience Driven

Commercialisation“Uncultured”

RefinementNovel

StimulationInspirationalArtist Driven

Enlightenment“Cultured”

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Resources & Reading List Howard Hughes (2000). Arts, Entertainment and

Tourism. Chapter 1&2. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.

Mark Getlein (2002). Gilbert’s Living with Art. Chapter 4&5. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Howell Jr.,W.J. (1973). Art Versus Entertainment in the Mass Media: (A Model for Classroom Discussion). Education, 94(2), 177-181

National Arts Council. (2008). Arts Statistics. Retrieved October 18, 2008, from National Arts Council Website:http://www.nac.gov.sg/sta/sta01.asp

Wikipedia. (2007). The Arts. Retrieved October 2, 2007 from Wikipedia Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts

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Tutorial (Oct 26 to 30) In groups of no more than 4:

Attend a current visual art exhibition. Share with the class your understanding of the artist, the visual elements, design principles and artistic styles he/she has adopted in the exhibition. Do load up pictures/videos (if permitted) with short reflections on Facebook tutorial groups prior to tutorial class; and

Research on the arts venue available locally and classify them into commercial, subsidized, receiving and/or producing venues.

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