{"id":884,"date":"2017-08-07T05:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/?page_id=884"},"modified":"2017-08-07T05:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:33:46","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/learning-pathways\/art-and-our-world\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?<\/i>, 1897-1898. Oil on canvas, 139.1 \u00d7 374.6 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

If nothing else, visual art provides an avenue for self-expression. As a primary source, artists express attitudes, feelings, and sentiments about the world around us through personal experiences, social interaction, and relationship with the natural world. In short, art gives us a perception of or a reaction to our place in the world. This idea is illustrated in the French artist Paul Gauguin’s painting titled: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?<\/i>[1]<\/a><\/sup> The work brings us on a symbolic journey that includes imagery of infancy, adulthood, nature  and spirituality.\n<\/p>\n

In Module 1, we referred to description<\/b> as one of many roles art affords us, but this description is often imbued with the artist’s subjective interpretation. In this module we will examine how art operates as a vehicle for human expression, a kind of collective visual metaphor that helps define who we are.\n<\/p>\n


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