Analyzing Beauty in Representative Art (Good Quality)

Please free to like on facebook to be regularly updated upcoming talks and papers:   / artisaverb   There's also a Q.A. section where all kinds of questions and video suggestions are welcome:   / notes   This here is the talk I gave at the Art Institute of California - San Francisco October 9, 2013. This talk tries to analyze what constitutes Beauty and hopefully demonstrates that detail/fidelity has very little to do with it. Beauty versus Fidelity is an uphill struggle that a lot of art students as well as long time professionals fall victim to. So if you feel like you can get behind the message of this talk please consider parttaking in that struggle with me and sharing it with others, so we can have more beautiful things. Thank you very much! Contents: 00:00 Anti-introduction 04:26 Learning from my mistakes: How to know that you've failed before you even started 08:28 Dramatic revelation #1: Beauty does not equal Quality of Execution 09:37 Dramatic revelation #2: Education does not equal tools 11:13 Identifying Beauty 15:07 Quantifying Beauty 18:53 Examples: Subject 21:15 Examples: Color 23:10 Examples: Lighting 25:54 Examples: Composition 28:11 Examples: Scale/Detail 29:52 Quality of execution 32:02 Beauty Element Realitionships 34:27 Main Quality of Beauty 42:07 Test Grab the slides over at: http://artisaverb.info/Lectures/Beaut... and follow along if you want. Endless thank you to AI for inviting me to speak. I've got a few more talks all prepped so if you would like to help me make them happen, don't hesitate to drop me a line! Cheers. Andrew http://ArtIsAVerb.info/ P.s. If your image is used for the slides - thank you very much and I'm very sorry I couldn't credit every single person, since I found a lot of those images years ago and can't even remember where they came from. If you want me to put your link up here just let me know.