What is the main purpose of an Art school? innovation? experimentation? originality? creative genius?
Ancient Art Schools - Aristotle
- study of art co-existed alongside maths, science, literature, physical.
- everything was of equal value to society
Apprenticeship model of art education - An apprentice would receive an art master, they would then copy their work until it was a near replica, they would then produce work for their master and claim is as his own. then and only then progress as an individual artist
Henry Wallis, the death of Chatterton.
Academic system dominated
- Salon de refuses - birth starting place of modern art (art that was rejected as art)
- 1871- School of Drawing and Fine Art Oxford - first to try and re-figure art and design and its practices, they wanted to change what art was.
- rise of the arts and crafts movement (1860-1910)
- William Morris 'Art and Socialism' (1884) - developed the importance of art
- infusion of creative into everyday life
- Glasgow school of art 1907
- art workers guild 1884
- Bauhaus (1919-1933)- radical new modernist style of education
- Vkhutemas - change the role of art - develop artists who would go out and change lives - social change; new golden age.
- black mountain college, north Carolina USA - american modern art movement
- John Dewey - experimental learning
- 1955-1965, Leeds College of Art was considered the most radical and progressive, its programme at the time was influence by Bauhaus
- 1991 - art colleges became businesses
art was redefined and conceptualised: the incorporation of uk art schools
- first degrees (1967) previously DipAD, you could not get a degree in art before then
- upgrading of polytechnics (1992)
- implementation of tuition fees, (increase in tuition fees 2012)
- marketisation and commodification
- instrumental approach to arts and humanities by government
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