Exploring the Method of Hypothetical Artwork Modelling: Case of the Primary Colours Fallacy

Selan, Jurij

doi:10.1162/leon.2010.43.3.314

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“…In the continuation of the article I will try to exemplify how hypothetical artworks can be constructed as valid models and subsequently also be put to good use in art education. The issue with regard to which I will explore the educational usefulness of the method of hypothetical artwork modelling is taken from colour theory and can be called the painters' primary colours fallacy (Selan, 2010).…”

Section: Hypothetical Artwork As Valid Models: the Methods Of Hypothetical Artwork Modellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A hypothetical artwork is an artwork that exists only as a fictional creation of an art theorist (Selan, 2008(Selan, , 2010. Usually it is introduced into the text by the linguistic assertion of supposition; for example, by the use of syntagms: »let us suppose, imagine that, etc.« Since the hypothetical artwork has no life outside the hypothetical world of a particular art theory, its intention is not to fascinate but to explicate.…”

Section: Introduction: the Curious World Of Hypothetical Artmentioning

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Hypothetical Art and Art Education: The Educational Role of the Method of Hypothetical Artwork Modelling

Selan¹

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A hypothetical artwork is an artwork that exists only as a fictional creation of an art theorist. The explicatory powers of such hypothetical artworks are mainly used by an art theorist to reflect on an art theoretical issue under consideration. Such an artwork has an intriguing and paradoxical nature. On the one hand, it is only fictitious, but, on the other hand, it tries to function as a real token, persuading the reader to trust it as if it were a real artwork. Even though this kind of argumentation can be deceiving, as it presents a statement of real art on the basis of fiction, it has some important explicatory abilities that can be put to good usein the art educational process. In this case, the construction of the hypothetical artwork is handled as the construction of a theoretical model. The author calls such theoretical construction the method of hypothetical artwork modelling, and its result the hypothetical artwork model. Such a hypothetical artwork model can be usefully employed when one wishesto encourage the student to become fictionally involved in the process of creation of an artwork, thus giving him or her more personal experience of problems that accompany the process of creating a real artwork. When such hypothetical experience is gained, the student can more efficiently learn about the considered art issue. In the paper, the authordemonstrates how the explicatory powers of the method of hypothetical artwork modelling can be put into educational practice regarding an issue taken from colour theory (i.e., the primary colours fallacy).

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Section: Hypothetical Artwork As Valid Models: the Methods Of Hypothetical Artwork Modellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: the Curious World Of Hypothetical Artmentioning

confidence: 99%