{"id":13,"date":"2015-09-13T00:28:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T00:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2015-09-13T01:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T01:30:49","slug":"themes-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/13\/themes-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have decided to do a little research on Themes in Art.<\/p>\n<p>I found an interesting PDF\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davisart.com\/Promotions\/PDF\/Themes-in-Art-Education.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DavisThemesInArt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This PDF describes a number of interesting ideas. First there are Human Commonalities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We All:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Experience the Life Cycle<\/strong>s\u00a0( Birth, Growth, Death )<\/li>\n<li><strong>Work<\/strong> ( Work is universal. Everyone produces and consumes )<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use Symbols<\/strong> ( All people use symbols to express feelings and ideas )<\/li>\n<li><strong>Know Time and Space<\/strong> ( All people have the miraculous capacity to recall the past and anticipate the futre )<\/li>\n<li><strong>Search for a Larger Purpose<\/strong> ( All people try to give spiritual meaning and connection to our lives )<\/li>\n<li><strong>Have an Aesthetic Response<\/strong> ( All people respond to the aesthetic )<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seek Social Bonding<\/strong> ( All people are members of groups or institutions that consequently shape their lives )<\/li>\n<li><strong>Have a Connection to Nature<\/strong> ( All people are connected to the ecology of nature )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Davis PDF goes on to suggest exploring the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enduring Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identity<\/li>\n<li>Survival<\/li>\n<li>Conflict<\/li>\n<li>Spirituality<\/li>\n<li>Fantasy<\/li>\n<li>Power<\/li>\n<li>Rites of Passage<\/li>\n<li>Change<\/li>\n<li>Ritual<\/li>\n<li>Celebration<\/li>\n<li>Heroes<\/li>\n<li>Ancestry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another Site \u00a0offers an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artinspired.pbworks.com\/w\/page\/13819720\/Themes%20to%20Explore\" target=\"_blank\">Exhaustive List of Ideas for Themes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I really want to do is focus down to a really good list of 4 strong ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have decided to do a little research on Themes in Art. I found an interesting PDF\u00a0DavisThemesInArt. This PDF describes a number of interesting ideas. First there are Human Commonalities. We All: Experience the Life Cycles\u00a0( Birth, Growth, Death ) Work ( Work is universal. Everyone produces and consumes ) Use Symbols ( All &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/13\/themes-research\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Themes Research<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/du4art.com\/Du4ArtBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}