Art Appreciation Chapter 1 – Flashcards
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Art
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A visual medium that is used to express ideas about our human experience and the world around us, human phenomenon, made to understand life and communicate ideas, subjective not fixed views
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The 4 major areas of art
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1. function 2. visual form 3. content 4.aesthetic
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Functions Of Art
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the work of art is intended to do a job within a culture ex. rituals, customs, communication, imagine divine, commemorate dead, records likenesses, entertain us, educate us, promoted cohesion unity, celebrates war, political or social protests, glorifies state
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Momento Mori
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reminder of your mortality
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Masquerade
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traditional celebrations or performances with dancing and singing to reenact important creation events, spirit works, and ancestor stories.
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Photo Realism
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a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic mediums, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
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Visual Form Includes:
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1. formal elements such as line, shape, color, texture, mass, time, motion, volume, space 2. composition: arrangement of formal elements 3. medium: materials from which the artwork is made
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Content is communicated through:
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1. imagery 2. symbolic meaning 3. where is it used or displayed 4. customs, beliefs, and values of the culture 5. writings that explain the work
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Site specific
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designed art for the specific location
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installation
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art that is designed to transform the perception or dynamic of a space.
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Aesthetic: (1-4)
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1. a branch of philosophy dealing with art, its sources, forms, and effects 2. goes beyond individual tastes or preferences 3. is a critical reflection of art 4. reflects the cultural preferences
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Aesthetic involves....
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the look and feel of an artwork and the attributes that elevate it above other objects. These change from age to age and from place to place, also depends on the culture and their value of the art.
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Style is the manor of art expression for...
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1. of an individual 2. of a historic period 3. of an entire civilization
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Representational
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contains entities from the world in recognizable form
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Naturalistic
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is recognizable imagery that is depicted very much as seen in nature or life
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Idealized
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modified in a way that strives for perfection within the bounds of the values and aesthetics of a particular culture, puts them on a pedestal
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Expressionistic art
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art communicates heightened emotions and often a sense of urgency or spontaneity, usually bold/ immediate
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Impasto
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Thickness of paint strokes on art surface or canvas
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Surrealism
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refers to art with bizarre of fantastic arrangement of images or materials, as if tapping into the works of the unconscious mind
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Abstract
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imagery derived from reality by distorting, enlarging, and/ or dissecting objects or figures from nature
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Nonobjective
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art which contains forms that are completely generated by the artist
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Still Life
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representation of arranged inanimate objects
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Cultural Style
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refers to the reoccurring and distinctive features that we see in many works of art originated from a particular place and era
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Culture
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the totality of ideas, customs, skills, and arts that belong to a group of people
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Civilization
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a highly structured society with a written language or a very developed system of communication, organized government, and advances in the arts and sciences.
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Artists Style
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refers to the work of an individual artist, a unique personal style
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Color Palette
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all range of colors
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Palette Knife
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used almost as a brush, puts thicker paint on the canvas
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Visual Culture
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vast amount of imagery that humans create and proliferate that comes to us through all kinds of media, useful in our everyday lives
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3 categories of visual art
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1. fine art 2. popular culture 3. craft
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Fine Art
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a category of objects considered to be among the highest culture achievements made by humans, fine are is closely associated with museums and galleries
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Popular Art
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in Western nations popular are consists of: social media, magazines, tv, movies, tattoos, graffiti, video games, commercials, cars, posters pop art is: accessible, inexpensive, entertaining, commercial, political, naive, colorful
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Triptych Diptych Polyptych
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3 panels 2 panels more than 3 panels
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Kitsch
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art that is sentimental or calculated to please shallow or pretentious to be popular
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Camp
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objects and images with extreme artifice have perverse sophisticated and aesthetic appeal
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Craft (decorative arts)
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1. refers to specific media such as ceramics, glass, jewelery, weaving, and woodwork 2. involves hand made/ making objects rather than images 3. objects often have a utilitarian purpose 4. some objects are strictly for aesthetic purposes
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Creating art processes (1-3)
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1. Perception: focused and concentrated looking 2. Response: reflects the artist response to their life experiences and the world around them 3. Expression: art is the expression of the artists perception and response
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Artistic creativity:
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innovation: making something that is new self expression- individuals own styles and personal concepts of the world
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Training Artists
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many artists start as apprentices established art workshops to learn material, man skills, and styles from mature artists. Most apprentices do preliminary rough work and the master artist finishes the piece.
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Guilds
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Medieval Europe (specialized systems, crafts) preserved technical information for artists and regulated art making
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Kitab Khana
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Persian royalty (13th- 17th century) sponsored libraries and workshops of highly trained artists to created fine illuminated manuscripts
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Art Academies
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15th century Europe- founded by king Louis xiv to control the decorative arts, architecture, painting, and landscape architecture for his palace at Versailles
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Outside Artists
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self taught received no training, work in isolation
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Renaissance
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elevated the importance of man, emphasized learning, and held the ancient Greeks and Romans in high esteem through ideals
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Cubism
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an art style in which multiple viewpoints or facets are represented within one point of view. Analytical cubism broke down forms, while Synthetic cubism used collage and assemblage to represent parts of objects in order to visually play with illusion and reality.
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Ikebana
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the art of Japanese flower arrangement, with formal display according to strict rules. Disciplined art form governed by strict rules and mixed with spiritual awareness.
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Anime
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a style of Japanese film and television animation, reflects self conscious consumerism
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Mihrab
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an architectural feature in a mosque that marks the direction of Mecca
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Apprentices
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work in established art workshops to learn materials, manual skills, and styles from mature artists.
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Innovation
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is the making of something that is new
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self- expression
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refers to the individual artists own personal ideas or emotions, embedded in the works of art they make.
