Art Appreciation Chapters 1-3 – Flashcards
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An environment that is indoors.
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Installation
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The desire to describe the world in a way unadulterated by the imaginative and idealist tendencies of the Romantic sensibility.
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Realism
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An architectural practice that strives to build more environmentally friendly and sustainable building. Self-sufficient, sustainable building material, and work needs to acknowledge the space.
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Green Architecture
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Foundation to many religions referring to belief in the existence of souls and conviction that nonhuman things can be endowed with a soul.
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Animism
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The study or description of symbols and images: a system of visual images the meaning of which is widely understood by a given culture or cultural group.
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Iconography
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Visual image which represents something more than its literal meaning.
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Symbol
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External stimuli enter the nervous system through our eyes-"we see light."
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Reception
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The retina, which is a collection of nerve cells at the back of the eye, extracts the basic information it needs and sends this information to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes visual stimuli.
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Extraction
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What you sees is this your visual cortex extracts from the information your retina sends it.
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Inference
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Any material used to create a work of art.
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Medium
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The time period, social conditions, and other circumstances that surround a work of art.
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Context
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How the work is displayed.
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Presentation
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Emphasizes beauty over function; conceived to stimulate. The main purpose of art is to satisfy this: our desire to see and experience the beautiful.
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Aesthetic
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The meaning of an image, beyond its over subject matter; as opposed to form.
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Content
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The literal, visible image in a work of art, as distinguished from its content, which includes the connotative, symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image. What the image literally depicts.
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Subject Matter
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Pertaining to the imposition of one's culture's point of view upon the works of another.
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Ethnocentrism
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The ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images.
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Visual literacy
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The literal shape and mass of an object or figure. More generally, the materials used to make a work of art, the ways in which these materials are sued in terms of the formal elements (line, light, color, etc.), and the composition that results. The overall structure of an image.
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Form
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The fine art of handwriting.
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Calligraphy
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Symbolic hand gestures that refer to both general state of mind and to specific hand movements.
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Mudra
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Literally "image breakers," those who, taking the Bible's commandment against the worship of "graven" images literally, wished to destroy images in religious settings.
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Iconoclasts
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In the art, the rendering of images and objects in a stylized or simplified way, so that though they remain recognizable, their formal or expressive aspects are emphasized.
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Abstract
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Art that makes no reference to the natural world and that explores the inherent expressive or aesthetic potential of the formal elements- line, shape, color- and the formal compositional principles of a given medium. Also called nonrepresentational. The form=content.
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Nonobjective
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Any work of art that seeks to resemble the world of natural appearance.
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Representational (Realism)
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A brand of representational in which the artist remains apparently realistic elements but presents the visual world from a distinctly personal or subjective point of view.
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Naturalism
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An approach to making art emphasizing its ability to teach and particularly, elevate the mind.
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Didactic
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Art works in any media presented to a live audience.
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Performance Art
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Art has intrinsic value as well, and that values is often the subject of intense debate. A case point is the controversy surrounding this exhibition, which appeared at the Brooklyn Museum of Art October 2, 1999 through January 9, 2000. At the center of the storm was The Holy Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili. In New York and London.
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Sensation
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Was most Americans's first exposure to modern art, and more than 70,000 people saw it during its New York run in 1912. The Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp. Chicago, Boston, and New York.
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The Armory Show
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An exhibition of works in Paris in 1863 that were refused by the Salon proper, to let the public judge for itself the individual merits of the rejected works that were considered "modern." EX: Luncheon on the Grass.
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Salon des Refuses
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That which impresses the mind with a sense of grandeur and power, inspiring a sense of awe.
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Sublime
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Is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person who as died or an event
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Memorial
