3RD PERIODICAL TEST Flashcards
refers to factors that surround a work of art.
Context
includes a host of conditions such as historical events, economic trends, contemporary culture developments, religious attitudes, social norms, other artworks of the time, among others.
Context
provides a deeper understanding of the work in question and allows one to analyze the meaning and value of art.
Context
It also probes into what artist was experiencing at the moment when he was creating the work and how he responded to those experiences through his art.
Context
The following are the inquiries about the context of an artwork:
- What key historical events occurred at the time the work was created?
- What scientific discoveries or technological innovations may have influenced the artist?
- What were the other artistic influences on the work?
- What were the philosophical ideas of the time that informed the artwork?
- What were the cultural influences?
- Who was the intended audience?
- Is the artist identified with a particular movement, school, or style?
- What was the original purpose of the artwork?
Classification of Context
- PRIMARY CONTEXT
- SECONDARY CONTEXT
Addresses the external conditions in which the work was produced; the apparent function of the work, religious and philosophical convictions; sociopolitical and economic structures; and even climate and geography.
SECONDARY CONTEXT
It pertains to the artist’s attitudes, beliefs, interests, and values; education and training; and biography
(including psychology), intentions and purposes of making his/her art.
PRIMARY CONTEXT
ART CRITERIA
- Aesthetic Experience
- Consensus of the Art World
- Cultural Practice and Shared Meaning
Every culture creates art, and each has its own standards of representation, its own cultural context, and own aesthetic conventions
Cultural Practice and Shared Meaning
The art world is a network of institutions which exercises the power to set the terms with which public is made to perceive art.
Consensus of the Art World
Our responses towards phenomena like enchantment, fear, awe, terror, or guilt all that it takes to name something as art or consider something as artistic
Aesthetic Experience
IMPLICATIONS OF CONTEXT
- contexts are arbitrarily created and therefore dependent on a point of view or perspective
- contexts establish conventions, rules, norms, hierarchies, classifications, assumptions, presumptions, and notions regarding art
- contexts establish the value and the criteria of valuation in which labor and capital are invested in works designated as art
- that all of these are not a natural given nor should remain unchanged. It should be questioned in light of critical thinking
The study of art must begin in one’s locality, in the regional sense.
STUDY OF ARTS IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT
It is the place where personal and group identities are nurtured as individual experiences are accumulated and collective memories are commemorated.
STUDY OF ARTS IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT
It is a social system that reflects relations between different human beings and groups that are bound by shared and distinct identity, language, culture, and tradition.
STUDY OF ARTS IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT
The region is a viewed as a key identity maker.
STUDY OF ARTS IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT
is a survey of contemporary art practices in Dumaguete and surrounding areas.
Promdi Project
______, short for “from the province,”
Promdi
is often used as a derogatory term for people living outside Metro Manila.
Promdi
FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS OF ART
- F O R M
- LANGUAGE
- MODE OF PRODUCTION
MODE OF PRODUCTION
- Political Economy
- Ideology
is unearthed and revealed from the surface of the form. The ideological nature of art questions how images serve the interests of some, but not all, individuals in society
Ideology
is concerned with the power and the distribution of economic resources in the context of art production
Political Economy
Political Economy – is concerned with the power and the distribution of economic resources in the context of art production in relation to the following:
- Capital and Labor
- Power structures and power relations
- Institutions of control
- Art as propaganda and persuasive medium
is a medium by which cultural meanings are formed and communicated
LANGUAGE
Language is the content or the mass of ideas communicated through:
- the image it creates
- the icons and their symbolic meanings
- the environment where it is used, displayed, or performed
- the traditions, beliefs, and values of the culture that produced it and utilizes it
- writings and intellectual ideas that help explain the work
LANGUAGE
* is a medium by which cultural meanings are formed and communicated
Interpretation
is concerned with search for meaning.
Interpretation
is made up of formal elements, overall composition, materials and techniques
FORM
FORM
* is made up of formal elements, overall composition, materials and techniques
- Creativity
- Imagination
is a faculty that allows us to generate mental pictures, ideas, and sensations that do not exist in the world
Imagination
the generation of new ideas, insights, and previously unimagined images and artifacts
Creativity
FOUNDATIONAL ART DECIPLINES
- ART PRODUCTION
- ART CRITICISM
- ART HISTORY
- AESTHETICS
the nature, beauty, and value of a work of art.
AESTHETICS
Three Aesthetic Theories of Art Criticism
- Imitationalism and Literal Qualities
- Formalism and Formal Qualities
- Emotionalism and Expressive Qualities
the study of art, past and present, and its contributions to cultures and society. It provides answers to the questions who, what, when, where, and why.
ART HISTORY
ART HISTORY
* the study of art, past and present, and its contributions to cultures and society. It provides answers to the questions who, what, when, where, and why.
FORMS OF HISTORICAL INQUIRY
Attribution, Authenticity, Iconography, Provenance, Function, Style, Psychology, Connoisseurship
FORMS OF HISTORICAL INQUIRY
Attribution, Authenticity, Iconography, Provenance, Function, Style, Psychology, Connoisseurship
Four Steps in Art Criticism
- Description
- ANALYSIS
- INTERPRETATION
- JUDGMENT
Is this successful work of art? In this step, one expresses the success or failure of the artwork and establishes its value in society.
JUDGMENT