AoK: Arts

Question 1

What do the arts represent?

Answer 1

A multitude of thoughts and feelings

Question 2

Which WoK is typically pushed aside in the arts?

Answer 2

Reason

Question 3

Which is a particular quality of the arts?

Answer 3

Its subjectivity

Question 4

Which are three of the main characteristics of the arts?

Answer 4

1. Accessible to the senses
2. Shape human experience in an aesthetic way
3. Communicate

Question 5

Which is the single goal within the arts?

Answer 5

None; there are many

Question 6

Which are the four critical perspectives for evaluating art?

Answer 6

1. Expressive goal
2. Aesthetic goal
3. Didactic goal
4. Representational goal

Question 7

What does the expressive goal, within the critical perspective, focus on?

Answer 7

It focuses on the author:

biography of the artist, the artist’s intentions, the creative process, artist’s views in the work

Question 8

What does the aesthetic goal, within the critical perspective, focus on?

Answer 8

It focuses on formal features:

formal features, composition, technique

Question 9

What does the didactic goal, within the critical perspective, focus on?

Answer 9

It focuses on the effects on the audience

Question 10

What does the representational goal, within the critical perspective, focus on?

Answer 10

It focuses on how well is society represented:

its role within tradition, its role as a social and historical document

Question 11

Which are the scope and applications of the arts?

Answer 11

• What is the social function of the arts?
• How many different forms does it encompass?
• What are their separate aims?
• To what extent are the arts influenced by the society and culture in which it is pursued?
• How important are the arts?

Question 12

Which are the concepts and language of the arts?

Answer 12

• How do we use language to express the knowledge found within the arts?
• To what extent does this differ according to different forms of the arts?
• Are there any central concepts for which we need specific language before approaching the arts?

Question 13

Which is the methodology for the arts?

Answer 13

• Which ways of knowing do we use in order to connect with, and understand, the arts?
• Which ways of knowing do artists themselves use in order to create their works?

Question 14

Which is the historical development for the arts?

Answer 14

• How has our understanding and perception of the arts changed over time?
• How has the role of the arts within society developed?
• To what extent has the nature of the arts changed?
• What relationship does today’s artistic world have with that of the past?

Question 15

What are the links to personal knowledge for the arts?

Answer 15

• To what extent are you involved with the arts?

- How is your perception of the world, and your position in it, affected by the arts?