Art App Flashcards

1
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is something that is perennially around us

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Art

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___ had the sharpest foresight when he discussed in the Symposium that beauty, the object of any love, truly progresses. As one moves through life, one locates better, more beautiful objects of desire.

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Plato

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3
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The word “art” comes from the ancient Latin, ___ which means a “craft or specialized form of skill, like carpentry or smithying or surgery”

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ars

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4
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___ then suggested the capacity to produce an intended result from carefully planned steps or methods.

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Art

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5
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Ars in ___ came to mean something different. It meant “any special form of book-learning, such as grammar or logic, magic or astrology”

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Medieval Latin

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It was only during the ___ that the word reacquired a meaning that was inherent in its ancient form of craft.

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Renaissance Period

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7
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___ artists saw their activities merely as craftsmanship, devoid of a whole lot of intonations that are attached to the word now.

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Early Renaissance

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It was during the ___ when the problem and idea of aesthetics, the study of beauty, began to unfold distinctly from the notion of technical workmanship, which was the original conception of the word “art.”

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seventeenth century

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9
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It was finally in the ___ when the word has evolved to distinguish between the fine arts and the useful arts.

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eighteenth century

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10
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The ___ would come to mean “not delicate or highly skilled arts, but ‘beautiful’ arts”

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fine arts

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11
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The ___ constitute one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man.

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humanities

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12
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___ has witnessed how man evolved not just physically but also culturally, from cave painters to men of exquisite paintbrush users of the present.

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Human history

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13
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The ____ found in the cave of Altamira, Spain is one such example. In 1879, a Spaniard and his daughter were exploring a cave when they saw pictures of a wild boar, hind, and bison.

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Galloping Wild Boar

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14
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The ___ stand tall in bearing witness to this magnificent phenomenon. Any human person, then, is tasked to participate, if not, totally partake in this long tradition of humanizing himself.

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humanities

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15
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Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning generations and continents through and through. Art will always be present because human beings will always express themselves and delight in these expressions. Men will continue to use art while art persists and never gets depleted.

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ART IS UNIVERSAL

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16
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Among the most popular ones being taught in school are the two Greek epics, ____ & ____

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the Iliad and the Odyssey

17
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_____, a French painter, painted a scene from reality entitled Well and Grinding Wheel in the Forest of the Château Noir. The said scene is inspired by a real scene in a forest around the Château Noir area near Aix in Cézanne’s native Provence

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Paul Cézanne

18
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Cézanne’s landscape is quite different from the original scene. Cézanne has changed some patterns and details from the way they were actually in the photograph.

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Art is not nature

19
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Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature. Art is man’s way of interpreting nature. What we find in nature should not be expected to be present in art too.

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Art is not nature

20
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Art is always an experience. Unlike fields of knowledge that involve data, art is known by experiencing. In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it, and see AND hear it.

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Art involves experience

21
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One cannot argue with another person’s evaluation of art because one’s experience can never be known by another.

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Degustibus non disputandum est (Matters of taste are not matters of dispute)

22
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____ a famous French philosopher of the twentieth century, described the role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom

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Jean-Paul Sartre

23
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___ requires thinking outside the box. It is often used to solve problems that have never occurred before, conflate function and style, and simply make life a more unique and enjoyable experience.

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Creativity

24
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German physicist ,___ who had made significant and major contributions in science and humanity demonstrated that knowledge actually derived from imagination.

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Albert Einstein

25
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Where do you think famous writers, painters, and musicians get their ideas? Where do ideas in making creative solutions begin? It all starts in the human mind, it all begins with ___

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imagination

26
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There may have been times when you felt something was going on within you, you tried to explain it but you did not know how. Finally, you try to release yourself from this tormenting and disabling state by doing something, which is called expressing oneself.

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ART AS EXPRESSION

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___, an English philosopher who is best known for his work in aesthetics, explicated in his publication The Principles of Art (1938) that what an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it.

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Robin George Collingwood

28
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Creations that fall under this category are those that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature.

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VISUAL ARTS

29
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___ refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion of movement.

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Film

30
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__ is a live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which he or she uses to perform, but also employs other kinds of art such as visual art, props, or sound.

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Performance art

31
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___ is an art form where the artist expresses his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.

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Poetry

32
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is the making of beautiful buildings. However, not all buildings are beautiful. Some buildings only embody the functionality they need, but the structure, lines, forms, and colors are not beautifully expressed.

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Architecture

33
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is a series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment.

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Dance

34
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Artists who practice ___ use words–not paint, musical instruments. Or chisels to express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers. It focuses on writing using a unique style.

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literary art

35
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__ uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience. ___ performances usually follow a script, though they should not be confused with literary arts.

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Theater

36
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___ incorporate elements of style and design to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetic value. Artists in this field bring beauty, charm, and comfort into many things that are useful in everyday life fine arts, where the latter is chiefly concerned with aesthetic value.

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Applied arts