Art App Flashcards
It satisfies a particular need
The Function of Art
He benefits from his own work and from those done by his fellowmen. He learns to use, love, and preserve them for his enjoyment and appreciation
Aesthetic Function
Through art, man is provided with shelter, clothing, food, light, medicine, and other necessities and convenience of life.
Utilitarian Function
Transmits and preserves skills and knowledge from one generation to another
Cultural Function
Through civic and graphic arts, man learns to love and help each other.
Social Function
Enhance a sense of identity and ideological connection to specific political views
Political Function
Illustrate knowledge and attitude that are not expressed in words
Educational function
Some art works express spiritual belief, customs, ceremonies and rituals about the meaning and destiny of life.
Spiritual Function
Mimesis is a Greek word which means
Imitation or Copying
Believed that all artistic creation is a mimesis. It exists in the “world of ideas” and is created by God.
Plato
Speaks of tragedy as an “imitation of an action” selects and presents a material, that an artist is purposely seeking to imitate or copy the action of life.
Aristotle
Art as a representation of such signs and symbols. It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming elements.
Art as Representation (Aristotle)
Art needs no justification.
Art for Art’s Sake (Kant)
Artists have to get rid of this anxiety and pressure because we keep these worries and anxieties within our mind
Art as an Escape
A functional piece of art is to bring creativity, beauty, and usefulness into people’s everyday lives.
Art as Functional
The foundation of the creation of the work of art.
Subject of Art
Subjects of art may be found in primary sources such as
Artwork
Autobiography
Film of the Artist
Interviews
Diaries
Speeches
Letters
Photographs
Documents
Nature
History
Mythology
Christian Tradition
Sacred Oriental Text
Where to Find the Primary Sources
Archive
Catalogues
Exhibits
Notebooks
Sketchbooks
Art Galleries
Art Museum
Art and Cultural centers
There are artworks that depict something easily recognized by most people
Representational or Objective Arts
They do not represent anything and they are what they are, they appeal directly to the senses primarily because of satisfying organization of their elements.
Non- Representational or Non- Objective Arts
Refers to the meaning of significance, or feelings imparted by a work of art. ____ of a art is inextricably linked with form
Content
Refers to the pictorial aspects of the art
Form
