art appreciation Flashcards
“Man is the measure of all things.”
Protagoras
are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now
called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time.
Humanities
is generally applied art - art created for
use, not necessarily everyday use, but designed to serve a purpose and with an
aesthetic in mind.
Functional art
is art that serves no
utilitarian purpose. It is in direct contrast with functional art, which has both an
aesthetic value and a utilitarian purpose.
Nonfunctional art
is a philosopher of Ancient Greece who is known for his
Dialogues together with Socrates. He loved and hated the arts at the same time which
makes his philosophical views on art unexplainably complicated.
Plato ( 428 – 347 BC)
Plato’s Ideas of the Arts may be summed up by the truths according to him that:
Art is imitation; 2. Art is dangerous.
are all examples of what Plato called Forms or Ideas.
Beauty, Justice, and The Circle
was a student of Plato who first distinguished between
“what is good and what is beautiful’’. For him, the universal elements of beauty are
manifested by order, symmetry and definiteness.
Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC)
was a German, Enlightenment philosopher who
wrote a treatise on Aesthetics: Observations on the Feelings of the Beautiful and the
Sublime. His main interest was not on art but on BEAUTY that it is a matter of
TASTE.
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
The Kinds of Aesthetic Responses according to Kant are:
Beauty results in pleasure if there is order, harmony and symmetry; and Beauty leads to a response of awe that overwhelms the viewers of the art.
t is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.
artist
is a skilled craft worker who
makes or creates things by hand that may be functional or strictly decorative, for
example furniture, decorative arts, sculptures, clothing, jewellery, food items, household items and tools or even mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork
movement of a watchmaker
artisan
is sometimes used in describing hand-processing in what is
usually viewed as an industrial process, such as in the phrase artisanal mining.
“artisanal”
is an art form that reflects how we present ourselves
across the earth’s landscape, and, like other expressive mediums, it changes with
styles, technologies and cultural adaptations.
Architecture
an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked
into three-dimensional art objects
Sculpture
is the application of pigments to a support surface that
establishes an image, design or decoration
Painting
is the movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and
within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing
energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself.
Dance
is an art form, and cultural activity, whose medium is sound. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which
governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter,
and articulation), dynamics (loudness and softness), and the sonic qualities
of timbre and texture (which are sometimes termed the “color” of a musical sound)
Music
is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live
performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or
imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
Theatre or theater
most generically, is any body or collection of written work. More restrictively, literature refers to writing considered to be an art form or any
single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, and sometimes deploys
language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.
Literature
are
those which are felt by the senses which includes sculpture, painting and architecture.
Visual arts
Music, Dance and Theater are under what
category
the performance arts
in arts refers to the main idea that is represented in the artwork.
subject
refers
to compositions which do not rely on representation or mimesis to any
extent.
Non-representational or non-objective art
