Art Appreciation (Midterms) Flashcards
Kinds of subject
- Still life
- Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
- Animals
- Portraits
- Figures
- Everyday life
- History and legends
- Religion mythology
- Dream and fantasies
A kind of subject wherein most of the world’s religions have used the arts to aid in worship, to instruct, to inspire feelings of devotion and to impress and convert non-believers.
Religion and Mythology
It is one of the sources of subject of art that interprets and analyzes primary sources. They may provide historical context or critical perspectives.
Secondary sources
______ are usually vague and illogical.
Dreams/Dreams and Fantasies
A kind of subject that deals with consisting verifiable facts while legends are of unverifiable facts.
History and Legends
A kind of subject that pertains to artists having always shown a deep concern about life around them.
Everyday life
It is any personal meaning consciously or unconsciously conveyed by the artist using a private symbolism which stems from his own association of certain objects, actions, or colors with past experience
Subjective meaning
Two types of subject of art
Representational or objective
Non-representational or non-objective
It may refer to a visual focus or the image that may be extracted from examining the artwork.
Subject of art
Sources of subject of art (two types)
Primary & secondary sources
_________ are realistic likeness of a person in sculpture, painting, drawing or print.
Portraits
A kind of subject wherein the sculptures’ chief subject has traditionally been the human body, nude or clothed. The body’s form, structure and flexibility offers the artist a big challenge to depict it in a variety of ways ranging from the idealistic as in the classical Greek sculptures to the most abstract.
Figures
______________ art or __________ art represents objects or events in the real world, usually looking easily recognizable.
Representational, figurative
In simple terms, the subject is seen as the _____; the content is the _____ and the form is the ______.
What
Why
How
Sources of subject of art (Examples)
Nature
History
Greek and Roman mythology
Christian tradition
Other works of art
These are arts without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation).
Non-representational or non-objective
It is the literal meaning or the narrative content in the work which can be directly apprehended because the objects presented are easily recognized.
Factual meaning
________ is the meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork.
Content
A kind of subject where artists have always been fascinated with their physical environment.
Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
It refers to the special meaning that a certain object has in a particular culture or group of people.
Conventional meaning
__________ of art refers to any person, object, scene or event described or represented in a work of art.
Subject
How the elements and the medium or material are put together is the _____.
form
Three different levels of meaning
Factual meaning
Conventional meaning
Subjective meaning
These are groups of inanimate objects arranged in an indoor setting.
Still Life
