Art - module 15

Question 1

art

Answer 1

ideas forms techniques and strategies that humans employ to express themselves creatively and to communicate their creativity and inspiration to others- defined culturally, not a universal language people interpret things differently

Question 2

cultural view vs universal gaze/aesthetic ideas of art

Answer 2

Art is culturally interpreted and there is no universal interpretation.

Question 3

ethnomusicology

Answer 3

anthropology and music studies

Question 4

kinetic orality (Gaunt)

Answer 4

-Kyra gaunt- girls doing playground rhymes and jump roping- ways of girls embodying identity and learning from each other- enculturation
-kinetic morality- kinetic movement and voice

Question 5

authenticity & art markets

Answer 5

Christopher Steiner- local craftsmen who made wooden masks- they would alter them to make them look older- would artificially make products “authentic”

Question 6

“primitive” art

Answer 6

Art that is outside of europe

Question 7

Blombos cave

Answer 7

The oldest art was found in Blombos Cave in south africa. Found human materials dating back to 75,000 years ago such- bones and stone along with red ochre

Question 8

European cave art

Answer 8

Paleolithic cave paintings. Showed capability of symbolic expression and thought.

Question 9

art & power

Answer 9

Use art to politically critque and for self affirmation.

Question 10

Pintupi “dot painting” -Myers

Answer 10

Fred myers- work on native australian painters- people have mental maps of landscape- people needed money so they started selling their paintings- painting are with dots to represent life before humans- they created a new form of art