Arts appreciation Flashcards
The latin word for humanities
Humanus
Form of arts
Visual arts
music
Dance
Theatre or drama
Literature
a many faceled subject.
The Scope of humanities
One of the oldest & important of the areas of art
Architecture
the communication of certain Ideas & feelings by means of sensuous medium-color, sound, bronze, marble, words and film
Art
The latin word for art
ars
The __ __ are those we perceive with our eyes.
Visiual Art
Components of Graphic art
painting
drawing
graphic processes
commercial arts
mechanical processes
photography
This group includes all fields of the visual arts in which materials are organized into three-dimensional forms.
The Plastic Arts.
component of plastic arts (3d models)
Architecture
Landscape Architecture
City planning
Interior Design
Sculpture
Crafts
Industrial Design
Dress and Costume Design
Theater Design
he art of combining spoken or written words and their meanings into forms which have artistic and emotional appeal is called_____
Literature
the art of arranging sounds in rhythmic succession and generally in combination. Melody results from this sequence, and harmony from the combinations
Music
Component of music
Vocal Music
Instrumental Music
Music Combined with Other Arts (opera)
A drama or play is a story re-created by actors on a stage in front of an audience. The following are the most common types of drama.
Drama and Theater
Component of Drama and Theater
Tragedy
Melodrama
Comedy
involves the movement of the body and the feet in rhythm. Some important types include:
Dance
Components of Dance
Ethnology
Ballroom
Ballet
Modern
Musical Comedy
The definition
of art has generally fallen into (3) categories:
representation
expression
form.
Plato first developed the idea of art as which, in Greek, means copying or imitation
Mimesis
became important during the Romantic Movement with artwork expressing a definite feeling, as in the sublime or dramatic. Audience response was important, for the artwork was intended to evoke an emotional response. This definition holds true today, as artists look to connect with and evoke responses from their viewers.
Art as Expression of Emotional Content
one of the most influential of the early theorists toward the end of the
18th century. He believed that art should not have a concept but should be judged only on its formal qualities
because the content of a work of art is not of aesthetic interest.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
the definition of art was anything done with skill as the result of knowledge and practice.
from the 11th century on through the end of the 17th century,
Occurred during the Dutch Golden Age
This meant that artists honed their craft, learning to replicate their subjects skilfully.
17th century Netherlands.
Enlightenment and its emphasis on
science, empirical evidence, and rational thought, art began to be described as not just being something done
with skill,
Romantic period of the 18th century,
The Avant-garde art movement began with the realism of Gustave Courbet in when?
1850s
When we look at a work of art, our minds
naturally take notice of the general information that is present.
Description (Describe)
refers to how we see the elements and principles of art.
Analysis (Analyze)
We look for meaning in everything, so this is natural
Interpretation
This is your personal evaluation based on the understandings of the work(s)
Judgment
What are the Arts Have in Common?
Emotion
feelings
a person who exhibits exceptional skills in design, drawing, painting, and the like who works
in one of the performing arts, like an actor or musician.
The Artist
Creativity is an artist’s trait developed in the course of his life to solve problems or express his feelings.
The Work of the Creative Artist
he artist as the prime mover, communicating his ideas
through the performer, as his interpreter to the audience
process of creativity
First, the artist must have an idea; second, he must have a material in which to work on;
and third, he must give form to his idea.
Process of Creation
A particular experience
may impress an artist so much that he decides to use it as the basis for a picture, a poem, a play or a dance.
Idea.
the artists use to
give form to his idea. A painter uses pigments; a sculptor uses stone, metal or wood; an architect, various
building materials.
Material and Process.
List of National Artists of the Philippines
- Fernando Amorsolo
- Francisca Reyes Aquino
- Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco
- Amado V. Hernandez
- Antonio J. Molina
- Juan E. Nakpil
the most obvious
aspect of an artwork. It is what the work of art depicts or represents. It may be a person, an object, a scene, or
an event.
Subject
connotative, symbolic and suggestive aspect of the image.
Content
Types of Visual Art According to Subject
*Representational art
*Non-Representational art
aims to represent actual objects or subjects from reality
Representational
does not
represent or depict a person, place, or thing in the natural world
Non - Representational
Methods in Presenting Art Subjects
Realism
Abstraction
Symbolism
Fauvism
Dadaism
Futurism
Surrealism
Expressionism
To portray a subject
Realism
A symbol or visible sign of something invisible such as an idea or a quality
Symbolism
when the artist becomes so interested in one phase of a scene or a situation that he does not show the subject at all as an objective reality, but only his idea, or his feeling about it.
Abstraction
The first important art movement of the 1900s and The fauves flourished as a group only from
about 1903 to 1907, but their style greatly influenced many later artists
Fauvism
who led the movement and
other important fauves?
Henri Matisse
A protest movement in the arts was formed in 1916. “Dada” means hobby horse
Dadaism
Subjects included automobiles, motorcycles and railroad
Futurism
art as a weapon against the evils and restrictions that surrealists see in society and Basically Fictional
Surrealism
It sometimes portrays defeat, morbidity, violence or chaos and tragedy.
Expressionism
