ch 1: understanding art Flashcards
not a question
- art is a leisure / art is for fun
- art needs to have variety
- movement / action is used in art to convey something
- art has history (a past, a present, and a future) (art gives nostalgia)
examples of art
- film
- music
- dance
- etc.
the word humanities came from the two word?
(state the words and their meaning)
- “Humus”
* latin
* ground/earth - “Humanus”
* latin
* human
- cultured
- refined/developed
- expression
is a discipline which involves the emphasis on human expression
Humanities
art + humanities = ?
human expression
artis mean?
skilled/craftsmanship
art came from the word?
artis
it is the human creative skills or manual skills (e.g., artisans)
arts
It is indeed important in our lives
art
Art, like ________, is not easy to define.
love
Art is an activity that provides the beauty and ________________.
pleasure
Art is also made from one’s skill as well as one’s ________________ and ________________.
feelings and emotions
how can art meet some human needs?
(enumerate)
- Beauty
- Happiness and Hope
- Identifying and understanding oneself
- Grief and healing
- Remembering and mark-making
- Raising awareness
- Culture and togetherness
Though we have different notions of beauty, still, beauty is the ____________________ when we are talking about appreciating forms of art.
common denominator
what are the 2 ways of considering beauty? according to?
- relative beauty according to david hume
- absolute beauty accordimg to francis hutcheson
“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
Relative beauty
“beauty is in the thing itself”
Absolute beauty
Consideration of beauty is subjective and depends on the person looking at the thing.
Relative beauty
It considers the view that a thing is beautiful by virtue of itself.
Absolute beauty
Beauty is objective and resides in the thing regardless of the people looking at it.
Absolute beauty
who believed the “golden mean”?
greeks
what are the components of the “golden mean”
ingredients:
* symmetry (balance)
* proportion (shape, size, volume, etc.)
* harmony (unity of elements & principles)
who believed that beuty lies in the “imitation of nature” or “mimesis”?
aristotle & plato
what does the term “mimesis” mean?
“imitation”
who believed in the contrasting iedas of “creatio ex nihilo” and “creatio ex materia”
st. augustine
“creatio ex nihilo” means?
- creation of God
- whatever God created/nature are beautiful and therefore absolute in beauty
“creatio ex materia” means?
- creation of artists
- copies(of the creation of God) are lesser in beauty and therefore relative in beauty
art is an expression of?
feelings
There is something about art that mirrors the soul of those willing to confront it.
Happiness and Hope
In a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age.
Happiness and Hope
There is a wide range of properties of art why it gives a sense of joy and hope to its audience.
Happiness and Hope
American Psychologists(USA)
believed that art can be a form of?
theraphy (temporary happiness and hope)
When paintings are placed in a daunting environment such as hospitals;
Happiness and Hope
The experience and process of creating art itself;
Happiness and Hope
Identifying oneself with the properties of an artwork: an homage to something; works addressing diaspora, displacement, and other social issues.
Happiness and Hope
it is when one transfers their home culture/customs from one place to another(?)
diaspora
A lot of social issues evidently reflect this struggle for identity:
Identifying and Understanding the self
gender issues, disconnectedness brought on by social media, regionalism, and even mental health issues. (GDRM)
Identifying and Understanding the self
Art can serve as a powerful tool to help us communicate and relay our confusion.
Identifying and Understanding the self
Even psychological interventions use art as therapy to aid in processing some sensitive experiences.
Identifying and Understanding the self
Throughout the years, artists have interpreted these shared human experiences in different ways, which also help us process our grief.
Grief and Healing
Some may use art as a tool to express pain and process it in therapy. Nonetheless, it plays an important role in making grieving somehow dignified.
Grief and Healing
The monument of Rizal in Luneta Park is one example of a type of art that helps us remember.
Remembering and Mark-making
Without the tangible characteristic of art, we will not be able to sustain our nationalistic values well enough.
Remembering and Mark-making
In the Philippines, many socially-concerned artists have emerged in the age of modernism portraying politicians and the governments system in their most hateful actions.
Raising Awareness
Lastly, forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions.
Culture and Togetherness
This is very evident here in the Philippines, which is geographically separated by thousands of islands – we are very regionalized.
Culture and Togetherness
art has the power to?
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, to inspire and to motivate.
3d art that people burn during rallies
effigy
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even the smallest dot can create the most beautiful art
