ch 1: understanding art Flashcards

1
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not a question

A
  • 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)
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2
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examples of art

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  • film
  • music
  • dance
  • etc.
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3
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the word humanities came from the two word?

(state the words and their meaning)

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  1. “Humus”
    * latin
    * ground/earth
  2. “Humanus”
    * latin
    * human
  • cultured
  • refined/developed
  • expression
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4
Q

is a discipline which involves the emphasis on human expression

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Humanities

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5
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art + humanities = ?

A

human expression

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6
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artis mean?

A

skilled/craftsmanship

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7
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art came from the word?

A

artis

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8
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it is the human creative skills or manual skills (e.g., artisans)

A

arts

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9
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It is indeed important in our lives

A

art

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10
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Art, like ________, is not easy to define.

A

love

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11
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Art is an activity that provides the beauty and ________________.

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pleasure

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12
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Art is also made from one’s skill as well as one’s ________________ and ________________.

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feelings and emotions

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13
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how can art meet some human needs?

(enumerate)

A
  • Beauty
  • Happiness and Hope
  • Identifying and understanding oneself
  • Grief and healing
  • Remembering and mark-making
  • Raising awareness
  • Culture and togetherness
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14
Q

Though we have different notions of beauty, still, beauty is the ____________________ when we are talking about appreciating forms of art.

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common denominator

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15
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what are the 2 ways of considering beauty? according to?

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  1. relative beauty according to david hume
  2. absolute beauty accordimg to francis hutcheson
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16
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“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

A

Relative beauty

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17
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“beauty is in the thing itself”

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Absolute beauty

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18
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Consideration of beauty is subjective and depends on the person looking at the thing.

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Relative beauty

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19
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It considers the view that a thing is beautiful by virtue of itself.

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Absolute beauty

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20
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Beauty is objective and resides in the thing regardless of the people looking at it.

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Absolute beauty

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21
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who believed the “golden mean”?

A

greeks

22
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what are the components of the “golden mean”

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ingredients:
* symmetry (balance)
* proportion (shape, size, volume, etc.)
* harmony (unity of elements & principles)

23
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who believed that beuty lies in the “imitation of nature” or “mimesis”?

A

aristotle & plato

24
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what does the term “mimesis” mean?

A

“imitation”

25
Q

who believed in the contrasting iedas of “creatio ex nihilo” and “creatio ex materia”

A

st. augustine

26
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“creatio ex nihilo” means?

A
  • creation of God
  • whatever God created/nature are beautiful and therefore absolute in beauty
27
Q

“creatio ex materia” means?

A
  • creation of artists
  • copies(of the creation of God) are lesser in beauty and therefore relative in beauty
28
Q

art is an expression of?

A

feelings

29
Q

There is something about art that mirrors the soul of those willing to confront it.

A

Happiness and Hope

30
Q

In a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age.

A

Happiness and Hope

31
Q

There is a wide range of properties of art why it gives a sense of joy and hope to its audience.

A

Happiness and Hope

32
Q

American Psychologists(USA)
believed that art can be a form of?

A

theraphy (temporary happiness and hope)

33
Q

When paintings are placed in a daunting environment such as hospitals;

A

Happiness and Hope

34
Q

The experience and process of creating art itself;

A

Happiness and Hope

35
Q

Identifying oneself with the properties of an artwork: an homage to something; works addressing diaspora, displacement, and other social issues.

A

Happiness and Hope

36
Q

it is when one transfers their home culture/customs from one place to another(?)

A

diaspora

37
Q

A lot of social issues evidently reflect this struggle for identity:

A

Identifying and Understanding the self

38
Q

gender issues, disconnectedness brought on by social media, regionalism, and even mental health issues. (GDRM)

A

Identifying and Understanding the self

39
Q

Art can serve as a powerful tool to help us communicate and relay our confusion.

A

Identifying and Understanding the self

40
Q

Even psychological interventions use art as therapy to aid in processing some sensitive experiences.

A

Identifying and Understanding the self

41
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Throughout the years, artists have interpreted these shared human experiences in different ways, which also help us process our grief.

A

Grief and Healing

42
Q

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.

A

Grief and Healing

43
Q

The monument of Rizal in Luneta Park is one example of a type of art that helps us remember.

A

Remembering and Mark-making

44
Q

Without the tangible characteristic of art, we will not be able to sustain our nationalistic values well enough.

A

Remembering and Mark-making

45
Q

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.

A

Raising Awareness

46
Q

Lastly, forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions.

A

Culture and Togetherness

47
Q

This is very evident here in the Philippines, which is geographically separated by thousands of islands – we are very regionalized.

A

Culture and Togetherness

48
Q

art has the power to?

A

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, to inspire and to motivate.

49
Q

3d art that people burn during rallies

A

effigy

50
Q

.

A

even the smallest dot can create the most beautiful art