Chapter 2

Question 1

What do artists use to create new forms and why?

Answer 1

raw materials for an expressive end

Question 2

in the end, what is the only important aspect of art?

Answer 2

its expressive end

Question 3

What does art interpret?

Answer 3

human experiences (life)

Question 4

Creative artists arouse what?

Answer 4

specific emotions or feeling

Question 5

What does successful art do?

Answer 5

intensify our sensations

Question 6

Aesthetic experiences deal primarily with what?

Answer 6

human feelings

Question 7

4 ways aesthetic experiences are produced

Answer 7

direct stimulation (Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix
types and symbols (Guernica)
Representation of emotional behavior (The Third of May)
Expressing personal feeling (Starry Night by Van Gogh)

Question 8

Appreciation of art takes what?

Answer 8

effort

Question 9

Medium:

Answer 9

physical materials that influence how other elements will be organized

Question 10

Line:

Answer 10

Horizontal: repose and stability
Vertical: strength
Diagonal: motion
Long curve: relaxation
Short curve: dynamic agitation

Question 11

Space

Answer 11

open and closed, whether the artist wants to see outside or not

Question 12

Perspective

Answer 12

Linear: vanishing point

aerial/atmospheric: distant objects are less detailed

Question 13

Colors

Answer 13

White for purity, purple for royalty, blue for faith

monochromatic: mainly one color
hue: property of reflected light that shows color
saturation: purity of a color

Question 14

Form

Answer 14

arrangement of materials into a recognizable pattern

Question 15

Organization guided by

Answer 15

unity (repetition), variety (contrast creates it), balance (symmetry), form (lack of unity is chaos)

Question 16

Raphael’s School of Athens

Answer 16

achieves unity by repeated diminishing arch forms and illustrate linear perspective

Question 17

Wheat Fields

Answer 17

atmospheric perspective

Question 18

Nude Descending a Staircase

Answer 18

general sense of movement

Question 19

non-art example

Answer 19

chicken paints while running

Question 20

art requires

Answer 20

thoughtful manipulation

Question 21

Music has (like visual arts)

Answer 21

unity and variety

Question 22

motive

Answer 22

recognizable group or patter

Question 23

phrase

Answer 23

larger group than motive

Question 24

Consonance and Dissonance

Answer 24

repose and tension

Question 25

Canon

Answer 25

polyphony

Question 26

Atonal

Answer 26

completely dissonant, clusters or aleatoric (chance)

Question 27

timbre

Answer 27

intensification of certain overtones

Question 28

2 elementary types of form

Answer 28

type 1: Theme and Variation

type 2: repetition and contrast

Question 29

established forms

Answer 29

dance, rondo, Turkish March, sonata

Question 30

music is primarily responded to

Answer 30

through the emotions (common or acquired)

Question 31

Painting v. Music

Answer 31

line and melody or rhythm, color and timbre, physical and aural materials

Question 32

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Answer 32

homophonic, 4/4, major, strings, sonato allegro

Question 33

Sonato Allegro

Answer 33

Exposition, repetition, development, recap)