Chapter 2: Art Making And Art Criticism Flashcards
It applies human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power
Artmaking
It represents reality, communicate emotions or ideas, creates a sense of beauty, explores the nature of perception, and explore formal elements for their own sake.
Artmaking
He said that art-making traces back to the love of imitation and recognizing likenesses that characterize humans.
Aristotle
He who intensifies that artmaking is a human activity, consisting in this, that one person consciously, by sure external signs, conveys to other feelings he has experienced, and other people are affected by these feelings and live them over themselves
Leo Tolstoy
- It is the analysis and evaluatation of works of art.
- It is interpretive, involving the effort to understand a particular piece of art from a theoretical perspective and establish its significance in art history
Art Criticism
It is minimally required to be a connoisseur, which means he must have a “sound knowledge” of art history.
Critic
It often faced with a choice: to defend old standards, values, and hierarchies againsts new ones or to defend the new against the old (Kuspit, D.B 2021)
Critic
- It forms an integral part of fully digesting the minute details of the art.
- It provides the viewers to see the horizon it depicts and what lies behind it
Art Criticism
- It is something that can be seen using the human eye
- It is the practice of graphically representing information to efficiently, effectively create meaning (Pimenta, S. & Pooviah, R. 2010)
Visual
It is the trasmission of information and ideas using symbols and imagery
Visual Communication
What are the three main types of communication?
- Verbal Communication
- Non-verbal Communication
- Visual Communication
It is believed to be the type that people rely on most, and it includes signs, graphic designs, films typography, and many others (Study.com 2003)
Visual Communication
What do you call the study of symbols and visual communication?
Semiotics
It aims to analyze how people make meaning out of signs and how those symbols are interpreted.
Semiotics
It is the realm of what our eyes gaze at and our mental processes
Visual Communication