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
It is a fun and rewarding way for people to express themselves and learn a broad range of skills and concepts
Art Making
_______ is at the heart of making art
Production
What are the 5 stages of Art Making?
- Inspiration
- Percolation
- Preparation
- Creation
- Reflection
It is an exciting moment in the process of creating art
Inspiration
It is refining your ideas before making art
Percolation
A more active and focused time to create your blueprint
Preparation
This vary depending on your personal temperament , artistic style, and medium
Creation
This stage will vary depending on the artists
Reflection
It has the ability to flex our imagination
Art
Who emphasizes that human experience is now more visual and visualized than ever before
Seeing and Sense, as Mirzoeff (1999)
Who defined human voice as semantikos psophos, “significant sound”, or sounds that make meaning (Shirato, T. & Webb, J., 2004)
Aristotle
An effective tool for analysis because it deals with the signs anything which stands for something
Semiotics
Who viewed that Art Criticism analyzes and evaluates any art form?
As Wilson K. (2021)
- This would leave out judgements and our interpretations of what we think
- It is to describe what we see
Description
It is determining what described elements suggest and why the artists used those specific colors, angles, or shapes etc. To convey feelings, ideas or historical events
Analysis
It is used to establish context explaining why we think the artist created it and its meaning
Interpretation
It is to decide where an artwork stand alongside similar works and explain what aspects are most important when determining it quality
Evaluation of Judgement
What are the 2 interpretative strata of photograph
- material structure; the real meaning of the text and its sign and the specificity of its content
- simply reading of the conventional subject matter, in terms of reorganizing the pure forms as particular objects with a social meaning, a process of deciphering
(Shirato & Webb 2004)
- It connects us to other areas of our lives
- It pave the way to communicate points of view and shape the way communities think and identify themselves
Visual Arts
This refers to a movie or motion pictures/Movies are up of a series of still photographs, each showing a slight in motion then projected
Film
- This is were the viewer sees a moment in a story that allows the viewers to understand what happened prior to and after the moment caught by the artists
- It has an element of literacy
Narrative Painting
- It used to describe a painting that focuses on a serious narrative or includes exemplary actions
- Subjects are derived from the Bible, mythology, secular literature and historical events
History Painting
- This comes from the latin word ‘animare’ (to breathe into life)
- It is the visual art of making a motion picture from a series of still drawings
Animation
- Comes from the greek word ‘komikos’
- Printed arrangement of art and balloons i sequence
Comics
It is the pictorial representation of or reference to one or more ‘events’. It occur in a sequence of time and bring a change in the condition of at least one character
Narrative Illustration
- Comes from the latin word ‘pictorius’ meaning a painter
- and ______ means engaging in the act of narration
Pictorial Narrative
- It is a phenomenon that every society is acquainted with
- defined as a graphic that essentially and explicitly narrates a story, something that can be seen in the human eyes
Visual Narratives
______ illustrates a series of events linked by causality, temporarily, or sequence of the order of occurence
Story
The act of telling a story of the story itself or the order of presentation
Narrative
What are the 5 characteristic features of Visual Narrative?
- The Presence of the story ( it could belong to any genre: fiction, mythology, fairy tale, folklore, fables, religious stories & etc. )
- The Visual, constructed with the idea of communicating a story to the onlooker
- Presence of a participant (actor)
- A universe of its own
- A visual narrative could be expressed on any medium
- It is a method of presenting related events to tell a compelling story
- It connects disparate occurences through a theme, idea, or storyline
Narrative
- It’s simpliest form means ‘story’
- It comes from the latin word ‘narrate’ which means to ‘relate’ it denotes both what is told and the process of telling
Narrative
What is the study of narrative called?
Narratology
(Shirato & Webb 2004)
- This can be used to describe a kind or quality of a text
- It also explains how we interpret a particular text, how we order and make meaning out of unordered information we take in from the world, and how we employ narration to express our views and experiences to others through stories
Narrative
It is a way of presenting related events to tell a good story
Narrative
- This type of narrative presents the story’s events in the order they happened
- It can be accomplised through any narrative perspective: First person, Second person, or third person
Linear Narrative
It presents the story’s events out of order, employing flashbacks and other literacy devices to shift the chronology of a story
Non-Linear Narrative
- This narrative is where the protagonist works tirelessly towards a goal
- The pursuit of this goal likely becomes their all-consuming passion, and they must face seemingly insurmountable obstacles along the way
- The character must go on a long journey to obtain it
Quest Narrative
This is designed to express the points of view or subjective personal experience of the main character or other fictional characters in the story
Viewpoint Narrative
Who said that Art Criticism, responds to, interprets meaning, and makes critical judgments about specific works of art.
Barret, T. (1994)
- They are the ones who help viewers perceive, interpret, and judge artworks.
- They tend to focus more on modern and contemporary art from cultures close to their own.
Art critics
Who tend to study works made in cultures that are more distant in time and space.
Art historians
What are the 4 levels of Formal Analysis?
- Description
- Analysis
- Interpretation
- Judgment
- This is pure description of the object without value judgments, analysis, or interpretation.
- It answers the question, “What do you see?”
Description
- It is determining what the features suggest and deciding why the artist used such features to convey specific ideas
- It answers the question, “How did the artist do it?”
Analysis
- It is establishing the broader context for this type of art.
- It answers the question, “Why did the artist create it, and what does it mean”
Interpretation
- a piece of work means giving it rank in relation to other works and, of course, considering an essential aspect of the visual arts; its originality.
- Is it good artwork?
Judgment
switches between the POV’s and private thoughts of multiple central characters
Omniscient narrator
either deliberately deceptive ( liar or trickster ) or unintentionally misguided, forcing the readers to question their credibility as a storyteller
unreliable narrator
figuring out what they imply
deciphering the visuals
parts of our body, that fascinate us and they are the window to our souls
Eyes
what we see is thus neither natural nor straightforward, and our ability to see is similar to our ability to speak
Seeing and making sense
Art criticism 3 collaborations
PSYCHOLOGICAL
MORAL
SPIRITUAL
actual historical moment with 2 interpretative strata
- Material Structure
- Reading of the conventional subject matter
Want to express themselves according to their taste and preferences by saying their thoughts and ideas.
Human Beings
Form of Art
Medium of work
Size and scale
Elements or general shapes
Description of an axis
Description of line
Description of how line describes shapes and space
RELATIONSHIPS between shapes
Description of color and color scheme
Texture of surface
Context of objects
DESCRIPTION
Form of Art
Medium of work
Size and scale
Elements or general shapes
Description of an axis
Description of line
Description of how line describes shapes and space
RELATIONSHIPS between shapes
Description of color and color scheme
Texture of surface
Context of objects
DESCRIPTION
Architecture, sculpture, painting or one of the minor arts
Form of art
clay, stone, steel , and pain
medium of work
Relationship to a person and or frame and or contexy
Size and scale of work
vertical, diagonal, horizontal
Description of an axis
contour as soft, planar, jagged
Description of line
Description of color and color sceme
Palette
original location and date
context of object
Reaction to object or monument (Barret T)
Analysis
Contrasty, shadowy, illogical, warm, cool, sumbolic
Analysis of the use of light and role of color
Main idea is the overall meaning of the work
Interpretation
Is it a good artwork?
Judgement ni hehe
Judgemental ka ghorl?
Interpretive statement and evidence involve
INTERPRETATION
Criteria, Evidence, and Judgement is involved
JUDGEMENT
How many principles of Interpretation
18 bes
Artworks have ________ And demand interpretation
aboutness
Interpretation are _______ arguments
Persuasive
_________ of art tell more about the artwork than the critic
Good interpretation
________ are guides to interpretation
Feelings
Are often based on a worldview
Interpretation
are not so much right, bur more on less reasonable, convincing, enlightening and informative
Interpretation
can be judged by coherence, correspondence, and inclusiveness
Interpretation
An ______ is nor necessarily about what the artist wanted it to be
Artwork
The objects of ________ are artworks, not artist
Interpretation
All ____ is in part about the world in which it emerged
Art
is ultimately a communal endeavour, and the community is ultimately self- corrective
Interpretation
Invites us to see for ourselves and continue on our own.
Good Interpretations
