College: ART APPRECIATION quiz reviewer Flashcards
Four common essentials of art
- Art has to be man-made.
- Art must be creative, not
imitative. - Art must benefit and satisfy
man. - Art is expressed through a
certain medium or material by
which the artist communicates
himself to his audiences.
“Art is that which brings life in harmony with beauty
and the world.”
PLATO
“Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind-one that
demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, shaping
of matter to new and more significant form.”
JOHN DEWEY
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the
world has known.”
OSCAR WILDE
Art is not a thing – it is a way.
ELBERT HUBBARD
art is the
completed work
product,
art encompasses
acts to create images or
memorable works
process
art is the human
capacity to make things of
beauty and things that stirs us
ability
is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or
performed artifacts— artworks—that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill,
and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
Art
this is the study of the different cultural aspect of man, his frailties in life and
how these can be improved.
Humanities
is the academic study of the history and development of the visual arts.
Art history
is the application basic tools of visual literacy in order to understand
and appreciate works of art.
Art appreciation
used to provide comfort, happiness, and convenience to human beings. The artist tires to express his personal feelings through the artwork.
Personal
Art is used for public display and celebration, It is used to affect collective behavior. It bridges connection among people. Art conveys sense of family community or civilization
Social
Art helps preserve, share, and transmit culture of people from one generation to another.
Cultural Function
Art becomes influential for man to be aware of the beauty of nature.
Aesthetic function
Is when there is the real feelings of appreciation to nature’s beauty and are manifested through appreciation and enjoyment when in contact with the artwork
Aesthetic
An artist may create a work of art to reinforce the religious or spiritual support of a culture
Spiritual function
According to him, art is an imitation of the real that was an imitation of the ideal. Art is an imitation of an imitation
Art as memesis (Plato)
According to him, the aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance
Art as representation (Aristotle)
According to him, art has its own reason for being. It implies that an art object best understood as an autonomous creation to be valued only for its success as it organizes color and line into a formally satisfying and beautiful whole.
Art for art’s sale (Immanuel Kant)
The ceremony of doing or creating art touches the deepest realms of the mind and the sacred dimension of the artistic creative process. The sacred level of art not only transforms something into art but also transforms something into art but also transforms the artist at the very core of his or her being,
Art as an escape
Art serves a function. Art is meant to be used, to enrich lives to be spiritually potent, to education, to support or protest existing power structures, to entertain, and so on
Art as functional
It is the application of pigment on any flat tow-dimensional surface
Painting