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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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How was art defend historically

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A skill or a mastery (ex math, science, etc)
Reason why the college of arts and sciences for together
Also…
Art was chosen by the church or had a spiritual connection

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How is art defined now (6 things)

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Art must have these 6 things

  1. Cultural merit
  2. Impact us in a Higher way
  3. More important than every day objects
  4. Barometer of social trends
  5. Transcend their physical form
  6. Intended to be visual art
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3
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Plato

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Defined art is a memesis of reality- a copy, but not as good

Considered artists Dillard’s with nothing to say

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Immanual Kant

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Talent for producing not imitative ideas- it is more than mimetic
It is special and not all representational
Came from representational, formalist, expressionist

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5
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Ayn Rand

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Art is a way of presenting abstractions
Artists bring abstract ideas about truth love life and death to something understood by others
Turns art into language and understanding

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Bruce Nauman

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Bizarre actions

Sculptor, print maker, crafts man

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Unit

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Gestalt of work- a sense of oneness that makes a cohesive piece

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8
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Variety

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Difference spice of art

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9
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Emphasis

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Creates visual dominance

Made through compositional means

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Analogous

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Colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel

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Complimentary

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Colors that are opposite on the color wheel

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Contours

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Boundaries we perceive on 3D forms

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Implied texture

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Markings on a 2D surface that our eyes associate with texture

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Subversive texture

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Contradicts our past visual experience by using texture in a way that is unexpected

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Figure

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Shape we focus on

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Impliedshape

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Forces the viewer to fill in the shape

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17
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Organic shape

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Forms that resemble a structure of a natural thing where a geometric shape is a man made thing

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Foreshortening

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Distortion seen by the eye

19
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Aerial or atmospheric perspective

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Achieves the illusion of depth by using bluer duller colors

20
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Isometric perspective

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All demensions are true to scale

21
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Marcel Duchamp

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The fountain-changed a thing to a piece of art
Wanted to join art world and real world and add humor to it
Wanted to elevate art because art was dead

22
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Wassily Kandinsky

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Lawyer went to Germany
Colors were related to music
Believed colors had meanings

23
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Time/motion

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Used to exemplify an artworks connection to living beings

24
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Implied motion

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No moving image that recreates sensation of movement

25
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Balance

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Within 2D work
Refers to the concept of visual equilibrium and relates to our physical sense of balance
More felt than seen

26
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Asymmetrical/informal balance

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Sides don’t match

27
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Proportion

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Comparison of size between similar forms

28
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Scale

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Artworks size in relation to standard or normal size

29
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Patterns

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Organizes surfaces or structures in a regular manner

30
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Rhythm

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Measures passing of time organizing our experiences

31
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Context

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Environment that a work of art is produced in

32
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Iconography

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Sturdy of interpretation of symbols themes and subject matter in visual arts

33
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Abstraction

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Uses real world as starting point

Shows where the artist interprets the world with personal style

34
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Representation

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Presentation of the natural world to the real in reality- makes it realistic

35
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Nonobjective

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Turns back on real world as it searches for visual art essence
Don’t art for apart

36
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Content

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Refers to arts essence or what is being depicted

37
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Aesthetics

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Philosophy dealing with beauty and taste

38
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Sublime

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Vast, irregular, obscure, unfamiliar, super human

39
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Beauty

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Smooth, light, what we know

It is ever changing

40
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Edmund Burke

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Piece must move the person to be good

41
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Aesthetics over time

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Beauty in art was a reproduction mostly in nature,
Seeing world in new ways with landscapes,
Nature was beauty and wa supposed to look like the real thing, beauty was related to us and needed no function, must move the person to be good,

42
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Sublime over time

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Reveals instability,

Can t exist in nature it happens in technology because we have lost control of technology

43
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Define visual art

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Anything perceived as being creative

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