Exam 1

Question 1

How was art defend historically

Answer 1

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

Question 2

How is art defined now (6 things)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Plato

Answer 3

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

Considered artists Dillard’s with nothing to say

Question 4

Immanual Kant

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Ayn Rand

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Bruce Nauman

Answer 6

Bizarre actions

Sculptor, print maker, crafts man

Question 7

Unit

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Variety

Answer 8

Difference spice of art

Question 9

Emphasis

Answer 9

Creates visual dominance

Made through compositional means

Question 10

Analogous

Answer 10

Colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel

Question 11

Complimentary

Answer 11

Colors that are opposite on the color wheel

Question 12

Contours

Answer 12

Boundaries we perceive on 3D forms

Question 13

Implied texture

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Subversive texture

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Figure

Answer 15

Shape we focus on

Question 16

Impliedshape

Answer 16

Forces the viewer to fill in the shape

Question 17

Organic shape

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Foreshortening

Answer 18

Distortion seen by the eye

Question 19

Aerial or atmospheric perspective

Answer 19

Achieves the illusion of depth by using bluer duller colors

Question 20

Isometric perspective

Answer 20

All demensions are true to scale

Question 21

Marcel Duchamp

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Wassily Kandinsky

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Time/motion

Answer 23

Used to exemplify an artworks connection to living beings

Question 24

Implied motion

Answer 24

No moving image that recreates sensation of movement

Question 25

Balance

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Asymmetrical/informal balance

Answer 26

Sides don't match

Question 27

Proportion

Answer 27

Comparison of size between similar forms

Question 28

Scale

Answer 28

Artworks size in relation to standard or normal size

Question 29

Patterns

Answer 29

Organizes surfaces or structures in a regular manner

Question 30

Rhythm

Answer 30

Measures passing of time organizing our experiences

Question 31

Context

Answer 31

Environment that a work of art is produced in

Question 32

Iconography

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Abstraction

Answer 33

Uses real world as starting point | Shows where the artist interprets the world with personal style

Question 34

Representation

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Nonobjective

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Content

Answer 36

Refers to arts essence or what is being depicted

Question 37

Aesthetics

Answer 37

Philosophy dealing with beauty and taste

Question 38

Sublime

Answer 38

Vast, irregular, obscure, unfamiliar, super human

Question 39

Beauty

Answer 39

Smooth, light, what we know | It is ever changing

Question 40

Edmund Burke

Answer 40

Piece must move the person to be good

Question 41

Aesthetics over time

Answer 41

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,

Question 42

Sublime over time

Answer 42

Reveals instability, | Can t exist in nature it happens in technology because we have lost control of technology

Question 43

Define visual art

Answer 43

Anything perceived as being creative