Fine arts} unit 1

Question 1

The analysis of art that concentrates on aesthetics

Answer 1

Formalism

Question 2

Type of perspective that looks for meaning in the psychologist features of the work or symbolic representations

Answer 2

Psychological perspective

Question 3

The analysis of art that takes into account the social, cultural, historical and political forces during the time the art was created

Answer 3

Contextualism

Question 4

The type of perspective that examines the artwork from a woman’s POV

Answer 4

Feminist perspective

Question 5

This type of perspective is the most encompassing of all the perspectives

Answer 5

Historical perspective

Question 6

Type of perspective looks for roles and relationships associated w/ wealth in the content of the artwork

Answer 6

Economic perspective

Question 7

With the religious perspective, even though there are many different religions, religious people generally agree that their beliefs are __________.

Answer 7

ultimate

Question 8

Dominant idea of a work, the message or emotion the artist intends to convey

Answer 8

Theme

Question 9

Refers to the systematic procedure whereby a particular creative task is preformed

Answer 9

Technique

Question 10

Material from which an art object is made

Answer 10

Medium

Question 11

Combination of distinctive elements of creative execution and expression, in terms of both form and content.

Answer 11

Style

Question 12

Type of class in which a work of art, literature, drama or music belongs

Answer 12

Genre

Question 13

An agreed-upon practice ,device, technique or form to create a work of art

Answer 13

Convention

Question 14

Arrangement of elements in an individual work

Answer 14

Composition

Question 15

Space around the main subject of a painting

Answer 15

Negative space

Question 16

Imaginative form of expression using meter, rhythm, or rhyme

Answer 16

Poetry

Question 17

Ordinary language used in speaking and writing

Answer 17

Prose

Question 18

A poem, novel, or film that is relatively long recounting of the life of a hero or the history of a person

Answer 18

Epic

Question 19

A serious play or other work of literature that tries to make you feel exhilarated because the hero’s experience teaches you some profound truth about yourself

Answer 19

Tragedy

Question 20

play or other work that makes you laugh and reaffirms the values you hold important

Answer 20

Comedy

Question 21

Short subject poem usually expressing an intense personal emotion

Answer 21

Lyric

Question 22

Pattern of events in a story, poem or play- Aristotle said it is the “life and soul” of the drama

Answer 22

Plot

Question 23

Character in direct opposition to the protagonist

Answer 23

Antagonist

Question 24

Primary character that is changed by the dramatic action of the plot

Answer 24

Protagonist

Question 25

Character that remains unchanged throughout the story

Answer 25

Static

Question 26

They tell the story from their POV and seem to know everything that is going on

Answer 26

Narrator

Question 27

Is the background in which the action takes place

Answer 27

Setting

Question 28

How centered the main subject of of a compositon is

Answer 28

Balance

Question 29

How some thing looks

Answer 29

Aesthetic

Question 30

Is an example of perception w/o conception

Answer 30

New born baby

Question 31

Is the plural for medium

Answer 31

Media

Question 32

The element that makes the action possible

Answer 32

Characters

Question 33

To cause a rebellion

Answer 33

Foment

Question 34

To mix the media of other art forms with the artist's ow, but keep their basic media or subject clearly dominant

Answer 34

Appropriation

Question 35

The relative equally combining of the media of one or more arts

Answer 35

Synthesis

Question 36

When a work of art takes another work of art as its subject mater (when a book is turned into a movie)

Answer 36

Interpretation

Question 37

For painting, sculpting, or architexture you use...

Answer 37

lines, color, shape, texture, composition

Question 38

Tends to be the best suited to using others as their subject matter

Answer 38

Film and Photography

Question 39

Henri Matisse interprets the _____ or _____ of dance and music in his paintings

Answer 39

Idea, nature

Question 40

Anne Sexton's & Robert Fagle's poems both portray the ______ of Van Gogh's, Starry Night.

Answer 40

emotion

Question 41

_____ and _____ appropriate the most from other arts

Answer 41

Opera, architecture

Question 42

Focuses on form

Answer 42

Descriptive

Question 43

Focuses on content

Answer 43

Interpretive

Question 44

Focuses on the relative merits of work

Answer 44

Evaluative

Question 45

Focuses on form

Answer 45

Descriptive

Question 46

Focuses on content

Answer 46

Interpretive

Question 47

Focuses on the relative merits of work

Answer 47

Evaluative

Question 48

Concentrates on the form of the work of art, describing the important characteristics

Answer 48

Descriptive Criticism

Question 49

Large portion of a painting *Creates structural relationships*

Answer 49

Region

Question 50

Small portion of painting *Creates detail relationships*

Answer 50

Detail

Question 51

Jackson Pollock's 'Autumn Rhythm' has no clear cut ____, | but it has lots of ____.

Answer 51

regions, details

Question 52

The criticism that helps us understand how form transforms subject matter into content (and subjective) is...

Answer 52

Interpretive criticism

Question 53

To evaluate a work of art on its relative merits is...

Answer 53

Evaluative criticism

Question 54

An artistic form which everything works together is... (one of the 3 standards)

Answer 54

Perfection

Question 55

The subject matter is excites us or makes some sort of impact is... (one of the 3 standards)

Answer 55

Insight