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Fine arts} unit 1 Flashcards

1
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The analysis of art that concentrates on aesthetics

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Formalism

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

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Psychological perspective

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

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Contextualism

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

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Feminist perspective

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5
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This type of perspective is the most encompassing of all the perspectives

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Historical perspective

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

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Economic perspective

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7
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With the religious perspective, even though there are many different religions, religious people generally agree that their beliefs are __________.

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ultimate

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

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Theme

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9
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Refers to the systematic procedure whereby a particular creative task is preformed

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Technique

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10
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Material from which an art object is made

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Medium

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

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Style

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12
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Type of class in which a work of art, literature, drama or music belongs

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Genre

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

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Convention

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14
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Arrangement of elements in an individual work

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Composition

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15
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Space around the main subject of a painting

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Negative space

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16
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Imaginative form of expression using meter, rhythm, or rhyme

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Poetry

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17
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Ordinary language used in speaking and writing

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Prose

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

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Epic

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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

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Tragedy

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20
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play or other work that makes you laugh and reaffirms the values you hold important

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Comedy

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21
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Short subject poem usually expressing an intense personal emotion

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Lyric

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22
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Pattern of events in a story, poem or play- Aristotle said it is the “life and soul” of the drama

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Plot

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23
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Character in direct opposition to the protagonist

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Antagonist

24
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Primary character that is changed by the dramatic action of the plot

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Protagonist

25
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Character that remains unchanged throughout the story

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Static

26
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They tell the story from their POV and seem to know everything that is going on

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Narrator

27
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Is the background in which the action takes place

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Setting

28
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How centered the main subject of of a compositon is

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Balance

29
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How some thing looks

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Aesthetic

30
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Is an example of perception w/o conception

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New born baby

31
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Is the plural for medium

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Media

32
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The element that makes the action possible

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Characters

33
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To cause a rebellion

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Foment

34
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To mix the media of other art forms with the artist’s ow, but keep their basic media or subject clearly dominant

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Appropriation

35
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The relative equally combining of the media of one or more arts

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Synthesis

36
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When a work of art takes another work of art as its subject mater (when a book is turned into a movie)

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Interpretation

37
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For painting, sculpting, or architexture you use…

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lines, color, shape, texture, composition

38
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Tends to be the best suited to using others as their subject matter

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Film and Photography

39
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Henri Matisse interprets the _____ or _____ of dance and music in his paintings

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Idea, nature

40
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Anne Sexton’s & Robert Fagle’s poems both portray the ______ of Van Gogh’s, Starry Night.

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emotion

41
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_____ and _____ appropriate the most from other arts

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Opera, architecture

42
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Focuses on form

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Descriptive

43
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Focuses on content

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Interpretive

44
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Focuses on the relative merits of work

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Evaluative

45
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Focuses on form

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Descriptive

46
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Focuses on content

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Interpretive

47
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Focuses on the relative merits of work

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Evaluative

48
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Concentrates on the form of the work of art, describing the important characteristics

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Descriptive Criticism

49
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Large portion of a painting Creates structural relationships

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Region

50
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Small portion of painting Creates detail relationships

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Detail

51
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Jackson Pollock’s ‘Autumn Rhythm’ has no clear cut ____,

but it has lots of ____.

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regions, details

52
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The criticism that helps us understand how form transforms subject matter into content (and subjective) is…

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Interpretive criticism

53
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To evaluate a work of art on its relative merits is…

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Evaluative criticism

54
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An artistic form which everything works together is… (one of the 3 standards)

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Perfection

55
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The subject matter is excites us or makes some sort of impact is… (one of the 3 standards)

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Insight

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