Formalism, Expressionism and Hedonism

Question 1

Art is the combination
of?

Answer 1

perceptual elements

Question 2

Art is the combination
of perceptual elements

Answer 2

FORMALISM

Question 3

Art is _________________
because does not contain
any representation.

Answer 3

NON-FIGURATIVE

Question 4

has no representation

Answer 4

NON-FIGURATIVE ART

Question 5

“To appreciate art, we
bring with us nothing
from life.” What is
essential in art is only
the “significant form”.

Answer 5

CLIVE BELL

Question 6

“Art for art’s sake.”

Answer 6

THEOPHILE GAUTIER

Question 7

“Artists need to look at
nature and things only as
forms made up of spheres,
cylinders, cones.”

Answer 7

PAUL CEZANNE

Question 8

Concerning the Spiritual
in the Arts

Answer 8

WASSILY KANDINSKY

Question 9

Sign of Materialism in
the Society

Answer 9

REPRESENTATIONAL ART

Question 10

Would bring about
Spiritual Life

Answer 10

PURELY FORMAL ART

Question 11

Paintings which retain some naturalistic representation.

Answer 11

IMPRESSIONS

Question 12

Paintings which convey deep
emotions inspired by events
of a spiritual type.

Answer 12

IMPROVISATIONS

Question 13

Purely formal paintings done
carefully, over a period of time,
after preliminary studies. These
are his most complicated works.

Answer 13

COMPOSITIONS

Question 14

He painted this
after attending
a concert by
Schonberg

Answer 14

Impression III
(Concert)

Question 15

He painted this
because of the
constant talk
about the
incoming war

Answer 15

Improvisation
No. 30 (Canons)

Question 16

He painted
this after a lot
of preliminary
sketches.

Answer 16

Composition
No. 3

Question 17

The formal
geometrical
design in
Islamic Art

Answer 17

ARABESQUE

Question 18

“Art is the creation
of symbolic forms
expressive of
human feelings.

Answer 18

SUSANNE LANGER

Question 19

“Art is the
objectification
of emotion.”

Answer 19

LEO TOLSTOY

Question 20

Art is the expression of
the artist’s overflowing
emotion (catharsis).

Answer 20

ARISTOTLE

Question 21

Like language, art is the
expression of idea by the
artist (Intuitionism).

Answer 21

BENEDETTO CROCE

Question 22

He experienced miseries
and pain in life, which he
expressed through his art.

Answer 22

EDVARD MUNCH

Question 23

POWERFUL WOMAN

Answer 23

Leonardo, The Mona Lisa

Question 24

MEEK WOMAN

Answer 24

Raphael, Madonna

Question 25

Dancing the Tango
Mask of Zorro (erotic dance)

Answer 25

Antonio Banderas and
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Question 26

comes from a Latin word which means “pressing outward”

Answer 26

Expression

Question 27

something is beautiful when it is…

Answer 27

pleasurable

Question 28

aesthetic hedonism was formulated by…

Answer 28

Aristipus and Epicurus

Question 29

He wrote a treatise
in Aesthetics entitled, Observations on the Feelings of the Beautiful and the
Sublime.

Answer 29

Immanuel Kant

Question 30

does not focus on the properties of the object itself but rather on the pleasure one experiences as he responds to it

Answer 30

subjective taste

Question 31

non-aesthetic and does not consider the beauty of the work or the mastery of the
artist, but rather, the artwork is appreciated for what it is.

Answer 31

universal taste