Functionalism, Action Theory and Institutional Theory Flashcards
Bought
by GSIS in
2002 for
46 million
pesos
Luna
Parisian
Life
MOST EXPENSIVE
PAINTING IN THE
WORLD SOLD
IN 2010
(106.5
Million
Dollars)
Picasso, Nude,
Green Leaves
and Bust, 1932
“Form follows
function.”
ARCHITECTURAL
PRINCIPLE
Purpose or
Use of the
Building
FUNCTION
Shape
size
color
texture
space
Proportion
FORM
Serve as burial tombs for the pharaoh
PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT
“Shape”
Woman as
sexy body
FORM
“Reproduction”
Woman as
a mother
FUNCTION
Style of Abstract Expressionism
ACTION THEORY
ACTION THEORY
Style of Abstract Expressionism
by________________
Jackson Pollock
___________ is a verb,
not a noun
Painting
The process of putting, dripping, pouring
and splashing paints on the canvas
ART OF PAINTING
“On the floor I am
more at ease, I feel
nearer, more part of
the painting, since this
way I can walk around
it, work from the four
sides and literally be
‘in’ the painting.”
JACKSON
POLLOCK
INSTITUTIONAL
THEORY
George Dickie
Arthur Danto
(TRUE or FALSE)
A thing becomes art because it is
acknowledged to be art by the Artworld.
TRUE
Voted by art critics and historians
as the most influential artwork of
the 20th century
The Fountain, Duchamp