HUMANITIES Flashcards

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Latin term for HUMANITIES

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humanitas

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The _________ deal with man as a being of purpose, of values, loves, hates, ideas and sometimes as a seer, or prophet with divine inspiration.

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HUMANITIES

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Latin term for ARTS

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arti

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A major area of arts that are presented in the written mode and intended to be read. These include prose and poetry.

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Literary Art

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A major area of arts that forms perceived by the eyes.

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Visual Art

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A major area of arts that are perceived by both ears (audio) and eyes (visual).

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Audio-Visual Art

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They are called performing arts in as much as the artists render a performance in front of an audience.

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Audio-Visual Arts

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Art characterized as cave painting, fertility goddesses and megalithic structure.

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Stone Age

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Arts presented in the written mode and intended to be read.

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Literary arts

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It refers to intentional, conscious actions on the part of the artist or creator.

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Motivated Function of Arts

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This period of art characterized as serene, meditative art and Arts of the floating world.

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Chinese, Indian, Japanese

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He was the archetypal “Renaissance Man”

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Leonardo da Vinci

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It denotes craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness.

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Art/Arti

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Period of Art characterized as warrior art and narration in stone relief.

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Mesopotamian

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An art characterized by rich color, Christian Themes, intense shadowing and highly Dramatic Scenes that are heavily foreshortened.

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Baroque

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It generally refers to art, literature, music, architecture, dance and the theatre—in which human subjectivity is emphasized and individual expressiveness is dramatized.

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Humanities

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Arts were highly focused on portraying the beauty of humans, and created sculptures that were highly naturalistic.

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Classical Art

18
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It focused on human and realism.

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Renaissance

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Basic elements of arts

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Color, Line, Shape, Tone, Color, Pattern, Texture, Form

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It focused on religious themes.

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Medieval Art

21
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Art with an afterlife focus.

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Egyptian

22
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This art was often used by nobles for displaying their wealth.

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Rococo

23
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It is the foundation of all drawing. It is the first and most versatile of the visual elements of art.

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Line

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It can be natural or man-made, regular or irregular, flat (2 dimensional) or solid (3 dimensional), representational or abstract, geometric or organic, transparent or opaque, positive or negative, decorative or symbolic, colored, patterned or textured.

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Shape`

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The angles and curves of shapes appear to change depending on our viewpoint. The technique we use to describe this change.

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Perspective Drawing

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It is the lightness or darkness of a color. The tonal values of an artwork can be adjusted to alter its expressive character.

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Tone

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It is the visual element that has the strongest effect on our emotions. We use color to create the mood or atmosphere of an artwork.

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Color

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It is made by repeating or echoing the elements of an artwork to communicate a sense of balance, harmony, contrast, rhythm or movement.

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Pattern

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The two basic types of pattern

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Natural Pattern and Man-Made Pattern

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It is the surface quality of an artwork - the roughness or smoothness of the material from which it is made.

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Texture

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It s the physical volume of a shape and the space that it occupies. It can be representational or abstract.

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Form