Humanities PT1

Question 1

Humanities

Answer 1

Is the study of how humanity has expressed views of reality or a search for reality through the arts across the centuries and around the world.

Question 2

Philosophy and theology

Answer 2

form the foundation of the humanities.

Question 3

1. What is it?
2. How is it put together?
3. How does it stimulate the senses?

These first three questions are ___ in nature
(define the term too)

Answer 3

cognitive
The cognitive response to a work of art involves things that are factual and objective.

Question 4

” WHAT DOES IT MEAN”
This last questionn is ______ in nature.
Define

Answer 4

affective
The affective response to a work of art involves feelings, intuition, and emotion, and is subjective and personal

Question 5

What makes us human?

Answer 5

Perhaps it’s the search for meaning in life.

Question 6

What is art?

Answer 6

A sight, sound, or movement (or combination of these) intended as human expression.
or
One person’s vision of human reality, expressed in a particular medium and shared with others.

Question 7

Creativity

Answer 7

Is the act of bringing forth new forces and forms, both in the arts and the sciences.

Question 8

design

Answer 8

Is an arrangement of artistic elements.

Question 9

Convetion

Answer 9

Is a set of rules or mutually accepted circumstances.

Question 10

Style

Answer 10

Is the manner in which artists express themselves, the way in which they combine the techniques and materials of the medium of expression.

Question 11

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 11

is sometimes referred to as a Renaissance man because of his genius in many areas from art to science.

Question 12

Renaissance man

Answer 12

The term is still used as high praise for anyone who achieves great things in several fields

Question 13

Aesthetics

Answer 13

and with issues relateis a branch of philosophy that deals with issues of beautyd to works of art.

Question 14

The term aesthetics was coined by who?

Answer 14

German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten

Question 15

metaphysics

Answer 15

(the nature of first principles and problems of ultimate reality).

Question 16

epistemology

Answer 16

(the nature and origin of knowledge),

Question 17

ethics

Answer 17

(the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by the individual in relationship with others),

Question 18

The ancient Greek philosophers
Plato and Aristotle saw art as

Answer 18

mimesis (imitation) and beauty
as the expression of a universal
quality.

Question 19

What did Aridtote do with art?

Answer 19

divided the arts into “high art” and “low art.”

Question 20

For the ancient Greeks, “art” included

Answer 20

all handcrafts, and the rules of symmetry, proportion, and unity applied equally to weaving, pottery, poetry, and sculpture

Question 21

What did Immanuel Kant do?

Answer 21

revolutionized aesthetics in his Critique of Reason (1790) by viewing aesthetic appreciation as involving a judgment–subjective, but informed.

Question 22

The “fine arts”─ meaning

Answer 22

painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theatre, dance, and in the 20th century, cinema ─ are prized for their purely aesthetic qualities.

Question 23

symbol

Answer 23

A symbol is a thing that represents something else. A symbol is a tangible emblem of something abstract: a mundane object evoking a higher realm.

Question 24

artifact

Answer 24

(something made by people) representing the ideas and technology of a specific time and place

Question 25

Art criticism

Answer 25

is a detailed process of analysis to gain understanding and appreciation.

Question 26

Formal art criticism

Answer 26

examines the artwork itself.

Question 27

Contextual art criticism

Answer 27

examines the artwork in consideration of the events surrounding it, and perhaps the circumstances of its creation.

Question 28

Critical thinking

Answer 28

means rational and logical analysis, looking at subjects objectively, gathering all the information, and drawing conclusions based on the evidence.

Question 29

Artisanship

Answer 29

refers to how well the work is crafted or made.

Question 30

In judging artworks, what are two particularly important criteria to consider?

Answer 30

Communication and artisanship

Question 31

Masterfully crafted works of art employ

Answer 31

. universality (the artist’s ability to touch a common experience or feeling within us),
2. carefully directed structures or focal points that lead us where the artist intends us to go, and
3. freshness of approach that makes us curious to investigate further.

Question 32

stereotypes

Answer 32

depictions of groups, often with unflattering emphasis on a few simplistic traits, without regard for significant differences among the individuals that make up that group

Question 33

blasphemy

Answer 33

any feature of an artwork considered by religious authorities as abusive toward or contemptuous of their religion or beliefs

Question 34

who was Friedrich Nietzsche ?

Answer 34

Nietzsche used figures from ancient Greek mythology to represent two opposing creative approaches

Question 35

Who was Apollo?

Answer 35

As patron god of musicians and poets, Apollo carries a lyre and his symbol represents the “egg of creation”. He was also the Greek sun god, commanding his fiery chariot across the sky each day.

Question 36

Was the Greek god of wine. His feasts were associated with drunken parties and orgies.

Answer 36

Dionysus

Question 37

Both were elements in art work why?

Answer 37

Extremes in an Apollonian or Classical approach produce works that are too predictable,

extremes in a Dionysian or Romantic approach result in works that are too unpredictable to effectively communicate with others.