Midterm Key Concepts Flashcards
Adinkra
symbols standing for ideas that he engraved on food trays
Assemblage
Assembling various objects to create art
Usually 3D
Collaborative Aesthetics
Emphasizes creation of a work made more beautiful when artistic appreciation is enhanced thru collaboration
Practice in and across genres traditionally understood as individual
Can be professional and among apprentices
Practice and philosophy
Collaborative Arts
Performing arts (theater, dance, film)
Curation
Curatorial
Collection practices in museums
Controversiality of “Art”
AI won first place
Virtual rapper
What is role of artists
Whose idea does AI generated art express
Can it move to a diff place w/o losing meaning
Cultural Competency
Natural or learned capacity to identify and respect cross-cultural difference
Recognize and respect cultural differences
You won’t see work that can be recognized as art if you don’t have it
Detail vs. Crop
Detail - minute or subordinate part of painting, distinct from larger portions
Puts an emphasis on smth minute as smth major; changes the scale and perspective on artwork
Crop - cuts edges or borders of art
Doesn’t zoom into smth to give it more emphasis
What is emphasized out of the whole, larger portion of the painting?
Homer’s painting: highlights the sailors
Slave market: cuts out the whip to focus on the mother-child relationship
Folk vs Fine Art
Classifying art
By classifying, you’re creating knowledge
3 values this classification reveals
Class difference - fine art w wealthy ppl, folk art w poor ppl
Social difference - fine art is our art; folk art is their art
Universalism vs particularism - judging art in a standard form leads to excluding things as art
Genre/classification - category of artistic composition characterized by particular style or form
Not an explanation, but a production of knowledge
Folk art - art of the common person; anonymous; self-taught; community not individual
Henry Glassie: “fine art of other people”
Fine art - “fine art is our folk art” -Glassie
Folklore
The art of everyday life
Creative expression in everyday life
Informal (variable) and traditional (passed on) culture
Goal is to understand human behavior and thought
Important to know how ppl operate in circumstances they’re stuck in
Ways to express self in relation to society through
Things we make - Material culture
Things we say - Oral literature
Things we do - music/dance/ritual/custom/gesture
Material culture - one category; materializing tradition; unity of mind and matter
Global “Diasporist”
Conscious syncretist
Diaspora - dispersion/spread of ppl from homeland
Ficre is one
Graffiti
Walls as art
Moving and still
Moving walls (subways)
Rural and urban
Style Wars: documentary on graffiti
NYC artists pushing boundaries:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Keith Haring
Lady Pink: “Young kids who paint on the walls are screaming to be heard”
Love as Creative Force and Credo
June Jordan says this
Elizabeth Alexander also embodies this in her memoir
Nyamakala
craftsman
Performance
Folklorists look at tradition through the lens of performance
Puts creativity in context
Understand individuals to understand ppl in groups (single turns into collective)
Understand signs, creations, and objects (symbols of presence) to understand individuals
Understand practice, process, making, creating (performance) to understand signs/creations/objects
Portrait
Designates identifiable representation or likeness of an individual
