MODULE 5

Question 1

FORMALISM

Art is ——————–
because does not contain
any representation.

Answer 1

NON-FIGURATIVE

Question 1

Art is the combination
of perceptual elements.

Answer 1

FORMALISM

Question 2

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

Answer 2

CLIVE BELL

Question 3

“Art for art’s sake.”

Answer 3

THEOPHILE GAUTIER

Question 4

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

Answer 4

PAUL CEZANNE

Question 5

Concerning the Spiritual
in the Arts

Answer 5

WASSILY KANDINSKY

Question 6

Paintings which retain some
naturalistic representation.

Answer 6

IMPRESSIONS

Question 7

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

Answer 7

IMPROVISATIONS

Question 8

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

Answer 8

COMPOSITIONS

Question 9

The formal
geometrical
design in
Islamic Art

Answer 9

ARABESQUE

Question 10

Art that uses feelings, emotions and ideas.

Answer 10

EXPRESSIONISM

Question 11

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

Answer 11

SUSANNE LANGER

Question 12

“Art is the
objectification
of emotion.”

Answer 12

LEO TOLSTOY

Question 13

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

Answer 13

ARISTOTLE

Question 14

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

Answer 14

BENEDETTO CROCE

Question 15

DOMINANCE OF BLUE COLOR IN THE PAINTING

Answer 15

Due to Van Gogh’s bipolar disorder or manic depression:
Sadness, social anxiety, isolation, hopelessness, loss of meaning

Question 16

Due to physical movements during
moments of epileptic seizures

Answer 16

DOMINANCE OF CURVE LINES IN THE PAINTING

Question 17

Due to overmedication of digitalis pupurea to cure epilepsy
Due to excessive consumption of liquor Absinthe containing thujone

Answer 17

VAN GOGH USED YELLOW IN THE PAINTING

Question 18

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

Answer 18

EDVARD MUNCH

Question 19

Father of Hedonism

Answer 19

ARISTIPPUS
EPICURUS

Question 20

something is beautiful when it is pleasurable or givespleasurable experience

Answer 20

HEDONISM

Question 21

TRUE OR FALSE

Kant thought that beauty does not rest on the propertiesof the objects or things but rather in the manner in which people respond totheseobjects or things.

Answer 21

TRUE

Question 22

they believedthat whatever is good is what brings pleasurable experience to the individual
person. Also, he mentioned food, money and sex are good because they giveself-interested pleasure.

Answer 22

ARISTIPPUS AND EPICURUS

Question 23

TRUE OR FALSE

taste can bothbesubjective and universal.

Answer 23

TRUE

Question 24

Kant’s philosophy,—————————– does not focus on the properties of the object iteslf but rather onthepleasure one experiences as he responds to it

Answer 24

SUBJECTIVE TASTE

Question 25

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

Answer 25

UNIVERSAL TASTE