MODULE 5 Flashcards
FORMALISM
Art is ——————–
because does not contain
any representation.
NON-FIGURATIVE
Art is the combination
of perceptual elements.
FORMALISM
“To appreciate art, we
bring with us nothing
from life.” What is
essential in art is only
the “significant form”.
CLIVE BELL
“Art for art’s sake.”
THEOPHILE GAUTIER
“Artists need to look at
nature and things only as
forms made up of spheres,
cylinders, cones.”
PAUL CEZANNE
Concerning the Spiritual
in the Arts
WASSILY KANDINSKY
Paintings which retain some
naturalistic representation.
IMPRESSIONS
Paintings which convey deep emotions inspired by events
of a spiritual type.
IMPROVISATIONS
Purely formal paintings done
carefully, over a period of time,
after preliminary studies. These
are his most complicated works
COMPOSITIONS
The formal
geometrical
design in
Islamic Art
ARABESQUE
Art that uses feelings, emotions and ideas.
EXPRESSIONISM
“Art is the creation
of symbolic forms
expressive of
human feelings.”
SUSANNE LANGER
“Art is the
objectification
of emotion.”
LEO TOLSTOY
Art is the expression of
the artist’s overflowing
emotion (catharsis).
ARISTOTLE
Like language, art is the
expression of idea by the
artist (Intuitionism).
BENEDETTO CROCE
DOMINANCE OF BLUE COLOR IN THE PAINTING
Due to Van Gogh’s bipolar disorder or manic depression:
Sadness, social anxiety, isolation, hopelessness, loss of meaning
Due to physical movements during
moments of epileptic seizures
DOMINANCE OF CURVE LINES IN THE PAINTING
Due to overmedication of digitalis pupurea to cure epilepsy
Due to excessive consumption of liquor Absinthe containing thujone
VAN GOGH USED YELLOW IN THE PAINTING
He experienced miseries
and pain in life, which he
expressed through his art
EDVARD MUNCH
Father of Hedonism
ARISTIPPUS
EPICURUS
something is beautiful when it is pleasurable or givespleasurable experience
HEDONISM
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.
TRUE
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.
ARISTIPPUS AND EPICURUS
TRUE OR FALSE
taste can bothbesubjective and universal.
TRUE
Kant’s philosophy,—————————– does not focus on the properties of the object iteslf but rather onthepleasure one experiences as he responds to it
SUBJECTIVE TASTE
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.
UNIVERSAL TASTE
