Prelims Flashcards
T or F
Art is a part or component of our dynamic civilization.
True
an essential form of expression and communication in our daily existence.
Art
The word —- is rooted in the 13th century French word art which means skill as a result of learning or practice, and the Latin word ars, meaning ability or practical skills.
Art
Explain:
Art can be an ability, a process, and a product.
Ability (human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stirs us.
Process (art encompasses acts to create images or memorable works)
Product (art is the completed work)
T or F
Arts enhance daily experiences
Arts doesn’t develop the intellect of the younger generation
Arts make us perceive the world from diverse viewpoints
False
Arts enhance daily experiences
Arts develop the intellect of the younger generation
Arts make us perceive the world from diverse viewpoints
Essentials of Art
(4)
Art has to be man-made.
Art must be creative, not imitative.
Art must benefit and satisfy man.
Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his audiences.
Importance of Art
(7 items)
Arts enhance daily experiences
Arts develop the intellect of the younger generation
Arts make us perceive the world from diverse viewpoints
“Art is that which brings life in harmony with beauty and the world.” - Plato
“Art is a n attitude of spirit, a state of mind–on that demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, shaping of matter to new and more significant form.” - John Dewey
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” - Oscar Wilde
“Art is not a thing–it is a way.” - Elbert Hubbard
T or F
Art is Universal (Art is everywhere)
Art is nature (Art is man-made and from nature)
FALSE
Art is Universal (Art is everywhere)
Art is not nature (Art is man-made)
the study of objects or works of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts.
Art history
deals with the learning or understanding and resting artworks and enjoying them.
Art appreciation
Misconceptions about Art
(6 items)
Art must be perfect.
Drawing and painting go hand in hand.
More colors are always better.
Small canvases over big canvases.
Painting is easy.
Quantity equals quality.
Functions of Art (according to Lazzari and Schesier (2005))
(9 items)
Art assists us in rituals that promote our spiritual or physical well-being;
Art communicates thoughts, ideas, and emotions;
Art gives us pictures of deities, or helps us conceive what divinity is;
Art serves and/or commemorates the dead;
Art makes evident power of state and its rulers;
Art celebrated war and conquest, and sometimes also peace;
Art is a means for protesting political and social injustice;
Art promotes cohesion within a social group;
Art records the likeness of individuals and the context in which individuals exist
T or F
Art assists us in rituals that promote our spiritual or physical well-being;
TRUE
T or F
Art communicates thoughts, ideas, and emotions;
Art gives us pictures of deities, and does not helps us conceive what divinity is;
FALSE
Art communicates thoughts, ideas, and emotions;
Art gives us pictures of deities, or helps us conceive what divinity is;
T of F
Art serves and/or commemorates the dead;
Art makes evident power of state and its rulers;
TRUE
T or F
Art celebrated war and conquest, and sometimes also peace;
Art is a means for protesting political and social injustice;
Art promotes cohesion within a social group;
Art records the likeness of individuals and the context in which individuals exist
TRUE
is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts–artworks–that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
Art
the study of the different cultural aspects of man, his frailties in life and how these can be improved.
Humanities
the academic study of the history and development of the visual arts.
Art history
is the application of basic tools of visual literacy in order to understand and appreciate works of art.
Art appreciation
Basic Philosophical Perspectives of Art
(4 items)
Art as Mimesis (Plato)
Art as Representation (Aristotle)
Art for Art’s Sake (Kant)
Art as Escape
Art is an imitation of the real that was an imitation of the ideal.
Mime means mimicry; imitation
Art as Mimesis (Plato)
The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.
Art as Representation (Aristotle)
Art has its own reason for being
Our experience of art – the ways we appreciate and criticize work – is therefore wholly commanded by aesthetic pleasure and delight, separate to the rest of the world.
Art for Art’s Sake (Kant)
The ceremony of doing or creating art touches the deepest realms of the mind and the sacred dimension of the artistic creative process
Art as Escape
Art is meant to be used, to enrich lives to be spiritually potent, to educate, to support or protest existing power structure, to entertain, and so on.
Art as Functional
Classification of Arts
Visual Arts (2D, 3D)
performing /Combined Arts
Digital
Applied Arts
Give examples of Applied Arts
Fashion design, furniture, interior, graphic
art that is made or presented using digital technology.
Digital
art that is made or presented using digital technology.
Digital
Give examples of performing / combined arts
Music, dance, film, literary, theatre, performance poetry
Give examples of Visual Arts
(2D, 3D) Paintings, sculpture, architecture
The matter to be described or to be portrayed by the artist.
Subject of Art
Various Types of Subject (3 items)
Person
Object
Scene or event
Two Kinds of Art as to Subject
Representational or Objective
Nonrepresentational or Nonobjective
Arts without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation)
Nonobjective because there is no recognizable objects
Nonrepresentational or Nonobjective
Subject that depict (represent) objects that are commonly recognized by most people
Artist attempts to portray the subject as it is
Artist is objective as much as possible
Representational or Objective
Sources of the Subject of Art
(5 items)
Nature
History
Religion
Greek and Roman Mythology
Sacred Oriental Texts
Sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam
Sacred Oriental Texts
During the Renaissance periods, poets, painters and sculptors drew largely from Greek Mythology and Roman sources for subjects.
Greek and Roman Mythology
Played an enormous role in inspiring works of visual arts, music, architecture, and literature.
Religion
All is art is conditioned by the historical period in which it is created.
History
Next to animals and people and their activities, nature as landscapes has been the common subject of arts.
Nature
The meaning, message, and/or feeling imparted by the work of art.
The Content of Art
It is the mass ideas associated with each artwork and communicated through the following:
(5 items)
The Art’s imagery
The symbolic meaning
Its surrounding where it is used or displayed
The customs, beliefs, and values of the culture that use it.
Writings that help explain the work
Three Levels of Meaning
Factual meaning
Conventional meaning
Subjective meaning
refers to the individual meaning deliberately and instinctively expressed by the artist using a personal symbolism that stems from his own alliance with certain objects, actions, or colors with past experiences
Subjective meaning
refers to the special meaning that the certain object or color has for a particular culture or group of people when it is shown in an artwork
Conventional meaning
the literal statement or narrative content in the work that can be directly apprehended because the objects presented are easily recognized
Factual meaning
Reasons for Keeping Art
(3 items)
National Pride and Glory
Museums and Private Collections
Preservation and Restoration
Because art is valuable, enormous human effort and financial resources are devoted to preserving art from the ravages of time, the environment, industrial-by-products, and even any other human being.
Preservation and Restoration
Museums are repositories of much of the art in most countries and make them available for public viewing through either permanent or temporary exhibitions.
Museums and Private Collections
In addition, nations keep art because it is good for the economy and for business. The presence of archaeological, religious, or architectural sites stimulates the entire economy, attracts tourists, and generates thousands of local jobs.
National Pride and Glory
Also known as Nation Living Treasures Award
Institutionalized in the year 1992 through R.A. no. —-
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA)
RA 7335
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) was tasked with the implementation
This award is conferred upon a Filipino citizen or group of Filipino citizens engaged in any traditional art uniquely Filipino
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA)
Someone devoted to the creative part, making visually pleasant work only for gratification and appreciation of viewer but with no practical value
Artist
Defines as art practitioner
Produces or creates indirectly functional arts with aesthetic and value using imagination
Artist
Defines as craftsman
Produces directly functional and decorative arts
Artisan
Physical worker who makes objects using his hand, and through skill, experience, and ability can produce things of great beauty with usefulness
Artisan
Key components of art Market
(4 items)
Curator
Art Buyer
Art dealer
Private collection
Is personal owned collection of works, usually a collection of art
Art collector
Private collection
An economic system that relies not only on supplies and demand but also in fabrication of a work’s predicted future monetary and/or cultural value.
Art Market
Manager, overseer, keeper of a cultural heritage
Content specialist charged with an institution’s collections, organized art exhibits, research artists, write catalogs, and involved in interpreting the heritage
Curator
Is a professional who is knowledgeable in art, who may scout talents for an advertising agency seeking to employ an art director/may look for an art collector or a company
Art Buyer
A person or company that buys and sells works of art
Often study the history of art before starting their careers
Art dealer
THREE STAGES IN CREATIVE PROCESS
- Germination (idea)
- Assimilation
- Completion
The time to finish your project, to give it the final shape before you present it to the audience
Completion
You will internalize and assimilate or incorporate the idea you want to create.
Assimilation
You are planting the seeds of your creation
Germination (idea)
THREE STAGES IN ART MAKING
- Pre-production or Subject Development
- Production or Medium Manipulation
- Post-production (completion) or Exhibition
Once artwork is finished, it will be displayed, circulated and performed for the audience and public to see or watch.
Post-production (completion) or Exhibition
this is the method of joining diverse material inputs and unimportant inputs (plans, know-how) to make something for consumption (output).
Production or Medium Manipulation
This ends when the planning ends, and the content starts being produced.
Pre-production or Subject Development
This ends when the planning ends, and the content starts being produced.
Pre-production or Subject Development
It refers to the materials that are used by an artist to create a work of art.
Medium
It refers to the artist’s ability and knowledge or technical knowhow in manipulating the medium.
Technique
