prelims Flashcards
is the knowledge and understanding of the universaland timeless qualities that identify all great art.
ART APPRECIATION
or also called art historiography, historical study of thevisual arts, being concerned with identifying, classifying, describing,evaluating, interpreting, and understanding the art products and historicdevelopment of the fields of:* painting* sculpture* architecture* drawing* photography* interior design
History of Art
What we consider ancient art is what wascreated from around 30,000 B.C.E. to 400A.D. If you prefer, it can be thought of asfertility statuettes and bone flutes toroughly the fall of Rome.Many different styles of art were createdover this long period. They include thoseof prehistory (Paleolithic, Neolithic, theBronze Age, etc) to the ancientcivilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, andthe nomadic tribes.
ANCIENT ART
Some people still refer to the millenniumbetween 400 and 1400 A.D. as the “DarkAges.” The art of this period can beconsidered relatively “dark” as well. Somedepicted rather grotesque or otherwisebrutal scenes while others were focusedon formalized religion.
Medieval to Early Renaissance Art
This period covers the years 1400 through1880 and it includes many of our favoritepieces of art.
Renaissance to Early Modern Art
runs from around 1880 to 1970and they were an extremely busy 90years. The Impressionists opened thefloodgates on new paths to take andindividual artists such as Picasso andDuchamp were themselves responsiblefor creating multiple movements
Modern Art
The 1970s is what most people consideras the beginning of Contemporary Art andit continues to the present day. Mostinterestingly, either fewer movements areidentifying themselves as such or arthistory simply hasn’t caught up yet withthose that have.
Contemporary Art
Ideally, one can look at a piece of art and guess with some accuracy where it camefrom and when. This best-case scenario also includes identifying the artist becausethey are in no small way part of the contextual equation.
Functions of Art
The _____ functions of art are oftenthe easiest to understand. Works of artthat are created to perform someservice have physical functions.
Physical
Art has a ____ function when itaddresses aspects of (collective) life asopposed to one person’s point of viewor experience.
Social
An artist may create a piece out of aneed for self-expression or gratification.They might also or instead want tocommunicate a thought or point to theviewer.
Personal
We love to express our life experienceswith others. We are naturally designedto express our minds to our close ones,friends, or spouse. This is what makesus humans.
Means of Expressions
is desired by every human;especially internal freedom where yourmind is at ease and free fromdistractions, stress or worries of theworld. There is no threshold thatevokes the feeling of freedom as art
Feeling of Freedom
describes artworks –particularly paintings and sculptures – that areclearly derived from real object sources
Representational
EXISTS ON A CONTINUUM,FROM SOMEWHAT REPRESENTATIONAL WORK,TO WORK THAT IS SO FAR REMOVED FROM ITSACTUAL REAL-WORLD APPEARANCE THAT IT ISALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO EASILY DISCERN.
ABSTRACT
WORK THAT DOES NOT DEPICT ANYTHINGFROM THE REAL WORLD (FIGURES,LANDSCAPES, ANIMALS, ETC.) ISCALLED NONREPRESENTATIONAL
NONREPRESENTATIONAL
