PRELIMS Flashcards
LATIN TERM THAT ART IS DERIVED FROM AND WHAT IT MEAN
ARS
SKILL, TALENT AND ABILITY
innate qualities that pretty art can give us is that it makes our dull, lifeless walls come to life (aesthetic appeal)
beauty
in a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age
happiness and hope
art can serve as a powerful tool to help us communicate and relay our confusion
identity and understanding the self
artist have interpreted these shared human experiences in diff. ways which also help us process our grief
grief and healing
art has helped us remember and shaped our landscape
remembering and markmaking
forms of art often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions
culture and togetherness
MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ART
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
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ART
art is not nature
art is universal
art involves experience
art is cultural
art is a form of communication
The personal functions of art are varied and highly
subjective. This means that its functions depend on the person-the artist who created the art.
Personal function
Art is considered to have ____
function if and when it addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a personal interest”
ex. political art
social function
ARTIST OF ‘‘REMEMBERING’’
AI WEIWEI
______ functions can be found in
artworks that are crafted to serve some physical purpose”
EX: Architecture, jewelry-making, and even
interior design, music
Physical function
Plato’s metaphysics or view of reality, the
things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the_______
ART AS AN IMITATION
WORLD OF FORMS
2 REASONS PLATO WAS SUSPICIOUS OF ARTS ANF ARTIST
they appeal to the emotion rather to the rational faculty of man
they imitate rather than lead one to reality
- Aristotle defends art by saying that in the
appreciation of art the viewer receives a certain “cognitive value” from the experience (Stumpf, p 99). “This is to say that through the perception of art one gains a certain understanding about the nature of reality…
ART AS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETY
poetry tends to express the ____ and history the _____
universal; particular
, in his Critique of Judgement,
considered the judgement of beauty, the cornerstone of art, as something than can be universal despite its subjectivity.
Judgement of beauty is subjective
IMMANUEL KANT, ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGEMENT
art plays a huge role in
communication with its audience’s emotions that the artist previously experienced.
- Art then serves as a language; a communication
device that articulates feelings and emotions that are otherwise unavailable to the audience.
ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION, LEO TOLSTOY
art plays a huge role in
communication with its audience’s emotions that the artist previously experienced.
- Art then serves as a language; a communication
device that articulates feelings and emotions that are otherwise unavailable to the audience.
imagination
_____defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ___, ____, or ______ that may be useful in solving
Creativity
ideas, alternatives, or possibilities
3 reasons why people are motivated to be creative
need for novel, varied, and complex
stimulation
need to communicate ideas and values
need to solve problems
“What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it. Through______, he is able to explore his own emotions and at the same time, create something beautiful out of them.” – Robin George Collingwood
EXPRESSION
Creations that fall under this category are those that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly ____
EX. Creations that fall under this category are those that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly
VISUAL ART
of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion of movement.
FILM
live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body that he or she uses to perform, but also employs other kinds of art such as visual art, props, or sound.
PERFORMANCE ART
is an art form where the artist expresses his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.
POETRY PERFORMANCE
pursuit and creation of beautiful things while ______ is the making of beautiful buildings
ARCHITECTURE
s a series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment.
HAS NO RULES
DANCE
practice ________use words-not paint, musical instruments or chisels – to express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers.
It focuses on writing using unique style, not
following a specific format or norm.
LITERARY ART
live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience.
Some genres: drama,
musical, tragedy, comedy, and improvisation.
THEATER
art is incorporating elements of style and design to everyday items to increase their aesthetical value.
Industrial design, interior design, fashion
design, and graphic design are considered _____
APPLIED ARTS
Basically gives importance to the formal
qualities (art elements, materials, and design principles) as basis for the meaning of art.
FORMALISM AND STYLE
Focuses on the subject matter
primarily over form.
ICONOGRAPHY
From the term itself, context becomes
an important factor in criticizing artworks. We can take many approaches to contexts like Marxism, Orientalism, Colonialism, Racial Iconography, Feminism and Gender.
CONTEXTUAL APPROACH
Considers the life and context of the
artist.
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
From the Greek word “sema”, which
means sign. Hence, an artwork or art form is assumed to be composed of a set of signs that may have significant cultural and contextual meanings beyond itself.
SEMIOTICS
one is concerned
about the unconscious mind in relation to the artist, the viewer, and the cultural context it is involved in.P
PSYCHOANALYSIS
ndividual notion of what is
considered acceptable, beautiful or attractive in works of art are in part influenced by psychological factors.
AESTHETIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
MAN HELPING MAN AND WOMAN AND CHILD HOLDING BY A BRANCH
SCENE OF DELUGE 1826
JOSEPH DÉSIRÉ COURT
•focus on creating aesthetically pleasing works •fine artists work with paint, watercolor, pen, and ink, or illustrations
•transfer their visions to canvases or other medium
•illustrators might work for a publishing or animation company, or create original comic books
ARTIST
is one of the world’s greatest thinkers, artists, and philosophers. Seeking after perfection, he created rare masterpieces of art such as ‘The Mona Lisa’ and The Last Supper.’
- In 1482, he went to the court of Ludovico Sforza in Milan, where he stayed for 16 years. During this period, he painted the famous artworks “Madonna on the Rocks” and also “The Last Supper.”
LEONARDO DA VINCI
WHAT MAKES MONA LISA PAINTING, INTRIGUING
HER SMILE
WORKS OF DA VINCI OTHER THAN MONA LISA AND THE LAST SUPPER
VITRUVIAN MAN
LADY WITH AN ERMINE
ANNUNCIATION 1472
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST 1513
THE VIRGIN AND THE CHILD WITH ST ANNE
an artist of exceptional talent. Influenced by impressionist painters of the period, he developed his own instinctive, spontaneous style.
became one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century and played a key role in the development of modern art.
VINCENT WILLEM VAN GOGH
YEAR OF STARRY NIGHT
1889
ARTS OF VAN GOGH ASIDE FROM STARRY NIGHT
STRAW HARVEST
CAFE TERRACE AT NIGHT
YEAR OF POTATO EATERS
1885
YEAR OF IRISES
1889
ITALIAN RENAINSSANCE CULPTOR, PAINTER, POET AND ARCHITECT. MADE STATUE OF DAVID, PIETA AND PAINTINGS OF THE SISTENE CHAPEL
MICHELANGELO DI LUDOVICO BUONAROTTI SIMONI
the primary inspiration for the new art movement of impressionism. Along with his contemporaries, he captured the light of nature on canvas in a unique, spontaneous and vivacious style. He painted a wide range of subjects ranging from urban scenes to his own beloved formal garden.
OSCAR-CLAUDE MONET
WHO COINED THE TERM IMPRESSIONISM
LOUIS LEROY, AFTER SEEING CLAUDE MONET PAINTING
WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT CLAUDE MONET PAINTINGS?
UNFINISHED BRUSH STROKES
PAINTINGS OF CLAUDE MONET
THE ARTIST’S GARDEN AT GIVERNY
THE WATER LILY POD (PEAK OF HIS CARREER)
THE POPPY FIELD
born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 to a conventional artistic family. From an early age, he displayed a talent for painting and began displaying his work from the age of 14.
PABLO RUIZ PICASSO
PICASSO PAINTINGS, CUBISM
LE REVE (WOMAN SLEEPING) 1932
THE OLD GUITARIST 1904
THE WEEPING WOMAN 1937
GUERNICA 1937
Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
EDWARD MUNCH
EDWARD MUNCH PAINTINGS
THE SCREAM 1893
ANXIETY 1894
SEPARATION
known as the ‘Grand Old Man of Philippine Art’.
Labelled the country’s first National Artist in 1972
FERNANDO AMORSOLO
AMORSOLO PAINTINGS
THE FRUIT GATHERER
THE BURNING MANILA
DEFENSE OF A FILIPINA WOMAN’S HONOR
PLANTING RICE
- Born to Chinese immigrants, he is the pioneer of Philippine modern figurative expressionism. Rewarded as the country’s National Artist in 2001, he was one of the most successful commercial figures on the local art scene from the 1960s until his death from cancer in 2005.
ANG KIUKOK
KIUKOK ARTPIECE (CUBISM BUT MAKE IT FILO)
THE FISHERMAN
CRUCIFIED
THINKING MAN
COCKEREL
After he won a gold medal in the 1984 Madrid Exposition, moved to Paris and stayed in an apartment close to the Hidalgo’s. Shortly before his marriage to ___________he visited The Hague and the seacost of Scheveningen. .
JUAN LUNA,
HER WIFE: MARIA DE LA PAZ PARDO DE TAVERA
JUAN LUNA PAINTINGS
SPOLIARIUM
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
THE PARISIAN LIFE
THE DREAM OF LOVE (SHOT HIS WIFE WHILE ASLEEP CUZ HE DELULU)
He is acknowledged as one of the greatest Filipino painters of the late 19th century, and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Mariano Ponce, and Graciano López Jaena, although he neither involved himself directly in that movement, nor later associate himself with the First Philippine Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.
FELIX RESURRECION HIDALGO
FELIX HIDALGO PAINTINGS
LAS VIRGENES CRISTIANAS EXPUESTAS AL POPULACHO
ARTIST’S MOTHER 1888
- one of the most popular progressive artists in the country.
- He was a former student of cubist Fernand Leger and was respected by his peers because of the intellectual underpinnings of his art. - He was given a posthumous recognition as a National Artist in 1982.
VICENTE MANANSALA
MANANSALA ARTWORK
ANG MAGBABAYO
- one of the best mural artists the country has ever had.
- He stayed permanently in Angono where he became the first regional artist. In Angono, he refined the style he had made his own, his personal version of Post-impressionism grafted into the Philippine context.
CARLOS ‘‘BOTONG’’ V FRANCISCO
•focus on accessorizing and functionality more than aesthetics
• sculptors take their sketches and create 3D products
from clay, marble or other material
• craftsmen who make practical artistic products, such
as jewelries, urns, stained glass and other accessories
• gain their knowledge by studying under master
craftsmen and then practicing with continued study
ARTISANS
painting of michelangelo
the creation of adam
pieta
sistene chapel
madonna of bruges
angel
artisans all over the world
Glass blowers (murano italy
knife makers tibet china
flamenco guitar luthiers madrid spain
jade lapidaries hokitika, NZ
azulejo tile makers lisbon portugal
T’boli Textile weaver
Lang dulay
Ilocano Textile weaver
Magdalena gamayo
kapampangan metal smith
Eduardo mutuc
kapampangan metal smith
Eduardo mutuc
Ilocano caques maker
Teofilo garcia
ikat weaver
Yabing masalon dulo
