Reading Visual Arts Week 1

Question 1

“conscious use of skill and creative
imagination especially in the production of
aesthetic objects.”

Answer 1

Webster’s New Collegiate dictionary

Question 2

Historic Development of the Idea of Art

Answer 2

1. Plato
2. Jackson Pollock
3. Leo N. Tolstoy
4. Clive Bell
5. George Dickie and Arthur Danto

Question 3

ancient Greek definition of art, imitation of
the real world

Answer 3

Mimesis

Question 4

the visual artist’s goal was to copy visual
experience

Answer 4

Plato – Mimesis

Question 5

avoided making marks
or passages that
resembled recognizable
objects.

Answer 5

Jackson Pollock

Question 6

“Art is the communication of feeling”

Answer 6

Leo N. Tolstoy

Question 7

“Art is a human activity consisting in this, that
one man consciously by means of certain
external signs, hands-on to others feelings he
has lived through, and that others are infected
by these feelings and also experience them.”

Answer 7

Leo N. Tolstoy

Question 8

“art is a significant form”

Answer 8

Clive Bell

Question 9

“aesthetic pleasure.”

Answer 9

Clive Bell

Question 10

is the collection of those
elements that rises to the level of your
awareness and gives you noticeable pleasure
in its beauty.

Answer 10

Significant Form

Question 11

promoted the first definition of art and conceptualized the institutional theory of art, or the “Artworld” theory

Answer 11

George Dickie and Arthur Danto

Question 12

is an object or set of conditions
that has been designated as art by a “person or persons acting on behalf of the artworld,” and the artworld is a “complex field of forces” that determine what is and is not art.

Answer 12

Artworld

Question 13

DIFFERENT TYPES OF ARTS

Answer 13

VISUAL ARTS
Dance
Theater
Poetry
Architecture
Literary

Question 14

appeals to the sense of
sight and are mainly
visual in nature.

Answer 14

VISUAL ARTS

Question 15

a creative art form that
allows people to freely
express themselves

Answer 15

DANCE

Question 16

usually follows follow a script,
though they should not be
confused with literary arts.

Answer 16

THEATER
ART

Question 17

an art form where the artist
expresses his emotions not
by using paint, charcoal, or
camera, but expresses them
through words.

Answer 17

POETRY
PERFORMANCE

Question 18

Art is the pursuit and
creation of beautiful things
while ___________ is the
making of beautiful
buildings.

Answer 18

ARCHITECTURE

Question 19

__________ goes beyond
the usual professional,
academic, journalistic and
other technical forms of
writing.

Answer 19

LITERARY ART