Reviewer Flashcards
What is the Italian origin of the word ‘art’?
Art comes from the Italian word artis, meaning craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the association between form and ideas and between material and techniques.
What does ‘art appreciation’ entail?
Art appreciation is the ability to interpret or understand man-made arts and enjoy them, involving learning, understanding, creating arts, and enjoying them.
True or False: Art is universal.
True
List the assumptions of art.
- Art is Universal
- Art as Means of Communication
- Art is Timeless
- Art Addresses Human Needs
- Art is Not Nature
- Art Involves Experience
What is functional art?
Functional art refers to art used in daily life, such as tools, architectural structures, and furniture.
Define indirect functional art.
Indirectly functional art refers to arts perceived through the senses, such as fine arts, painting, music, and dance.
What is the aesthetic function of art?
The aesthetic function occurs when art helps people appreciate the beauty of nature and evokes joy through contact with artwork.
What is the utilitarian function of art?
The utilitarian function provides comfort, convenience, and happiness to human beings.
How does art serve a social function?
Art bridges connections among people and encourages unity and cooperation.
What does the cultural function of art represent?
The cultural function serves as an aperture towards skills, knowledge, attitudes, customs, and traditions of different groups.
What does ‘subject’ refer to in art?
Subject in art refers to the thing, object, person, event, or landscape depicted by the artist.
Define representational art.
Representational art is an artwork that has a subject and can be easily objectified.
What is non-representational art?
Non-representational art consists of artworks that have no resemblance to any real subject.
List the kinds and sources of subject in art.
- Nature
- Animals
- Portrait or Human Figures
- History and Legends
- Still Life
- Religion and Mythology
- Dreams and Fantasies
How is an artist defined?
An artist is someone who does whatever it takes to make work right and touches the heart and soul of the viewer.
What role do artisans play?
Artisans provide comfort, convenience, ease, and happiness in everyday living.
What is effectuative imagination?
Effectuative imagination combines information to create new concepts and ideas.
What is intellectual (or constructive) imagination?
Intellectual imagination is used to develop hypotheses from different pieces of information.
Define imaginative fantasy.
Imaginative fantasy creates and develops stories, pictures, poems, and stage plays.
What is empathy in the context of imagination?
Empathy is the capacity to connect to others and feel what they are feeling.
What does strategic imagination involve?
Strategic imagination involves envisioning possibilities and evaluating opportunities.
What is emotional imagination?
Emotional imagination manifests emotional dispositions into scenarios.
Fill in the blank: _______ is the process of retrieving our memory of people, objects, and events.
Memory Reconstruction
What is appropriation in art?
Appropriation retains the original associations of artwork while bringing the audience to a new context.
