unit 1 Flashcards
WHAT IS ART?
Art is a mirror, a reflection of life itself.
THREE CATEGORIES OF ART
LITERARY, VISUAL, PERFORMING
4 FUNCTIONS OF
Art
generates pleasure and can be used to entertain.
teaches us about things about ourselves and the world around us.
gives us a space where our we can use our imagination.
can bring about change in the world around us.
HOW WE INTERACT WITH/EXPERIENCE ART IN THE
WORLD AROUND US.
our various senses: touch,
hearing, seeing, smelling, and
even tasting (culinary arts)
What does it mean that art is subjective?
Everyone interacts with art differently and draws conclusions from it.
What is the most important to art
requires an audience.
Someone creates the piece, and there has to be
someone to interact with it for that piece to be
considered art.
What category of art is theater in?
performing Arts
What other art forms are performing arts?
Opera, Dance, and Music.
What are the necessary elements of theater?
- A Live Theatre Audience
- Live Performers
- Suspension of Disbelief
- The Script
- The Director
- The Stage/Theatre Space (Arena, Thrust, Proscenium, Found/Created Spaces)
- Design Elements: Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound
Define the origins: Mimetic impulse
Our innate desire as human beings to pretend, and through
pretending, learn about the world around us.
What type of art form is theater?
collaborative
Determine the type of stage: Arena
The oldest stage type. The audience is all around with the performers, forming in the middle.
Determine the type of stage: Thrust,
The stage goes towards the audience. the downside of the stage is that everyone have to stay to the front and you can’t really hide stuff
Determine the type of stage: Proscenium
Modern usage of stage where everyone’s on one side, the audience being in front of the stage.
Determine the type of stage: Found/Created Spaces
A curated space that is being used as the stage for the performance
Define the origins: Ludic Impulse
Our innate desire as human beings to poke at, make fun of,
and play games.
Define the origins: Ritualism
Theatre first grew out of ancient cultures’ worship of deities.
Worship became ritual, ritual became dramatized, ritual drama became
theatre.
Define the origins: Functionalism
Theatre grew out of myth. Myth was a primeval way of
explaining the world to ourselves.
What makes theater unique?
The art form is alive! The audience-performer relationship changes the art itself.
It makes every performance different, even within the same run of a show
Where are we today? (period)
Late Postmodernism
What is modernism, and why did it change?
Modernism is an age that Western
Society was in from the Renaissance in the 1300s until the mid 1900’s.
it changed because ww1
Belief in a high-power
Absolute truth
Utopia
Progress itself is inherently good
Postmodernism?
Postmodernism as a movement began in the 1960’s as a cultural and societal
reaction to World War 2 and its aftermath
Man-made structure to no higher power
No perfection
Progress doesn’t equal good
No absolute truth because truth is relative
Performance Studies: What is it founded on?
Plato’s Cave
What are the key theories?
-Deep Play vs. Shallow Play
- Cultural Performance
- Social Performances/Social Constructs
- Liminal and Liminoid
- Subversive Play/Medieval Carnival
Define the theory: Deep Play vs. Shallow Play
Deep play- you as the audience member doesn’t realize you are watching theater. Shallow play- you are aware and critical distance is happening.
Define the theory: Cultural Performance
Culture is always moving. A performance that is culturally based..
Define the theory: Social Performances/Social Constructs
Performances that are social and present
Define the theory: Liminal and Liminoid
Liminal is a transitional period between two states to be not one or the other. an example of this would be being a student turning to graduate and the graduation is that liminal space. Liminoid- escapes from the reality that you are in. An example of this would be vr
Define the theory: subversive play/ medieval carnival
Subversive play- what you don’t do in every day life. medieval carnival is going back to reality after acceleration or something. You don’t normally do and it reinforces reality.
