Week 3 Flashcards
What are the 4 steps of the critical process?
- Describe
- Interpret/Analyze
- Evaluate/Judge
- Theorize
What theories can aid in describing art?
Marxism: Focuses on Subject
Formalist: Focuses on Form
Psychoanalytical: Focuses on Content
Representational
Natural objects in recognizable form
Realism
The more the representation resembles what the eye sees
Photorealistic
So realistic it appears to be a photograph
Abstract
The less an artwork resembles the real world
Nonobjective
Does not refer to the natural world
Naturalism
Artist retains realistic elements to depict an imaginary world
Iconography
Latin for “Image”; system of visual images widely understood by a given culture or group that is carried through generations
Iconoclasm
Movement against the representation of images
Ethnocentric
Believing ones own culture is superior to others
Pentimentio
Describes a change or alteration made by the artist during the creation of a painting; Italian roots “repentance” and “correction”
What are issues with interpretation?
Ethnocetricism. Meanings of iconography and images have been lost overtime or changed, making the artwork difficult to interpret
Artist-Run Centres
Serves: Artists + Public
Value: Experimentation, emerging status, intrinsic qualities to reflect and comment on in society
Municipal + Public Galleries
Ran: Artist administrators
Serves: public and contemporary artists (local or otherwise)
Value: inspires public to see the world in different ways
Museums
Ran: world-expert art administrator
Serves: public and art collections
Commercial Galleries
Serves: Art buyers
* It’s commercial. they’re there to be commercial
Art fairs
Commercial and international
Ran: countries, states, private organizations
Serves: public
Auction Houses
Serves: public, mainly art collectors
Art magazines and journals
painted or written
Who funds artists in Canada?
National (Canada council for artists) and regional (Saskarts board, creative sask, arts council)
Arm’s length concept
Allocates a certain amount of money to councils to let them promote and support creative autonomy, freedom of speech, and individual mind
Cubism
Emphasized flat 2D surfaces and rejected 3D (foreshortening, perspective, and modelling)
Avant Garde
Aesthetically innovative works of art; artwork that experiments and refuses ideologies of the time
