What Is Art? Chp 1 Flashcards
Name three reasons that Artists create for
Emotional needs
Understanding
Beauty
Artists that have no training in art
Outsider Art
When artist take on bitter struggles against lack of fairness of their time and persuade others to join them in their causes by using their art skills
Social Consciousness
Artists who record the activities and the objects of their times and places
Artists Recording Experiences
Some works of art is design to provide a ___ to the viewer
Reaction
Created to speak to a larger audience
Art in the social and cultural context
Objects used to make viewers think twice about the symbols and objects that surround use
Pop Art
Art made from found objects
Assemblage
Objects found and positioned as art
Readymade
Art used from experience can be made from
Personal experience of art and recording experience and events
Showing war and famine in art is called
Chaos
Artist finding the underlying order of nature
Harmony
Stirring a intellectual response to the viewer
Word Works
Does not represent external objects the art lies in the artists idea
Conceptual Art
Art can make you think feel and trigger associations
Intellectual and emotions
Using art as an outlet for not logical/reasonable reaches of the mind
Psychoanalytic
Art can express our innermost ____
Fantasies
Used to defy death
Immortality
The way society looks at things, held beliefs
Ideology
The quest for immortality
Finding answers for the unanswerable
Religion
Art immortalizes people and events throughout the ages
Glory
Patrons communed artists to create works that _____ their accomplishments
Glorified
Art can be used to
Replicate nature
Show reality
Express an artist own experiences
Art is true to
Nature
Human experience
Materials
Used to create pleasing environments decoration and transport to another place
Environment
Purposes of art
Adds beauty to our lives
Adds the western concepts of beauty and non western
Philosophers about art have
Arguments that art serves no function it excites for it’s own sake
Analyzing art to much looses
Sight of its own beauty
Three Truths about art
No agreed upon definition of art
Doesn’t have to be beautiful
Can be created for number of reasons
Three Meanings of art
Ability
Process
Product
To accomplish a goal
Ability
What it is forms of art such as drawing, painting
Process
The completed work
Product
Art enhances
Daily experiences
Art is linked to
Quality of life
Art touches
Everyone!
Art is all around
Us
