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Cp 2-10 Midterm
Fine Arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In appropriation, what is the artistic process? | To mix the media of other art forms with the artist's own |
| Which arts appropriate the most from other arts? | Opera and architecture |
| Sexton's poem, Starry Night, describes an experience of | Insanity |
| Beaumarchais's Marriage of Figaro was said to have | helped foment the French Revolution |
| Relative equal combining of media of one or more arts | synthesis |
| Anne Sexton's and Robert Fagles's poems | Both portray the emotion of Van Gogh's A Starry Night |
| Matisse's The Dance and Music | Interpret the essential nature of both arts |
| Which arts tend to be the best suited to use other arts as their subject matter? | film and photography |
| One course that is never included in the humanities is | Chemistry |
| The historian | Studies values |
| Perception | Involves the stimulation of sense organs |
| An example of perceiving without conception is | a new born |
| A participative experience with a work of art is basically | An intrinsic-extrinsic value |
| The pleasure of enjoying good food is an example of a (n) | intrinsic value |
| Value facts are the province of | The sciences |
| Which theory claims that it is interest that projects value of something | Subjectivist |
| Theology is | Part of the humanities |
| Normative values are | ideals |
| The arts are closely related to which of the other humanities? | history, philosophy, and theology |
| Factual values are verified | experimentally |
| Value facts are | Values that are described scientifically |
| Normative values are | Values that are the norm, or ideal, or what ought to be |
| Interpretive criticism centers upon | content |
| Descriptive criticism focuses upon | form |
| Evaluative criticism centers upon | The relative merits of a work |
| A work of art is most likely to be judged a masterpiece by an evaluative critic it | it resists monotony |
| A detail relationship of an artistic form is | the connection of a part to another part or parts |
| A region of a work of art is | a larger distinct part or group of parts |
| A structural relationship in a work of art is | The connection of a part to the overall structure |
| Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm has | No clear cut regions |
| Noticing the rhyme, steady meter and quatrain stanza structure of Yeats's "The Lake of Innisfree" is | descriptive criticism |
| The arrangement of elements in an individual work | composition |
| The setting in which the art arose (time & Place | context |
| A group for whom a work is intended; witnesses of a performance | audience |
| An agreed upon practice; agreed upon rules of the game | convention |
| The material from which an art object is made | medium |
| A combination of distinctive elements of creative execution & expression in germs of both form & content | style |
| The dominant idea of a work | theme |
| The type or class to which a work belong | genre |
| The systematic procedure whereby a particular creative task is performed | technique |
| Takes places only once | live event |
| An organized format of a play | structure |
| A lengthy segment of a play | acts |
| A shorter segment of a play | scenes |
| Theatre is form of communication received through 5 of these | senses |
| When the actors bow at the end of a performance | Curtain Call |
| When a character turns and speaks directly to the audience | aside |
| describes the human capacity for participating in another's feelings | empathy |
| Makes you laugh, has a happy ending | comedy |
| A play that makes you laugh and feel liberated | farce |
| A serious play that tries to make you feel exhilarated | Tragedy |
| A performance of a serious play that makes you sad | drama |
| A play that touch us least profoundly; appears serious with the protagonist seen as victorious | melodrama |
| A play that examines the absurdities of the human condition | Theatre of the Absurd |
| Filled with elegant, rich characters who are concerned with how they behave | High Comedy |
| Makes You laugh because of what characters do rather than what they say | Low comedy |
| Usually about the middle class with laughter resulting from embarrassing situations | Domestic Comedy |
| Which theatre was know for orchestra; chorus; parados | Greek Theatre |
| Which theatre succeeded the Greek theatre | Roman Theatre |
| which theater was know for Pageant wagons; tiring house, mansion stage; simultaneous stage | medieval Theatre |
| Which theater or era rediscovered classical; flat ground not hillside; forced perspective; indoor theaters | Italian Renaissance |
| The origins of __________________ are usually traced to the early 17th century, when dancers performed interludes between scenes of an opera? | ballet |
| The origins of __________ are usually traced to the American dancers Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis | modern dance |
| The pretext of a dance can be: | feeling, state of mind, and narrative |
| How do states of mind differ from feelings: | They are more enduring |
| Which of the following is a characteristic of social dance? It often has a religious purpose It often has a practical purpose It is a form of recreation It is more stylized and less openly energetic that court dance | It is a form of recreation |
| Who was particularly successful in adapting jazz of the l920's and l930's to dance? | Twyla Tharp |
| Which court dance was a favorite at Queen Elizabeth's courts in the 16th century | Volta |
| What is true about Isadora Duncan? | She often danced in bare feet |
| The origin of ballet goes back to | Early 17th century |
| Who was not a leader in modern dance? | Sarah Bernhardt |
| What is a way to teach the coordination of music and body movements? | Eurhythmics |
| Modern dance was a way to: | Free the dancer's creative spirit, move away from the constriction of ballet, and explore new movements in art |
| What was a source Isadora Duncan looked to as inspiration of her new dances? | Classical Greece |
| Mary Wigman believed dances should be: | Movement along without music |
| Which choreographer is known as contributing the greatest number of choreographic works? | Martha Graham |
| With which choreographer is "construction and release" associated? | Martha Graham |
| Why did Martha Graham leave the Denishawn Co. in the mid 1029's? | She left to create her own company |
| Aristotle described what as the "life and soul of the drama"? | plot |
| What is the meaning of the play - sometimes called the message? | thought |
| What is the element that makes the action possible? | character |
| For Aristotle, the element of what included everything we hear in a performance? | music |
| What describes both the vocabulary and the order in which the words are placed? | Diction |
| Which is the least important of the six elements of theatre? | spectacle |
| What is an example of a spectacle | Radio drama |