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Art history final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is an implied line? | an imaginary line created by a series of elements |
| What is an outline? | Following the edges of a silhouette of a 3d form with uniformed thickness |
| Language of Art and Architecture consist of? | Formal elements, and organizing principles |
| What is a physical line? | Line that exists in art |
| What is a hue? | Pure color and the color's name |
| What is color is added to make a shade? | Black |
| What color is added to make a tint? | White |
| What is a texture? | Surface characteristics that is a tactile or visual |
| What is a tactile texture? | Consists of physical surface variations that can be perceived by touch |
| Simulated textures | mimic reality |
| What is invented textures ? | are products of human imagination. |
| What is a formal element? | Patterns, shapes, line, time, motion, space, form, tone, texture, patterns, colors, and composition. |
| What is a line? | A moving point |
| What are the two different types of lines? | Physical and implies lines |
| What are the properties of color? | hue, value, and intensity |
| What is intensity? | Brightness of the hue/dullness |
| What is composition? | arrangement of formal elements in a work of art |
| What are the principles of composition? | balance, rhythm, proportion, scale, emphasis, unity, variety |
| What is media? | a medium that is actual material substance used to make art |
| What is wet media? | liquid form, ink the most common, used with either brush or pen |
| How is ink used? | Applied to paper with pen or brush gray washed or bold, dramatic lines. |
| What is oil paint? | Powered pigment grounded into a slow drying oil, soluble in turpentine or mineral spirits |
| What is a acrylic? | Water-soluble, pour paint, glaze, and draw fine lines |
| What is carving? | technique with 3d work, is it a subtractive process as it takes away from large blocks os tone, wood or synthetic product. |
| What is modeling? | Addictive process, pushing, pulling malleable, substances like clay or wax. |
| Why do humans make art? | Humans make art to communicate emotions, ideas or to create something beautiful. |
| What is visual form? | Allows work to be seen.touched and ideas to be communicated |
| What is content? | Ideas associated with each artwork. Imagery symbolic meaning, customs, beliefs, and values of culture. |
| What is an aesthetic? | Attributes that elevates particular object above others and goes beyond a taste and preference as it reflects a cultures personal preferences and definitions of art. |
| What is the importance of water in art? | Water is essential and over time people have developed inventive systems for storing liquids. |
| What is commercial Architecture ? | Provided shelter for the needs of business and trade |
| What are the main themes that influences a individual homes? | Climate concerns, aesthetic preferences, and cultural choices |
| What is a formalist? | the way it is made and its purely visual aspects -rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world. |
| What is ideological? | based on or relating to a system of ideas and ideas especially concerning economic or political theory and policy. |
| What is a psychoanalytic | deals with the observation and analysis of imagery: in dreams symptom formation, symbolism, and fantasy. |
| What is structuralism? | the analysis of the basic elements that displays the norm in mind. |
| What is post-structuralism? | subject is a fiction and that representation may not be true in the world, but those claims have been made earlier. |
| What is deconstruction? | Asserts that there is not one single (essential) meaning to be found in work but rather many and often these can conflicting |
| What is a feminist? | A person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. |
| What is visual culture? | refers to the tangible or visible expressions by a people a state or a civilization and collective describes the characteristics of that body as a whole. |
| What are characteristics of popular culture? | Branding/Packaging/Advertising/ Easy and Fun, Mass produced, and fast/updated |
| What are some pros of pop culture? | Convenient for people to access and share information, and most ppl could have a chance to won and access the same product with same quality. |
| What are some cons of pop culture? | When things are to simplified ppl tend to be less creative and mass production would lead to over production that may cause pollution. |
| How will technology impact art? | Technology would led to more media-based art and it will be more complex and exotic form of entertainment. |
| What is all art | Helps explain a specific body of learning, provided clips into areas intuited knowing, critiques what we consider knowledge. |
| what is surrealism? | Art movement that explored the unconscious especially through dream imagery. |
| What's a surrealist? | believed the unconscious or dream world was as real as and probably more important than the external world. |
| What are some critiques of learning? | believe that education is memorization and no real wisdom or understanding. |
| How have industrialism and modernism impacted art? | Produced form and shapes that artist have found exciting and innovative. |
| What are criticism on technology and art? | if technology is actually making profess or is mere innovation. |
| What part does race play in art? | helps form a cohesive identity for a racial group and challenge negative attitudes. |
| What is an example of class being showed in art? | The Swing displayed wealth, privilege and has few responsibilities most of their power has been assimilated by the king nd their duties assumed by the middle class. |
| What is an example of the middle-class showed in art? | The Kitchen maid displayed dance population provide opportunities for commercialization and specialization for merchant, skilled workers, laborers, and restaurateurs. This class was distinct from the nobility and from traditional farm laborers. |
| How can migrant workers be displayed in art? | Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley displayed a women's face and pose express both strength, desperation, fear, uncertainty. |
| How is mind and body intertwined? | The body is PERSONAL: this is my body, this is me The body is SOCIAL: we study each other; we use our bodies to communicate attitudes. |
| What can portraits portray? | Portraits can be visual records of inner emotional states. |
| What do self-portraits portray? | Are representation of artist by the artist themselves. |
| How is the human body used in art/ | Used to address the ideas of essence of humanity as well as cultural ideals. The body is not only depicted in art; it is used in making art or its transformed to become artwork. |
| What is Humanistic? | Philosophy celebrated the glory of humanity. |
| What is gestural abstraction or action painting? | a body movement that was fixed and recorded in the paint surface, a rhythmic mesh or drips, congealed blobs, and looping swirls. |
| How do artist display the fight for the rights and repressed. | Beauty, illustration, narrative, humor, and shock |
| What is the status quo? | existing state of affairs, which appears natural instead of constructed and evolving. |
| What influence do we face when seeing propaganda in art. | It shapes our reaction and it also helps to celebrate peace. |
| How is war displayed in art? | Fierceness is displayed by large size warriors, emphasis of armor weapons, or regalia of power, and menacing or aloof facial expressions. |
| How is peace displayed in art? | Winged allegorical figures, doves, women, and pastoral landscapes have symbolized peace in Western art. gardens, bells, and temples for Asia, Europe, and Americans. |
| What are the different purposes of tombs and commemorative art? | express cultural ideas and values about death and afterlife, tie religion to ritual burials, promote political and social inventions, visually establish power, and to guarantee honor, fame and glory. |
| What are some examples of tombs? | Egyptian built pyramids, other built mounds. |
| What are some characteristics of Great Pyramids? | Old, large, influential in style, oriented to the sun, the tombs of the pharaohs, part of creosols, artificial mountains, on a. flat artificial plane. |
| What do religious ceremonies, prayers, and rituals tend to accomplish. | Acknowledge God and request what is needed for earthly or spiritual existence. |
| What are the different ways people respond to God? | Ceremonies, offerings, sacrifices, architecture, and prayer. |