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Chapter 1
Living with Art
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the earliest sources of art found in and what era? | Caves in Europe during the Paleolithic era |
| What did early art depict? | Lions, Mammoths, rhinoceroses, cave bears, horses, reindeer, aurochs, musk-oxen, and bison |
| Megaliths | Large stones surrounded in turn by a circular ditch ex. Stonehenge |
| Neolithic Age | Time of new stone tools, domestication of animals and crops, and the development of technology of pottery |
| Maya Lin | Famous for Vietnam veterans memorial, "art creates space for humans" |
| Creates ________ versions of ordinary objects. | Extraordinary |
| Artists record and _______, crownings of emperors, birthday celebrations | Commemorate |
| Used to describe ____ __ ____ ___. | What we can't see |
| To give _____ ____ to feelings and ideas, ex. Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night was based on his feelings of people becoming stars after death | Tangible Form |
| Helps us see the world in ___ ___, ex. paint peeling on a bench, winter transitioning into fall | New Ways |
| Aesthetics | Branch of philosophy concerned with the feelings aroused in us by sensory experiences, experiences we have through sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell |
| Creativity | Broadly defined as the ability to produce something that is both innovative, useful within a given social context |
| Medium | Field of study that refers to the materials that are used to create a work of art |
| Media | Plural of medium, ex. acrylic, oil, watercolor |
| Gestalt Theory | Based on assumption that whole is more than sum of parts |
| Visual Communication | Words and visual images are two different "languages", talking about visual arts with words is an act of translation |
| Representational Art | Depicts the appearance of things, what you see is what you get |
| Abstract Art | Works of art that have no reference at all to natural objects, or works that depict natural objects in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways |
| Nonrepresentational Art | Presents visual forms with no specific references to anything outside themselves, only exists as itself |
| Form | Refers to the total effect of the combined visual qualities within a work |
| Content | Refers to the message/meaning of the work of art |
| Iconography | Symbolic meaning of signs and subjects |
| Art that answers fundamental questions of ____ ______. | Human Existance |
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