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Exam 1, Art Appreciation
Identifying
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
09/15/2012

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What Are The 4 Main Roles of Art?

 

Definition

Keeping a historical record

Giving form to intangibles

Revealing the hidden

Showing the worl a new way of seeing things

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What is perception?
Definition
It is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information. ie; sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch
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Design
Definition

is the process of selecting and organizing elements or components in order to fulfill a specific purpose.

what is the goal?

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What is a point?
Definition
It is the gestalt, the fundamental tool the designer uses to builda coherent composition.
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What is closure?
Definition
Is when the mind supplies missing pieces to complete an image
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Similarity
Definition
the tendency to group points orobjects close in proximity in the visual field
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Proximity
Definition
results in a tendency to group points or objects that are close to one another relative to less proximate in the visual field.
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What is a line?
Definition
it exists in nature as a structural feature such as branches, horizon, striping to suggest forms that can be recognized.
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Representational Art
Definition

to stand for or symbolize.

Depictingor portraying subjects that a viewer may easily recognize.

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Abstract Art
Definition

not concrete: not relating to concrete objects

to distort and simplify and eliminate some info

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Non-Objective Art
Definition
imagery which does not depict an object in any form.
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[image][image]
Definition
Abstract
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[image]
Definition
non-objective
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[image]
Definition
Representational Art
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[image]
Definition

Represenational Art

 

Term
[image]
Definition
Abstract
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[image]
Definition
non-objectional Art
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What is the subject matter
Definition
It is what the artist chose to represent
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What is the content?
Definition
What the message is.
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What is the actual physical substance in an art piece?
Definition
the material used ie; paint, tempera, graphite,tempera
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Viewers Perception
Definition
What the viewers get out of the piece
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Artists' Style
Definition
Reoccuring characteristics
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[image]
Definition
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
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What is Guernica about?
Definition
The bombing of Northern Spain village of Guernica where there were many civilian fatalities.
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[image]
Definition
ArnolfiniDouble Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
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What are some symbols in the Arnolfini Double Portrait?
Definition

Shoes-holyground

Green Dress-hope

Candle-Death

Dog-loyalty

oranges-love

 

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What is a tryptich
Definition
3 PANELS OF ART, USUALLY a main large one in the middle with 1 on each side that are smaller
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What is iconography?
Definition
A symbol
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What are some themes?
Definition

Art as art

Political order/social status

everyday life/genre

imagination/fantasy

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