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Art Appreciation Exam 1
Ch. 1.1-1.10 of Gateways to Art
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
02/17/2014

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Vertigo by Mel Bocher

Definition
Lines to Regulate and Control
  • Regular line drawn with the aid of a ruler speaks language of mechanical planning
  • Contradicts use of regular line to illustrate control
  • Repetitious diagonal movement and hectic crossing and overlapping of lines impart sense of disarray
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Automatic Drawing by Andre Masson

Definition

Lines to Express Freedom and Passion

  • Irregularity reflects wildness of nature, chaos, and accident
  • Used to reflect drawing and thinking process. Masson wanted to create imgs to express subconcious
  • Look spontaneous and free. Suppressing concious control to access subsconcious sources of creativity and truth.
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Aesthetics

Definition
Forms and effects that art takes.
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Avant-Garde

Definition
  • new and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people introducing them.
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Classical vs. classical

Definition
  • Capital C refers to ar made in Greece 400 BCE. 
  • Also can refer to art drawing inspiration from ancient Greece/Rome.
  • Also can mean orderly, balanced art clear in meaning.
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Formal Elements of Art

Definition
  • Aspects of art that are the basis of how compositions are arranged
  • Includes: line, shape, form, color, texture, value, space
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Visual Form

Definition
  • Way that it's arranged for the ideas to communicate an idea
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Composition

Definition
  • The overall design or organization of a work
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Fine Art

Definition
  • Western category of refined objects. Thought to be made by the "best." 
  • Tends to require special abilities of the audience. 
  • Tends to be things collected and exhibited.
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Popular Culture

Definition
  • More accessible group. Inexpensivem entertaining, commericially produced.
  • Contemporary artists tend to break moulds b/t fine art and pop.
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Craft

Definition
  • Work created through certain materials w/ certain approach suggesting that these works are more objects than appearance.
  • Have utilitarian purpose.
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Expressionism

Definition
  • Artistic style at its height in the 1920s EU, aiming to portray the world in terms of vivid extremes of personal experience and feeling.
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Elements and Principles of Art

Definition
  • Elements of art are the basic vocab.
  • Principles are grammar of art.
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