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Art Theory Examination 1
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
10/20/2009

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What is truth?
Definition
Truth is the "isness" of something; true nature of a thing
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How are art and culture related?
Definition
Art forms culture; culture does not form art
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What are Being and Existence?
Definition
Being is that which is; Existence is that which is in time and space
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Why are all things shrouded in mystery?
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Humans lack wisdom; humans can not stand much reality
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What two human responses help us to understand, relate to, and live with reality?
Definition
forgiveness and humility
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Why is there a Secret Life of the Intellect?
Definition
Secret Life resides in the right side of the brain and there is a disconnect between two hemispheres. Sometimes you can know something without knowing why (intuition).
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Homo Sapiens means?
Definition
Savoring (and know that you are savoring) man. Sapientia means wisdom; so man also savors wisdom and is contemplating.
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A Habit is?
Definition
acquired permanent condition that perfects a thing in the line of itself
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A Virtue is?
Definition
A habit raised to optimum efficiency and perfection
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What are the four components of the mind?
Definition
Intellect, Imagination, Will, Memory
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Which one of the four components of the mind concerns art?
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Intellect
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Which one of the four components does not concern art?
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Will
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Why do we use the word Thing?
Definition
It is all-inclusive
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How do we experience reality?
Definition
In hints and glimpses
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Wisdom, Prudence, and Art are?
Definition
Virtues. Wisdom has to do with knowing truth; Prudence has to do with doing good conduct; Art has to do with making objects.
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What are the 3 virtues of the body?
Definition
Strength, health, and beauty
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What is the most intellectual virtue?
Definition
Art
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Art and prudence differ by?
Definition
Prudence is a product of the practical intellect and the will; Art is a product of the practical intellect.
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Aristotle talked of the function of the intellect:
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Talked about Active Life as an operative and doing something
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Plato talked about:
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Art as an ideal form or idea.
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What is the virtue of the soul?
Definition
Grace
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Virtue of the Will?
Definition
Prudence
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Virtues of the intellect?
Definition
wisdom, prudence, and art
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What is the object of art?
Definition
The Work of Art
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What is everything to art?
Definition
The work is everything to art
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What is the activity of it?
Definition
Impressing an idea upon matter
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Do we always know what we intend to make?
Definition
No
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Two orders of the Intellect are, and how do they differ?
Definition
Practical and Speculative; Practical has to do with operation and Speculative has to do with theoretical
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How is skill concerned with Art?
Definition
Used for the right making of the thing
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Contemplation?
Definition
Become one with the space being meditated in
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What is form?
Definition
That which makes the thing the thing that it is
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Greek's division of work?
Definition
Corporal and Liberal
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Modern division of art?
Definition
Useful, decorative, and fine. Useful is functional; decorative is ornamental useful; fine is made for contemplation
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What are the levels of consciousness?
Definition
Preconscious, Unconscious, Subconscious, and conscious (intuition is preconscious)
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How do we escape reality?
Definition
resistance, distraction, and inertia
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Why are Men in Bondage?
Definition
Because men lack wisdom
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Why do all things tend to mediocrity?
Definition
Because it is easier to go along with the accepted.
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What are the 3 definitions of art?
Definition
Art is a virtue of the practical intellect; Art is the right making of the thing to be made; Art is the idea preceding things creating them. Key words for each definition: intellect, making, idea.
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Recta ratio factibilium means?
Definition
the right making of the thing to be made. Ratio also means "reason".
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What is the Fall?
Definition
The Fall is associated with risk; it means not being scared to take another step.
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Existence, Form, Being, Recoming ordering:
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1. being, 2. existence, 3. form, 4. recoming
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Duality of things in nature?
Definition
There is always one that is right and one that is wrong. Right and Left, Up and Down, Above and Below.
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What is amorality?
Definition
There is no good or bad in art.
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Why do we not worry about competitiveness in Art?
Definition
Because as an artist you are only concerned with the right making of the thing to be made.
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What is Purification and Sacrifice?
Definition
Purification is multiple experiences that purify yourself; Sacrifice is willing to do holy work.
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What is communion and meditation?
Definition
Meditation is emptying the mind of all thought; communion is becoming one with all of the cosmos
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What is neurotic and existential anxiety?
Definition
Existential anxiety is anxiety because we know we are alive and won't live forever; neurotic is irrational fears
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