Finals Reviewer Flashcards
• is an alternate place to know oneself and to look at the depths and meaning of what we do in our daily lives.
• It is a way of crafting stories, creating images and symbols from fleeting moments, connecting with people, understanding culture, and the embodiment of understanding and peace.
Soulmaking
- refers to anything associated with a group of people based on their ethnicity, religion, geography, or social environment. This might include beliefs, traditions, language, objects, ideas, behaviors, customs, values, or institutions.
Culture
- refers to taking something that doesn’t belong to you or your culture. In the case of this cultural , it is an exchange that happens when a dominant group takes or “borrows” something from a minority group that has historically been exploited or oppressed.
Appropriation
- is when someone adopts an element of a culture with the sole purpose of humiliating or putting down people of that culture. The most obvious example of this is blackface, which originated to denigrate and dehumanize Black people by perpetuating negative stereotypes.
Cultural Denigration
- is the respectful borrowing of elements from another culture with an interest in sharing ideas and diversifying oneself.
Cultural Appreciation
is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity.
Cultural Appropriation
What are the FIVE ACTS OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?
- ObjectAppropriation
- ContextAppropriation
- Style Appropriation
- Motif Appropriation
- Subject Appropriation
occurswhenthepossessionof a tangible work of art (such as a sculpture or a painting) is transferred from members of one culture to members of another culture.
ObjectAppropriation
occurs when an artist has made significant reuse of an idea first expressed in the work of an artist from another culture.
ContextAppropriation
It occurs when a person uses stylistic innovations distinctive of a cultural group that is not their own.
Style Appropriation
It occurs when artists are influenced by the art of a culture other than their own without creating works in the same style.
Motif Appropriation
when this sort of appropriation occurs no artistic product of culture is appropriated. Instead, artists appropriate a subject matter, namely another culture or some of its members.
Subject Appropriation
• is the process of creating something using fibers gained from sources like plants, animals, insects (e.g. silkworms) or synthetic materials.
• From early times, this have been used to cover the human body and protect it from the elements; to send social cues to other people; to store, secure, and protect possessions; and to soften, insulate, and decorate living spaces and surfaces.
Textile Art
The word textile is from the Latin word what? which means “to weave” or “to construct”.
“texere”
is a sacred cloth woven by the T’boli people in the communities around Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, Mindanao Island, Philippines.
is defined by using 3 traditional colors: black, red and white
• Used for ritual purposes and during the festival celebration.
• Used in every important life event of the T’boli, from birth, to marriage, to
death.
• T’nalak
is originally made by the Mandaya tribe (one of Mindanao’s surviving minority tribes in the Philippines that can be found in Davao Oriental and Davao del Norte.)
• Made from abaca fibers and its colors are extracted from bark, seeds, fruits, and other natural dyes.
• Has been worn as women’s skirt but it is also used as blankets and to wrap the dead.
Dagmay
is the prized handwoven cloth of Tausugs of Sulu.
• Cotton or silk are the materials used on this it and was woven using back strap loom.
• Now in modern times, this is now used as decoration in households, frames, giveaways, and curtain.
Pis – Syabit
• A handwoven square cloth used by Yakan tribe of Mindanao as head covering, sash or waistband to secure their trousers.
• The complex geometric design of this consists of the warp and primary weft made of handspun cotton and the supplementary weft of silk.
• it symbolizes the Yakan’s pangubatan which is the alter set at the center of the field before planting.
SEPUTANGAN
, which means “woven” in Maguindao, is a handmade fabric with designs handed down from generation to generation.
• The first _______ weavers were known to use the sutra threads form the spider webs using. Now, the _______ is woven with rayon, cotton, and silk.
• The weaving of this can take a month to produce a one four – meter fabric.
Inaul
is an image, spoken, or written word, sound, act, or another visual or structural device that has symbolic significance.
• The concept of this is related to a theme, but unlike a theme which is an idea or message, also a detail that is repeated in a pattern of meaning that can produce a theme while creating other aspects at the same time
motif
Classification of Motif
- GeometricMotif-
- Realistic or Natural Motif
- Stylized Motif
- Abstract Motif
These motifs include lines in various forms,such as vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and curved. They form fabric designs, such as stripes, plaids, checks and circles and their associated designs
GeometricMotif
This motifs portray as direct replica of things as they exist in nature, such as flowers on trees, animals in jungle, human figure, and other natural things. They are also called novelty patterns. As these motifs lack a designer’s creativity and require a three-dimensional platform to copy reality, they do not find wide acceptance in apparel designing.
Realistic or Natural Motif
- These are simplified variations of natural or man-made objects that are no longer recognizable. This motifs are obtained by rearranging the real objects either by simplifying or exaggerating too achieve the purpose of the design.
Stylized Motif
- These are combinations of color, size, and shape without relationship to natural or man-made objects. They are full of color and interest in the fabric. Abstract implies an element of impression and a greater freedom that is found in most geometric designs. This type of design is used in modern art.
Abstract Motif