M1L3: Art as Construct

Question 1

four essentials of art

Answer 1

man-made; creative not imitative; must benefit and satisfy man; expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artists communicates himself to the audience

Question 2

Man has been led by an innate craving for

Answer 2

order to create objects that are delightful to perceive

Question 3

art is not “the natural reflection of the world it delineates nor the spontaneous expression of the ___

Answer 3

author’s subjectivity (Datuin, et al Art and Society, 1997)

Question 4

this includes the resources of art, their mediums and techniques, their properties and problems of availability, as well as artistic production as a material process

Answer 4

art has its own mode of production

Question 5

the act of combining or re-ordering already existing materials so that a new object is formed

Answer 5

creation

Question 6

art involves skills or expertise in handling materials and organizing them into new, structurally pleasing, and significant units.

Answer 6

creative activity

Question 7

creative activity

Answer 7

the agency of the body

Question 8

the act of turning new imaginative ideas into reality

Answer 8

creativity

Question 9

characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways to find hidden patterns, to make connection between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions

Answer 9

creativity

Question 10

the mental capacity to generate novel and useful ideas, more or less

Answer 10

creativity

Question 11

not about doing something better than other, it is about thinking, exploring, discovering, and imagininng

Answer 11

creativity

Question 12

root meaning of creativity

Answer 12

to grow

Question 13

why creativity is important or necessary in art production?

Answer 13

it is because it makes life infinitely interesting and fulfilling

Question 14

Creativity is a way of livinng life that embraces

Answer 14

originality and makes unique connections

Question 15

he thinks out a design, selects his materials, and arranges them according to his design

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art as a planned activity

Question 16

team of artists motivated by a common goal

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art as a cooperative activity

Question 17

the artists idea of order. it is taken as a self-contained object, reacted to, and evaluated by people who come in contact with it

Answer 17

art as expression of order