Exam Flashcards
(65 cards)
In the contemporary context, if something is presented as _______ it is evaluated as art
Art
The 4 criteria we use to analyze art are _________, visual/formal properties, subject matter and context
Physical properties
“….in viewing a drawn lime we follow the record of a path of motion, and our viewing involved, on several levels, a trajectory of vision, the movement of our eyes,mans thus of our _________”
Body
“Looking is a __________ practice, whether we do it by choice or by compliance”
Social
We engage in practices of looking to _____________, to influence, and to be influenced
Communicate
_____________ refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us
Representation
The world is not simply reflected back to us through representations that stand in for things by copying their appearance. We _________ the meaning of things through the process of representing them
Construct
The denote tie meaning of the image refers to its literal, explicit meaning, the same photograph may ___________ less explicit, more culturally specific associations and meanings
Connote
An __________ sign is one in which the sign and the maker of the sign coexisted in the same place at some time. Examples: a footprint, a photograph, an artists mark on a piece of paper
Indexical sign
“….the function of art is an extension of the function of the _________ namely the acquisition of knowledge about the world”
Brain
The brain is not a mere passive chronicler of external events and (…) perceiving is not therefore something the brain does passively. Rather, the brain is an active participant in ______________ what we see, through which it installs meaning into the many signals that it receives and thus gains knowledge about the world which, of course, it can only do
Constructing
The brain……. Is able to discard all the variations in the wavelength-energy composition of the light reflected from a surface and assign a _________________ colour to it
Constant
Semir Zeki explains the neurological definition of the term _____________ as follows, “it is not vagueness or uncertainty, but rather certainty, the certainty of different scenarios each one of which has equal validity with the other. There is no correct answer because all answers are correct”
Ambiguity
Linear ____________ is a mathematical system in which orthagonals converge on a vanishing point, addressing a single viewer standing at a single, fixed, vantage point
Perspective
The forms of seen objects occur in the soul and take shape in the __________
Imagination
A concept of bodily inferiority can only emerge if the inside and outside of the body are seen as ____________ and clearly distinguishable from one another
Separate
The Renaissance convention for displaying bodies without skin is called
Body worlds
That the gendered body is _________ suggests that it has no ontological status apart from the various acts, which constitute it’s reality.
Performative
Many aspects of a person _________ change throughout their lifetime
Identity
The roles, characteristics and activities that distinguish men from women are not innate but socially _______
Constructed
A trams body asks that the wonder of the world _________ it within all of the worlds resplendent glory
Contains
Me being the artist that I am is not a part of whatever story or ________ is cast h me largely by white society
Narrative
The Canadian art historian ___________ wrote a outs Francois Maleoart de Beaucourt
Charmaine Nelson
Having done this, they become both the _______ and interpreters of the artifacts or goods that have survived from that dying culture, artifacts that become rare and therefore valueable
Owners
