Midterms Flashcards
(161 cards)
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It is an abstraction of a certain thought or feeling that produces a good art based on reality or experience (Hollick, 2014)
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Imagination
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The automatic response to imagination.
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Expression
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“Unexpressed imagination is an art.” TRUE or FALSE?
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FALSE
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It is when an individual fails to realize the beauty and utilitarian purpose.
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Unexpressed Imagination
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When both means and ends of art are _____________, its expression enhances not only the individual’s quality of life which is essential to his or her progress and development but also the life of others and the nation as
well.
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constructive
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When the means and the ends of art expression is ___________ like the art of war, art may result to misery, hinder the progress and development and promote chaos. Thus, this may bring imminent danger to society.
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destructive
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Art is derived from a Latin term, ______________, which means skill, talent or ability.
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ars
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It is a skill in making or doing something (The World Book Encyclopedia, 1995).
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Art
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Art is taken from the Italian word “______________,” which means craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the associations that exist between form and ideas, between material and technique. - A. Tan
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artis
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It is the expression of the creative skill and imagination in different genres for appreciation of beauty and emotional power (Oxford Online Dictionary, 2020).
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Art
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It constitutes one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man.
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Art
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It is a product of man’s need to express himself. – F. Zulueta
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Art
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It is concerned itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of sensuous medium, color, sound, bronze, marble, words, and film. –C. Sanchez
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Art
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It is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind - one which demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping of matter to new or more significant form. - John Dewey
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Art
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It is the medium by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows. —- Charleton Noyes
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Art
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It is anything made or done by man that affects or moves us so that we see or feel beauty in it. - Collins and Rile
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Art
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A Russian Novelist who has his own original philosophy stating that art is important even amidst extensive poverty and deprivation.
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Leo N. Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina
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Misconceptions about Art
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- The belief that someone is an artist, and the rest are not.
- The belief that art is only good for the rich and famous.
- The belief that art and craft have interchangeable meaning.
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The mother of all inventions
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Creativity
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A metacognitive skill - a form of divergent thinking that allows us to generate relationship, integrate concepts, elaborate information, brainstorm issue with fluency, flexibility and originality (Johnson, 2010).
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Creativity
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Is an unstructured free flowing process to capacitate the body and create art.
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Creativity
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It is an expression of feelings and emotions.
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Art
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It is beautiful rather useful.
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Art
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Expression of imagination
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Art
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It is tinged with a psychological process.
Art
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It can stand alone even without craft as a lighter side of our humanity.
Art
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Is a form of work with the use of available materials.
Craft
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It is making something useful more than beautiful.
Craft
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Realization of the expression.
Craft
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It provides a utilitarian and mechanical process of creation.
Craft
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____________ without art is awful with no appreciation.
Craft
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The explicit expression of feelings from the imagines core and peripheral issues is a “______________” of art.
magic recipe
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It generally refers to art, literature, music, architecture, dance and the theatre—in which human subjectivity is emphasized and individual expressiveness is dramatized.
Humanity
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Derived from the Latin words, "Humanus" and "Humanitas" meaning humans.
Humanity
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It provides human beings opportunity to think critically and creatively, in order to understand the values and cultures of the world and to bring clarity to the future (Standford Humanities Center, 2015).
Field of Humanities
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It is a branch of Learning- which refers to the study of arts. As a study its material object is “Artwork” and its formal object is “creativity and appreciation.”
Humanities
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The study of humanities includes... (fields/branches)
P - Philosophy
H - History
A - Art
R - Religion
L - Literature
L - Language
M - Music
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The center of the seven fields because this provides an enhancement of the
individual human potential.
Art
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It is derived from the Greek words philos or philein, which means love and sophia, which means wisdom. Hence, is defined as the love of wisdom.
Philosophy
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Derived from the Latin word historia, which means to scribble and record the
events in the past.
History
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Intertwines with the development of civics for a democratic citizenship.
History
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Derived from the Latin word religare or religio, which means to bind.
Religion
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It is a form of obligation that binds the faithful with one Divine power.
Religion
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Enhances the art of meditation and reflection for discernment, good judgment, self-control, fortitude. and sound decision-making process of the artist.
Religion
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A derivative of the Latin word littera or litteratura, which means letter or
knowledge of books.
Literature
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It concentrates on the study of fiction like myths, epics, etc. Non-fiction deals with prose and narratives in essays, news, etc. that depict cultural implications of people’s life in the society.
Literature
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Enhances the art of writing and
reading of an individual. Not only are these essential indicators of basic literacy of the world’s human population, but these also promote appreciation of beauty of the intangible cultures and urban legends.
Literature
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From the Latin word, lingua, which means tongue.
Language
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Provides avenue for better communication using the art of speaking and listening.
Language
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This auditory art is essential to promote understanding, peace and harmony in the society by listening to individual voices either in print or audio media.
Language
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From the Greek word mousa, which means muse and Latin word Musa which denotes the goddess of music, to represent a song or poetry for appreciation of beauty brings the etymology of music (Mansfield, 1923)
Music
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Is the pleasing combination an succession of sounds (Harper, 2020), with or without the use of musical instruments
Music
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This auditory art relaxes the soul and stirs pleasant and happy emotions by singing, humming, chanting, rapping and engaging in jingles and tonal rhymes (Inocian, 2018)
Music
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It deals with man as a being of purpose, of values, loves, hates, ideas and sometimes as a seer, or prophet with divine inspiration.
Humanities
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Aims at educating
Humanities
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Refers to the specific philosophical belief
Humanism
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It is concern for charitable works
Humanitarianism
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Refers to the skills (Greek techne or technical)
Art
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Involves a process
Science
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Man as the focus. Art is the subject matter, but art is created by man for man.
Social Science
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Humanities vs. Philosophy
"Man is the source and fountain of all creativity."
Humanities: Creating Subject
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Humanities vs. Philosophy
"Man is the starting point of knowledge."
Philosophy: Inquiring Subject
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Humanities vs. Philosophy
"Explicit understanding of artworks – extensions of his being (man)"
Humanities
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Humanities vs. Philosophy
"Implicit understanding of himself as composed of body and soul."
Philosophy
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Basic Assumptions of Art
1. Art is timeless and universal
2. Art is a personal and individual experience
3. Art is man-made
4. Art must be creative, not imitative
5. Art must benefit and satisfy man- man make use of art in practical life through artistic principles, taste, and skill.
6. Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows.
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Characteristics of Art
1. They are man-made
2. They are universal
3. They are united
4. They are diversified
5. They are expressive
6. They are creative; and
7. They are beautiful
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Art's purpose is vague. TRUE or FALSE?
FALSE (It is NOT vague)
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Purposes of Art
1. Expression of the Imagination
2. Ritualistic and Symbolic Functions
3. Communication: Commemorates Experience
4. Entertainment: Pleasure
5. Political Change
6. Social Causes
7. Psychological and Healing Purposes
8. Propaganda or Commercialism
9. Create Beauty
10. Reveal Truth
11. Express Values
12. Create Harmony
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Functions of Art
Physical, Social, Personal, and Cultural
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Function of art that are often the easiest to understand. Works of art that are created to perform some service.
Physical
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Art not only enriches man’s life but also improves nature.
Utilitarian
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Addresses aspects of (collective) life as opposed to one person's point of view or experience.
Social Functions of Art
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Are often the most difficult to explain and are not likely to be the same from person to person.
Personal Functions of Art
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Through and knowledge from preserves one printed skills generation to another background civilized It burdens and one’s makes cultural man and satisfying his life enduring more.
Cultural Functions of Art
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Tells a story of an event in history
Historical narrative function
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Classifications of Art
1. Performing Arts
2. Theatre (Drama)
3. Music
4. Dance
5. Film
6. Installation Art
7. Opera
8. Stagecraft
9. Literary Arts
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These arts are those forms in which the artists used his/her own body, face, and presence as a medium.
Performing Arts
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This form of art uses performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place and time.
Theatre (Drama)
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This form of art helps to express our mood and feel the way through our emotions and ideas.
Music
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This form of art is expressed through body movement which entails social interaction, or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.
Dance
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This form of art allows us to explore the complexities of the human situation. This is used to work out our emotions, to make history comes alive, science is explained, and literary works are brought into life.
Film
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The fundamental nature of this form of art is the participation of the spectators. In this work of art, viewers become active and navigate the work in an environment that they can experience visually. It also has the capacity of passing on particular information about any significant event around the world and interactively represents documentary issues.
Installation Art
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This form of art helps to tell stories through music. This is also performed with a full orchestra composed of the various musical instrument sections. In this art form, singers and musicians perform a dramatic work by combining text (called a libretto) and musical score.
Opera
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This form of art is a technical aspect of theatrical production. This includes constructing and arranging scenery, hanging and focusing of lighting, the design of costumes, makeup, and procurement of props, stage management and recording and mixing of sound.
Stagecraft
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These arts centered on creative writing and other composition processes
which intended to read. These include prose and poetry (e.g., novels, short stories, sonnet, ballad, epic, and essay)
Literary Arts
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It is the literal, visible image in a work while content includes the connotative, symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.
Subject matter
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Refers to what is being depicted and might be helpful in deriving a basic meaning
Content
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Is the development and configuration of the artwork – how the elements and the medium or material are put together.
Form
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May also be thought of as the “what” in a piece of art: the topic, focus, or image
Subject
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Main visual focus object or image in the work of art
Subject
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Overall meaning of the piece that is communicated by the artist
Content
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Shows the artist’s point of view with the overall piece of artwork
Content
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Transmits the deeper meaning and the message behind the artist drawing and
painting.
Content
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Two kinds of Art according to Subject
1. Representational Art / Objective Art
2. Non-Representational Art / Non-Objective Art
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They are those arts which depict (represent) objects that are commonly recognized by most people. They attempt to copy, even if in a subjective manner, something that's real. It uses “form” and is concerned with “what” is to be depicted in the artwork.
Representational Art
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Describes artworks – particularly paintings and sculptures – that are clearly derived from real object sources, and therefore are, by definition, representing something with strong visual references to the real world
Representational Art
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A work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically common place objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on) in an artificial setting.
Still life
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A painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant.
Portraiture (portrait)
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Examples of Representational Art
Still life, Portraiture (portrait), and Landscapes, Seascapes, Cityscapes
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They are those arts without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation). It has no recognizable objects
Non-Representational Art
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They do not present descriptions, stories, or references to identifiable objects or symbols. Rather they, appeal directly to the senses primarily because of the satisfying organization of their sensuous and expressive elements
Non-Representational Art
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This type of art is often mistaken for Abstract art although it is entirely different from it. This art takes nothing from reality.
Non-Representational Art
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It is created purely for aesthetic reasons
Non-Representational Art
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When things are depicted in the way they would normally appear.
Realism
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It is the process of simplifying and/or reorganizing objects and elements according to the demands of the artistic expression
Abstraction
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Is when the figures have been so arranged that proportions differ noticeably from natural measurements.
Distortion
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It is realism plus distortion
Surrealism
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It often refers to the artistic movement, which began in France in the 1850s.
Realism
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Popularity grew with the introduction of photography - a new visual source that created a desire for people to produce things that look “objectively real”
Realism
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Undistorted by personal bias, realism believed in the ideology of objective reality and revolted against exaggerated emotionalism
Realism
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Method of portraying an art subject according to the objective reality. It depicts what the eyes can see, what the ear can hear, what the sense faculty may receive
Realism
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Derived from Latin “abstractus "drawn away," or Latin past participle “abstrahere:” from ab(s)- "away" + trahere "draw," which means "withdrawn or separated from material objects or practical matters."
Abstraction
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It is totally the opposite of realism.
Abstraction
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An art where an artist does not show the subject at all as an objectively reality, but only his idea, or his feeling about it (exaggerated emotionalism)
Abstract Art
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Is all shapes, no real-life images, scenery, or objects
Abstract Art
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Artist selects and renders the objects with their shapes, colors and positions altered
Abstraction
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Original objects have been reduced to simple geometric shapes and they can be rarely identified unless the artist named it in title
Abstraction
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Forms of Abstraction
1. Distortion
2. Elongation
3. Mangling
4. Cubism
5. Abstract Expressionism
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This is clearly manifested when the subject is in misshapen condition, or the regular shape is twisted out
Distortion
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This is clearly manifested when the subject is in misshapen condition, or the regular shape is twisted out
Distortion
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It is a form of emphasizing detail to the point that something is no longer “correctly” depicted
Distortion
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It could also mean twisting, stretching or deforming the natural shape of the object.
Distortion
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It is usually done to dramatize the shape of a figure or to create an emotional effect.
Distortion
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Employ distortions so that their targets of ridicule would appear grotesque and hateful.
Caricatures
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It refers to that which is being lengthened, a protraction or an extension.
Elongation
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Show subject or objects which are cut, lacerated, mutilated, torn, hacked or disfigured
Mangling
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This may not be a commonly used way
of presenting an abstract subject
Mangling
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It began in the early 1900s when artists such as Georges Braque (French) and Pablo Picasso (Spanish) began painting in such a way that was far removed from traditional art styles.
Cubism
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Tried to create a new way of seeing
things in art.
Cubists
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Many of the subjects, be they people or landscapes, were represented as combinations of basic geometric shapes - sometimes showing multiple viewpoints of a particular image.
Cubism
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Often described as looking like pieces of fractured glass.
Cubist pictures
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Is a modern art movement that flowered in America after the Second World War and held sway until the dawn of Pop Art in the 1960's
Abstract Expressionism
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With this movement New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world.
Abstract Expressionism
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Artists applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gesturally, non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it into the canvas
Abstract Expressionism
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Was influenced by the Existentialist philosophy, which emphasized the importance of the act of creating, not of the finished object. What matters for the artist are the qualities of the paint itself and the act of painting itself
Abstract Expressionism
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It is an offshoot or a child of dada
Surrealism
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It is also known as “super realism,” which revolves on the method of making ordinary things look extraordinary.
Surrealism
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It focuses on real things found in the imagination or fantasy or it has realistic subjects that are found in the unconscious mind; depicting dreamlike images of the inner mind.
Surrealism
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It is a method where the artist in giving expression to what it is in the subconscious composes dreamlike scenes that show an irrational arrangement of objects
Surrealism
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The images are recognizable, sometimes drawn from the nature but they are so combined in utterly fantastic and unnatural relationships
Surrealism
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Two types of Surrealism
1. Veristic Surrealism
2. Automatism or Abstract Surrealism
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It allowed the images of the subconscious to be undisturbed so that the meaning could be understood through analysis
Veristic Surrealism
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They follow images of the subconscious until consciousness could understand the meaning
Veristic Surrealism
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Images of the subconscious should not be burdened by meaning, so they are represented in an abstract form. It is focused more on feelings and less analytical
Automatism or Abstract Surrealism
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Things that affect an artist's choice of subject
1. Medium
2. Time in which he lives and or the patronage he gets
3. Developments in Science and Technology
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The value of a work of art does not depend on the artist’s choice of subject. TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE
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Is well known for having romanticized Philippine landscapes.
Fernando Amorsolo
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Favorite subject of Chinese and Japanese painters
Landscapes, Seascapes and Cityscapes
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In Europe, the paintings of pure landscapes without human figures was almost unheard of until the Renaissance. They only served as backgrounds prior to this. TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE
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Filipino artists that have done Cityscapes
Vicente Manasala, Arturo Luz, and Mauro Malang Santos
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These are groups of inanimate objects arranged in an indoor setting (flower and fruit arrangements, dishes food, pots and pans, musical instruments and music sheets). The arrangement is like that to show particular human interests and activities.
Still Lifes
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They have been represented by artists from almost every age and place
Animal
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People have always been intrigued by the human face as an index of the owner’s character. As an instrument of expression, it is capable of showing a variety of moods and feelings.
Portraits
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Kinds and Sources of Subject
1. Nature
2. People and World Events
3. Myths and Legends
4. Spiritual and Religious Beliefs
5. Ideas Commissioned by Employers
or
1. Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes
2. Still Lifes
3. Animals
4. Portraits
5. Figures
6. Everyday Life
7. History and Legend
8. Religion and Mythology
9. Dreams and Fantasies
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It is an outcome of the artists' effort to use elements of art and arrange them according to aesthetic principles
Form
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Refers to any form of visual art that exists in two dimensions
Two-dimensional art
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This type of art begins the work on a flat surface called plane.
Two-dimensional art
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The distinguishing factor of ___________ is its actual and real depth
Three-dimensional art
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Artworks contain emotional or intellectual messages called __________
Content
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These are statements, moods, or interpretations developed by an artist through the artwork
Content
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Among the three components (subject, form, and content) this must be the most difficult to recognize.
Content
