Prelim Flashcards
in creating visual, auditory or performing artworks, expressing the autor’s imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.
Art is a diverse range of human activities
is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else.
It is through __________ that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements. Signs are arranged in order to form semantic constructions and express relations. Art represents reality, since it is often depicting objects or scenes from the world.
Representation
contained in the form is an attempt to translate the unnamed and the unknown. Intrinsic to our existence as humans is our quest to create meaning, and art allows that process to take place.
Making meaning involves understanding our surroundings and marking our experiences.
expression
The purpose of works of art may be to communicate political, spiritual or philosophical ideas, to create a sense of beauty to explore the nature of perception, for pleasure, or to generate strong emotions. Art is an act of expressing feelings, thoughts, and observations of human conditions.
Art serves as a means of communication of emotions.
they allow us to express ourselves and illustrate the world around us in a different light, helping us to gain understanding of people and society, and give hope while living in this world.________ because it illustrates the human experiences.
Art matters.
Literally, art can be found in every corner of the world. Art is everywhere and it is imbedded into the way of life of the people. Exclusivity is out of bounds when we speak of arts because it is for everyone.
Art is the true Esperanto, an artificial international language, the one form of culture that is genuinely beyond national limitations. Art know no barriers; not even language is a barrier in understanding it.
Art is universal.
Political Function and It seeks or tends to influence the collective behaviour of a people.
Influences Social Behaviour
It is created to be seen or used primarily in public situation like fiestas, parade, etc.
Display and Celebration
The function of an object is generally essential in the basic form that it takes.
Form and Function.
The design of the building is determined primarily by its operational function.
Architecture
It involves the efficient organization of buildings, roads, and spaces so that they meet the physical and aesthetic needs of the community and takes into consideration the assignment of areas for proper land use. These are: Residential Districts, Industrial and Commercial areas, Civic areas, Parks, plazas, and malls, streets and roads.
Community Planning.
Many things remain the same in shape throughout the years because their functional requirements do not allow for greater variations in their form
Function and beauty.
animals, people, landscapes. These three are the most common inspiration and subject matter for art
Nature
What are the somr SOURCES OF ART
SUBJECT
Nature
History
Greek and Roman mythology
The Jude Christian Tradition
Oriental Sacred Texts
Other work of arts
Artists are sensitive to the events taking place in the world around them. The dress, the houses, the manner of living, the thoughts of a period are necessarily reflected in the work of the artist.
History
These are gods and goddesses. Its center is on deities and I heroes.
Greek and Roman mythology
Religion and art, The Bible, Apocrypha, The rituals of the church
The Jude Christian Tradition
The countries of the orient, specially China, Japan, and India, have all produced sacred text of one kind or another, and these inspired various kinds or art. Most fruitful have been the text and traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Oriental Sacred Texts
These are the subjects that can be found in those works that takes their subject directly from other
Other work of arts
artists usually draw their arts through the different _______
Kind of subject
An outdoor view of nature, such as mountains, rivers, sky desert, fields or forests. Some __________ include people, animals, buildings (barns, houses, or sheds), quiet roads or streets. If people or animals are included, they are not the focal point
Landscape
A scene at sea (a ship on the water) or a scene including a portion of the sea, like waves along the beach.
The water (ocean or sea) is the focal point, or a larger part of the scene.
Seascape
A scene including city buildings, bridges, streets or traffic lights and might include a river or a park surrounded by skyscrapers.
Cityscape
They have been represented by artists from almost every ages and places.
In fact the earliest known painting are representation of _______ on the walls of caves.
Animal
A painting, drawing, or sculpture or other medium showing a person or several people and usually Show just the face and shoulders, but it can include part or all of the body, as well.
Portraits
Full body a figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude. Figure painting may also refer to the activity of creating such a work.
Figures
consists if verifiable facts, legends of unverifiable ones, although many of them are often accepted as true because tradition held them so far. Insofar as ancient past is concerned, it is difficult to tell how much of what we know now is _______ and how much is ________.
History and Legend:
Art has always been a handmaiden of _______. Most of the world’s _______ have used the arts to aid worship, to instruct, to inspire feelings of devotion and to impress and convert nonbelievers
Religion & Mythology
Artists have always shown a deep concern about life around them. Many of them have recorded in paintings their observation of people going about their usual ways and performing their usual tasks.
Everyday life
are usually vague and illogical. Artists especially the surrealists have tried to depict dreams as well as the grotesque terrors and apprehensions that lurk in the depths of the subconscious.
Dreams and Fantasies
The meaning or message that is expressed or communicated by the artwork.
In understanding the ___________ it is important to note that there are various.
Content in art:
The most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the identifiable or recognizable frame in the retrinal,
Factual meaning
Are consulted, a variety of meanings may arise when a particular work of art is read.
These meanings stem from the viewer’s or audience’s circumstances that come into play when engaging with art (what we know, what we learned, what we experienced; what values we stand for)
Meaning may not be singular, rather, multiple and varied
Subjective meaning
Pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, and symbols and other cyphers as bases of its meaning.
These conventions are established through time, strengthened by recurrent use and wide acceptance by its viewers or audience and scholars who study them.
Conventional meaning
are art forms that create works that are primarily visual in nature.
visual arts
includes only the length and width of a flat object such as a drawing, print, or painting.
2-dimensional art
includes the length, width, and depth of an object such as a structure building, or sculpture.
3-dimensional art
Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted
Performance Art -
is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology. While, Analog film is plastic sheet with a photosensitive emulsion that comes in various formats for still and video cameras.
Film (Digital Arts/Analog) - Digital art
is a type of poetry that is performed for an audience and can be written in advance or it can be spontaneously composed while the performance is in progress.
Poetry pestormanda /Performance poetry
- A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures. It is the art and science of designing buildings and (some) non-building structures.
Architecture
- is a performance art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected.
Dance
- also called movie. motion
picture or moving picture, is a work of visual
art used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Film
means concerned or connected with the with writing, study, or appreciation of literature. Literature as a form of arts, is the organization of words to give pleasure,
Through them it elevates and transforms experience.
Literary
the study of the nature of art, including concepts such as interpretation, representation and expression, and form. It is closely related to aesthetics, the philosophical study of beauty and taste.
Philosophy of art
is generally defined as the ability to omit an acceptable level of opposing, disrupting, and corrupting values that would otherwise alter an artist’s original vision in a manner that violates their own preconceived aesthetic standards and personal values.
Artistic integrity
- describes how the sizes of different parts of a piece of art or design relate to each other. The proportions of a composition will affect how pleasing it looks and can be used to draw our attention to particular areas. The use of proportion is essential for creating accurate images.
Proportion/Consonance
signifies the luminosity that emanates from a beautiful object, which initially seizes the attention of the beholder.
Radiance/Clarity -
Two types of subject of art
Representational or objective
And non Representational or non objective
represents objects or events in the real world, usually looking easily recognizable. It uses
“form” and is concerned with “what” is to be depicted in the artwork. Example Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts, Literature and Theater arts.
Representational or figurative
art
refers to compositions which do not rely
On representation or mimesis to any extent.
Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are related terms that indicate a departure from reality in the depiction of imagery in art.
Nonrepresentational art
provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation.
They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the vents or conditions being documented. Often these sources are created at the time when the events or conditions are occurring, but _______________________ can also include autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories recorded
later. are characterized by their content, regardless of whether they are available in original format, in microfilm/microfiche, in digital format, or in published format
Primary sources
Interpret and analyze primary sources.
Because they are often written significantly after events by parties not directly evolved but who have special expertise, they may provide historical context or critical perspectives and routinely include pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources. Depending on the subject, newspaper and journal articles can fall into both categories.
Secondary sources
is generally defined as an art practitioner, such as a painter, sculptor, choreographer, dancer, writer, poet, musicians, and the like, who produces or creates indirectly functional arts with aesthetic value using imagination.
Artist
is a craftsman, such as carpenter, carver, plumber, blacksmith, weaver, embroiderer, and the like, who produces directly functional and/or decorative arts.
Artisan
is basically a physical worker who makes objects with his or her hands, and who through skill, experience, and ability can produce things of great beauty, as well as usefulness. The artist on the other hand, is someone devoted only to the creative part, making visually pleasant work only for the gratification and appreciation of the viewer but with no practical value.
Artisan
engaged in any traditional art uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have reached such a high level of technical and artistic excellence and have been passedon to and widely practiced by the present generation in his/her community with the same degree of technical and artistic competence” (NCCA, 2015 as cited in Caslib etal., 2018).
the National Commission on Culture and the Arts awards the “Manlilika ng Bayan” distinction to “citizen
He is regarded as the Father of Philippine photography.
Eduardo Masferre (1909-1995)
Known as the father of Philippine independent film, the government recently conferred upon him the Order of National Artist for Film in October 2018.A close friend of BenCab and Baguio native is critically acclaimed director Kidlat Tahimik.
Kidlat Tahimik
Fondly known as “BenCab” in the Philippines, Cabrera is the best-selling commercial painter of his generation and a prominent head of the local contemporary art scene.
Benedicto Cabrera (1942-present)
