Prelims

Question 1

T or F
Art is a part or component of our dynamic civilization.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

an essential form of expression and communication in our daily existence.

Answer 2

Art

Question 3

The word —- is rooted in the 13th century French word art which means skill as a result of learning or practice, and the Latin word ars, meaning ability or practical skills.

Answer 3

Art

Question 4

Explain:
Art can be an ability, a process, and a product.

Answer 4

Ability (human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stirs us.
Process (art encompasses acts to create images or memorable works)
Product (art is the completed work)

Question 5

T or F

Arts enhance daily experiences
Arts doesn’t develop the intellect of the younger generation
Arts make us perceive the world from diverse viewpoints

Answer 5

False
Arts enhance daily experiences
Arts develop the intellect of the younger generation
Arts make us perceive the world from diverse viewpoints

Question 6

Essentials of Art
(4)

Answer 6

Art has to be man-made.
Art must be creative, not imitative.
Art must benefit and satisfy man.
Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his audiences.

Question 7

Importance of Art
(7 items)

Answer 7

Arts enhance daily experiences
Arts develop the intellect of the younger generation
Arts make us perceive the world from diverse viewpoints
“Art is that which brings life in harmony with beauty and the world.” - Plato
“Art is a n attitude of spirit, a state of mind–on that demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, shaping of matter to new and more significant form.” - John Dewey
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” - Oscar Wilde
“Art is not a thing–it is a way.” - Elbert Hubbard

Question 8

T or F
Art is Universal (Art is everywhere)
Art is nature (Art is man-made and from nature)

Answer 8

FALSE
Art is Universal (Art is everywhere)
Art is not nature (Art is man-made)

Question 9

the study of objects or works of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts.

Answer 9

Art history

Question 10

deals with the learning or understanding and resting artworks and enjoying them.

Answer 10

Art appreciation

Question 11

Misconceptions about Art
(6 items)

Answer 11

Art must be perfect.

Drawing and painting go hand in hand.

More colors are always better.

Small canvases over big canvases.

Painting is easy.

Quantity equals quality.

Question 12

Functions of Art (according to Lazzari and Schesier (2005))
(9 items)

Answer 12

Art assists us in rituals that promote our spiritual or physical well-being;

Art communicates thoughts, ideas, and emotions;

Art gives us pictures of deities, or helps us conceive what divinity is;

Art serves and/or commemorates the dead;

Art makes evident power of state and its rulers;

Art celebrated war and conquest, and sometimes also peace;

Art is a means for protesting political and social injustice;

Art promotes cohesion within a social group;

Art records the likeness of individuals and the context in which individuals exist

Question 13

T or F
Art assists us in rituals that promote our spiritual or physical well-being;

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

T or F
Art communicates thoughts, ideas, and emotions;
Art gives us pictures of deities, and does not helps us conceive what divinity is;

Answer 14

FALSE
Art communicates thoughts, ideas, and emotions;
Art gives us pictures of deities, or helps us conceive what divinity is;

Question 15

T of F
Art serves and/or commemorates the dead;
Art makes evident power of state and its rulers;

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

T or F
Art celebrated war and conquest, and sometimes also peace;
Art is a means for protesting political and social injustice;
Art promotes cohesion within a social group;
Art records the likeness of individuals and the context in which individuals exist

Answer 16

TRUE

Question 17

is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts–artworks–that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

Answer 17

Art

Question 18

the study of the different cultural aspects of man, his frailties in life and how these can be improved.

Answer 18

Humanities

Question 19

the academic study of the history and development of the visual arts.

Answer 19

Art history

Question 20

is the application of basic tools of visual literacy in order to understand and appreciate works of art.

Answer 20

Art appreciation

Question 21

Basic Philosophical Perspectives of Art
(4 items)

Answer 21

Art as Mimesis (Plato)
Art as Representation (Aristotle)
Art for Art’s Sake (Kant)
Art as Escape

Question 22

Art is an imitation of the real that was an imitation of the ideal.
Mime means mimicry; imitation

Answer 22

Art as Mimesis (Plato)

Question 23

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.

Answer 23

Art as Representation (Aristotle)

Question 24

Art has its own reason for being
Our experience of art – the ways we appreciate and criticize work – is therefore wholly commanded by aesthetic pleasure and delight, separate to the rest of the world.

Answer 24

Art for Art’s Sake (Kant)

Question 25

The ceremony of doing or creating art touches the deepest realms of the mind and the sacred dimension of the artistic creative process

Answer 25

Art as Escape

Question 26

Art is meant to be used, to enrich lives to be spiritually potent, to educate, to support or protest existing power structure, to entertain, and so on.

Answer 26

Art as Functional

Question 27

Classification of Arts

Answer 27

Visual Arts (2D, 3D) performing /Combined Arts Digital Applied Arts

Question 28

Give examples of Applied Arts

Answer 28

Fashion design, furniture, interior, graphic

Question 29

art that is made or presented using digital technology.

Answer 29

Digital

Question 30

art that is made or presented using digital technology.

Answer 30

Digital

Question 31

Give examples of performing / combined arts

Answer 31

Music, dance, film, literary, theatre, performance poetry

Question 32

Give examples of Visual Arts

Answer 32

(2D, 3D) Paintings, sculpture, architecture

Question 33

The matter to be described or to be portrayed by the artist.

Answer 33

Subject of Art

Question 34

Various Types of Subject (3 items)

Answer 34

Person Object Scene or event

Question 35

Two Kinds of Art as to Subject

Answer 35

Representational or Objective Nonrepresentational or Nonobjective

Question 36

Arts without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation) Nonobjective because there is no recognizable objects

Answer 36

Nonrepresentational or Nonobjective

Question 37

Subject that depict (represent) objects that are commonly recognized by most people Artist attempts to portray the subject as it is Artist is objective as much as possible

Answer 37

Representational or Objective

Question 38

Sources of the Subject of Art (5 items)

Answer 38

Nature History Religion Greek and Roman Mythology Sacred Oriental Texts

Question 39

Sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam

Answer 39

Sacred Oriental Texts

Question 40

During the Renaissance periods, poets, painters and sculptors drew largely from Greek Mythology and Roman sources for subjects.

Answer 40

Greek and Roman Mythology

Question 41

Played an enormous role in inspiring works of visual arts, music, architecture, and literature.

Answer 41

Religion

Question 42

All is art is conditioned by the historical period in which it is created.

Answer 42

History

Question 43

Next to animals and people and their activities, nature as landscapes has been the common subject of arts.

Answer 43

Nature

Question 44

The meaning, message, and/or feeling imparted by the work of art.

Answer 44

The Content of Art

Question 45

It is the mass ideas associated with each artwork and communicated through the following: (5 items)

Answer 45

The Art’s imagery The symbolic meaning Its surrounding where it is used or displayed The customs, beliefs, and values of the culture that use it. Writings that help explain the work

Question 46

Three Levels of Meaning

Answer 46

Factual meaning Conventional meaning Subjective meaning

Question 47

refers to the individual meaning deliberately and instinctively expressed by the artist using a personal symbolism that stems from his own alliance with certain objects, actions, or colors with past experiences

Answer 47

Subjective meaning

Question 48

refers to the special meaning that the certain object or color has for a particular culture or group of people when it is shown in an artwork

Answer 48

Conventional meaning

Question 49

the literal statement or narrative content in the work that can be directly apprehended because the objects presented are easily recognized

Answer 49

Factual meaning

Question 50

Reasons for Keeping Art (3 items)

Answer 50

National Pride and Glory Museums and Private Collections Preservation and Restoration

Question 51

Because art is valuable, enormous human effort and financial resources are devoted to preserving art from the ravages of time, the environment, industrial-by-products, and even any other human being.

Answer 51

Preservation and Restoration

Question 52

Museums are repositories of much of the art in most countries and make them available for public viewing through either permanent or temporary exhibitions.

Answer 52

Museums and Private Collections

Question 53

In addition, nations keep art because it is good for the economy and for business. The presence of archaeological, religious, or architectural sites stimulates the entire economy, attracts tourists, and generates thousands of local jobs.

Answer 53

National Pride and Glory

Question 54

Also known as Nation Living Treasures Award Institutionalized in the year 1992 through R.A. no. ----

Answer 54

Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) RA 7335

Question 55

National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) was tasked with the implementation This award is conferred upon a Filipino citizen or group of Filipino citizens engaged in any traditional art uniquely Filipino

Answer 55

Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA)

Question 56

Someone devoted to the creative part, making visually pleasant work only for gratification and appreciation of viewer but with no practical value

Answer 56

Artist

Question 57

Defines as art practitioner Produces or creates indirectly functional arts with aesthetic and value using imagination

Answer 57

Artist

Question 58

Defines as craftsman Produces directly functional and decorative arts

Answer 58

Artisan

Question 59

Physical worker who makes objects using his hand, and through skill, experience, and ability can produce things of great beauty with usefulness

Answer 59

Artisan

Question 60

Key components of art Market (4 items)

Answer 60

Curator Art Buyer Art dealer Private collection

Question 61

Is personal owned collection of works, usually a collection of art Art collector

Answer 61

Private collection

Question 62

An economic system that relies not only on supplies and demand but also in fabrication of a work’s predicted future monetary and/or cultural value.

Answer 62

Art Market

Question 63

Manager, overseer, keeper of a cultural heritage Content specialist charged with an institution’s collections, organized art exhibits, research artists, write catalogs, and involved in interpreting the heritage

Answer 63

Curator

Question 64

Is a professional who is knowledgeable in art, who may scout talents for an advertising agency seeking to employ an art director/may look for an art collector or a company

Answer 64

Art Buyer

Question 65

A person or company that buys and sells works of art Often study the history of art before starting their careers

Answer 65

Art dealer

Question 66

THREE STAGES IN CREATIVE PROCESS

Answer 66

1. Germination (idea) 2. Assimilation 3. Completion

Question 67

The time to finish your project, to give it the final shape before you present it to the audience

Answer 67

Completion

Question 68

You will internalize and assimilate or incorporate the idea you want to create.

Answer 68

Assimilation

Question 69

You are planting the seeds of your creation

Answer 69

Germination (idea)

Question 70

THREE STAGES IN ART MAKING

Answer 70

1. Pre-production or Subject Development 2. Production or Medium Manipulation 3. Post-production (completion) or Exhibition

Question 71

Once artwork is finished, it will be displayed, circulated and performed for the audience and public to see or watch.

Answer 71

Post-production (completion) or Exhibition

Question 72

this is the method of joining diverse material inputs and unimportant inputs (plans, know-how) to make something for consumption (output).

Answer 72

Production or Medium Manipulation

Question 73

This ends when the planning ends, and the content starts being produced.

Answer 73

Pre-production or Subject Development

Question 73

This ends when the planning ends, and the content starts being produced.

Answer 73

Pre-production or Subject Development

Question 74

It refers to the materials that are used by an artist to create a work of art.

Answer 74

Medium

Question 75

It refers to the artist’s ability and knowledge or technical knowhow in manipulating the medium.

Answer 75

Technique