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What is Aeshetics?
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A branch of philosophy concerned with the feelings aroused in us by sensory experiences such as seeing & hearing.
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What is a Megalith?
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A large stone
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What is genre?
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The daily lives of ordinary people considered as subject matter for art.
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What were man's first forms of art?
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Animals
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Were women allowed to paint? If so what were they allowed to paint?
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Yes, handprints.
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What is the difference in seeing and percieving?
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Seeing-can't trust you eyes
Percieving-Gives meaning |
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What is art?
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Drawing, painting, printing, and sculpting. It's a form of communication.
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What are the 5 purposes of art?
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1)Religious events
2)Commemoration 3)Propoganda 4)Recording visual data 5)Creating beauty |
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What are 4 methods of creating value?
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1)Line
2)Cross-hatching 3)Hatching 4)Smoot-shading 5)Stipple(placing small dots) |
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What is form?
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Any identifiable shape or mass, as a geometric form.
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What is foreshortening?
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The visual phenomenon whereby an elongated object projecting toward or away from a viewer appears shorter than its actual lenth, as though compressed.
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