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24 Cards in this Set
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What is an artist?
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A person whose creations embody technical skill as well as intellectual knowledge, inventiveness, and personal vision.
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Define form
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The way their line, shape, texture, and other visual elements combine to please the senses, is so satisfying or perfect that we call them beautiful.
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Egyptian Potter info
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The work of an Egyptian artisan from 5000 years ago exemplifies the definition of art as skill or craft. The unknown craftsmen employs a mechanical device, the potter's wheel, to form a useful durable ceramic pot.
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Sculptor's Workshop (Nanni Di Banco) info
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The beginning of the fifteen century shows various types of stonework done at the workshop. Nanni Di Banco who compeleted this work in 1414 is considered to be a fine artist.
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define fine artist
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Their work is more self-guided and shows a more pronounced personal style than that of the typical artisan.
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Prior to the twentieth century what did most aestheticians believe?
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Beauty was the defining feature of art
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Define aesthetics
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The philosophy of art, centered on the study of the nature of art and beauty.
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How did the formalists view art?
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An object or activity qualifies as art if its visual form is sufficiently compelling or inspiring or beautiful to provoke an intensely felt, sensory-based response or aesthetic experience.
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Define critic
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A critic analyzes the qualities of specific artworks, interprets their meaning, and judges their artistic success or failure.
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What does art historians study?
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Art history studies works of art in relation to the individuals, groups, societies, and cultures that created them. It also examines works of art in relation to other works of art across time and history.
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Define subject
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What a work depict's
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Untitled (Peter Reiss) info
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Reiss, an epileptic who suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side, photographs the severly retarded and physically malformed, so often hidden from our view.
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The Night Of The Poor (Diego Rivera) info
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Rivera seeks to make the visible lifes of those who are usual invisibleL the "abnormal" the poor, the opressed. The painting is one of the poor and the opressors during the Mexican Revolution.
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Native Forms (Hale Woodruff) info
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The painting depicts a generalized selection from the wide-ranging art forms of ancient and traditional African cultures.
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Sojourner Truth, The Dinner Party (Judy Chicago) info
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The painting includes a traingular table, a tiled floor, and thirty-nine place settings in praise of great, often underacknowledged women in history. The ceramic plate was dedicated to Sojourner Truth, African-American abolitionist and feminist.
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Interchange And Dissipation from the Art Of The Negro (Hale Woodruff) info
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Interchange depicts the sharing of knowledge between Greek, African, Roman, and Egyptian scholars and artisans in ancient times. In contrast, Dissipation shows Europeans attempting to destroy African culture by destroying its sculpture.
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All Their Worldly Goods (Adolf Reich) info
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To the Nazi Regime for whom Reich created this work, the identity of the scheming beneficiaries was clear: Theu were greedy and evil Jews, a deviant race beat on destroying the German people.
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Define content
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An artwork's content includes the feelings, thoughts, and meanings embodied in the work.
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Define context
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The work's social and cultural background.
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Define Formalism
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Formalism is an approach to viewing art that focuses on a work's artistic form-its visual elements (line, color, shape, space, texture) and their composition.
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Define composition
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Arrangement of the visual elements of an artwork.
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Define contextualism
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Contextualism, the other tradititional approach to viewing art, is concerned with understanding art "in context," that is, in relation to to the rest of life.
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Who painted The Night Cafe?
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Vincent Van Gogh depicts his financial struggle.
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Self-Portrait With Gray Hat (Vincent Van Gogh) info
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Represents Gogh's psychological state.
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