Humanities Study

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Humanism

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Centers on humans and their values and teachings. Also the study of the humanities. A culture and intellectual movement of the Renaissance. What does it mean to be human.

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Humanities

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Investigate human beings, their culture, and their self expression.Art,music,drama,literature,philosophy,cinema,etc

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Renaissance Man

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Someone who can do a lot of different things/fields. Da Vinci

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Discipline

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A branch of the humanities.

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Beauty

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Looks good.Emotional response to a piece of art

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Aesthetic

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Nature of art, beauty, etc

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Alienation

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Emotionally separated from a piece of art.Can't identiyf with something.

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Apollonian

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Logical, rational way of looking at something.

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Context

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The situation surrounding something.Historical,etc

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Critical Thinking

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Analyzing or trying to understand something logically. Don't trust what other people say without checking it

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Dionysian

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Empathy/Emotional connection with a work

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Empathy

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When you feel for a character.

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Rationalizing

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Reason is the source of knowledge

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Review

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What you think of a work / Apollonian response

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Mythology

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Greek and Roman works about gods and other stuff.

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Myths

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Same as mythology,establish archetypes

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Archetype

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Common themes found throughout many works of literature in the world.

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Collective Unconscious

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Jung's belief that all humans are connected.

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Monomyth

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Campbell, basically an archetype with a hero that is called to do something greater because of an outside world.

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Genre

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Type of work/ what school its from

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Classic

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Timeless quality, perfect example of its genre or style

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Blank Verse

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Poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Conceit

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Fanciful expression of wit

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Couplet

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Pair of lines of meter in poetry.

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Masterpiece

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Exceptional piece of work created by an artist.

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Epic

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Generally, its a really long poem about a hero.

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Epiphany

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When you suddenly realize something

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Lyrical Poetry

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Poetry that is often set to music

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Sonnet

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14 lines, strict rhyme scheme,developed in 15th century in Italy

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Iambic Pentameter

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groups of 10 syllables that alternate being stressed and unstressed

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Haiku

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5-7-5 syllable japanese poetry

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Romance

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Love,emphasis on emotion

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Novella

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Very short novel, generally features less conflicts

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Metaphor

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Comparing two realistically unrelated things.

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Abstract Art

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Form color and line, shows something that exists outside of the actual real world.

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Alteration

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Changing a real life object to show you what the artist wants to see, allows them to emphasize things,etc

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Chiaroscuro

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Strong contrasts between light and dark

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Classicism

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High regard for ancient greek and roman art

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Fresco

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Mural painting

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Golden section

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Greek thing with ratio's used in parthenon and stuff

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Imitation

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What artists did before cameras

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Likeness

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Artists made these to sell

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Media

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Materials and techniques used by an artist

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Modernism

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Rejects idealism, parodies older art

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Perspective

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Where your eye is drawn to in a work

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Postmodernism

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Reacts to modernsim,deconstruction

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Realism

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Attempt in art to depict things accurately

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Renaissance

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Movement obsessed with Greek and Roman art and literature

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Still Life

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Painting of non-moving objects

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Cubism

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Nude descending a staircase, Pablo picasso, basically drawing humans as blocks, lines, drew from African art with masks.

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Dutch School

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Early renaissance to baroque painters in Netherlands. Liked still lifes. Rembrandt, portraits

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Impressionsism

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Drawing things blurred, allowing the eye to reconstruct them.

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Gothic

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Known for its pointed arches, made a lot of churches in the Medieval ages

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Performance Art

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Joseph Beuys, artist becomes a parat of the piece of the art, how to explain a picture to a dead hare.

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Pop Art

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Andy Warhol, for the common people, mass produced, depicted things that we were all interested in like movie stars.

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Post Impressionism

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Continued depicting lifelike things and using thick vibrant colors but were more willing to geometrically change the structure of objects.

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Superrealism

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Duane hanson, tries to make things that look as realistic if not more than actual real life things look.

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Surrealism

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Dahli, dreamlike quality, paintings that are melting, Freudian imagery

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Agape

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Love between god and man, spiritual love

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Courtly Love

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Maiden falls in love with knight, chivalry

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Double Standard

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Men could have sex before marriage, women were supposed to remain pure

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Eros

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Physical love

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Goliard

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Clergy poets who mocked the failings of the church

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Platonic Love

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Love between friends

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Romantic Love

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Love between lovers

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Utopianism

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Perfect world, happiness