Art Appreciation Test Review 1

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Creativity

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Is the ability to bring forth something new that has value.

Ex. Robin Rhode - He got game

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Art

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The visual expression of an idea or experience, formed with skill, through the use of a medium.

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Medium

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A particular material, along with its accompanying technique. (Plural is media)

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Photomontage

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Borrowed picture fragments with a few muted colors to portray a mood of melancholy and longing.

Ex. Romare Bearden - Prevalance of Ritual Tidings

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Folk Artists

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Someone with a small amount of or no formal art education or known as untrained artists who work with a tradition.

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Outsider Artists

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Art by untrained artists who are largely unaware of art history or the art trends of their time and work with personal expression.

Ex. Sabatino "Simon" Rodia - Nuestro Pueblo

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Naive Artists

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Works by self-taught artists whose fresh, untutored style is noted for its simplicity and innocence

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Retablo

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Customary way of giving thanks to God when someone escapes from some danger or recovers from an illness

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Representational Art

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Art that depicts the appearance of things

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Figurative Art

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When human form is the primary subject in Representational art

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Subjects

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Objects that representational art depicts

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Trompe l'oeil

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The most "real" looking paintings and means "fool the eye"

Ex. William Harnett - A Smoke Backstage

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Abstract Art

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Art that has no reference at all to natural objects and that depict natural objects in simplified distorted, or exaggerated ways using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.

Ex. Theo Van Doesburg - Abstraction of a Cow

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Nonrepresentational Art

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Sometimes called Nonobjective or Nonfigurative art presents visual forms with no specific references to anything outside themselves

Ex. Alma Woodsey Thomas - Gray Night Phenomenom

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Tukutuku

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New Zealand art where Maori women working in pairs weave stripes of dyed flax into geometric patterns and are made to fit between the wooden uprights of meeting houses where religious ceremonies are held.

Ex. Tukutuku panels

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Looking Vs. Seeing

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Looking is habitual and implies and implies taking in what is before us in a generally mechanical or goal-oriented way.

Seeing is a more open, receptive, and focused version of looking while looking with memories, imaginations, and feelings attached.

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Form

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The total effect of the combined visual qualities within a work, including such components as materials, color, shape, line, and design.

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Content

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The message or meaning of the work of art or what the artist expresses or communicates to the viewer.

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Iconography

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Subjects, symbols, and motifs used in an image to convey its meaning.

Ex. Circle of Diego Quispe Tito - The Virgin of Caramel Saving Souls in Purgatory

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Six Functions of Art

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Delight

Commentary

Worship and Ritual

Commemoration

Persuasion

Self-Exprssion

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Delight

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Visual appreciation of beauty and decoration, or delight in an element of surprise

Ex. James Abbott McNeil Whistler - Blue and Gold --Old Battersea Bridge

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Commentary

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Artists view art's primary goal as communication between artist and viewer by means of subject manner

Ex. Francisco Goya - I Saw This

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Worship and Ritual

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Enhance Religious contemplation

Ex. The Tree of Jesse

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Commemoration

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Art done as an aid to memory

Ex. Taj Mahal in India

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Persuasion

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Art that urges us to do or think things that we may not have otherwise thought of

Ex. Augustus of Prima Porta

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Self- Expression

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Artwork created based off the feelings, personality, or social causes around the world of the artist

Ex. Felix Nussbaum - Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card

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Beauty

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Visual delight in an artwork

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Monchromatic

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Artwork based mostly on one color

Ex. James Abbott McNeil Whistler - Old Battersea Bridge

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Aesthetics

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The awareness of beauty or to that quality in a work of art other man made or natural form which evokes a sense of elevated awareness in the viewer.

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Classical

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Western traditional works from Greek or the renaissance

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Impresionist

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The artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it.

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Painterly

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Loose or spontaneous brushwork usually created in a single sitting

Ex. Berthe Morisot - In a villa at the seaside

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Idealism

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The idealist artist is someone who ignores the flawed forms of things found in nature, and this permits him or her to grasp and portray the idea of things without flaws

Ex. Ambrogio Lorenzetti - Effects of Good Governemnt in the City

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Assemblage

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A collection of objects gathered in an artwork

Ex. Wassily Kandinsky - Composition VI

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Two - Dimensional Surface

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Having its elements organized in terms of a flat surface, especially emphasizing the vertical and horizontal character of the picture plane

Ex. Daniel Richter - Ooa2

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Three - Dimensional Space

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The real space of an object/figure in an environment, as well as the seemingly real appearance of a form drawn/painted to create a sense of real-life illusion on a 2D space.

Ex. Lee Friedlander - Bismarck, North Dakota

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Line

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Is an extension of a point with means for recording and symbolizing ideas, observations, and feelings; it is a primary means of visual communication

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Different Kind of Lines

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Line Quality

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A line quality is a list of attributes that define a line. Wavy, light, dark, straight, long, short, thick, thin.

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Gesture

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Is the representation of the essence of an object’s or figure’s position

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Outline

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A drawing or manner of drawing consisting only of external lines

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Contour

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The outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.

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Cross-Contour

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Lines that are parallel lines that curve over an object’s surface in a vertical or horizontal manner (or both) and reveal the item’s surface characteristics

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Cross Hatching

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An extension of hatching, which uses is the use of fine parallel lines drawn closely together, to create the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing.

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Hatching

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A shading technique used in both drawing and painting, where tone is built up through a series of thin strokes or lines that are more or less parallel

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Shapes

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An enclosed space, the boundaries of which are defined by other elements of art (i.e.: lines, colors, values, textures, etc.)

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Geometric

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Circles, triangles, and squares, that are precise and regular

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Organic

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Irregular, often curving or rounded, and seem more relaxed and informal than geometric shapes.

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Biomorphic

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Shapes based on natural form

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Figure/Positive

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The dominate shapes

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Ground/Negative

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Background areas

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Figure-ground reversal

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The relationship between a form or figure and its background is reversed so that what was figure becomes background and what was background becomes figure.

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Mass

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Three-Dimensional are

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Volume

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When mass encloses space

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Closed Form

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A self-contained or explicitly limited form; having a resolved balance of tensions, a sense of calm completeness implying a totality within itself

Ex. Fernando Botero - The Horse

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Open Form

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A form whose contour is irregular or broken, having a sense of growth, change, or unresolved tension; form in a state of becoming

Ex. Alberto Giacometti - Man Pointing

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Space

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Is the indefinable, general receptacle of all things, the seemingly empty space around us.