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Living with Art chapter 2 Review
Just a few cards to study for my up and coming quiz!
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
09/09/2009

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What are three reasons we make art?
Definition

1.To create meaningful images.

 

2.To create order and structure.

 

3.To explore aesthetic possiblities.

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What creates value in art?
Definition

Money,

Scarcity of it,

The influence of the artist

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What happened in the middle ages?
Definition
Art was used in roughly the same sense as craft.
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What happened around the 1500's?
Definition
During the period known as the renaissance painting, sculpture and architecture came to be thought of as more elevated forms of art.
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The Fine Arts
Definition
During the mid-18th century was given official form when painting, sculpting and architecture were grouped thogether with music and poetry as the fine arts.
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Louvre
Definition
Built in france around the 1800, it was one of the first museums of art.
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 Representational
Definition
Form of art the depicts forms in the nartual world.
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Naturalistic
Definition
An approach to portaying the visible world that emphasizes the objective observation and accurate imitation of appearance.
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 Abstract
Definition
Forms  of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented or otherwise distorted.
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 Stylized
Definition
Representation art in which methods for depicting forms have become stanardized and can thus be repeated without further observation of the real-world model.
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Nonrepresentational

or

Nonobjective

Definition
Art that does not repesent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside of itself.
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Form
Definition
the physical appearance of a worl of art or an ientifiable shape or mass.
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Content
Definition
What a work of art is about, its subject matter as interpreted by a veiwer.
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Context
Definition
The personal and social circumstances surrounding the making, veiwing and interpreting of a work of art.
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Iconography
Definition
The identification, description and interpretation of a subject matter in art the isn't physically there.
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Conceptual Art
Definition
Art created according to the belief that the essence of art resides in a motivating idea that any physical realization or recoding of the ideals secondary.
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Installation
Definition
Any art form in which an entire room or similar space is treated as a workd of art to be entered and experienced.
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Apprenticing
Definition
Traditionally artists were apprentished to older artists as boys and in exchange for room and board they did menial tasks along with drawing lessons.
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Folk Artists
Definition
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