Chapter 1 - What is Art? Notes

Art History 110 02 with Lalonde at Northern Michigan University

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The Making and Meaning of Art
Created: 2010-09-20
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Canon

A set of rules, guideline

Greek Aesthetic of Beauty

Face is always perfectly oval with eyes mouth and nose in perfect proportion, linear. Greeks loved the order, exemplified in their order.

B.C._____0______A.D.

Before Christ____0____Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord, after death)

B.C.E_____0______C.E.

Before Common Era_____0_____Common Era
.C-Circa (about)

Ruskin

Said that mechanization (in the industrial revolution) was dehumanization. That it was a result of alcoholism, divorce rates, problems, etc

Modernism

is optimistic. A trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their enviroment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology, and practical experimentation, and is thus in its essence both progressive..

Vanishing point

the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist. M

Depth Cues

Where the larger the more towards the bottom - the bigger it seems. The smaller, the more towards the back - the farther away it seems.

Image

Art comes from the imagination of the artist and arouses the imagination of the viewer

Edward Steichen.
Used photography to create abstract images while others were still trying to get "perfect images"

Artist: Brancusi (1876-1957)
Title: The Endless Column

"Art for Artsake"

Art used to be for religious or other purpose. Only until renaissance was it thought of as "art".

Artist: Alexander Calder
Ttile: Bird
Date c. 1927
Mobiles..however he called them objects so he wouldn't have to defend them.

Stylization

Distortion of a representational image as a simplified surface detail to conform.

Chihuly
Most famous glass blower
First to experiment with glass blowing, letting it go off enter.
Created and experimented with many colors.

Prehistoric

of or pertaining to the time or a period prior to recorded history

Paleolithic

Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods

About this deck

By: Rebekah Tadych
Textbook:

The Making and Meaning of Art
Created: 2010-09-20
Size: 17 flashcards
Views: 19

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