Lesson 2

Art History

art history is also called

art historiography

This is a historical study of the visual, being concerned with identifying, classify, describing, evaluating, interpreting, and understanding the art products and historical development of the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts, drawing, printmaking, photography, interior designs, etc.

Art history

t or f

Art is concerned to discover who made particular art object (attribution)

true

T or F

Authentication in art historical research involves determining the cultural significance of art object

false

authentication is about confirming whether an artwork was made by traditionally attributed artist

T or F

Provenance and art historical research refers to the study of artistic symbols and their meanings

false

provenance refers to documenting the previous ownership and whereabouts of the artwork

T or F

Understanding the stylistic development of artistic tradition is not concerned in art historical research

false

stylistic and formal development are significant aspects of art historical research

T or F

Iconography in art history involves the analysis of symbols and subject matter in visual arts

True

• Iconography focuses on interpreting symbols and themes in art including religious symbolism

T or F

Art history it is the study of human expression visual-but also tactile, spatial, and sometimes aural- through history

true

Art forms that create works that are primarily visual in nature.

visual art

This are art that can be felt and they have textured surface that can be felt and seen.

tactile ( tangible)

what is one that primarily address to the ear which uses sound as its primary material.

aural

it is an area of discipline where students can focus on environmental aspect of three dimensional design and contemporary art practice.

spatial (dimensional)

universal and only art of sound.

aural (auditory)

The study of nature of arts its concept, interpretation, representation, expression, and form.

philosophy of art

the study of beauty and taste; it is closely related to aesthetics

philosophy of art

Greek word which means “imitation” or “copying” ; this also could mean representation

mimesis

who talks about mimesis the representation of nature

plato and aristotle

Who believed that all artist the creation is mimesis?

It exists that the world of ideas and is created by God.

plato

t or f

Aristotle speaks of tragedy as an “imitation of action”

true

t or f

aristotle is the one who said that all artist are imitators of nature

false

plato

According to Aristotle, what does art represent?

Representation of signs and symbols that takes place of something else helping people organize the world and reality

What does the phrase “Art for Art sake” mean?

art needs no justification and does not have to serve political, didactic, and other external purposes

only for aesthetics and beauty it gives to someone else's eyes

Which philosophical movement believe that art should not have any purpose beyond itself?

Artist associated with aesthetician believe that art should exist only for its own sake, without needing to serve an external purpose.

t or f

Kant’s main interest is in art per se and to the beauty it sublime

false

main interest is not in art per se, only to beauty it sublime

t or f

According to Kant aesthetic judgments are purely subjective and do not carry any universal claim.

False

while aesthetic judgements are subjective, Kant claim that they are also universal

true or false

Immanuel Kant believed that beauty is in property of objects

false

Kant believe that beauty is not a property of objects, but rather how we respond to objects.

true or false

functional art often uses conventional materials to create a everyday objects

false

Functional art often uses unusual materials to create everyday objects, making us rethink how we view them.

Five Philosophy of Art

1. Art as Mimesis

2. Art as Representation (Aristotle)

3. Art for Art’s Sake (Kant)

4. Art as an Escape

5. Art as Functional

true or false

Art is only relevant to certain groups in society and is not available to everyone.

false

art is universal and available to everyone, addressing human needs across societies

Why is art universal?

1. available to everyone

2. means of communication

3. timeless

4. adjust human needs

t or f

art is bind to culture and express the beliefs or values of community

true

How does our differ from nature?

Art is created by humans and reflect on individual subjective experience of nature ,while nature is given an exist around us without human intervention.

true or false

artist are expected to accurately nature in their work.

false

artists are not expected to duplicate nature; instead, they reinterpret or even distorted based on their personal experiences

What does art involve beside the artist process?

art involves both the artist and active observer, as well as their mental environments and culture, making the experience interactive and cultural.

true or false

to fully understand the work of art, one must sense, see or hear it

true

What are the assumptions of art?

1. art is universal

2. art is cultural

3. art is not nature

4. art involves experience

The role of art as a creative work is to defect the world and a completely different light and perspective

Jean-Paul Satre

He is a famous french philosopher of 20th century; describe the role of art as creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom

Jean-Paul Satre

Why is freedom important in creation and appreciation of art?

Freedom allows individuals to express, imagine, and create, recognizing our humanistic tendencies in the unique perspectives we bring to the world

refers to the act of combining and reordering a hundred existing materials so that a new object is formed

creation

true or false

art is a planned activity

true

What role does creativity play an art making?

it involves thinking outside the box and distinguishing one artwork from another by being original and unique

Imagination is more important than knowledge. for knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand

albert einstein

true or false

In art it all begins with imagination. it always starts in human mind.

true

true or false

Imagination does not allow endless possibilities

false

true or false

imagination produces art, and art also inspires imagination

true

who?

What an artist does to an emotion is not induce it, but express it. Through expression, he is able to explore his own emotion and at the same time, create something beautiful out of them

Robin George Collingwood

t or f

expressing and describing emotions are different

true

This makes people's art not a reflection of what it is outside or external to them, but reflection of the inner self

Art as?

Art as Expression

An emotion will remain unknown to a man until he expresses it.

t or f

true

Art as…(3)

1. creation

2. expression

3. art as a product of imagination, imagination as a product of art