1. Poetics of Visual Art: Elements of Art, Principles of Design, Strategies of Composition

Flashcards covering the Poetics of Visual Art framework, including Elements of Art, Principles of Design, Gestalt Principles, and non-hegemonic aesthetics across diverse cultures.

What three components make up the framework of Poetics of Visual Art, and what is its primary function?

It includes Elements of Art, Principles of Design, and Strategies of Composition. It provides analytical tools to help creators, designers, art critics, and art historians create, organize, and analyze visual artworks and designs.

What cultural limitation is noted regarding the Poetics of Visual Art framework?

The concepts are rooted in specific cultural traditions and art historical discourses and cannot fully encompass all cultures' diverse practices and perspectives.

What are the primary Elements of Art listed in the framework?

Point/line, shape/plane, space, form, texture, color, time, and value.

Which Gestalt Principles are included in the visual art framework?

Figure-ground, closure, continuation, proximity, and similarity.

Under the value element, how are chiaroscuro, tenebrism, and sfumato defined?

Chiaroscuro refers to light v. dark, tenebrism refers to dramatic lighting, and sfumato refers to a smoky effect.

In the study of value, what three terms describe the parts of a cast shadow?

Umbra, penumbra, and antepenumbra.

How does the text define the non-hegemonic principle of Funk in African-American culture?

An African American aesthetic philosophy & form of Black organic intellectualism that combines social commentary with physical and spiritual liberation, evolving from the blues and Black urban life in the mid-1960s using the "groove".

What are the key elements of the Funk aesthetic philosophy?

Privileging the 'groove' and figuration (the body/figure-ground); contrarianism/resistance; celebration of Black identity; social and political commentary; and Afrofuturism and world-building.

How is the Japanese non-hegemonic design principle Wabi-Sabi defined?

A Japanese aesthetic concept that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness, celebrating the natural cycle of growth and decay and embracing simplicity and rustic authenticity over artificial perfection.

How are 'Wabi' and 'Sabi' differentiated within Wabi-Sabi?

Wabi is associated with rustic simplicity, quietness, and authenticity. Sabi refers to the beauty and serenity that comes with age, wear, and visible repairs.

How is the West African non-hegemonic principle of Cool defined?

The conscious, artistic "interweaving of elements serious and pleasurable, of responsibility and play," involving a state of balance and control that allows for transcendent calm and brilliant creativity.

What are the cultural roots and historical transmission of the principle of Cool?

It has ancient roots in West Africa, particularly in Yoruba culture, and was carried to the Americas by enslaved people who wove it into a new creole civilization.

What is the concept of Rasas in Indian aesthetic theory, and where is it documented?

Rasas refer to a distinctive type of emotional experience that can be experienced in connection with an artwork (meaning "flavor," "taste," "juice," or "essence"). It is presented in the Nāṭyaśāstra (200-500 C.E.), traditionally attributed to Bharata.

What are the specific rasas listed in the Nāṭyaśāstra?

The erotic (śṛṅgāra), the comic (hāsya), the pathetic or sorrowful (karuṇa), the furious (raudra), the heroic (vīra), the terrible (bhayānaka), the odious (bībhatsa), the marvelous (adbhuta), and the tranquil (śānta).

Who coined the term Rasquachismo, in what year, and how is it defined?

Coined by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto in 1989, it describes the resourceful, improvisational, and adaptable Chicano sensibility of the working class that reclaims low-class or discarded materials to create something new.

From what Spanish word does Rasquachismo originate?

It is rooted in the Spanish word "rasquache," which historically carried negative connotations of being low-class or poor.

What key aspects define Rasquachismo as a working-class Chicano sensibility?

Resourcefulness and Adaptability, Challenging Aesthetics, Survival and Dignity, Artistic and Cultural Manifestation, and From Underdog to Creator.