Art Appreciation Chapter 2
Context helps the viewer do what with a work of art?
Understand how a work is perceived in its original setting
Which statement best describes the performance of Joesph Beuys' How to explain pictures to a Dead Hare?
the artist was a spiritual role that required participation in social and political change
The identification, description and interpretation of background information related to the subject matter of a work of art is known as _______ .
Iconography
What are some aspects of form?
- Shape - Color
How can Kara Walkers use the space in her installation A Subtely be characterized?
- She used materials related to the history of space - Social and historical questions were connected to the physical space - The public had access to a space in its unnatural state
In what ways does nonobjective are differ from abstract art?
- Visual elements are central to what is represented - It avoids depicting a visual relationship to the visible world
Aesthetic philosophers determined that the pleasure of art was an intellectual pleasure and perceived through what practice?
A special kind of attention called disinterested contemplation
Analyzing an artists journals and letters for biographic details that impact our understanding of a work of art is an example of establishing ______.
Context
The same theme in works of art can take on different meanings based on _______.
Context
Understanding a work of art based on who made it, the society that interacted with it, and its original function is known as ________.
Context
What is term for the personal, social, cultural, and historic setting which a work of art was created, received, and interpreted?
Context
When trying to understand a piece based on a theme, the viewer is looking at ______.
Context
What is at the root of Louise Bourgeois's artwork?
Deep emotions connected to childhood
Admiring an object based on its formal qualities rather than its functionality is known as what kind of contemplation?
Disinterested
Cabbage Leaf is considered beautiful through what intellectual pleasure?
Disinterested contemplation
What is a key characteristic of nonrepresentational art?
Emphasis on formal qualities
True or False: All representational art is naturalistic
False
If a contemporary artist wants their works to be purchased, what do they have to do?
Find galleries and museums willing to show their work
how did the attitudes of artists change toward producing objects during the 20th century?
Focus shifted from the final product to the process of making
The structural composition of a work of art is known as _______.
Form
What is iconography?
Identifying, describing, and interpreting an image
Kara Walker's A Subtlety is an example of a(n):
Installation
Representational art that records the true texture, color, tone, and actual lighting of materials is known as ______.
Naturalistic
Art that decried any use of the visible world as a starting point was known as what kind of art?
Nonrepresentational
During the ______, there began to be separation between "art" and "craft"; painting, sculpture, architecture, came to be thought of as elevated forms of art.
Renaissance
Art that seeks to present the world as it appears in nature is known as ______.
Representational
If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is said to be _______.
Representational
What is the technique that best describes the foundation on which western art was built from the Renaissance to the 20th century?
Representational
Why did Louise Bourgeois avoid representational works that were naturalistic?
She wanted the focus to be on the emotions
According to one theory, what distinguishes artists from other "skillful makers"?
Style
What is the term that categorizes art by its appearance?
Style
What term is used to refer to the recurring pattern of choices - characteristic subject matter or materials, distinctive ways of drawing or applying paint, preferences for certain colors or color combinations in an artists work?
Style
Which statement is NOT true regarding James Hampton's Throne of The Third Heavan of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly body of work?
The artist intended to work to be viewed by everyone as a message of redemption
What quality of Leonardo da Vinvi's Mona Lisa dazzled his contemporaries?
The miraculous lifelike portrait
How do museums influence the way a work of art is seen?
The original setting is removed, changing the meaning of a piece
During the 18th century, why were beauty and art discussed together?
They both felt to provide pleasure
Kara Walkers piece A Subtely was created for a specific place making it what kind of art?
installation
Because James Hampton was self-taught in his artistic craft, he's often labeled as what kind of artist?
outsider