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