Art Test Content & Analysis

अब Quizwiz के साथ अपने होमवर्क और परीक्षाओं को एस करें!

Color meanings

1) natural associations 2) psychological symbolism (Affects moods)

Meaning

1. We analyze works formally (Visual Elements and Principles of Design; along with the style of the artwork) 2. We study their content (subject matter, its symbolic or iconographic references) 3. We learn about the context in which they were created; and 4. We look at the ways that we encounter them, to see how that affects their meaning.

Convention

A set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms or criteria, often taking the form of a custom (unwritten law of custom like how people greet each other by shaking hands)

Art

An expression and communication, "an embodied meaning"

Symbol

An image or element that stands for or represents some other entity or concept. They are culturally determined, and must be taught (object, pic, word, sound, that represents something else by association)

Nonrepresentational

Artwork deliberately not recognizable as something we might see in the world around us

Abstract

Artwork that has been simplified or distorted

Representational

Artwork that represents reality as closely as possible

Memento mori

Reminder of death, "Remember that you are mortal, and you will die, you must die, remember your death" (This is the reminder seen in vanitas paintings)

Skull

Reminder of the certainty of death

Common vanitas symbols

Skull, rotten fruit, bubbles, smoke, instruments, deathers, money, gold

Rotten fruit

Symbolizes decay like aging

Bubbles

Symbolizes the briefness of life or suddenness of death (smoke as well)

Iconography

The branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images (literally means image writing)

Content

The message communicated by a work of art (what the artist expresses). An artwork's theme or message

Context

The personal and social circumstances surrounding the making, viewing, and interpreting of a work of art (the surroundings, circumstances, background, setting of a work of art)

Formal analysis

The process of examining the elements and principles used by the artist.

Subject matter

The specific idea or theme of an artwork. It is what the work depicts, and is the most obvious factor in content (all works of art have it)

Vanitas

Type of symbolic still life painting that is designed to induce in the spectator a higher order of thought (these paintings remind us of the fleeting, emptiness, or frivolous quality of human existence - human skull is very common)


संबंधित स्टडी सेट्स

BADM1001 MOD 2 ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT STUDY SET

View Set

Sadlier Vocab Level G Unit 3 - Completing the Sentence

View Set

BIO 110 DDCC Quiz 2 Ch2 and Ch3

View Set