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level: ART, NATURE, SUBJECT AND CONTENT (PPT2)

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level questions: ART, NATURE, SUBJECT AND CONTENT (PPT2)

Question	Answer
Assumptions in Art	1 Art is universal 2 Nature is not art 3 Art involves experience 4 Art as an expression 5 Art as form of creation
Art is not only for concert halls, museums or galleries Art is not only for those who can afford to pay Art is not only for critics and scholars	Art is universal
Art is man made Nature has been a constant source for models of art	Nature is not art
Three major experience of art	1 Experience that an artist wants to communicate 2 Experience in creating the art 3 Experience after creating the art
Audience experience of art	1 Sensory response 2 Emotional response 3 Intellectual response
Art has grown out of man's need to express himself The personal and social values of the artist and his penetrating psychological insights into human reality are also conveyed through art	Art as expression
Art uses __ which organizes into some comprehensible equivalent of the experience that an artist is trying to convey	1 Symbols (Art as expression)
Art is an expression of a general vision of age in which it was created An artists becomes a kind of historian, recording in his/her work the attitudes and way of life of his period	Art as expression
Art is a planned activity Art may be produced by an individual or a team As a creative activity, art involves skill and expertness in handling materials and organizing them into new, structurally pleasing, and significant units	Art as a form of creation
Three basic components of art	1 Subject 2 Content 3 Form
It is the most obvious aspect of an artwork The "What"	Subject
Subjects of art	1 Person 2 Events 3 Objects 4 Scenes
Types of Representing Subjects	1 Representational Arts 2 Non-representational Arts
Have subject Use identifiable objects or symbols Also called objective arts	Representational arts
Do not have subjects Do not represent descriptions, stories or references to identifiable objects or symbols Also called non-objective arts	Non-representational Arts
It is between Representational arts and Non-representational Arts	Abstract arts
What are the sources of subjects?	1 Nature 2 Historical Events 3 Mythologies 4 Traditions 5 Historical texts 6 Other works of art
What are the kinds of subjects?	1 Landscapes, Seascapes, Cityscapes 2 Still Life 3 Animals 4 Portraits 5 Figures 6 Everyday Life 7 History and Legend 8 Religion and Mythology 9 Dreams and Fantasies
According to Cleaver (1966) there are different levels of meaning that a subject matter acquire	1 Factual meaning 2 Conventional meaning 3 Subjective meaning
Literal statement or the narrative content in the work which can be directly understood because the objects presented are easily recognized	Factual meaning
Special meaning that a certain object or color has for a particular culture or group of people	Conventional meaning
Any person meaning consciously or unconsciously conveyed by the artist using private symbolism which stems from his own associations of certain objects, actions, or colors from past experiences	Subjective meaning