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Humanities is derived from what Renaissance Latin expression
studia humanitatis
studies that are directly concerned with human values
humanities
the backbone of the humanities
Language
language used by medieval churchmen
Latin
Where was cuneiform invented?
in the Near East
No ______, no humanities
language
systematic study of the families, societies, and the great men (sometimes women)
History
Whose statement is this: "Who ignores the past is doomed to repeat it."
Santayana
Whose statement is this: "The past is never dead; it isn't even past."
Faulkner
Classic western societies
Greeks and Romans
Classic philosophers
Plato and Aristotle
Classic playwrights
Sophocles, Virgil, Horace the satirist, Homer the epic poet
Classics in Meospotamia
the epic of Gilgamesh, Hammurabi the lawgiver
Classic in Egypt
The Book of the Dead (Last Judgment)
Classics in China
Confucius; Lao Tzu on the Tao
Classic in Tibet
Its own Book of the Dead (karma)
Law is based on what?
philosophy
_____ generate law.
Values
concerns the supernatural
religion
meaning of samsara
illusion
liberation from samsara
nirvana
"love of knowledge'
philosophy
integrated study of visual, performing arts, architecture, literature within the
historical context of the societies they are associatedwith
humanities
What method of presenting the art sucject attempts to portray the subject as it is?
Realism
The Stonebreakers by Gustave Corbet - what method of presenting the art subject?
Realism
The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet
Realism
Rice Farmers by Fernando Amorsolo
Realism
What method of presenting the art subject pertains to conveyance of an overall impression of a
particular scene, usually outdoors
Impressionism
What method of presenting the art subject described visual art in the late 19th century
Impressionism
What method of presenting the art subject uses primary colors and short strokes for
appearance of reflected light?
Impressionism
True or false: Impressionism captures the subject itself rather than the artist's
perception.
False
Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet
Impressionism
Vue de L'Estaque by Paul Cezanne
Impressionism
means to move away or separate
Abstract
What way of presenting abstraction is used when subject is misshapened or the regular shape is
twisted?
Distortion
What are the ways of presenting abstraction?
Distortion, elongation, mangling, cubism
What way of presenting abstraction is used when subjects are cut, lacerated, or mutilated?
Mangling
What way of presenting abstraction uses cone, cylinder, or sphere at the expense of other
pictorial elements?
Cubism
Les Demoiselles d avignon by Pablo Picasso
Abstraction
Sabungero and Luksong Tinik by Vicente Manansala
Abstraction
What method of presenting the art subject is the systematic use of symbols or pictorial
conventions to express an allegorical meaning?
Symbolism
L'apparition by Gustave Moreau
Symbolism
meaning of fauve
wild animals/beasts
first important art movement of 1900
Fauvism
Who led the movement of fauvism?
Henri Matisse
What method of presenting the art subject uses color ruled supreme with color as emotional
force?
Fauvism
Red Room by Henri Matisse
Fauvism
London Bridge and Madame by Henri Matisse
Fauvism
What method of presenting the art subject is derived from baby talk syllables?
Dadaism
What method of presenting the art subject includes absurdism, deliberate irrationality,
disillusionment, and rejection of art standards?
Dadaism
What method of presenting the art subject is "anti-art"?
Dadaism
da-da infant language for ____
hobby horse
French artist concerned with Dadaism
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp
Dadaism
Sardine by Liska
Dadaism
What method of presenting the art subject is attuned to "dynamism of modern times"?
Futurism
What method of presenting the art subject is focused on the dynamic, energetic, and violent
character of changing 20th century life?
Futurism
Founder of surrealism
Anton Breton
What method of presenting the art subject is influenced by Freudian psychology which
emphasizes subconscious state of mind?
Surrealism
Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
Surrealism
Portrait of Picasso by Salvador Dali
Surrealism
Twittering Machine by Paul Klee
Surrealism
What method of presenting the art subject emphasizes artist's subjective emotion which
overrides fidelity to things' actual appearance?
Expressionism
What method of presenting the art subject is used when art is pervaded by anxiety, despair,
pessimism, loneliness, and isolation?
Expressionism
The Scream by Edvard Munch
Expressionism
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Expressionism
True or false: Mass produced works do not qualify as works of art.
True
Criteria for determining whether something is a work of art or not (3)
made by an artist, intended to be a work of art by its maker, recognized experts agree that it is a
work of art
Factors for identifying art perceptually (4)
artistic form, content, subject matter, participation
the interrelationships of part to part and part to whole, perceptible unity
Form
the artistic form's meaning
Content
the content or meaning of the work of art which is never directly presented
Subject Matter
Only by _____ can we come close to full awareness of what the painting is all about.
Participation
Kinds of criticism (3)
descriptive, interpretive, evaluative
Criticism that focuses on the form and important characteristics that improve
understanding of interrlationships of form
Descriptive
Criticism that gives detailed explanation of the content of a work of art, what is revealed
about subj matter
Interpretive
Criticism that judges the merits and praiseworthy quality of a work of art
Evaluative
True or false: If evaluative criticism makes you uncomfortable, your reaction is based on bad
instincts.
False
Fundamental standards of evaluative criticism (3)
perfection, insight, inexhaustibility
refers to setting, conditions, circumstances, and occurrences affecting production and
reception or audience response to artwork
context
set of bg info that enables us to formulate meanings abt works of art
context
Contexts of Art (5)
artist background, nature, everyday life, society, politics, economy, and history, mode of
reception
age, gender, social environment, etc of the artist which affect art production
artist background
context of art that can be seen as a source of inspiration, a wellspring of materials, or a force
one has to contend with
nature
fulfilled documentary and artistic functions as an alternative to painting
photography
very much affected by our level of exposure to art forms that maybe unfamiliar or have
startling images
reception
a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty especially in art
Aesthetics
branch of philosophy that deals with principles of beauty and artistic taste
Aesthetics
Art period when mere crafts, stone weapons, and jewelry start to have decorative elements,
meaning, and context
Pre-colonial
Where is the proof of earliest man's presence found in the Philippines?
Espinosa Ranch Site, Cagayan
Shell bracelets and pendants are found where in the Philippines?
Cagayan, Palawan, Sorsogon
The oldest known ornaments made from cone shells were found in the grace of an adult male in
_____.
Duyong cave, Palawan
Oldest known work of art in the Phils located in Rizal
Agono Petroglyphs
A kind of ear pendant fashioned from green nephrite (jade)
Lingling-o
From where was Lingling-o recovered?
Duyong cave, Palawan
Burial jar excavated from a neolithic burial site in Manunggul cave of Tabon Caves at Lipuun
Point at Palawan
Manunggul Jar
anthropomorphic secondary burial jars in ayub cave, brgy. pinol, maitum, sarangani
Maitum Jar
A Tagalog ancient script also known in Visayan as badlit, derived from Brahmic scripts of
India
Baybayin
An artistic cultural heritage of the Maranaos which is a design often rendered in hardwood in
curvilinear lines and geometric figures
Okir (motif)
Patterns of the Okir (6)
circle, bud, leaf, fern or spiral form, fern leaf with spiral upper edge, fern leaf with a cut
atone edge
circle in okir
matilak
bud in okir
poyok
leaf in okir
dapal
fern or spiral form in okir
pako
fern leaf with spiral at upper edge
todi
fern leaf with a cut at one edge
pako lungat
Flower symbol of the ancestral home of highest titleholder in a Maranao village
Torogan
Okir serpent
Naga
Period that introduced formal painting, sculpture, architecture, inspired by byzantine,
gothic, baroque, rococo
Spanish Colonial art period
often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily
interpreted detail to produce drama
Baroque
characterized by whimsical, curvy lines and elaborately decorative style of art, whose name
derives from the French word 'rocaille' mean
Rococo
rooted in religious devotion, it is especially known for the distinctive arched design of its
churches, its stained glass, and its illumi
Gothic
Borrows the neoclassicism, romanticism, and impressionism
Filipino classicism
father of filipino painting
Damian Domingo
First filipino to paint his face, the first self-portrait in the phils
Damian Domingo
Founder of the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura, the first school of drawing in the Philippines
Damian Domingo
Painter of Spoliarium
Juan Luna y Novicio
one of the greatest filipino painters, his work has a touch of romanticism and neoclassicism
Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo
art style that pays attention to embroidery and costume texture
Miniaturismo
art style that fuses letters with figurs in everyday activity amidst common bg
Letras y figuras