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Living With Art Chapter 1

Terms in this set (28)

What Do Artists Do? Record and..
To Record and Commemorate
What Do Artists Do? Extraordinary..
To create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
What Do Artists Do? Form to..
To give tangible form to feelings and ideas
What Do Artists Do? Form to..
To give tangible form to the unknown
What Do Artists Do? Places for..
To create places for human purpose
What Do Artists Do? Refresh..
To refresh our visions and see the world in a new light
Sensitivity
heightened awareness
Flexibility
adapt to new possibilities
Originality
problem solve creatively
Playfulness
Humor and experimentation
Fluency
free flow of ideas
Analytical skill
exploring problems and finding how things work
Organizational Skill
putting things together in a coherent order
Outsider/Folk Art
Artwork by nonprofessionals (AKA Native Art, Intuitive Art)
Aesthetics
A philosophy of the nature and meaning of beauty as it pertains to art.
Naturalistic
faithful to visual world: looks like a photograph
representational
resembles forms in the natural world: "window to the world"
nonrepresentational (non objective)
contains no reference to the natural world as we see it
abstract
disorts, exaggerates, or simplifies the natural world to provide essence or universality
sylized
descriptive of representational art in which methods for depicting forms have become standardized, and can thus be repeated without further observation of the real-world model
Trompe L'oeil
extreme optical fidelity, "fool the eye"
Form
the way a work looks, media, style, composition
media
materials used
style
constant, recurring or coherent traits (visual characteristics)
composition
the organization of design elements and principles
iconography
the story including symbols or references, people, events, etc.- requires knowledge of a specific time, beliefs or culture
installation
work created for a specific space
context
knowledge of artist, time, and culture
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