Cultural manifestations of Art

Cultural manifestations of Art

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Interpretation of history

• Description

• Analysis

• Interpretation

• Judging 

Description

• Answer questions such as:

• Who? Infanta Margaret Therese and her maids of honor among other servants.

• Where? Spain

• What? Portrait

• When? 1656

• Why? Royal request

Analysis

Based on the style of the artist.

“Style is an artist’s personal way of using the elements and principles of art to create artworks” (Mittler & Ragans, 2005).

Interpreting 

• Is to read something that is not obvious, making relations between what you know and what you see and trying to create a new message behind the artwork. 

• The young ladies of Avignon, by Picasso

• Depicted prostitutes

• Picasso was influenced by the Africans masks

• Psychoanalysis

Judging

The method of art criticism and looking at the aesthetic views suggested by Mittler & Ragans (2005):​

1. The subject view (is the subject easy to identify?)

2. The composition view (are the elements combined?)

3. Do they have coherence and organization?)

4. Ask yourself these questions so you can make a judgment.

5. Some masterpieces are not appreciated right away

   1. The maids of honor Diego Velazquez

   2. Vincent van Gogh´s work

2.2 Culture and Religion

• From the Greek mythos, myth means story or word.

• Myths are symbolic tales of the distant past (often primordial times) that concern cosmogony and cosmology (the origin and nature of the universe), may be connected to belief systems or rituals, and may serve to direct social action and values.

Myth Persephone and the seasons

What Is Myth? Crash Course World Mythology #1

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Is a way in which people try to establish an early explanation to the world, which would make sense in the context of a particular culture. 

Legend of Art

Ancient traditions trace the origin of image-making to drawing a line around a reflected image or shadow.

A Greek legend attributes the origin of portraiture to a young woman of Corinth who traced the shadow of her lover’s face cast on the wall by lamplight.

His father, a potter, filled in the outline with clay, which he then fired (Schneider, 2008).

Multiple Choice

Which of the following stories is not a myth?

• The creation, Adam and Eve

• Popol Vuh the Mayan Creation

• Persephone and the seasons

• La llorona

Religion

• Religion is something that always come along hand to hand with culture, because it can manifest in things like art, traditions and myths. 

• Religion make them think that everything have a reason

Review

Topic 1 and 2

Multiple Choice

What is hue?

• The amount of light or darkness...

• The name of the color

• Brightness

Multiple Choice

Yellow, red, orange are example of

• Analogous color scheme

• Monochromatic color scheme

• Complementary color scheme

• Cool colors

Multiple Choice

Mimesis means

• Performance in which the artist plays a character without words

• Art technique used in sculpture

• Art technique used in sculpture

• Imitation of life form in Art

Multiple Choice

It look what is behind an art work. It unravels symbols.

• Iconology

• Iconography

• Psychology

• Historiography

Multiple Choice

Green, purple and orange are examples of secondary colors

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following properties of color is the amount of lightness or darkness that is in a hue?

• Value

• Shape

• Form

• Intensity

Multiple Choice

Symbols have 2 parts: the signifier and the signified.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Cian is an primary color

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Semiology studys

• Seasons

• Textures

• Signs

• Colors

Multiple Choice

Who painted the maids of honor?

• Diego Rivera

• Francisco Goya

• Diego Velázquez

• Lope de Vega

Multiple Choice

What is ICONOLOGY

• A description of the art

• An interpretation of the art

• A study of icons

• A study of icons

Multiple Choice

What is a myth?

• Misconception

• From Greek story or word