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☆☆☆☆☆An art connoisseur
Look at the work of art and describe what you see
How should art be judged
The duller objects will seem farther away.
Western art criticism focuses on theory and philosophy.
Establish a horizon line and a vanishing point
Explain why you like it or don't like it. (apex)
The question is "What is art?"
And the answer is likely to be subjective, because some forms of symbolic or representational art may not have any apparent meaning to some of its audience. The creation of abstract art, "junkyard sculpture" and more recently the ephemeral "performance art" all stretch the definition beyond its classical roots.
The development of the first mathematical system of perspective (apex)
It outline's object's realistically by creating a gentle transformation from one object to another.(:
Artists are products of their environments.
What is the artisit trying to communicate to the viewer
No.
However, the sfumato technique was used in the Mona Lisa painting.
The purpose of painting is to reduce nature as closely as possible
The communist Russian Government used propaganda paintings showing workers in dramatic poses to install their view on the population. As did the Nazis in their pursuit of what they considered the Aryan Ideal. Both are historical examples of the subject used in propaganda paintings. A large painting of a dictator's face put on public view is another example.
the renaissance.
the use of size to establish the importance of the main subject
A strong knowledge of art history
