0
Rate this Study Guide:
☆☆☆☆☆To indicate wealth and status
Research in geometry and mathematics
An art connoisseur
It directs the viewer to look first at the illuminated part of the painting.
mathematics and science
Understanding how beauty is expressed and appreciated.
The contrast between light and dark- APEX
The animals are more realistically drawn than the humans.
How should art be judged
The duller objects will seem farther away.
The plight of working people
Western art criticism focuses on theory and philosophy.
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.
Artists are products of their environments.
Art critics can make or break the reputation of an artist
What is the artisit trying to communicate to the viewer
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 men have clear individual characteristics
the renaissance.
The Altamira cave paintings
the use of size to establish the importance of the main subject
the Andes
