HUM 151 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Neoclassicism, Renaissance, Italy
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Main concerns of art: creativity, aesthetics, visual appeal, symbolism (iconography, form or image that stands for something else, context of an object, historical period, culture, etc. Iconography: meaning, no such thing as one single meaning, different titles give different meanings, different titles train your brain to think different things, naturalistic- realistic vs representational. Purposes and functions: provide a record, gives visual form to feelings, gives visual form to the spiritual, helps us to see the world in new ways, enjoyment, political and social commentary, therapy, artifact. Guernica: why a painting with gray colors, sorrow; village of guernica being attacked because of deal between hitler and france leaders. Load-bearing (bearing wall: comes about in 19th century, skeleton is made of one material and skin is made of another. Just reaching out and touching something: taking an illusion of texture and using different elements to create this feeling of texture, arnolfini double portrait.
