DsnS 183 Exam #1 questions
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Who built the Bauhaus building and when? - answer German architect,
Walter Gropius 1920s
What was the name of the school of design built in the 1930s that was
meant to integrate art and design into one unit? - answer Bauhaus
What signal does "The Artist in His Studio" send? - answer The notion of
a tortured genius, solitary, brooding, brilliant.
Who painted "The Artist in His Studio"? - answer Gerrit Dou
What are the parameters around design? Explain - answer 1. Economic:
every designed object has an economic bottom line - someone has to pay.
2. Social: What is acceptable in society or different groups in society.
3. Political: What is deemed appropriate to those in power.
Who was Mattie Lou O'Kelly? - answer A folk artist from Georgia - had her
obit in the NY Times.
From whence and when can the Western aesthetic preferences be traced?
- answer To the Greco-Roman world of the 5th century B.C.E.
What was one of the key judgements of art or aesthetics in the early
Greco-Roman era? - answer The value of naturalism or how realistic a
work appears.
, What was the preference of the design of Western art taken from early
Greece and Rome? - answer Realism and symmetry
How did Greco-Roman aesthetic sensibilities expand across Western
Europe? - answer By virtue of geography, but also by virtue of the
military, trade, and migration.
What era brought back the aesthetic sensibilities of the Greco-Roman era?
- answer The Renaissance.
How was the Greco-Roman influence on art reflected in the Renaissance? -
answer In art, design, architecture, and philosophy
What can cause the change from low art to high art? - answer How the
art is conceptualized at the time.
What are 2 ways an artist may be categorized? - answer 1 background 2
authorship.
How does craft become art? - answer Through how it is conceptualized at
the time.
German jew and philosopher/culture critic who wrote "The Work of Art in
the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." - answer Walter Benjamin
In what period of time did Benjamin write? - answer During the transition
in Europe between world wars.
How did WW2 bring fundamental transformation to society? - answer 1.
Upended monarchies
2. Communism was brought in by the Russian Revolution
3. New technologies of war introduced
4. Women were in the workforce
5. The US emerged as a global power
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