HUM 100 Questions And Correct Answers
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Humanities ANS✔✔ An investigation into the events that influence our
creations and how our creations influence events.
The history of culture.
The study of subjective interpretations of what it means to be human.
Visual 2D ANS✔✔ Drawing
Painting
Printmaking
Photography and film (I would argue filming action)
Visual 3D ANS✔✔ Sculpture
Jewelry-making
Pottery
Tools: instruments and weapons (another argument)
Types of Art ANS✔✔ Architecture
2D
3D
Performing Arts
Language and Literature
Philosophy, Law, Religion, Governments and Politics
,Performing Arts ANS✔✔ Dance
Music
Theater
Film (acting for film)
purpose/function of art ANS✔✔ Records thought
Gives form to feelings: emotional - pleasure and escape
Reveals and expresses beliefs and ideas at a given time
Persuades/propagandistic
How to evaluate art ANS✔✔ It is critical to evaluate art and historical events
from the mindset of the moment in which they were produced. Modern
thinking does NOT apply!
- Painting: tempura, oils, watercolors, acrylics and frescos
- Printmaking: relief, intaglio and planographic
- Photography: Art v. documentary
- Mosaics: solid materials embedded into an adhesive substance.
Elements ANS✔✔ Line
Form/*shape, such as what a line provides
Color: hue, *value, Intensity
Mass/space: how much area and density an object commands on the canvas
Texture: Smooth v. Rough
, Lines ANS✔✔ Provide emotional perception:
sharp, acute, angular v. soft and curvy (formally, attributed to masculine v.
feminine qualities)
Bold and wide v. narrow
Distinguish or outline the placement of the characters - defining edges.
Example: A white dress against green hedges.
Implication/Implied lines ANS✔✔ A physical line does not exist. Rather,
spatial arrangement provides a sense of line.
Fibonacci Series: golden ratio ANS✔✔ A sense of balance and focus
A Body of Lines ANS✔✔ Shapes are created where the edges of the colors
meet.
AND
The commingling of shapes imply an outline - here, of a woman's body.
Leonardo Fibonacci ANS✔✔ He introduced Arabic Mathematics to
Renaissance Europe. Remember, we use Arabic numerals. Can you imagine
the difficulties multiplying (IX)(XI)?
Color ANS✔✔ Hue, Value, Intensity
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