Midterm Exam in Art Appreciation
S.Y. 2021-2022
Name: JOHN REY Y. OÑATE Yr.&Sec: BAEL 1B
Test I. Identification
Directions: Identify the following sentence.
1. There were no clear figures that jot out from the canvas. It does
not make a reference to the real world, whether it is a person, place,
thing, or even a particular event.
- Non- representational Art
2. This pertains to the most rudimentary level of meaning for it may
be extracted from identifiable or recognizable forms in artwork and
understanding how these elements relate to one another.
- Factual Meaning
3. Pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using
motifs, signs, symbols and other cyphers as bases of its meaning.
- Conventional Meaning
4. Refers to the art putting together successions of still images in
order to create an illusion of movement.
- Film
5. It is an art form where the artist expresses his emotions not by
using paint, charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.
- Poetry
6. It is a creative form that allows people to freely express
themselves. It has no rules.
- Dance
7. Use live performance to present accounts or imaginary events
before a live audience.
- Theater
8. These type of art have subjects that refer to objects or events
occurring in the real world.
- Representational Art
9. It is the kind of art form that the population is most likely more
exposed you, but its variations are so diverse-they range from
sculptures that you see in art galleries to the last movie you saw.
-Visual Arts
10. It usually consists of four important elements: time, where the
performance took place, the performer's body, and a relationship
between the audience and the performer(s).
- Performance Art
11. An artist may create an art out of the need for self-expression.
- Functions Of Art
12. For him, art is dangerous because it provides a petty replacement
for the real entities that can only be attained through reason.
- Plato
13. He conceived of art as representing possible versions of reality.
- Aristotle
14. He recognized that judgement of beauty is subjective. However,
advanced the proposition that even subjective judgements are based
on some universal criterion for the said judgement.
- Immanuel Kant
15. For him, art plays a huge role in communication to it's audience's
emotions that the artist previously experienced.
- Leo Tolstoy
Test II. TRUE/FALSE
Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Write T if the
statement is TRUE. Write an F if you think the statement is FALSE.
1. Arts in Medieval Latin came to mean something different.
- True
2. Art has always been timeless and universal, spanning generations
and continents through and through.
- True
3. In every country and in every generation, there is always art.
- True
4. Arts in Medieval Latin came to mean something different.
- True
5. One important characteristic of art is that it is nature.
- False
6. Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the "actual doing of
something" (Dudley et al., 1960).
- True
7. Every beautiful thing that can be seen or experienced may truly be
called a work of art.
- False
8. Art is a product of man's creativity, imagination, and expression.
- True
9. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is
limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination
embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and
understand."
-True
10. An artist has the no freedom to express himself the way he wants
to.
- False
Test III. Essay
Direction: Write at least 4-5 sentences.
1. For you what is Art Appreciation? ( 5pts. )
- For me Art appreciation is understanding and expertise of the ordinary and
undying features that pick out all exceptional arts. The greater you respect
and apprehend the artwork of various eras, movements, styles, and
techniques, the higher you'll be capable of develop, examine and enhance your
artwork.
2. Do you think studying Art Appreciation is necessary and important? Give
two reasons for your stance. ( 5 pts. )
- For me Studying Art Appreciation is very necessary and important
especially because Art forces man to look beyond what is necessary and leads
man to create for the sake of expression and meaning. Art can convey
information, shape our daily lives, make a social statement, and be enjoyed for
its aesthetic beauty.
1.Art enhances your creative abilities
2.Arts gives you the opportunity to showcase your talent
4. What does it means, ( 25 pts. )
* “Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei
-Life is Art. Art is life. I never separate it means that however fragile the times
may be. Art is a testimony of human existence. It includes all our needs,
emotions, questions, decisions, perceptions. Love, hate, life, death. In essence,
how we perceive our world, all aspects of humanity can be expressed through
art.
* “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you
will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard
Shaw
- This quote tells us that we can shape our life the way we imagine it, this
reminds us all that we are the artist of our life and we are the one responsible
for imagining and creating our own future. This quote is also tells us that the
potential for how we can shape our lives is exponentially infinite.
Rubrics:
Content 15
Organization 10
Word Choice, Grammar, 10
Spelling
TOTAL POINTS =
35 pts
God Bless!!!
Prepared by: Arlene B. Rosales
