3RD EXAM

Reading Visual Arts (GE 20)

Name: Daniel C. Paclibar Jr. Code: 8195 Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM Permit #:

Test I: Definition of terms: 5 pts each = 20 pts.

Define the following and give 2 examples for each.

1. Bio Power -

Biopower, a special type of power and reason managing and administering life that has been
studied by Foucault and others, is inextricably linked with current representations and
performances of life and the body that occur in bio art initiatives.

Foucault he provided several examples. He compared this technique of social control with
political authority in the Middle Ages, citing "the ratio of births to deaths, the pace of
reproduction, the fertility of a community, and so on." Another one is Eugenics, it is the
cultivation of desired genetically inherited features in order to enhance future generations,
most commonly in humans.

2. Normalization -

Normalization is the act of arranging and refining the data we wish to keep in such a manner
that repetitive information is eliminated and as much link between records as feasible is
represented.

Normalization is a technique for reducing redundancy in a connection or group of variables. It

is also used to remove unwanted traits such as Insertion, Update, and Deletion of information.

3. Capitalism -

Capitalism is a system in which capital commodities are owned by private persons or

enterprises. A economic system produces goods and/or services based on supply and
demand in the general market, rather than by centralized planning, which is known as a
control parameters or command economy.

America is one of the few large countries that has embraced capitalism. Capitalism-led
innovation is one of the primary reasons the United States has worldwide firms such as Apple,
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Inefficient labor practices are not safeguarded by
government interference in examples of capitalism, but can die spontaneously. This is
referred to as creative destruction. Traditional institutions are being replaced by newer, better,
and more efficient methods and organizations as a result of creative destruction. Capitalism
fundamentally encourages creativity.

4. Commoditization -

The process of transforming products or services into standardized, marketable things is

known as commoditization. This approach tends to remove the commodity's distinctive or
distinguishing characteristics in favor of identical, lower-cost goods that may be interchanged
with one another.

Consider keyboards, desktop computers, hard drives, earbuds, power supply, and so forth.
These are examples of commoditized items since they are only differentiated by price.
Test II: Picture Analysis = 30 pts

A. Post the picture of Vincent Van Gogh and

B. Describe him concretely and concisely as an artist

Vincent van Gogh was one of the world's finest artists, recognized for works such as 'Starry
Night' and 'Sunflowers,' although he was mostly forgotten until after his death. Vincent van
Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter whose work impacted 20th-century art with its
elegance, emotion, and colour. Throughout his life, he struggled with mental disorder and
remained impoverished and almost unrecognized.

C. Post the image of “Starry Night” Painting.

Identify the year flourished and write at least 2 paragraphs about the connection of
the” Starry Night” artwork to the real life of the artist. What made him decide to paint
the Starry Night Painting?
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas work by Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch Post-Impressionist
painter. It was created in June 1889 and represents the scene from his asylum room's east-
facing window sometime before daybreak at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, with the inclusion of
an artificial settlement.Others argue that van Gogh was expressing a personal Gethsemane;
they support this claim by citing his present discussion of Christ on the Mount of Olives in his
communication with Gauguin and Bernard. This, too, might be true; it's possible that the
image foreshadows future sorrows. But biblical allegory pervades van Gogh's work, and he
didn't require a specific subject, much alone a starry sky, with all its links with Arles and
Utopian aspirations. Van Gogh, on the other hand, was attempting to summarize, and his
resume juxtaposed natural, scientific, philosophical, and personal aspects.

Van Gogh hailed modern painting's new embracing of mood, emotion, symbolism, and
passion by creating this depiction of the night sky, accentuated by the brilliant moon at right
and Venus at center left. The Starry Night (made in mid-June) is indeed an exercise in
inspection and a clear departure from it, inspired by the view from his window at the Saint-
Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, where the artist spent twelve
months in 1889–90 seeking reprieve from his mental illnesses. The vision occurred at night,
but the painting, one of hundreds done by van Gogh that year, was completed in multiple
sessions throughout the day, in vastly varied atmospheric circumstances. The charming town
hidden behind the hills was created using other views—it couldn't be seen from his window—
and the cypress at left seems much closer than it was. Although many aspects of the sky
have been rebuilt as witnessed, the artist has adjusted celestial formations and added a glow.