SOLIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MANAGA-NAGA, BULAN SORSOGON

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
ART APPRECIATION
S.Y 2021-2022

PART I: True or False

1. Art is something that is perennially around us.

2. The word “art” comes from the ancient Greek “artes” which means a “craft or specialized form of
skill, like carpentry or smiting or surgery”.
3. The Ancient World did not have any conceived notion of art in the same way that we do now.
4. One of Art’s Assumption is that Art is universal.
5. Humanities and the art have never been part of man’s growth and civilization.
6. In the Philippines, the works of Jose Rizal and Francisco Balagtas are not being read because they
are old.
7. Spolarium is the greatest masterpiece of Antonio Luna.
8. Nature is not considered art simply because it is not made by man.
9. Creativity requires thinking outside the box.
10. Imagination is not constrained by the walls of the norm, but goes beyond that.
11. Visual Arts are those that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature.
12. Film refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion
of movement.
13. Performance Art is an art form where the artist expresses his emotions not by using paint,
charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.
14. Artists who practice literary arts use words-not paint, musical instruments, or chisels-to express
themselves and communicate emotions to the readers.
15. Theater uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience.
16. Sculptures were also made in order to commemorate important figures in history.
17. Another art form that readily lends itself to multiple functions is architecture. In fact, architecture
might be the most prominent functional art form. Buildings are huge, expensive, and are not easily
constructed and replaced.
18. Aristotle considered art as an aid to philosophy in revealing truth. The kind of imitation that art does
is not antithetical to the reaching of fundamental truths in the word.
19. In Plato’s worldview, art serves two particular purposes. First, art allows for the experience
of pleasure. Secondly, art also has an ability to be instructive and teach its audience things about life,
thus, it is cognitive as well. Greek plays are usually of this nature.
20. Aristotle is fighting for the social dimension of art. As a purveyor of man's innermost feelings and
thoughts, art is given a unique opportunity to serve as a mechanism for social unity. Art is central to
man's existence because it makes accessible feelings and emotions of people from the past and
present, from one continent to another.
21. Art serves as a mechanism of cohesion for everyone. Thus, even at present one can commune with
early Cambodians and their struggles by visiting the Angkor Wat or can definitely feel for the early
royalties of different Korean dynasties by watching Korean dramas. Art is what allows for these
possibilities.
22. For Kant, every human being after perception and the free play of his faculties should recognize
beauty that is inherent in a work of art.
23. Despite the seemingly overflowing instances of arts around people, one still finds the need to see
more
and experience more whether consciously or unconsciously.
24. It was during the seventeenth century when the problem and idea
of aesthetics, the study of beauty, began to unfold distinctly from the notion of technical
workmanship, which was the original conception of the word "art."
25. One of the assumptions of art is that, Art is Nature.

PART II: IDENTIFICATION

26. Greek philosopher Aristotle claimed that every particular substance in the world has an end, or
telos in Greek, which translates into “_______________”.
27. Political art is a common example of art with what kind of function?
28. In his metaphysics or view of reality, the things in this world are only copies of the original, the
eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the World of Forums.
29. For him, art plays a huge role in communication to its audience’s emotions that the artist
previously experienced.
30. As the opposite of representational art, non-representational art is also termed as_____________
31. Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel commissioned by Pope Julius II done between
1508-1512.
32. The primary stage of engaging with art is its ________
33. In Central India, the kind of art that was produced was deeply rooted in __________ text
34. According to Meshberger, “The Creation of Adam” can also be aptly
called __________
35. This pertains to the most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the
identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork and understanding how these elements relate to
one another.
36. This pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, symbols and
other cyphers as bases of its meaning.
37. These meanings stem from the viewer's or audience's circumstances that come into play when
engaging with art. It is therefore expected that meaning may not be singular, rather, a painting
may communicate multiple meanings to its viewer.
38. This means that its functions depend on the person the artist who created the art. An artist
may create an art out of the need for self-expression.
39. Photography, as an art form, delivers this kind of function by taking photos of subjects in
conditions that people do not normally take a look at or give attention to. Pictures of poverty may
carry emotional overtones that may solicit action or awareness from their audience.
 40. The primary stage of engaging with art is its ________

-The End-

Prepared by ꓽ Clarence D. Llabrez

Instructor

Submitted to ꓽ MANILYN BARREDA, MSCRim

Dean of the College of Criminology