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This document provides instructions for an assignment on art history and analysis. Students are asked to answer 10 questions about various artworks and concepts in art, citing examples from the materials provided and avoiding outside research. Any failure to comply with the rules would result in sanctions. Answers were to be submitted by November 23, 2021. The document then provides a sample student's answers to the 10 questions addressing topics like functional vs. non-functional art, how art has impacted them personally, interpreting the meaning of famous works, and differentiating art from nature.

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This document provides instructions for an assignment on art history and analysis. Students are asked to answer 10 questions about various artworks and concepts in art, citing examples from the materials provided and avoiding outside research. Any failure to comply with the rules would result in sanctions. Answers were to be submitted by November 23, 2021. The document then provides a sample student's answers to the 10 questions addressing topics like functional vs. non-functional art, how art has impacted them personally, interpreting the meaning of famous works, and differentiating art from nature.

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ESSAY: WRITE YOUR ANSWER AT THE GIVEN SPACE

Please refer your answers mainly from the materials being


forwarded to this account. Avoid getting answers/articles
from Google or from your classmates. You will certainly be
identified since I’m going to read and check your
respective work one by one. furthermore, Failure to comply
this rule is subject to suitable sanction. Deadline of
submission will be on November 23, 2021. (10points each)
Name: CRISTY MARRIE S. MELLA
Section: 1C
Course: BSBA
Contact No. : 09363241716
1. Distinguish between directly functional and indirectly
functional art.
Answer: Directly functional art refers to aesthetic objects
that serve utilitarian like for example; architecture, weaved
fabrics or baskets and furnitures because they created for
use not necessarily everyday but designed to serve a
purpose. While indirectly functional art serves no utilitarian
purpose meaning to say they created without purpose or it’s
for fun only or maybe it designed to attract people.
2. What art form/artwork has changed something in your
life? Why? Account for the experience
Answer: Paintings because every time, that I am sad or
somehow upset on something bad happens in my life, I’ll
always go to my room and paint everything that I saw on my
room. And after a minute I just realize that paintings helps
me to relieve my sadness, it gives me hope and lights to
wake me up on problems that I encountered. Though I am
not good enough in painting but I love the way they gave me
an opportunity to express my feelings and makes me happy
everyday.
3. If an artwork ceased to have function, will it remain an
art? Why?
Answer: For me it’s yes as long as it has value to a person
or to the community then it will still remain an art , it will not
be changed. Aside from that, art should be appreciated to
their beauty emotional power not their functions.
4. Does art have function? Why? support your answer by
giving your own example.
Answer: Yes, like for example when art serves as therapy for
both the artist and the viewer then that is serving as the
personal function of art.
5. Name an example of an artwork and speculate on the
content of the artwork based on its factual, conventional
and subjective meanings.
Answer: Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. In this artwork,
the artist creates harmony in the elements of art to explicity
and the meaning. It is fully express in the artwork to the
audience. The artist puts encryptions or coded visual
elements into the message of the artwork. The message of
the artwork could have different interpretations, which
depends on who is analyzing it or in other words, it depends
on who’s looking at the artwork
6. Differentiate art from nature.
Answer: Art is a product of man’s creativity, imagination
and expression whereas nature it is given around us.

7. Differentiate the functional from non functional art.


Answer: Functional art serves a purpose other than being
aesthetically pleasing while nonfunctional art seeks to
engage with the viewer on an intellectual, emotional and
aesthetical.

8. Categorize works of arts by citing personal experiences.


Answer: Way back in Senior High School , there are
different clubs in school like Filipino club, English club, Glee
club, mathscie club, arts and photography. There so many
clubs but as a fan of capturing different things so I joined in
the club, arts and photography where I am free to captured
everything . It was very fun and interesting moment. The
assigned teacher in that club told us that the most
important things is that we need to captured the best photo
that catch the attention of the viewers so that they can
relate it. So I realized that every picture must be appreciated
because it is made by an artist with all their heart.
9&10. Look at the painting by artist David Baily entitled
"Selbstbildnis mit Vanitassymbolen" Self portrait with
Vanitas Symbols) list down everything that you see within
the four corners of the work. list as many items as you can,
Based on your answer, write an assumption about what
painting means from the said artist.
Answer: I see a wooden stick, unused palette, letter,
extinguished candle, bubbles, withered flowers, skull, hourglass,
pearls, book and gold coins. Based on the painting of David Bailly
entitled "Selbstbildnis mit Vanitassymbolen", we assume that the
meaning of it is the desire of temporary material things on earth
which no one will be able to bring in the afterlife. It was depicted
through pearl necklaces and gold next to the skull and withered
flowers which may imply the inevitability of death. There is also a
shadow of a girl behind the tall glass who is assumed to be
Bailly’s deceased wife. Overall, this painting shows us the
transience or shortness of life, the useless and temporary
happiness provided by material thing and the certainty death.

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