Unit 2: Optional theme — Aesthetics
Topic 2.2: The artist and the artistic process Questions
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Fill the gap: The Romantic view says an artist is _____ with a rare creative gift, while the artworld view says an artist is whoever the art world _____ as one.
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The Romantic 'genius' view says an artist is:
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True or false? A single artwork can be both a mirror (reflecting a society) and a hammer (changing it) at once.
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Fill the gap: The two worries about AI art are the _____ worry (is it art if a machine made it?) and the _____ worry (who is the author?).
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The 'lone genius' picture of the process is challenged by the fact that:
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The 'mirror or hammer' question asks whether art:
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Why might 'the artist' be a Western invention?
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Why does making seem to need BOTH imagination and craft?
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The strongest answer to 'what is an artist?' does what?
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On the artworld (institutional) view, you become an artist when:
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As each new tool removes something art seemed to need, art survives by relocating to:
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The reply to 'the camera just records, it makes no real choices' is:
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A top-band Section B essay on the artist and society:
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'Outsider art' challenges the artworld view because it is:
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Fill the gap: Making joins _____ — the leap to something new — with _____ — the trained skill to turn it into a real, finished thing.
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True or false? Even 'spontaneous' art usually rests on years of practice that make the spontaneity possible.
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What actually happened to painting after the camera arrived?
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True or false? AI art is often called 'the camera panic returned', but sharper — because the human has stepped further back from the work.
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