ARTT150 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE KEY TERMS Being simply that which is relationship to truth is reality Existence that which is in time and space ex poetry has its own being but a poem exists Contemplation the act of uniting with time and space to reach pure being through the reality of things of time and space Form that which makes the thing the thing that it is NOT about the shape of something Skill necessary for production but should not take over the intellectual nature of art Truth is so obscure and difficult to access and has so little to do with the right KEY QUESTIONS Why is there a secret life to the intellect What is it brain In explicable nature of being a human being Why is it so easy to resist what we are talking about Resistance is likely a scenario that is in existence in which we must use our intuition to understand the inexplicable Its intuitively understood because it is inexplicable What do we need in order to understand bear reality We need humor and forgiveness We use hints and glimpses to experience reality What is the relationship between art and culture Art creates culture culture maintains art Why is all art flawed Why are all men seen to be in bondage Lack of wisdom Why do all things tend towards mediocrity We chose the familiar and accepted over the obscure LISTS 3 Intellectual Virtues Wisdom Prudence both the intellect and the will Art most intellectual virtue 4 Components of the Mind Intellect art is concerned with Will art is not concerned with virtues of the will moral virtues ex love Memory Imagination Levels of consciousness Conscious Pre conscious Intuition resides on the pre conscious level and is a characteristic of the intellect 3 things we use to escape the unfamiliar Sub conscious Unconscious Resistance Distraction Inertia 2 orders of the intellect Speculative knows truth Practical puts knowing into operation Greeks Divide Art into Corporal of the body statue painting Liberal outside the body music no physical form but still exists STATEMENTS separated by the will itself Prudence and art are united by the practical order of the intellect but Habits are permanent acquired conditions that perfect a thing in the line of Virtues are habits raised to optimum efficiency and perfection Art and other inexplicable things which are formed and known by intuition are formed without speech and exist on the right side of the brain In everyday life the words intellect and understanding are connected to speech