Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Arts and Humanities

Entry and Exit Control of Museum Objects

Entry: entry and exit control of museum objects implies that a number is assigned and then reflected in the record book. Normally, there are not many outlets for works in museums. A museum can output a piece if it has degraded, been sold, or requires restoration.

Inventory and Documentation of Collections

Inventory: a more or less complete list of all or part of the collections. Most museums do not have all of their works cataloged. The inventory is part of the overall documentation of the museum. This documentation requires a few steps: registration number data in the log book and documentary records relating to each piece.

Cataloging and Data Management

Catalog: management of all or part of the data for... Continue reading "Museum Documentation and Collection Management Systems" »

Theory of Culture and Television

Stages: Fiction television viewers watch a world that differs substantially from the real world. Heavy TV consumers live in a world dominated by television, making the experience a displacement of reality. That is, they are influenced in their perception of social reality by television content. Social representations from the world of television are not absorbed selectively.

Parsons' View on Media Influence

Parsons places the media between what he calls the subsystems of culture, education, and religion. For him, media primarily carry out an integrative function. This function integrates subsystems and various sub-collectivities into a complex social system, achieved through the mechanism of influence. Influence... Continue reading "Media Influence: Culture, Gatekeeping, and Agenda-Setting" »

Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright's Organic Architecture

Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date: 1939

Fallingwater (also known as the Kaufmann House) is probably Wright's best-known work. Its iconic image has often been used to represent the aesthetic and artistic virtues of the Modern Movement. Nothing could be further, however, from the intentions of the American master.

The Kaufmann House was conceived as a conscious rejection of both the recent formulation of the International Style and rationalism. It stands as the symbol par excellence of organic architecture.

Wright used the house not merely to integrate with nature, but as an architectural device to declare its own unique, almost unnatural, presence. While there is an engagement with the environment,... Continue reading "Architectural Icons and Fauvist Art: Wright, Gehry, and Matisse" »

Understanding Narrative Characters

By character, we mean any entity that voluntarily or accidentally takes actions that advance the plot. This entity is not necessarily a person, animal, or even an object; it can simply be anything that moves the narrative from an initial situation to a new one.

Types of Characters

• Protagonist: The central figure driving the action.
• Antagonist: The character who opposes the protagonist.
• Supporting Characters: Characters who accompany or assist the protagonist and antagonist, contributing to the story.

Characterization Methods

• Description: The author uses physical and psychological descriptions to portray the character, allowing us to visualize them.
• Actions: What the character does at every moment, their behavior,

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa: A 17th-Century Masterpiece by Bernini

Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome (1647-1652)

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, a marble sculpture group considered to be Gian Lorenzo Bernini's masterpiece, is located in the Cornaro Chapel within the Roman church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Commissioned by the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Federico Cornaro, the chapel was intended as his final resting place. The scene depicted in the sculpture is based on Saint Teresa of Ávila's own description of her mystical experience, later included in her canonization.

Bernini masterfully integrates architecture, sculpture, and painting to create a theatrical experience. The work is a perfect example of Baroque art's aim to... Continue reading "Bernini's Masterpiece: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in Rome" »

Expressionism: Germany (1905-1920)

Expressionism emerged in Germany, spanning from 1905 to 1920. This movement prioritized the artist's inner experience over objective reality.

Immediate Influences

• Vincent van Gogh: Arbitrary use of color to express strong emotions.
• Edvard Munch: Depicting themes such as fear, desperation, and sexuality.
• James Ensor: Use of masked and cartoony characters to represent social hypocrisy.

Key Characteristics

• Representing reality according to subjective feelings.
• Using the external world to portray the inner world.
• Rejection of traditional artistic conventions and naturalistic representation.
• Colors and shapes are intensified to enhance emotional impact.
• Emphasis on the intention behind gestures, expressions, and postures.

Genre Characteristics of Theatre: Drama and Comedy

The term Drama refers to literary works designed to represent an action to an audience through dialogue involving several characters. It derives from the Greek word drao, meaning "to make" or "to enforce."

Essential Elements of Drama

• Action: A series of scenic events produced based on the characters' behavior and the resulting psychological or moral modifications.
• Characters: The individuals who carry out the dramatic action through dialogue.
• Dramatic Tension (or Situation): The viewer's reaction to an imminent event within the work. Playwrights often accumulate elements of dramatic action, culminating in the final scenes of each act.
• Atmosphere: The particular mood or environment involving the characters

Narrative Speech: Key Elements

Narrative speech is a form of discourse in which an issuer (narrator) tells about events related to characters, which occur in a temporal process and a determined space.

Linguistic Features

• Abundance of verbal forms.
• Abundance of temporal subordinate clauses.
• In connection with the syntax, we must bear in mind that the more compound sentences and complex syntactic constructions there are, the more it will slow down the narrative. The author plays with this to get the narrative effect that they are pursuing.

Specifications

Point of View

The point of view is the combination of the grammatical person from which the story is told and the attitude of the narrator with respect to the facts.

The main variations that can be found... Continue reading "Narrative Speech: Types, Features, and Styles" »

Vocabulary

• Wren: A small, brown bird.
• Thrush: A brown bird with strong wings and a powerful beak.
• Blackbird: A bird with dark plumage, a yellow beak, and a pleasant, domesticable song.
• Attached: Committed to a job or a place.
• A weakness: A minor, age-related ailment.
• Cherub: An angel close to God.
• Bohemian: An artist living an informal and loosely organized life.

Argumentative Texts in Media

The main purpose of the media is to inform, but sometimes media outlets interpret information and seek to influence the opinion of their audience.

Types of Argumentative Texts Used in Media:

• An editorial is a journalistic text that expresses the ideology of a media outlet on a given topic. It is unsigned.
• A chronicle is a type of journalistic text (newspaper, television,