SUBJECT AND CONTENT ▪ Joint landscape

▪ Sunset - Fernando Amorsolo

SUBJECT (father of Philippine realism)
- refers to the objects, person, situation or event ▪ Galerie stephanie, cities of the
depicted by the artist past - arturo luz (cityscape)
- answers the q's "what is the artwork all about" B. Still Life
• Inanimate objects arranged in an indoor
CONTENT setting
- what the artist expresses "what is the meaning" ▪ Fish - Vicente Manansala
- refers to what the artist expresses or ▪ Dessert - Picasso
communicates on the whole of his work ▪ Of trees and flowers - Ang
- Content is the meaning Kiukok
- It reveals the artist’s attitude toward his subject ▪ Straw covered vase - Cezanne
C. Animals
• Factual meaning - literal statement/narrative • Ancient times: animal paintings on the
content (people, situation, objects) directly walls of the caves
apprehended. Factual - conventional meaning • Some painters show the grace and vigor
and subjective meaning of animals in action
Planting Rice - Fernando Amorsolo: farmers, • Artists-William Blake → wrote about
volcano, coconut trees, rice field the meekness of the lamb and the
• Conventional meaning - special meaning (what power of the tiger
represents) for particular culture or group. ▪ The Tyger - William blake
Conveyed or not. • D.H. Lawrence → wrote a poem entitled
Planting rice - Fernando Amorsolo: farmers “Snake”
work together (bayanihan), characteristics ▪ Carabao (romeo tabuena,
of being hardworking napoleon abueva)
• Subjective meaning - personal meaning ▪ Sarimanok – maranaws
consciously or unconsciously conveyed by the proudest prestige symbol
artist (based on the interpretation/explanation ▪ Dove – representation of the
of the artist). We need to look into the Holy Spirit
background of an artist/artwork. ▪ Peacock – immortality through
Christ
D. Portraits
THE SUBJECT OF ART • Human face - as an index of the owner's
chaaracter
Subject • Realistic likeness of a person in a
Refers to any person, object, scene or event sculpture, painting, drawing, or print
described or represented in a work of art • Portrait vs. self-portrait
Some have subject others do not ▪ The marriage of jan arnolfini -
Seen clearly - representational or objective arts jan van eyck
Not visible - non-representational or non- ▪ The Curse (portrait of a lady) -
objective juan luna
▪ The Palay Maiden - fernando
Subject in art amorsolo
A. Landscapes, cloudscape, cityscapes, seascapes E. Figures
• Physical environment • Body's form, structure, flexibility offer
• Natural outdoor scenery (mountains, the artist a big challenge to depict it in a
rivers, forests, etc.) challenging way
• Modern painters are more attracted to • Human body, nude, clothed
city scenes (Ex. Vicente Manansala, ▪ Birth of venus - sandro botticelli
Arturo Luz, Mauro Malang Santos) ▪ The nude maja - francisco goya
▪ Mt. fuji – Yoshida Hiroshi

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 ▪ Grande odalisque - jean • Shows departure from what is present in life
auguste ingres (faceless humans)
▪ Olympia - edouard manet • Methods: distortion, mangling, elongation,
▪ Up oblation cubism, abstract expressionism
F. Everyday Life • Composition VII - Wassily Kadinsky
• Observations of people going about DISTORTION
their usual ways to forming their usual • Misshaped form
tasks • Ati-atihan - pacita abad
• Rice treasures, cock fighters, candle • The Scream - Edvard munch
vendors, street musicians, children at MANGLING
play (genre paintings) • Cut, lacerated, mutilated, or hacked with
▪ Pulling in the Net - carlos repeated blows
fransisco • Portrait of Hanuman - pacita abad
▪ Planting rice – Fernando • Sanchez
Amorsolo • Jao
▪ Women feeding chcken – Anita ELONGATION
Magsaysay-Ho • Elongated form
G. History and Legend • The Resurrection of Christ - El Grecco
• Verifiable facts • Bagong Taon - Arturo Luz
• Legends of unverifiable ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
• Ancient past • Origin: New York City
• Juan luna • presenting the subject with the use of strong
▪ Blood compact - juan luna colors, uneven brush strokes and rough texture
▪ Urduja • with deliberate lack of refinement in applying
▪ Malakas at maganda the paint
H. Religious and Mythology • Abstract Mural - Jose Joya
• Religion used the art to aid in worship, • Autumn - Jackson Pollock
to instruct to inspire feelings of SURREALISM
devotion, to impress and • Beyond realism
convert non-believers • Unconscious mind
▪ The Last Supper - Leonardo da • Inanimate characteristics
Vinci • Fantastic imagery produced by unnatural
I. Dreams and Fantasies combinations
• it is usually vague and illogical • Dreams and fantasy
• depicts grotesque terrors with • Persistence of memory
apprehensions that lurk in the depths of SYMBOLISM
the sub-conscious • Symbolically, represent something
• Subject may distinguish but the message/idea is
WAYS OF REPRESENTING SUBJECT not visible
• The Blind Man's Meal - Pablo Picasso
REALISM • Mother's Revenge - dr. jose rizal
• A method of presenting subjects as they appear • 19th Century Philippines
in real life ▪ Mother dog: Patriots
• Creation of Adam - Michaelangelo ▪ Crocodile: Spaniards
Buonarroti ▪ Puppy: our helpless
• St. Catherine of Alexandria countrymen
• Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci FAUVISM
• Under the Mango Tree - Fernando • Optimistic realism
Amorsolo • Bright colors suggesting comfort, joy, and
ABSTRACTIONISM pleasure
• Drawing away from realism • Style or movement thick pigment
• Abstract - to draw away • Brightness of the colors

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 • Portrait of Madame Matisse - Henry Art history - information about the artist and the time
Matisse period in which the work was created
DADAISM • Description
• Shocking realism • Analysis
• Protest movement against traditional painting • Interpretation
and sculpture • Judgment
• Shock the audience through the exposition of Important to know the background of an
the evils in society artist/art - subjective meaning,
• Dadaist artist tries to start outrage to challenge
faith and dependence to an established Art production - making of something or to a final
institution product, heart of making art
• Marcel Duchamp - was best known Dadaist in
history Art criticism - viewers respond, interpret, make critical
• Nude with black stockings (1910) judgments about specific works of art. It usually
• Water of Life - pacita abad involves the effort to understand a particular work of
EXPRESSIONISM art from a theoretical perspective and to establish its
• Emotional realism significance in the history of art.
• Intense colors, agitated brush strokes, violently
imagery Parisian Life of Juan Luna
• Dark brushstrokes, light balance
• The guitarist - pablo picasso
IMPRESSIONISM
• Based on the artist's impression
• Representing the reallife subject with emphasis
on the impression left in the artist's minds
• Impression, Sunrise - Claude monet
FUTURISTIC
• Relates in the future; subject that relates to the
future
• Star Wars, Time Machine, Terminator
• Success in technology and anything that relates
to the importance of modernization

• Flying mystery
• Simultaneous vision

DIVISION OF ART
Objectives:
• How art is divided
• Critiquing a work of art

Art appreciation/aesthetics - concerned with judging

the physical beauty of artworks

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 Analysis - discovering relationships among the parts by
attending to design principles with the composition

Interpretation - discovering meaning within the work by

focusing on the content and expressive qualities

Judgment - Evaluating quality by assessing the work on

specific criteria and ranking within the context of like
works.

GLENOE'S ART FOCUS GUIDE TO CRITIQUING A WORK

OF ART

FELDMAN'S ART CRITICISM PROCESS

Description - Viewing a work of art and taking a visual

inventory of its part, noting what is immediately visible.

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 DRAWING

Drawing - is a means of making an image, using any of a

wide variety of tools and techniques. Generally involves
making marks on a surface by applying pressure from a
tool, or moving a tool across a surface.

Materials in Drawing
Conté - composed of compressed powdered graphite or
charcoal mixed with a wax or clay base, square in cross-
section
Crayon - stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other
materials used for writing, coloring, and drawing
Fixative - (preserving an artwork) liquid, similar to
varnish, which is usually sprayed over a finished piece of
artwork to better preserve
Chalk - (think of a canvas/paper/surface wherein chalk
is appropriate to use) is a soft white porous
sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of
calci
Charcoal - (use throughout the drawing) is the dark
ROLE OF ART MANAGER, CURATOR, BUYERS, AND
grey residue consisting of impure carbon
COLLECTORS
Graphite - (shading) is one of the allotropes of carbon
Ink - (one color throughout, but if combined dapat
Objectives:
appropriate color) is a liquid that contains pigments
- To know the roles and functions of art manager,
and/or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an
curator, buyer, collector, and dealer.
image, text, or design.
- Provide information on how art is divided.
Marker pen - pen which has its own ink source, and
- Teach the process or guide to critiquing a Work
usually a tip made of a porous, pressed fibres: such as
of Art.
felt or nylon
Pastel - (when and how to use) in the form of stick
Art Manager - runs the daily business operations of an
consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder
art institution. Applies business administration
Watercolor
techniques and processes to the art world.
Paper - common canvas in drawing. Pressing together
Art Curator - responsible for the museum's collection,
most fibres, cellulose pup derived from wood
selecting art to be displayed, organizing art exhibitions
Pencilis - writing implement or art medium usually
in galleries or public spaces, researching artists, and
constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a
producing the written material.
protective casing. The case prevents the core from
breaking, and also from marking the user’s hand during
Art Buyer - finds and purchase artwork to suit the
use.
distinguish taste of their clients.
Sketchbook - used by artists for drawing (compile)
Art Dealer - holds artwork as inventory and regularly sell
Different Types of Drawing
the art to his/her clients.
Anatomical Drawing
Architectural Drawing - technical drawing of building
Art Collector - a collector is someone who has a keen
(or building a project), by architects
eye and buys art for keepsake.

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 PAINTING
• Among the fine arts which creates meaningful
effects, depicting different intrinsic human
values, by the use of clustered imagination of
lines and color.
• Placed on a flat surface by the use of pigments,
express the artist's perceptions and feelings on
a particular selected subject
• Some artists may love country scenes, like
landscape, the chores in the countryside, faces,
figures and forms; others like to do these in
their natural form, and still others in their
distorted forms.

Elements of Painting
Subject - what is the work of art about?
Distance – There are three distances to look for in a
Cartoon - preparatory drawing for a apiece of art painting.
Caricature - portrait that exaggerates or distorts the • Foreground - part of the painting closest to the
essence of a person or thing to create an easily viewer
identifiable visual likeness. • Middle ground - part between the foreground
Technical Drawing - "drafting", academic discipline of • Background - part which is the farthest away
creating standardized The Martyrdom of Carlos "Botong"
Fransisco
Foreground: Rizal
Middle ground: Yung mga babaril kay
Rizal
Background: Priests, spanish officials
Color - convey feelings and moods within their painting.
They can create a cheerful mood by placing bright
colors next to each other. Create calm or gentle mood
by placing soft colors.
Warm: reds, oranges, yellow
Cool: Blues, greens, and violets
Lines - diagonal, curved, vertical, and horizontal to
express ideas and feelings in their paintings
Horizontal lines - feelings or repose because
objects parallel to earth are at rest.
Engineering Drawing - technical drawing discipline, and
Vertical lines - height because they are
used fully and clearly define requirements for
perpendicular.
engineered items.
Diagonal Lines - movement, action, and life.
Figure Drawing - human body in its various shapes and
Curved Lines - turmoil, violence.
positions. "Life drawing" is the process of drawing the
o Spoliarium
human figure from observation of a live model.
▪ Nakatayo (horizontal): victory
Botanical Drawing - flowers
▪ Humihila (diagonal): action
Portrait - photo, painting, sculpture, artistic
▪ Nakaupo (horizontal):
representation of a person, in which the face and its
▪ Red and black: death and chaos
expression is predominant
Shapes - express ideas.
Silhouette - outline and a featureless interior, with the
➢ Geometric shapes are what most people think
silhouetted object usually being black.
of as shapes.

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 ➢ Circles, squares, triangles, diamonds are made The Madonna and the Child
up of regular patterns that are easily The Last Judgement - Michelangelo
recognizable. Impression Sunrise - Monet
o Prayer Before Meals by Vicente The Old Guitarist - Pablo Picasso
Manansala Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali
▪ May shadow, light, geometric
shapes
Form - overall design of a work of art. There is a plan, an
arrangement of parts, with one place given special
attention as the center of interest.
• The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci
o Arranged the subjects in one place
using table, symmetrical
o There's a center of interest
Texture - way an object feels to the touch; rough or
smooth, bumpy or slippery
• Strategy they use to convey texture: brush
stroke, medium
▪ Sunny Seascape by Justine
Gaffrey - rough
▪ Yacht Approaching - smooth
Medium
Material used by artists in creating a work of art
What is the artwork made of?

• Acrylic Paint - fast drying paint containing

pigment suspension in acrylic polymer
emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with
water, but become water-resistant when dry.
• Ink - liquid that contains pigments and/or dyes
and is used to color a surface to produce an
image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing
and/or writing with a pen, brush, or quill.
• Oil Paint - slow-drying paint consists of particles
of pigment suspended in drying oil, commonly
linseed oil. Have been used in Europe since the
12th century.
• Sumi - used for writing with a writing brush,
particularly calligraphy, a style called sumi in
Japan.
• Tempera - egg tempera, permanent fast drying
painting medium consisting of a colored
pigment mized with a water-soluble binder
medium
• Watercolor - medium or the resulting artwork,
paints are made of pigments suspended

Famous Paintings in the World

Ajanta Murals - Made by the painters under Vakataka
Kings in India
The Starry Night - Van Gogh
The Last Supper, Mona Lisa
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