ART 1 Flashcards
is meant to
stimulate thought
because it allows
viewers to draw their
own emotions and pull
from their personal
experiences when
viewed.
ART
is derived from a Latin term ARS, which means skill, talent, or ability.
ART
is derived from the Latin word humanus and Humanitas,
which means refined or cultured human.
HUMANITIES
(PHRALLM)
philosophy, history, religion, art,
literature, language and music.
is the mother of all inventions
CREATIVITY
Assumption about arts:
Art has been created by all people at all times,
Art involves experience.
Art is not nature; nature is not art.
Art is cultural.
Art is a form of creation.
Art is subjective.
Nature of Art
Art is a diverse range of human activities
Art represents reality.
Art is an expression
Art serves as means of communication of emotions
Three Functions of Art
The Personal Fun/ction/
The Social Function/
The Physical Function
It can help someone express themselves, explore their emotions, manage addictions,
and improve their self-esteem.
The Personal Fun/ction/
It seeks or tends to influence
the collective behavior of a people.
Example: Bayanihan
Influences Social Behavior
It is created
to be seen or used primarily in public
situation like fiestas, parade, etc.
Display and Celebration.
Works of art that are
created to perform some service
The Physical Function
Visual Arts include the following:
Fine arts.
Contemporary Arts
Decorative Arts and Crafts
Other work of arts
refers to an art
from practiced mainly for its
aesthetic value and its beauty
rather than its functional value.
Fine arts.
a number of modern art
forms, such as: assemblage, collage,
mixed-media, conceptual art,
installation, happenings and
performance art, along with film-
based disciplines such as
photography, video art and
animation, or any combination
thereof.
Contemporary Arts
Two Types of Art Subject
Representational or Objective.
Non-representational or Non-objective.
Represents
objects or events in the real world, usually
looking easily recognizable.
Representational or Objective.
These are those arts without any
reference to anything outside itself
(without representation).
Non-representational or Non-objective.
Sources of art subjects
Nature
2. History
3. Greek and Roman mythology
4. The Judaeo Christian Tradition
5. Other works of art
Kinds of Subject
- Still Life
- Seascapes, Landscapes and Cityscapes.
- Animals
- Portraits
- Figures
- Everyday life
- History and legends
- Religion and Mythology
- Dreams and Fantasies
ancestors created
cave paintings to depict their daily lives and rituals.
Pre-Historic
are also known as “parietal art.”
They are painted drawings on the earliest form of art
can be traced back to prehistoric times when our
Cave Painting
is created to depict their daily
lives and rituals.
Cave Painting
The oldest known cave painting is
red hand stencil
was characterized by its use of religious symbolism, flat and stylized figures, and
bright colours.
Medieval Art
was characterized by a renewed
interest in classical art and culture, as well as a
focus on humanism, individualism, and
secularism.
Renaissance
was the ultimate “Renaissance
man” for the breadth of his intellect, interest and
talent and his expression of humanist and classical
values.
Leonardo da Vinci
(derived from
the Italian word ‘maiera’ meaning style or
stylishness)
“Mannerism”
is known for its “anti-
classical”, or anti-Rennaisance style, which
then developed into High Mannerism.
“Mannerism”
was characterized by its dramatic
and emotional style, as well as its use of ornate
decoration and illusionistic techniques.
Baroque Art
The term Baroque probably ultimately derived
from the Italian word
“barocco”,
is characterize by soft colors and
curvy lines, and depicts sense of love, nature,
amorous encounters, light-hearted,
entertainment, and youth.
Rococo
was characterized by a return
to the classical traditions of Ancient Greece and
Rome and was marked by its simplicity, clarity,
and rationality.
Neoclassical Art
artists sought to revive the ideals
of the classical world, emphasizing order,
reason, and the pursuit of knowledge.
Neoclassical Art
was characterized by a focus on emotion, imagination, and
individualism, as well as a rejection of classical traditions and the Enlightenment.
Romanticism
Romantic Art Emphasized
Natural
the Supernatural
the sublime.
was characterized by its focus on capturing the fleeting impressions
of light and colour in the natural world and was marked by its loose brushwork and
vivid, luminous colours.
Impressionism
can also be seen as being at the forefront of modernism, in that it
developed new and often abstract means to express psychological truth and the idea
that behind the physical world lay a spiritual reality.
Symbolism
Symbolist Theory and Albert Aurier
- Idéiste (Ideative)
- Symbolist
- Synthetic
- Subjective
Decorative
is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was
employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design,
posters, and illustration.
Art Nouveau
The two greatest graphic artists of the Art
Nouveau
lithographer Jules Cheret
Alphonse Mucha
a radical use
of unnatural colors that separated color from its
usual representational and realistic role, giving new,
emotional meaning to the colors; creating a strong
unified work that appears flat on the canvas;
Fauvism
is an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective
reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events
arouse within a person.
Expressionism
A German painter who was against the Expressionist movement.
Max Beckman
A Dutch painter who had great influence on the expressionist movement
in Germany.
James Ensor
An Austrian artist whose artwork was displayed in the German
magazine ‘The Storm’ when expressionism became a true art movement.
Oskar Kokoschka
A leading member of the expressionist group ‘The Blue Rider’ in
Germany, he also painted some abstract art.
August Macke
A founding member of ‘The Blue Rider’ group,
Franz Marc
A Symbolist and Expressionist, _______ is best known for his famous
painting ‘The Scream.’
Edvard Munch
An early adopter of Expressionism,
Egon Schiele
emphasized the flat, two-
dimensional surface of the picture plane,
rejecting the traditional techniques of
perspectives, foreshortening, modeling, and
chiaroscuro, and refuting time-honored theories
that art should imitate nature.
Cubism
an early 20th
-century artistic movement centered in Italy, emphasized the
dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and
restlessness of modern life.
Futurism
Influenced by other avant garde movements-Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and
Expressionism-its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry,
photography, sculpture, painting, and collage.
Dadaism
is defined as Psychic automatism in its pure
state by which we propose to express – verbally, in
writing, or any other manner – the real process of
thought.
Surrealism
is known as the “Pope
of Surrealism”.
Andre Breton,
It is a from manifesto that the name ‘______’
was derived; one of the directives that it contained
was “ to construct” art.
Constructivism
common is repetition, or
creating multiple images of the same shape, especially simple geometric shape
forms like lines and squares.
Minimalism
is all about “ideas and meanings’ rather than “works of art”
(paintings, sculptures, other precious objects).
Conceptual Art
painters created highly illusionistic images that referred no to nature
but to the reproduced image.
Photo-Realism
is the term for works, room-sized or larger, in which the whole space
is considered a single unified artwork.
Installation Art
painting spread to almost all genres, including history painting,
portraits, genre painting, and landscapes.
Realism
