Lesson 6: Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions Flashcards
This serves as the foundation of the creation of the artwork of art. It is the most obvious aspect of an artwork. The literal visible image in a work.
Subject
What is the subject?
This serves as the foundation of the creation of the artwork of art. It is the most obvious aspect of an artwork. The literal visible image in a work.
This includes the connotative symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.
Content
What is Content?
This includes the connotative symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.
What are the two types of Visual Art?
Representational/Figurative Art and Non-representational/Non-objective Art.
It aims to represent actual object or subjects from reality. They are artworks which are based on images and can be found in the objective world, or atleast in the artists’ imaginations.
Representational/Figurative Art
What is Representational/Figurative Art?
It aims to represent actual object or subjects from reality. They are artworks which are based on images and can be found in the objective world, or atleast in the artists’ imaginations.
Essentially the artwork does not represent or depict a person, place, or thing in the natural world. Usually, the content of the work is its color shapes, brushstrokes, size and in some cases, it process.
Non-representational/Non-objective Art
What is Non-representational/Non-objective Art?
Essentially the artwork does not represent or depict a person, place, or thing in the natural world. Usually, the content of the work is its color shapes, brushstrokes, size and in some cases, it process.
What are the four ways of representing subject matter in visual art?
History, Religion, Mythological and Nature
It is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style. These paintings depict a moment in history rather than a stationary subject such as a portrait.
History
This is any artwork that has a Christian or Biblical theme, illustrates the worship of any god, deity, artwork which Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Cao Dai or traditional Chinese religion, or artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual.
Religion
This is an artform that draws on myth for their subject matter.
Mythological
What are the five types under Nature?
Landscape, Cityscape, Seascape, Flora, Fauna
This is a painting, drawing, or photograph which covers the depiction of outdoor or natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers and forest.
Landscape
This is a painting, drawing, of photograph with urban scenery of the urban environment as its primary focus.
Cityscape
This is a photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea as its primary subject.
Seascape
What does Flora mean?
A word of latin origin, referring to the goddess of flower.
This is a painting , drawing, or photograph which flowers as its primary focus.
Flora
What does Fauna mean?
Fauna is also of Latin origin. In Roman Mythology, Fauna was the sister of Faunus, a good spirit of the forest and plains.
This is characterized by its emphasis on animal imagery as its primary subject matter.
Fauna
This is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of subjects from everyday life, usually small in scale.
Genre
This is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
Portrait
This is mainly a tradition in Western art and been used to express ideals of male and female subject beauty and other human qualities.
Nude
This is one of the principal genres of subject types of Western Art.
Still Life
This feasted on the unconscious. They believed that Freud’s theories on dreams, ego, superego, and the id opened doors to the authentic self and the truer reality (the surreal).
Surrealistic
This refers to the direct and practical usefulness of the arts.
Function
This refers to the materials which are used by an artist to create works of art to interpret his feelings or thoughts.
Medium
This is the manner in which the artist controls the medium to achieve the desired effect.
Technique
In this type of artwork, such as drawing and painting, artist use media such as crayons, paints, pastels and pencils.
Two-dimensional media
In this type of artwork, artist use media, like clay and plastic, to make solid forms that have height, width and depth.
Three-dimensional media
Artist constantly seek out new media, leading to many new forms of art, such as photography, film, video and computer art.
Technological Art
This can be described as timed movement through space; an easy, connected path along which the eye follows a regular arrangement of motifs. The presence of this creates predictability and order in a composition.
Rhythm
This can be created in a number of ways.
Visual Rhythm
This refers to the characteristic flow of the individual line.
Linear Rhythm
This is also referred to as a point of focus, or interruption. It marks the location in the composition which most strongly draw the viewers’ attention.
Emphasis
This is the underlying principle that summarizes all of the principles and elements of design. It refers to the coherence of the whole, the sense that all the parts are working together to achieve a common result; a harmony of all the parts.
Unity
This is the condition or quality which gives a feeling of rest, repose, equilibrium, or stability.
Balance
Can be described as having equal “weight” on equal sides of a centrally placed fulcrum.
Symmetrical Balance/Formal Balance
This is more complex and difficult to envisage. It involves placement of object in a way that will allow objects of varying visual weight to balance one another around a fulcrum point.
Assymetrical Balance/Informal Balance
This is the principle which shows the pleasing relationship between a whole and its parts and between that parts themselves.
Proportion
What are the basic six visual plans used in art?
Radial Plan, Pyramid Plan, Rectangular or Columnar Plan, Paralle or Bisected Plan, Mixed Plan, Breakaway Plan
This has its major lines radiating from a center point. Or you could say that all major line “point to” a single place on the canvas.
Radial Plan
This has main elements that form a triangle (with the point at the top).
Pyramid Plan
This has a main object that forms an upright or vertical rectangle or column. Most architectural forms-building-use this plan in some way.
Rectangular or Columnar Plan
This has two sides that are parallel to each other, almost as if the basic lines were drawn on one side in wet ink, and then the sides were folded over to impress the same ink on the right side.
Paralle or Bisected Plan
This has two or more of the above plans used to create its basic form.
Mixed Plan
This has elements that break away from, or disobey, the other plans. It has become popular especially in the most recent century.
Breakaway Plan
This is a characteristic or a number of characteristic that we can identify as constant, recurring or coherent.
Style
What are the three types of style?
The artist’s personal style, the national style, and the style of the period.
