Lesson 6: Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Subject

Question 2

What is the subject?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

This includes the connotative symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.

Answer 3

Content

Question 4

What is Content?

Answer 4

This includes the connotative symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.

Question 5

What are the two types of Visual Art?

Answer 5

Representational/Figurative Art and Non-representational/Non-objective Art.

Question 6

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.

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Representational/Figurative Art

Question 7

What is Representational/Figurative Art?

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Non-representational/Non-objective Art

Question 9

What is Non-representational/Non-objective Art?

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

What are the four ways of representing subject matter in visual art?

Answer 10

History, Religion, Mythological and Nature

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

History

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Religion

Question 13

This is an artform that draws on myth for their subject matter.

Answer 13

Mythological

Question 14

What are the five types under Nature?

Answer 14

Landscape, Cityscape, Seascape, Flora, Fauna

Question 15

This is a painting, drawing, or photograph which covers the depiction of outdoor or natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers and forest.

Answer 15

Landscape

Question 16

This is a painting, drawing, of photograph with urban scenery of the urban environment as its primary focus.

Answer 16

Cityscape

Question 17

This is a photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea as its primary subject.

Answer 17

Seascape

Question 18

What does Flora mean?

Answer 18

A word of latin origin, referring to the goddess of flower.

Question 19

This is a painting , drawing, or photograph which flowers as its primary focus.

Answer 19

Flora

Question 20

What does Fauna mean?

Answer 20

Fauna is also of Latin origin. In Roman Mythology, Fauna was the sister of Faunus, a good spirit of the forest and plains.

Question 21

This is characterized by its emphasis on animal imagery as its primary subject matter.

Answer 21

Fauna

Question 22

This is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of subjects from everyday life, usually small in scale.

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Genre

Question 23

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.

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Portrait

Question 24

This is mainly a tradition in Western art and been used to express ideals of male and female subject beauty and other human qualities.

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Nude

Question 25

This is one of the principal genres of subject types of Western Art.

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Still Life

Question 26

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).

Answer 26

Surrealistic

Question 27

This refers to the direct and practical usefulness of the arts.

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Function

Question 28

This refers to the materials which are used by an artist to create works of art to interpret his feelings or thoughts.

Answer 28

Medium

Question 29

This is the manner in which the artist controls the medium to achieve the desired effect.

Answer 29

Technique

Question 30

In this type of artwork, such as drawing and painting, artist use media such as crayons, paints, pastels and pencils.

Answer 30

Two-dimensional media

Question 31

In this type of artwork, artist use media, like clay and plastic, to make solid forms that have height, width and depth.

Answer 31

Three-dimensional media

Question 32

Artist constantly seek out new media, leading to many new forms of art, such as photography, film, video and computer art.

Answer 32

Technological Art

Question 33

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.

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Rhythm

Question 34

This can be created in a number of ways.

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Visual Rhythm

Question 35

This refers to the characteristic flow of the individual line.

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Linear Rhythm

Question 36

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.

Answer 36

Emphasis

Question 37

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.

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Unity

Question 38

This is the condition or quality which gives a feeling of rest, repose, equilibrium, or stability.

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Balance

Question 39

Can be described as having equal “weight” on equal sides of a centrally placed fulcrum.

Answer 39

Symmetrical Balance/Formal Balance

Question 40

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.

Answer 40

Assymetrical Balance/Informal Balance

Question 41

This is the principle which shows the pleasing relationship between a whole and its parts and between that parts themselves.

Answer 41

Proportion

Question 42

What are the basic six visual plans used in art?

Answer 42

Radial Plan, Pyramid Plan, Rectangular or Columnar Plan, Paralle or Bisected Plan, Mixed Plan, Breakaway Plan

Question 43

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.

Answer 43

Radial Plan

Question 44

This has main elements that form a triangle (with the point at the top).

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Pyramid Plan

Question 45

This has a main object that forms an upright or vertical rectangle or column. Most architectural forms-building-use this plan in some way.

Answer 45

Rectangular or Columnar Plan

Question 46

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.

Answer 46

Paralle or Bisected Plan

Question 47

This has two or more of the above plans used to create its basic form.

Answer 47

Mixed Plan

Question 48

This has elements that break away from, or disobey, the other plans. It has become popular especially in the most recent century.

Answer 48

Breakaway Plan

Question 49

This is a characteristic or a number of characteristic that we can identify as constant, recurring or coherent.

Answer 49

Style

Question 50

What are the three types of style?

Answer 50

The artist’s personal style, the national style, and the style of the period.