LT Flashcards
kind of arts which are part of any culture, skills and knowledge of a group or generation of people. - it reflects the art forms of previous generations, their lifestyle, thoughts and belief
Traditional Art
a statement that an artist makes about life, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and many other things that define human life. (Ramirez, 2016)
Contemporary Art
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Characteristic of contemporary art
- Contemporary work is everywhere 2. Many artworks are posted online 3. Many contemporary artists are self-taught 4. Contemporary artists combine various materials 5. Originality is not an issue 6. Process of art-making is more important rather than selling it 7. Contemporary artworks are created to show reactions and comments on political and social issues
term used for what ever is represented in the art work - The main theme of the artwork * It may be a human form where figures are engaged in an activity, or a combination of text and color. * It may be a figure made from found objects put together or assembled into coherent whole
Subject -
“Subject matter is
s BOUNDLESS”
In some cases, visual art is combined with performance art to make a statement or express an idea about an issue. - Theater performances are no longer confined to the theater stage
Interactive Art-Making
refers to distinguishing characteristics of an artwork - this is a way of an artist on how he or she creates art in a different wa
Style
artistic creation or manipulation of space such as landscape or architectural design - Earthworks, or art using stones, leaves, trees, grass, or other natural elements
Environmental Art -
painting style in which an artist applies paint in a manner that expresses emotions and feelings - may be in heavy in lines and color
Abstract Expressionism
Stripped down, pre-fabricated look, free of details and often flat surface but expresses a specific content or statement
Minimalism
Sculpture, moves with the wind, or is powered by a machine or electricity - depends on movement for its effect - coined by artists NAUM GABO and his brother ANTOINE PEVSNER.
Kinetic Art
Kinetic Art coined by artists
AUM GABO and his brother ANTOINE PEVSNER.
Emerge from concerns about female artists expressed through art
Feminist Art
art form that uses body as the medium or main material - can be painted or clothed and used to perform artistic art in public
Body Art
uses line or images repeatedly to create an illusion - abstract and usually created in black and white colors - they give the viewer impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping
Optical Illusion
Is a drawing, inscription or sketch done hastily on a wall or other surface made to be seen by the public
Combines a variety of media and the human body to execute an artistic theatrical expression before was a live audience
carried modern styles to extreme practices, often expressing an idea through mixture of materials such as found objects welded together
Post-Modern Art
images that are recorded through a video and viewed through television, computer, or projection.
Video Art
Four styles: (based on STYLISTIC TENDENCIES)
- The style of Objective Accuracy
- The style of Formal Order
- The style of Emotion
- The style of Fantasy
- they discover a variety of possibilities of achieving form and visual effects - involves both logical and irrational mental process- - Illusionism is used in contemporary art to create fantastic images or substitute del objects for the illusionistic treatment of reality - Minimal craftsmanship is requires but planning where to put, what to achieve the creative design depends on the imagination of the artist.
The style of Fantasy
Themes of emotion, feeling, romance, are common features in painting
The style of Emotion
contemporary art is associated with stability and performance a
The style of Formal Order
The style of Formal Order (3)
a. Intellectual Order - b. Biomorphic Order
c. Aesthetic Order
visible in cubism here an intellectual method of analyzing forms is employed by the painter
Intellectual Order
Atechnique used by the artist where the artwork seems to have been made by a reporter who is observing a SUBJECT, or a photography using a candid camera.
The artist as Detached observer
Artist’s Role in detached observer
To select, arrange, present REALITY with our presenting his/her Identity.
known as “Illusion of Reality” created by eliminating the details the eye might see. (To make the artwork simple yet significant)
The Artist as Selective Eye
Artist’s role in selective eye
suppress the detail without loosing its essential traits.
DEVICES FOR OBJECTIVE ACCURACY :
powerful instrument to express emotions and feelings
Color
DEVICES FOR OBJECTIVE ACCURACY : sharpen or softness, distinctiveness or Vagueness
Focus
DEVICES FOR OBJECTIVE ACCURACY; pictorial device that relates to the artist’s ability to create the illusion of deep space within the painting.
Perspective
DEVICES FOR OBJECTIVE ACCURACY : accuracy of size and shape relationships
Correct Drawing
DEVICES FOR OBJECTIVE ACCURACY : helps the artist to create realistic images , the amount of light an object receives, the shapes of its shadow, the transition from light to shadow
Control and Handling Illuminations
1930’s = rubbing or friction - In 1925 Max Ernst invented Frottage later he experimented with Grattage
Frottage
Scraping or troweling of pigment from a canvas
Grattage -
materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing - french= Gluing - 1912 = Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist) although french painter Georges Braque produced his first collages at about the same time
Collage
transferring designs from prepared paper onto glass or porcelain - Mid 19th Century, french ‘decalcomanie’ - decalquer = transfer a tracing
Decalcomania
1960’s = cut out - existed notably in China, Japan and Poland
Decoupage
process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole - french monster = “mount
Montage
stuffed technique” from Italian term “to quilt”
Trapunto
Three Elements that Constitute Description of Contemporary Ar
Subject Matter
Material
Art Elements and Principles
what you see that is depicted in the artwork
- can be human form or a combination of lecture and color
- figure made from found objects put together or assembled into a coherent whole
Subject Matter
What are the materials or objects used by the artist
- Do these materials bring the intended effect of the artist
Material
What are the dominant elements in the artwork
- How are these used in the artwork
- How are line, shape, or volume used within the artistic frame
- What are the unifying features in the artistic composition
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Art Elements and Principles
world-class brass sculptor of the social realist genre - 2006 TOYM Awardee - Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines Diliman
Michael Cacnio
Both claims, “the starting point for all systems of aesthetic must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion”.
CLIVE BELL AND ROGER FRY
is an essence
art
Belle claims that ——— is produced by significant form.
aesthetic emotion
is the quality that makes a thing a work of art
Significant forms
g refers to the process of applying color on
a flat surface.
painting
A method of interpreting and analyzing such things as
language, literature, and society which focuses on
constructing ideas or elements of structure to show how
they relate to the whole
structuralism
- a branch of philosophy that deals with
the nature, beauty and value of art objects and
experiences.
aesthetic
To reach the judgment of art, the
viewers should rise above time, place, and personal
biases
Physic Distance
A movement in art that rejected traditional values and
techniques and emphasizes the importance of
individual experience
- modernist attempt to pure in their use of medium and
believe in the possibility of universal communication
Modernism
Post-modernist believe that ORIGINALITY has
something to do with raising an issue rather than
inventing a new image
POST-MODERNISM
APPROPRIATING or BORROWING
POST-MODERNISM
Post-modernist believe that ORIGINALITY has
something to do with raising an issue rather than
inventing a new image
- Late approach in art (20th century) which typically
mixes styles ideas, and references to modern society
often in ironic way
- Alright to copy masterpieces and exhibit is as their own
POST-MODERNISM
