METHODS OF PRESENTING ART Flashcards
______ is a way of presenting a subject the way it looks in everyday life, the
way as seen by the naked eye.
The artist tries to approximate on canvas or in any
medium how something or someone ________ appears without any addition,
embellishment or interpretation by the artist. If a tree is colored brown, the artist
colors it brown. If a flower is red, the artist colors it as red. If someone is beautiful or
ugly, he is drawn as such. This method is sometimes disturbing or offending for if
something looks or sounds gory, gross or shocking, it is depicted also as such.
Generally it portrays the ________ about people, life or
situations, whether good or bad, pleasant or harsh, ugly or beautiful. It favors the
portrayal of actual life in real settings, no matter how disturbing or offending, and
tries to send out socio-political or moral messages of the harsh realities of living a life
under industrialism and capitalism. In the visual arts, the subject is presented in “true-
to-life” manner; in theater, people are presented as impotent or struggling subjects
who are burdened in a troubled world; in literature, characters have flaws in an
imperfect life where the author injects commentaries about social, political or
religious issues. It also avoids the use of exaggerated heroes in favor of ordinary
people.
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Realism
authentically
objective truth
The word ________ means to “move away” or “to separate from”. It is a way of
moving away from reality or separating oneself from the objective truth; it is the
opposite of realism or the objective representation of art. the artist
does not present his subject the way it is found in the actual setting. The artist uses his
ideas to reflect things or images in a ____________. He depicts his
subject the way he thinks or feels about it; he tries to represent his subject (either
visually or verbally) in a manner that eliminates some measure of physical details
and retains, in his mind, only the essential characteristics. It is subjective, highly
personal, opinionated, and extra-challenging for it constantly asks the viewer to
discover its meaning
abstract
highly personal interpretation.
the artist bends, twists or misshapes the image
to achieve an unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the subject’s
body producing visible deformity. What appears is a subject, misshapen or twisted,
totally unlike as it appears in reality.
distortion
In this method, the artist uses geometrical shapes to represent his
subjects. The subjects are presented as a series of cubes, cones, or spherical shapes
which can be seen from different angles or viewpoints all together at the same time.
Cubism
Spanish painter _________ is often credited as the first Abstract artist who
co-developed with Georges Braque the Cubist method between 1908 and 1912
Pablo Picasso
This is a method used by the artist when he intentionally lengthens or
elongates the figure of his subject to achieve a desired effect. This method shows a
subject or a part of the subject as irregularly proportional to other parts of the subject
like the very long neck of the Madonna or the unusual length of the child and the long
arms of David as seen in the pictures below.
Elongation.
This is an uncommon way used by the artist to present his subject. He
achieves the effect by cutting, chopping, mutilating, lacerating, or hacking the
image.
Mangling
_________ is a movement of painting which began in New York
City that tried to declare its independence from European styles. The movement comprised many styles but shared several
characteristics. The works were usually abstract (i.e., they depicted forms not found
in the natural world); they emphasized freedom of emotional expression, technique,
and execution; they displayed a single unified, undifferentiated field, network, or
other image in unstructured space; and the canvases were large, to enhance the visual
effect and project monumentality and power.”
In this method, the act of painting becomes an art itself as the process of
painting becomes a drama of its own. The artist becomes the star as he unleashes his
ideas on canvas, showing the glorification of the act of painting as a means of visual
communication. This method is also called __________
Abstract expressionism
“action painting”.
_______ is the artist’s way of presenting his idea or feeling using a
representation or sign to stand for something other than itself
An artist uses these signs
to stand for things which he wants to be represented, and these are oftentimes
universally understood because of conventional usage, connection or general
relationship.
in literature can be achieved by representing the story’s theme on
a physical level.
is a short-lived art movement which began in Switzerland in 1916
and ended in 1922.
It got its name from the French word dada which means “hobby
horse”.
Dadaism
