SUBJECT AND CONTENT OF ART Flashcards
This is usually anything is represented in the artwork. It may be a person, object, scene, or event.
Subject of Art
This type of artwork depict something that can easily recognized which is real and part of this world.
Representational or Objective Arts
This type of subject have no resemblance to any real subject or objects or anything from nature. It does not represent anything in this world.
Non-Representational or Non-Objective Arts
This type of subject indicates departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be slight, partial, or complete.
Abstract
This kind of subject representing inanimate objects or non-living things placed on a table or another setting to become a subject in a certain artwork.
Still Life
This kind of subject depicts pictures of land forms (e.g. the volcano, the mountain, the hill, the valley, the plain and many more).
Landscape
This kind of subject is a focused view or interpretation of specific natural elements.
Nature
This kind of subject became popular before the invention of the camera; was enjoyed only by elite, kings, and nobles; and nowadays, charcoal is one of the mediums used in doing portraits.
Portraiture
This content of art is the most rudimentary level of meaning. Extracted from the identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork.
Factual Meaning
This content of art pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, and symbols. Established through time, strengthened by recurrent use and wide acceptance by its audience who study them.
Conventional Meaning
This content of art is a particular work of art that is read and consulted. Meanings that came from the viewers or audience’s experiences and circumstances. Meanings may not be singular, rather, there are multiple and varied.
Subjective Meaning
This method of presenting the subject of art is the attempt to portray the subject as is. The artist selects, changes, and arranges details to express the idea he wants to make clear.
The artist’s main function is to describe accurately what is observed through the senses.
Realism
This method of presenting the subject of art was founded in Paris in 1924 by French poet Andre Breton.
It came from the slang of super realism.
It tries to reveal a new and higher reality than that of daily life. They claim to create a magical world more beautiful than the real one through art.
Surrealism
This method of presenting the subject of art emphasizes the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro, and refuting time-honored theories that art should imitate nature.
Cubism
This method of presenting the subject of art is a 19th century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities etc.
Impressionism
This method of presenting the subject of art is an art movement that began in post-WW II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and modernism.
Minimalism
This method of presenting the subject of art consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society.
Instead, they express non-sense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works.
Dadaism or Dada
This method of presenting the subject of art was a late 19th century movement whose artist communicate ideas through symbols instead of bluntly depicting reality.
It was created as a reaction to art movements that depicted the natural world realistically.
Artists expressed emotions, thoughts, and fantasies instead of depicting their immediate reality.
Symbolism
This method of presenting the subject of art is the total opposite of realism. In this art, the artist does not show the subject at all as an objectively reality, but only his idea, or his feeling about it.
It is all about what the artists feel and what mood they might want to portray.
This is all shapes, no real-life images, scenery, or objects.
Abstract or Abstraction
Abstract is derived from the Latin “abstractus” and the Latin past participle “abstrahere” which means?
“withdrawn or separated from material objects or practical matters”
“abstractus” - drawn away
“abstrahere” (ab/s - away) (trahere - draw)
This form of abstraction is clearly manifested when the subject is in misshapen condition or twisted out.
Distortion
This form of abstraction refers to that which is being lengthened, a protraction or an extension.
Elongation
This form of abstraction is when the artist show subject or objects which are cut, lacerated, mutilated, torn, hacked, or disfigured.
Mangling
This form of abstraction is a modern art movement that flowered in America after the WWII and held away until the dawn of Pop Art in the 1960’s.
New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world.
+ the artists applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gesturally, non-geometrically, sometimes, applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it into the canvas.
Abstract Expressionism
