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
This element of art is a mark between two points.
This indicates direction, orientation, movement, and energy.
It is considered as the oldest, simplest, universal element.
Line
This element of art is an enclosed area or surface.
It can be easily identified because when a line crosses itself or intersects with other lines to enclose a space it creates a ____.
Shape
This element of art describes the structure of shape and object from the different perspective.
It is considered three-dimensional showing height, width, and depth.
Form
This element of art is the surface or the area within the artwork.
It constitutes the area or distance, between, around, above, or within things.
Space
This element of art can be considered as the most expressive of all the elements of art.
It can be easily recognize in any visual experience.
Color
This element of art consists of Hue, Values, and Intensity.
Properties of Color
This property of color is the name of a color and the property which distinguishes one color from another.
Hue
This property of color is the lightness or darkness of a hue (color).
Value
This property of color is the brightness or dullness of a hue (color).
Intensity.
This element of art consists of Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, and Intermediate Colors.
Classification of Colors
This classification of color are hues which can be mixed to create all other colors (like yellow, red, and blue).
Primary Colors
This classification of color are a combination of equal amount of two primaries (such as orange, violet, and green).
Secondary Colors
This classification of color are created by mixing a secondary color with a primary color (such as red-orange, red-violet etc).
Intermediate Colors
This element of art can be associated with warmth and coldness in which the artist considers in any composition.
Warm and Cool Colors
List down the colors that are considered warm.
Red, Orange, and Yellow
List down the colors that are considered cool.
Green, Blue, and Violet
This element of art, in color theory, is the choice of colors.
It is used to create style and appeal. This uses two colors that look appealing together.
Color Scheme
This color scheme are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
Complementary Color Schem
This color scheme uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Analogous Color Scheme
This color scheme uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.
Triadic Color Scheme
This color scheme uses a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement.
Spilt-Complementary Color Scheme
This color scheme uses four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.
Rectangle or Tetradic Color Scheme
This color scheme is similar to the rectangle or tetradic, but with all four colors spaced evenly around the color circle.
Square Color Scheme
This element of art can suggest emotional and dramatic impression by using lightness and darkness in a composition.
Value
Value is referred to “Chairoscuro” which means?
Lightness and Darkest
Italian word “chiaro” means “clear” and “oscoro” means “dark”.
This element of art is found in all visual arts. It deals primarily with the sense of touch or the tactile sensation or stimuli.
It is how the surface in a certain composition feels.
Texture (Real and Implied)
This principle of art is the focal point or the center of interest in an artwork.
Emphasis or Subordination
This principle of art has something to do with visual weight.
Artist deliberately uses other elements of art to create visual weight and balance,
Balance
This type of balance is the most stable among the kinds of balance. This balance happen when one side of the composition mirrors the other.
Symmetrical Balance or Formal Balance
This type of balance is achieved when one side of the composition does not reflect the design of the other but visually balanced.
Asymmetrical Balance or Informal Balance
This type of balance is when elements and objects have a central point.
Radial Balance
This principle of art is essential to beauty. It is achieved by using similar elements and establishing pleasing relationship with other elements through a body of work.
Harmony
This principle of art creates an interest and appeal in a body of work.
Using differences and change may result to increasing visual interest.
Variety
This principle of art adds excitement to your work by showing action and directing the viewer’s eye throughout the picture plane.
Movement
This principle of art is a regular repetition of elements can produce implied movement.
Artists creates this by repeating art elements and creating patterns.
Rhythm
This principle of art is the comparative relationship of one part to another with regards to size.
It is also the relationship of the size of objects in a body of work.
Proportion or Scale
This principle of art can be accomplished by using all elements and some principles to create a pleasing image.
It is the feeling that everything in the work of art works together and looks like it fits.
Unity
This principle of art can provide interest and excitement in an artwork or to any visual experience.
Contrast
List down the Types of Subject in Art.
Representational or Objective Arts
Non-Representational or Non-Objective Arts
Abstract
List down the Kinds of Subject in Art.
Still Life
Landscape
Nature
Portraiture
These are the Contents of Art
Factual Meaning
Conventional Meaning
Subjective Meaning
These are the Methods of Presenting the Subject of Art
Realism
Surrealism
Cubism
Impressionism
Minimalism
Dadaism or Dada
Symbolism
Abstract or Abstraction
These are the Forms of Abstraction
Distortion
Elongation
Mangling
Abstract Expressionism
These are the Elements of Arts
Line
Shape
Form
Space
Color
Properties of Colors
Classification of Color
Warm and Cool Colors
Color Scheme
Value
Texture
These are the Properties of Color
Hue
Value
Intensity
These are the Classification of Color
Primary Colors
Secondary Colors
Intermediate Colors
These are the Kinds of Color Scheme
Complementary Color Scheme
Analogous Color Scheme
Triadic Color Scheme
Split-Complementary Color Scheme
Rectangle or Tetradic Color Scheme
Square Color Scheme
These are the Principles of Arts
Emphasis
Balance
Harmony
Variety
Movement
Rhythm
Proportion or Scale
Unity
Contrast
These are the Kinds of Balance
Symmetrical Balance or Formal Balance
Asymmetrical Balance or Informal Balance
Radial Balance
Example/s of Representational or Objective Arts
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
Boy Leading a Horse by Pablo Picasso
Palay Maiden by Fernando Amorsolo
Example/s of Non-Representational or Non-Objective Arts
Serendipity by Jovita F. Punzalan
Example/s of Abstract Arts
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Example/s of Still Life Subject
Art by Luis J. Castro
Art by Jovita F. Punzalan
Example/s of Landscape Subject
Old Baliuag by Jose D. Castro
Example/s of Nature Subject
Arts by Jovita F. Punzalan
Example/s of Portraiture Subject
Nena Castro by Jose D. Castro
