Subject Matter Flashcards
It refers t what an artwork is all about and answers the question, what is it?
Subject Matter
It concretizes subject matter just as it provides a system of classification.
Visual Art Form
It is an extreme form of figurative art in which are almost photographic.
Magic Realism
Andrew Wyeth’s neighbor, in his painting “Christina’s World”, who suffered from a debilitating genetic illness that weakened her muscles.
Anna Christina Olsen
It is what is depicted and immediately be related to nature and objects outside the art work.
Figurative
It refers to an art that does not represent actual or natural objects or realities.
Nonfigurative
2 extreme examples of Nonfigurative
- Abstract Expressionism
2. Nonfigurative Abstraction
Painter of No.1 (Royal Red and Blue) in 1954.
Mark Rothko
Barnett Newman’s straight line on a monochrome field using a contrasting color.
Zip
Latin word and meaning for Abstract
ab, from
tahere, draw out
A painting by National Artist, Jose Joya, which is a work in tones of yellow and orange with swabs of grays, whites, blacks, and tones of blue and blue green.
Granadean Arabesque (1958)
It refers to a specific choice and configuration of the elements of visual arts in composition, which is used to express the work’s subject matter.
Style
It preferred the curved line, like curls and volutes, over the straight lines.
Baroque Style
It is spare and minimalist, relying less on ornament than on the shape of things.
Japanese Style
It is applied to works that show a scene, usually from nature and rural pastoral, and idyllic places.
Landscape
A British Artist that focuses on city views or cityscape depict stream-powered trains and are not rural.
J.M. William Turner
A Renaissance painter from Venice that painted busy canals that opened to the Adriatic Sea.
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
A Filipino artist that specialized in painting boats, sailing ships, and the docks of Muelle de la Industria along Pasig River.
Alfredo Carmelo
It refers to work whose subject matter are natural objects and whose forms are arranged deliberately.
Still life
Italian word and meaning for Still life
Natura Morta, dead nature
Collective works that suggested by tiny black wormholes in the fruit which means “reminder of death” in Latin.
Memento Mori
He was known for his still life of apples.
Paul Cezanne
It refers to a painting of the human figure.
Portrait
The large-scale portraits of Emperor Nero stood beside the Roman amphitheater.
Colosseum
A tantalizing giant foot of marble of an unknown figure is found in a side street of Rome.
Pie di Marmo
A statue of the Greek sun god, Helios, that straddled the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes.
Colossus of Rhodes
It is one of the bread-and-butter works of artists whom patrons commission to do their portraits.
Portraiture
It refers to a works whose subject matter is everyday life, usually showing rural scenes of planting, harvesting, feasting, and celebrating.
Genre
Spanish word for Genre
Bodegon
He is known for his bodegones painted with great attention to detail.
Diego Velasquez
It blends with genre with history in the form of myth of Icarus.
Landscape and the Fall of Icarus (1588)
A National Artist known for his genre paintings.
Fernando Amorsolo
A painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze that shows George Washington at the head of a flotilla of river boats being paddled by the American troops crossing the Delaware River.
“Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851)
What date did the revolutionaries crossed the Delaware river?
December 25, 1776
A painting by Carlos “Botong” Francisco, it is a ten-panel mural depicting the history of Manila and Philippines.
“Filipino Struggles Through History” (1964)
A painter of paintings displayed in the UST’s main lobby building that depicts its history.
Antonio Garcia Llamas
These were depictions of Greco-Roman gods who stood for ideals like love, desire, or violence.
Allegorical or Symbolic Scenes
A painting by Sandro Botticelli that shows recumbent beautiful Venus beside a near naked sleeping Mars.
Venus and Mars (1485)
It is the art in the service of religion.
Religious Imagery
These are arts pertaining to tapestry and all types of weaving, furniture-making, goldsmithing, etc.
Minor Art Forms
It is a town in Samar Island, that uses a technique of supplementary weaving to make mats with colorful geometric and floral patterns.
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