Subject Matter

Question 1

It refers t what an artwork is all about and answers the question, what is it?

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Subject Matter

Question 2

It concretizes subject matter just as it provides a system of classification.

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Visual Art Form

Question 3

It is an extreme form of figurative art in which are almost photographic.

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Magic Realism

Question 4

Andrew Wyeth’s neighbor, in his painting “Christina’s World”, who suffered from a debilitating genetic illness that weakened her muscles.

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Anna Christina Olsen

Question 5

It is what is depicted and immediately be related to nature and objects outside the art work.

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Figurative

Question 6

It refers to an art that does not represent actual or natural objects or realities.

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Nonfigurative

Question 7

2 extreme examples of Nonfigurative

Answer 7

1. Abstract Expressionism

2. Nonfigurative Abstraction

Question 8

Painter of No.1 (Royal Red and Blue) in 1954.

Answer 8

Mark Rothko

Question 9

Barnett Newman’s straight line on a monochrome field using a contrasting color.

Answer 9

Zip

Question 10

Latin word and meaning for Abstract

Answer 10

ab, from

tahere, draw out

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Granadean Arabesque (1958)

Question 12

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.

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Style

Question 13

It preferred the curved line, like curls and volutes, over the straight lines.

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Baroque Style

Question 14

It is spare and minimalist, relying less on ornament than on the shape of things.

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Japanese Style

Question 15

It is applied to works that show a scene, usually from nature and rural pastoral, and idyllic places.

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Landscape

Question 16

A British Artist that focuses on city views or cityscape depict stream-powered trains and are not rural.

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J.M. William Turner

Question 17

A Renaissance painter from Venice that painted busy canals that opened to the Adriatic Sea.

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Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Question 18

A Filipino artist that specialized in painting boats, sailing ships, and the docks of Muelle de la Industria along Pasig River.

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Alfredo Carmelo

Question 19

It refers to work whose subject matter are natural objects and whose forms are arranged deliberately.

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Still life

Question 20

Italian word and meaning for Still life

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Natura Morta, dead nature

Question 21

Collective works that suggested by tiny black wormholes in the fruit which means “reminder of death” in Latin.

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Memento Mori

Question 22

He was known for his still life of apples.

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Paul Cezanne

Question 23

It refers to a painting of the human figure.

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Portrait

Question 24

The large-scale portraits of Emperor Nero stood beside the Roman amphitheater.

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Colosseum

Question 25

A tantalizing giant foot of marble of an unknown figure is found in a side street of Rome.

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Pie di Marmo

Question 26

A statue of the Greek sun god, Helios, that straddled the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes.

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Colossus of Rhodes

Question 27

It is one of the bread-and-butter works of artists whom patrons commission to do their portraits.

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Portraiture

Question 28

It refers to a works whose subject matter is everyday life, usually showing rural scenes of planting, harvesting, feasting, and celebrating.

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Genre

Question 29

Spanish word for Genre

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Bodegon

Question 30

He is known for his bodegones painted with great attention to detail.

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Diego Velasquez

Question 31

It blends with genre with history in the form of myth of Icarus.

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Landscape and the Fall of Icarus (1588)

Question 32

A National Artist known for his genre paintings.

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Fernando Amorsolo

Question 33

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.

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“Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851)

Question 34

What date did the revolutionaries crossed the Delaware river?

Answer 34

December 25, 1776

Question 35

A painting by Carlos “Botong” Francisco, it is a ten-panel mural depicting the history of Manila and Philippines.

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“Filipino Struggles Through History” (1964)

Question 36

A painter of paintings displayed in the UST’s main lobby building that depicts its history.

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Antonio Garcia Llamas

Question 37

These were depictions of Greco-Roman gods who stood for ideals like love, desire, or violence.

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Allegorical or Symbolic Scenes

Question 38

A painting by Sandro Botticelli that shows recumbent beautiful Venus beside a near naked sleeping Mars.

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Venus and Mars (1485)

Question 39

It is the art in the service of religion.

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Religious Imagery

Question 40

These are arts pertaining to tapestry and all types of weaving, furniture-making, goldsmithing, etc.

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Minor Art Forms

Question 41

It is a town in Samar Island, that uses a technique of supplementary weaving to make mats with colorful geometric and floral patterns.

Answer 41

Basey