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GArt Prelim Exams (Unit 1-3) > Unit 3: Kinds/Sources of Subject, Methods of Presenting Art Subject, & Forms of Abstraction > Flashcards

Unit 3: Kinds/Sources of Subject, Methods of Presenting Art Subject, & Forms of Abstraction Flashcards

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  • any person, object, scene or event described or represented in a work of art
  • main character, object, or anything else that is presented as the main focus in the work of art
  • can appear in the center of the piece, or in any other part of it, but it is always the most recognizable thing in the entire work of art
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Subject

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General Types of Subject in Art

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Representational Art and Non-representational Art

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  • also known as figurative art
  • represents objects or events in the real world, usually looking easily recognizable
  • clearly derived from real object sources
  • representing something with strong visual references to the real world
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Representational Art

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  • does not depict anything from the real world; may simply depict shapes, colors, lines
  • may also express things that are not visible– emotions or feelings
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Non-representational Art

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Subject is categorized into:

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Representational Abstraction and Non-representational Abstraction

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  • departure from reality in the depiction of imagery in art
  • exists along a continuum
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Abstraction

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  • do not depict real representation of the artists’ faces even though they are recognizable
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Representational Abstraction

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  • no direct resemblance to a face, a head, or really any literal subject matter
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Non-representational Abstraction

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Kinds/Sources of Subjects

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  1. Still Life
  2. Animals
  3. Portraits/Portraitures
  4. Figures
  5. Everyday Life
  6. History and Legend
  7. Religion and Mythology
  8. Dreams and Fantsy
  9. Landscapes
  10. Sacred
  11. Visionary
  12. Cityscape
  13. Wildlife
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  • groups of inanimate objects arranged in an indoor setting
  • arrangement is like that to show particular human interests and activities
  • focus is on the exciting arrangement and combinations of the object’s shapes and colors
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Still Life

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  • represented by artists from almost every age and place
  • earliest known paintings are seen on the walls of caves
  • used as symbols in conventional religious art
  • examples:
    ~ carabao has been a favorite subject of Filipino artists
    ~ Maranaws have sarimanok as their proudest prestige symbol
    ~ dove stands for the Holy Spirit in representations of the Trinity
    ~ fish and lamb are symbols of Christ
    ~ phoenix is the symbol of Resurrection
    ~ peacock is the symbol of Immortality through Christ
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Animals

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  • people have always been intrigued by the human face as an index of the owner’s character
  • it is capable of showing a variety of moods and feelings
  • a realistic likeness of a person in sculpture, painting, drawing or print, but it needs to be a photographic likeness
  • a product of a selective process, the artist highlighting certain features and de-emphasizing
    others
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Portraits/Portraitures

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  • traditionally been the human body, nude or clothed
  • body’s form, structure and flexibility offer the artist a big challenge to depict it in a variety of ways
    – grace and ideal proportions of the human form were captured in religious sculpture by the ancient Greeks & to them physical beauty was the symbol of moral and spiritual perfection; thus
    they portrayed their gods and goddesses as possessing perfect human shapes
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Figures

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  • recorded in paintings their observation of people going about their usual ways and performing their usual tasks
  • Genre Paintings – representations of rice threshers, cockfighters, candle vendors, street musicians and children at play
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Everyday Life

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  • consists of verifiable facts, legends of unverifiable ones
  • ancient past is concerned
  • examples: Malakas and Maganda & Mariang Makiling
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History and Legend

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  • used the arts to aid in worship, to instruct, to inspire feelings of devotion and to impress and convert nonbelievers
    – tell the stories about Christ and the saints in pictures, usually in mosaics, murals and stained glass windows in churches
  • resorted to the presentation of tableaux and plays to preach and teach.
  • examples:
    ~ “Birth of Venus Tempera” on canvas by Italian artist Sandro Boticell
    ~ ancient Egyptians portrayed their gods as part human and part animal
    ~ ancient features African tribes distorted their god’s features
    ~ Hindus, Shiva is shown as a four-armed god
    ~ Buddha, is symbolized by his footprints, a flower wheel or a lotus
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Religion and Mythology

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  • usually vague and illogical
  • depict as the grotesque terrors and apprehensions that lurk in the depths of the subconscious
  • may be lifelike situation
  • we would not know if an artwork is based on a this unless the artist explicitly mentions it
  • picture suggests the strange, the irrational and the absurd
  • no limits can be imposed
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Dreams and Fantasy

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  • natural scenery such as mountains, cliffs, rivers
  • art’s continuous expansion in terms of genre and kinds, other types of subject have been recognized
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Landscapes

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  • scenes and images found in the bible
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Sacred

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  • involves simplification and/or rearrangement of natural objects to meet the needs of artistic expression
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Visionary

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  • images found in the city such as buildings, transportation, and other structures
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Cityscape

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  • scenes and images depicting animals and their ways of life
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Wildlife

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Methods of Presenting Art Subject

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  1. Realism
  2. Abstraction
  3. Symbolism
  4. Fauvism
  5. Dadaism
  6. Futurism
  7. Surrealism
  8. Impressionism
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  • things are depicted in the way they would normally appear
  • what the eyes can see, what the ear can hear, what the sense faculty may receive
  • example: painting of Zeuxis, 5th century painter
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Realism

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  • process of simplifying and/or reorganizing objects and elements according to the demands of the artistic expression
  • artist does not show the subject at all as an objective reality, but only his idea, or his feeling about it
  • all about what the artists feel and what mood they might want to portray
  • all shapes, no real-life images, scenery, or objects
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Abstraction

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  • concentrate or intensify meaning, making the work of art more subjective and conventional
  • examples: a flag, a lion, a lamb to represent meekness, logos and emblems of business firms, the coat of arms of bishops, the dome, the tower, the stairway, the portal, and the colonnade
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Symbolism

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  • derived from the French “les fauves,” which means “the wild beasts”
  • an artistic movement of the last part of the 19th century which emphasized spontaneity and use of extremely bright colors
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Fauvism

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  • “nonsensical”
  • a reaction to what people believed were outworn traditions in art, and the evils they saw in society
  • to shock and provoke the public with outrageous pieces of writing, poetry recitals and art exhibitions
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Dadaism

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  • modernist movement celebrating the technological, future era
  • car, plane, industrial town were representing the motion in modern life and the technological triumph of man over nature
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Futurism

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  • offshoot or a child of dada
  • also known as “super realism,” which revolves on the method of making ordinary things look extraordinary
  • focuses on real things found in the imagination or fantasy or it has realistic subjects that are found in the unconscious mind; depicting dreamlike images of the inner mind
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Surrealism

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  • referred to as optical realism due to its interest in the actual viewing experience
  • focused on directly describing the visual sensations derived from nature
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Impressionism

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Forms of Abstraction

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  1. Distortion
  2. Elongation
  3. Mangling
  4. Cubism
  5. Abstract Expressionism
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  • when the subject is in misshapen condition, or the regular shape is twisted out
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Distortion

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  • being lengthened, a protraction, or an extension
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Elongation

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  • not commonly used way of presenting an abstract subject
  • cut, lacerated, mutilated, torn, hacked, or disfigured
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Mangling

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  • combinations of basic geometric shapes
  • showing multiple viewpoints (sometimes)
  • looking like pieces of fractured glass
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Cubism

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  • artists apply paint rapidly and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions
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Abstract Expressionism

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