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• The work challenged traditional Christian religiosity and spirituality, and received strong criticism from conservative groups, but had enlivened the discourse of art from the academic, the religious and the popular sectors of the society.
• Art and History: Evolution of Styles is a lecture prepared by Dr. Allan Corate, University of the East College of Arts and Sciences - Manila, Department of Humanities and Philosophy.
• Art styles are a certain way by which artists create their works, making each unique from others.
• Some artworks may belong to the same group with similar styles because they share common subjects, genres, forms, principles or ideologies.
• Art styles are determined by various factors including time and place of development, individual artist's personality, design and technique of production, and prevailing theories of art.
• The study of art relates to the field of History.
• The historical development of styles or movements in Western Art can be surveyed.
• Artworks and artists who were major proponents of art styles can be identified.
• The various styles of art can be compared and contrasted.
• The history of Western art can be shown by means of a timeline.
• A timeline for Philippine art history can be created.
• A historical approach to Art Appreciation can be formulated.
• Styles of Western Classical Art answer the question “What is the mood or temper of the artwork.”
• Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) in Great Salt Lake Utah, and Nils-Udo’s Nest (1978) are notable examples of environmental art.
• Yoko Ono, the wife of John Lennon, is a famous performance artist.
• Postmodern art cannot be rigidly classified because they tend to fused with one another.
• Conceptual Art, beginning in the 1950s, is a style of postmodern art that originates from the controversy brought by Duchamp’s Urinal (1917), which has created a new concept of art.
• Employing computer technologies, New Media Art has virtual existence, and is perceived through LCD screens, monitors or projectors.
• Postmodern art is the breaking down of the established principles of classical and modern art.
• Performance Art, beginning in the 1960s, is a conceptual art which involves the body of the artist exhibited in public, and performing action meant to produce reactions from the spectators who become part of the art process.
• Art is not the object, but the idea which the object conveys to people; it makes them think, and affects their lives.
• In Cut Pieces (1964), while sitting on the stage, Yoko Ono invited the audience to cut parts of her dress, conveying notions about gender exploitation and abuse of power.
• Postmodern art is based on institutional theory (artworld), which features deconstruction of conventional practices, merging of various art forms, ephemeral art, eclectic style, mixed media constructions, use of pre-existing objects, and collaboration between the artwork and the spectator.
• Installation Art, beginning in the 1960s, is a three-dimensional, mixed media constructions in a site for a specific time meant to transform the perception of space, and to impart ideas.
• Damien Hirst conveys the concept of death in his work Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), which consisted of a stuffed tiger shark floating in formaldehyde inside a glass box.
• The Wrapped Reichstag (1995) by Christo and Jean-Claude Javacheff was the Reichstag Building in Berlin which had been covered entirely with white nylon fabric for 14 days, symbolizing the reunification of Germany.
• The Artist’s Shit (1961) by Piero Manzoni consisted of 90 tin cans containing what he claimed to be his own feces.
• New Media Art, which flourished in the 1990s, originated from the invention of camera and television in the early 20th century, and is a general term which now refers to multi-media art, digital art, cyber art, internet art, virtual art, computer animation and 3D printing.
• Environmental Art, also called “ecological art,” “natural work” and “earthwork,” is a temporal construction of natural things found in lands or bodies of water; it uses the natural site for exhibition.
• Styles may also be called “movement” or “school”, and are determined by various factors including time and place of development, individual artist's personality, design and technique of production, and prevailing theories of art.
• Prehistoric Art is comprised of cave paintings from 35,000 BCE.
• Beginning 3,500 BCE, there was the flourishing of Oriental and other Non-Western Art consisting of the arts of ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Aztec and Mayan; included also are the Chinese, Indian, Persian and Islamic arts.
• Western Art of the Europeans and Americans began in about 1,000 BCE.
• Romantic Realism, a major painting style during the American period, presented aspects of natural beauty, catering to the projection of the country with exotic and idyllic rural sceneries, sometimes used for tourism purpose.
• Social Realism, with Marxist orientation, depicted the social and political realities in the country during the Martial Law years ruled by Ferdinand Marcos.
• Medio Cruz, in his installation Poleismo, assembled images and articles from religion, popular culture, and those of political and showbiz personalities.
• The Malacanang Palace in San Miguel, Manila, the original structure was built in 1750 by Don Luis Rocha.
• Domingo, known as the Father of Philippine Painting, established the country’s first art school in 1821 in Tondo, Manila.
• Magic Realism subjects were taken from everyday lives of people, and seen with innocent and fresh eyes that suggest fascination with the ordinary.
• Lito de Guzman, a professor at the University of the East College of Fine Arts, used computer software such as Adobe Photoshop in his digital art works.