ARTAPP #3

• Style


  Determined by history (time and place), the personality of the artists, and the theory of art
• Styles


  • Classical Art
  • Modern Art
  • Postmodern
• Classicism


  • Idealist imitation of the beauty and perfection of the human body
  • Sculptors: Praxiteles, Polycritus and Myron
  • Architecture: 3 Greek Orders and 2 Roman Orders
• Medieval Art


  • Religious subjects
  • Flat projection
  • Art forms: mosaic, stained glass paintings, illuminated manuscripts, calligraphy
  • Patron: the church
• Renaissance Art


  • Revival of ancient Greek and Roman Art
  • Discovery and application of perspective
  • Application of chiaroscuro and sfumato (Triangular Composition)
  • Religious and secular subjects
  • Patrons: The church and wealthy families
• Mannerism


  • Stylized representations with elongated figures
  • Religious subjects
  • Painters: El Greco, Dominikos Theotokopolus
• Baroque


  • Highly realistic presentation
  • Application of deep chiaroscuro
  • Dominance of curve lines to suggest motion
  • Painters: Rembrandt van Rijn, Giorgione Castelfranco, Peter Paul Reubens, Jan Vermeer
• Neoclassicism


  • Revival of Renaissance & Classical Style
  • Subject: Ancient Western society
  • Highly Realistic Representation
  • Technique: Deep chiaroscuro
  • Painters: Jacques Louis David, Jean Auguste Ingres, Juan Luna, Guillermo Tolentino
• Impressionism


  • Beginning of Modern Art
  • Subjects from everyday ordinary life
  • Surface filled with bursting light of the sun
  • Pale colors and blur outlines indicate movement and passage of time
• Expressionism


  • Art is an expression of the artist's emotion
  • Unnatural representation
  • Symbolic use of color
  • Dominance of curve lines for emotional effect
  • Heavy impasto paints
• Fauvism


  • Unnatural colors for exciting visual effect
  • Subjects from unnatural, extra-ordinary objects
• Pointilism


  • Uses points or dots as the main visual element
  • Based on the principle of visual mixing
  • Subjects from the everyday, ordinary experiences
  • Structurally formal and visually representational
• Art Nouveau


  • Poster-like paintings for advertisement
  • Subjects: women in sensual postures
  • Linear composition and flat projection
• Surrealism


  • Reaction to rationalism and romanticism
  • Emphasizes passion and imagination, weird, fantastic and dream-like presented in highly realistic way
• Cubism


  • Flat projection
  • Uses geometrical shapes
  • Subjects in multiview to suggest motion
• Concretism


  • Purely non-objective painting
  • Represents subjectivity not objects
  • Uses rectilinear shapes and primary colors
• Suprematism


  • Purely non-objective
  • Represents pure subjectivity not objects
  • Reduction into most basic shapes and colors
  • Painting becomes true to itself, finally seen as what it is—a painting
• Dadaism


  • From dada, a baby-talk word
  • An "anti-art" movement
  • Purpose is to "shock"
  • Creates art by "destroying" art
  • Seeks to "destroy" established traditions and past histories to bring about new social order
• Ready-made Art


  • Based on the Institutional Theory: Anything may be art
  • Ordinary objects are put in the context of art by the artist's authority and power play
• Abstract Expressionism


  • Based on Action Theory of Painting
  • Purely non-objective
  • Sense of freedom in the act of painting
• Color Field Painting


  • Branch of Action Painting
  • Mass of colors on the flat surface
• Pop Art


  • Art taken from images in popular culture such as commercial labels and mass products, comics and cartoons
• Op Art (Optical Art)


  • Creates optical illusion
  • The illusion itself becomes the reality in art
• Installation Art


  • Postmodern style in which exhibition space is transformed into work of art
  • Use of limitless range of materials arranged in place
• Environmental Art or Earthwork


  • Postmodern style of art which uses natural environment as its medium
  • Based on Institutional Theory of Art
• There is anything more to art
• Some greater possibilities to art (present period)

  • Burp Art/ Vomit Painting
  • Tongue/Breast/Penis Painting
  • Computer Art/ Cyber Art
  • Art in virtual reality
  • Graffiti/ Street Art
  • MMDA Art