PRACTICE EXAM #3

• STYLE


  Mood or Temper of the Artwork : It is determined by history (time and place), by the

  personality of the artists as well as by the theory of art.
• STYLES


  •CLASSICAL ART

  •MODERN ART

  •POSTMODERN
• CLASSICISM


  This is the style found in the ancient

  Greek and Roman sculptures.

  It is an idealist imitation of the

  beauty and perfection of the

  human body.

  The sculptors were Praxiteles,

  Polycritus and Myron.
• 3 Greek Orders,


  DORIC - IONIC - CORINTHIAN
• 2 Roman Orders,


  TUSCAN - COMPOSITE
• MEDIEVAL ART


  • This style has religious subjects, and applies

  flat projection.

  • The church is the patron of art.

  • The art forms are mosaic, stained glass

  paintings, illuminated manuscripts and

  calligraphy.
• 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 of art: The church and

  wealthy families
• MANNERISM


  This is an alternative style to

  Renaissance Art.

  Representations are stylized

  with elongated figures and

  usually religious subjects.

  Mannerist paintings are those

  by El Greco or Dominikos

  Theotokopolus.
• BAROQUE


  Various subjects presented in

  highly realistic way.

  Application of deep

  chiaroscuro. Dominance of

  curve lines to suggest motion.

  Rembrant 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

  Jacques Louis David

  Jean Auguste Ingres

  Juan Luna

  Guillermo Tolentino
• IMPRESSIONISM


  • Beginning of Modern Art

  • Subjects taken 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


  • The name is from the French

  fauve that means “beast”.

  • It uses unnatural colors for

  exciting visual effect.

  • Subjects are taken from

  unnatural, extra-ordinary

  objects.
• POINTILISM


  • Uses points or dots as the main

  visual element. Based on the

  principle of visual mixing.

  • Subjects taken from the

  everyday, ordinary experiences.

  • Structurally formal and visually

  representational.
• ART NOUVEOU


  Poster-like paintings for advertisement. Subjects are 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


  This has flat projection, and uses geometrical shapes.

  The subjects are in multiview to suggest motion.
• CONCRETISM


  This is a purely non-

  objective painting. It

  represents subjectivity

  not objects, and 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. It is an “anti-art”

  movement.

  • The 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

  on text 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.