Art.App (Module 3)

• Reading the Image of Visual Work


  Conveys a complex of concepts, feelings, attitudes, moods, atmosphere, and value that derives from world views and ideologies, public or personal
• Basic documentary information required in reading a work of art


  • Title of work
  • Name of Artists
  • Medium and Technique
  • Dimensions of measurements
  • Date of work
  • Provenance
• Semiotic Plane


  Includes the elements and general, technical and physical aspects of the work
• Iconic Plane


  Includes the choice of the subject which may bear socio-political implications
• Thematic Plane


  Art is viewed in relation to its time, the ideologies and concerns of that period
• Art History


  The study of objects or art in their historical development and stylistic contexts
• Periods of Western Art

  • Prehistoric Period
  • Ancient Middle Period
  • Before 1800 (Christian Church Influence)
  • After 1800 (Influence by politics)
• Aspects of Eastern Art

  • Chinese Art
  • Japanese Art
  • Korean Art
• Visual Arts in the Philippines

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Literature
• Art Movement


  The tendency of style in art that has a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time
• Art Movements


  • Cave Paintings (Parietal Art)
  • Ancient Egyptian Art
  • Greek Art
  • Roman Art
  • Chinese Painting
  • Japanese Painting
  • Renaissance Art
  • Mannerism Art
  • Baroque Art
  • Rococo Art
  • Neo-Classicism Art
  • Neo-Impression
  • Impressionism
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Art Noveau
  • Fauvism
  • Expressionism
  • Cubism
  • Futurism
• Fauves


  Art movement of the 1900's that flourished as a group only from 1903 to 1907 but their style greatly influenced many later artists
• The fauves did not attempt to express ethical, philosophical, or psychological themes
• Most of the fauves artists tried to paint pictures of comfort, joy and pleasure
• Expressionism


  Art movement introduced in Germany during the first decade of the 20th century, influenced European artists from 1910 up to the present, and also influenced playwrights in English and Filipino in the Philippines
• Expressionist paintings


  • Involve pathos, morbidity, violence, chaos, tragedy, and sometimes portray defeat

  
• Cubism


  Art movement that takes the abstract form though the use of cone, cylinder, or sphere at the expense of other pictorial elements, with the aim of showing form in basic geometrical shapes
• Futurism


  Art movement that developed in Italy about the same time as cubism, with painters wanting their works to capture the speed and force of modern industrial society, glorifying the mechanical energy of modern life
• Abstractionism


  Art movement where the artist becomes so interested in one phase of a scene or situation that they do not show the subject as an objective reality, but only their idea or feelings about it
• Dadaism


  Protest movement in the arts formed in 1916 by a group of artists and poets in Zurich, Switzerland, reacting to what they believed were outworn traditions in art and the evils they saw in society
• Surrealism


  Art and literary movement founded in Paris in 1924 by the French poet Andre Breton, using art as a weapon against the evil and restrictions that surrealists see in society, attempting to show what is inside man's mind as well as the appearance of the outside world
• Constructivism


  Art movement started as early as the 20th century in Russia, applied in the construction of social evils existing in the present society, contrasted with surrealism
• De Stijl or Neoplasticism


  Art movement that advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color, simplifying visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white and primary colors
• Abstract Expressionism


  Style of abstract painting that uses large canvasses and a deliberate lack of refinement in the application of paint, with strong color, heavy impasto, uneven brush strokes, and rough textures

  
• Pop Art


  Art movement that presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, often using irony
• Post-Minimalism


  Art movement that emerged in the late 1970's, employing a variety of arts such as body art, process art, conceptual arts and performance arts, using unprocessed, uncomposed, and sagged materials instead of industrial and fabricated materials
• Conceptual Art


  Art where the idea or concept is the most important aspect, with the execution being a perfunctory affair, where the idea becomes a machine that makes the art
• Photorealism


  Genre of art where an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium
• Installation Art


  Form of conceptual art where objects or materials are configured or arranged in a room or spaces to present a message to the viewer
• Body Art


  Form of art that uses the body as a canvas or artwork, employing color pigments for cultural motives, including face painting, body painting, and tattoo art
• Land Art


  Art movement known also as "Earthworks", "Earth Art" or Landscape art, with the purpose of touching the sensibilities of man towards the environment
• Performance Art


  Art form expressed in many forms such as dance, music, video, drama, painting, and film, where the artist performs or expresses their art before a live audience
• The significance of an art movement to an artist and a student is that it provides a framework and context for understanding and appreciating art
• Chinese and Japanese painting are similar in their emphasis on nature and the use of ink, but different in their specific styles and techniques
• Ancient Greek art and modern Greek art share a focus on the human form, but differ in their artistic styles and the social/cultural contexts in which they were produced
• Mannerism Period


  Art period characterized by the deliberate distortion of classical forms and proportions, often with an emphasis on artifice and complexity
• Cave art


  Art created by prehistoric humans on the walls of caves, using natural pigments and materials found in the environment
• Appropriation in art is the practice of creating or borrowing new work by taking a pre-existing image from another source and transforming or combining it with new elements
• Appropriation in art differs from copying in that it involves transforming the original work into something new, rather than simply reproducing it
• Appropriation of art can be legal and ethical when done with the proper attribution and respect for the original work, but it can also be problematic when it involves the exploitation of marginalized cultures