ART APP

• Artists


  Persons with the talent and the skills to conceptualize and make creative works
• Artists


  • They have sharp senses, which anywhere and everywhere they can just pick out subject/s with delighted stories
  • They see things in different forms but have one vision and that is to inspire people through their creative works
  • They try to effectively express or convey more their messages
• The artists used various methods in presenting their subjects just to express the ideas they wanted to share
• Commonly used methods in presenting the art subject

  • Realism
  • Abstraction
  • Distortion
  • Elongation
  • Mangling
  • Cubism
  • Abstract Expressionism
• Realism


  The accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life
• Fernando Amorsolo


  • A Filipino painter active in the early half of the 20th century whose masterful handling of light made him one of Asia's most prominent portraitists and landscape artists
  • His compositions often depict the traditional culture, customs and celebrations of the Filipino community
  • Regarded as the Father of Philippine Realism for his numerous realistic paintings
• Abstraction


  Art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colors, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect
• Pablo Picasso


  • A well-known artist who used abstraction in many of his paintings and sculptures
  • Figures are often simplified, distorted, exaggerated, or geometric
• Distortion


  The alteration of the original shape of something, be it a person or an object
• Henry Moore sculptures


  • Tangled representations of the human figure stretched and distorted
• Elongation art


  Paintings that feature figures that are painted with their forms elongated much more than they are in reality

  
• Amedeo Modigliani


  • Renowned for his use of elongation in portraits as well as more abstract paintings
• Ernie Barnes


  • Modern African-American painter known for using elongation in his paintings

  
• Parmigianino


  • Italian Renaissance artist noted for the painting "Madonna of the Long Neck"
• El Greco


  • Considered spiritual expression to be more important than public opinion and developed a unique style with dramatically elongated figures, bold colors and loose brush strokes
• Cubism


  A major turning point in the whole evolution of modernist art that rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or that artists should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening
• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque


  • Pioneers of the Cubist movement
• Analytical Cubism


  Analyzed the use of rudimentary shapes and overlapping planes to depict the separate forms of the subjects in a painting

  
• Portrait of Henry Kahnweiler by Picasso

  • Considered one of the best examples of Analytical Cubism
• Synthetic Cubism


  Includes characteristics like simple shapes, bright colors, and little to no depth, and the birth of collage art in which real objects were incorporated into the paintings

  
• Still-Life with Chair Caning by Picasso


  • An early example of Synthetic Cubism where Picasso inserts an oilcloth with a pattern that simulates bars of the chair in the oval composition of the painting
• Abstract Expressionism


  An artistic movement of the mid-20th century comprising diverse styles and techniques and emphasizing especially an artist's liberty to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional and usually nonrepresentational means
• Abstract Expressionism


  • Encompasses two broad groupings: (1) "action painters" who focused on an intensely expressive style of gestural painting, and (2) those concerned with reflection and mood
• Jackson Pollock


  • Created his first "drip" painting in 1947, applying thinned paint in a loose, rapid, dynamic, or forceful handling with techniques partially dictated by chance, such as dripping or spilling the paint directly onto the canvas

  
• Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) by Jackson Pollock


  • A nonrepresentational picture where the pigment was applied in the most unorthodox means, using sticks, trowels, knives, and anything but the traditional painter's implement to build up dense, lyrical compositions
• Jackson Pollock's painting style

  • Loose, rapid, dynamic, or forceful handling of paint in sweeping or slashing brushstrokes
  • Techniques partially dictated by chance, such as dripping or spilling the paint directly onto the canvas

  
• Pollock created his first "drip" painting


  1947
• Pollock created Autumn Rhythm


  1950
• Autumn Rhythm


  A nonrepresentational picture where thinned paint was applied to unprimed, unstretched canvas that lay flat on the floor rather than propped on an easel

  
• Pollock's painting technique


  1. Poured

  2. Dripped

  3. Dribbled

  4. Scumbled

  5. Flicked

  6. Splattered

  7. Used sticks, trowels, knives, anything but the traditional painter's implement to build up dense, lyrical compositions comprised of intricate skeins of line

  
• Autumn Rhythm


  • No central point of focus, no hierarchy of elements, every bit of the surface is equally significant
• Color Field Painting


  A major development in abstract painting, where figure and ground are one, and the space of the picture, conceived as a field, seems to spread out beyond the edges of the canvas

  
• Rothko's approach


  Balancing large portions of washed colors, which he considered spiritual planes that could tap into our most basic human emotions
• Rothko never considered himself a Color Field painter
• As Rothko's mental health declined, his Color Fields were constituted by somber blacks, blues, and grays
• Symbolism


  An intellectual form of expression where artists inject their compositions with messages and esoteric references, inspired by literature, poetry, history, legends, myths, Biblical stories and fables
• Women in Belgian Symbolism

  Embody the duality and ambiguity of the world, variously as angel, muse, companion, temptress, femme fatale
• Fauvism


  A style of painting where color is used to express the artist's feelings about a subject, rather than simply to describe what it looks like

  
• Matisse and Derain painted Fauvist pictures in Collioure that revolutionized attitudes towards color in art


  1905
• Matisse's 'The Open Window, Collioure'

  • Color used at maximum intensity, counterchange between greenish wall and reflected color, dense spectrum of colors inside echoed in distant view