art app

• STYLE


  refers to the characteristic ways in which artists express themselves.
• STYLE

  It portrays people and things as they are seen by the eyes, without idealization, without distortion.   

         The work seems so natural.
• realism exam

  Example: Fernando Amorsolo's Sunday Morning, Going to Church
• ABSTRACTION

  It means “to move away or separate.”  The artist becomes so engrossed in one phase of a scene or  

        situation that he fails to show the subject as an objective reality.
• CUBISM

  •   introduced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
  • objects are broken up into fragments and patterns of geometric structures
• organic abstraction


  more personal style

  characterized by large gestural brush strokes, abstract imagery and fields of intense color
• 1. SYMBOLISM


  A symbol, is a visible sign of something invisible such as an idea or quality.

  Example: Juan Luna’s Spolarium 1884 National Museum of the Philippines

  • with the use of heavy and strong brush strokes, Juan Luna expressed his anger over abuses and cruelties during the Spanish authorities.
• expressionism


  was introduced in germany

  were felt from 1910 up to the present

  form and color are freely distorted in order to achieve emotional impact
• surrealism

  • founded in Paris in 1924 by the French poet, Andre Breton
  • Influenced by Freudian psychology which emphasizes the activities of the subconscious state of mind
  • It is an invented word meaning super realism.
  • Portrayed dream imagery, fantasies and hallucinations
• FAUVISM 


  Fauves tried to paint pictures of comfort, joy and pleasure used extremely bright colors traditional nudes and landscapes
• futurism

  Automobiles, motorcycles, railroad trains

  • wanted their works to capture the speed of force and modern industrial society
  • glorified the mechanical energy of modern life
• FUTURISM

  • wanted their works to capture the speed of force and modern industrial society glorified the mechanical energy of modern life Automobiles, motorcycles, railroad trains
• Painting is generally defined as the application of pigments to a surface. It is an artwork produced by man, or an artist, who applies color to a flat, two-dimensional surface or ground to satisfy his sense of beauty.
• The oldest known painting is the Grotte-Chauvet in France.
• grotte Chauvet is a beautiful painted cave in the Ardèche region. It has several very large galleries with more than 300 paintings and engravings dating to the Paleolithic era (between 32,000 and 30,000 years ago). The paintings show rhinoceroses, felines, bears, owls and mammoths.
• LEONARDO DA VINCI

  mona lisa

  the last supper

  the vitruvian man

  Field  : Many and diverse fields of arts and sciences

  Movement  : High Renaissance
• MICHAELANGELO BUONARROTI

  
  

  • One of the GREAT RENAISSANCE MASTER
  • He saw himself more as a SCULPTOR than a PAINTER
  • As a painter, he made famous by the “Sistine Chapel” frescoes at the age of 33.
  • Perhaps, he is the greatest artistic genius who ever lived.
  • Excelled in sculpture, architecture, painting and poetry.
• RAPHAEL SANZIO

  
  

  • A master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance   
  • He painted “TheSchoolofAthens”, that symbolizes philosophy, theology and poetry
  • His approach to art was characterized as Aristotelian, he was a keen observer of nature.
• VINCENT VAN GOGH

  
  

  Place of Birth         Village in Brabant in theNetherlands

  Famous Works      Sunflower Series,

                                    Starry Night

  
  

  He used color and vibrant swirling brushstrokes to convey his feelings and his state of mind.
• REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

   

  Place of Birth           Leiden,Netherlands

  Famous Works          Christ in the Storm on theSea of Galilee, Rembrandt Self Portrait
• EDVARD  MUNCH

   

              

  Famous Works          The Sick Child, The Day After, Puberty, The Scream
• WASSILY KANDINSKY

   

            

  Famous Work           Composition VIII

  Young Kandinsky played piano and cello.  Music has always been the main inspiration behind his work.
• FELIX RESSURECCTION HIDALGO

   

  He was born on February 21, 1853, in Binondo, Manila.  He studied at the Ateneo de Manila and the University of Santo Tomas.  His subjects range from the mythological and historical to landscapes, seascapes, portraits and figures of the genre.

   

  His Las virgenes Cristianas expuestas al populacho

  (THE CHRISTIAN VIRGINS EXPOSED TO THE POPULACE),

  was awarded the ninth silver medal at the 1884 Exposicion General de Bells Artes in Madrid.
• FERNANDO AMORSOLO

   

  He is the most celebrated name in the Philippine art, appealing to all social classes – a true National  Artist.

  Almost a decade after his death, he is still a name to reckon with. Consider the following

  the most popular Filipino painter the Philippine has ever produced. He developed a distinctive style recognizable to ordinary   people.
• VICENTE MANANSALA

   

  Once voted as the most popular of the progressive artist in the century, he became a classic long before his death.

  He was given recognition as a National Artist.

   

  “Romantic”, “volatile”, exuberant are standard epithets to describe the tone and spirit of his works.
• CARLOS FRANCISCO

   

  One outstanding mural painter the country has ever produced Is popularly known throughout the town of Angono, Rizal and to art lovers all over the country as “ Botong”.

   

  He celebrated on yards of canvas the features of Filipinos living in provincial towns and barrios.  He celebrated not only country scenes but also vital events in Philippine history.
• MAURO “MALANG” SANTOS

   

  He started his career as plain “Malang”, illustrator-cartoonist for Manila Chronicle and creator of two comic strip characters.
• JOSE JOYA

  
  

  Mid- 1950s through most of the 1960s, abstract expressionism found an able exponent . (Magna Cumlaude, University of the Philippines, and a Smith-Mundt/Fulbright scholar, Cranbook of Art, 1957)
• JOSE JOYA

  The whole point of his aesthetic intuitive was in his improvisional approach in expressing subjective states, feelings, mood, through purely means and nonrepresentational, freewheeling forms.
• ANITA MAGSAYSAY HO

  Born in Manila on 1914. She is the daughter of Ambrosio Magsaysay and Armilla Corpus.  She is married to Robert Ho and have five children

  She gained recognition for being the only woman artist to be in the short-list of National Artist Victorio Edades “13 Moderns”.
• TYPES OF PAINTING 

  FRESCO

  ENCAUSTIC

  TEMPERA

  PASTEL

  OIL

  ACRYLIC
• FRESCO – the art of painting on plaster.

  As the wall dries, the painted image on it becomes permanent.
• ENCAUSTIC – it is consists of pigment in a wax vehicle that has been heated to a liquid state.  It is the earliest methods of applying color to a surface.
• TEMPERA – popular for centuries but is rarely used today. 
• PASTEL – closely resembles dry pigment.  It possesses only surface light and does not give glazed effect.. 
• OIL – consists of ground pigments mixed with linseed oil vehicle and turpentine medium or thinner.   
• ACRYLIC – a mixture of pigment and a vehicle that can be thinned with water. 
• Acrylics 


  are resistant to cracking under temperature and humidity extremes
•  Acrylic 


  can be used in various surfaces that do not need special preparation.  It is flexible and fast drying, and as it is water soluble, it requires no flammable substances for use.
• .Oil painting


  is slow in drying and allows corrections or working over.