Arts

• Modern art includes artistic works created around the 1860s to 1970s when past art practices were thrown aside through experimentation.
• What type of art broke traditional art rules and opened windows for future innovations?

  Modern Art
• Impressionism Art is characterized by a focus on capturing fleeting moments and the effects of light and atmosphere on the scene.
• What is characterized by a focus on subjective emotions and responses to the world rather than objective reality?

  Expressionism Art
• Who are the well-known Impressionists?

  Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Claude Monet was the leader of Impressionists, and he had a long-lasting fascination with observing and painting light and nature
• Claude Monet painted two masterpieces:

  1. Woman with a Parasol
  2. The Water Lily Pond
• Who liked to paint active groups of figures; his pictures were full of sketchy patches of color and contrasts of light and shade?

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Who were the two famous Filipino Impressionists?

  Juan Luna and Fernando Amorsolo
• Juan Luna was a Filipino painter, sculptor, and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century.
• Who was the first National Artist of the Philippines?

  Fernando Amorsolo
• Fernando Amorsolo was known to catch the quality of "Sunlight at High Noon".
• The famous Expressionist artists include:

  1. Edvard Munch
  2. Ernst Kirchner
• Who was the forerunner of expressionism; his early life was tortured by sickness, death, insanity, unhappy love affairs, and guilt?

  Edvard Munch
• Ernst Kirchner suffered a breakdown as a soldier in World War 1; his paintings showed fears about humanity's place in the modern world.
• Realism, in the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life.
• Jean-Francois Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement.
• What is an art style characterized by the reconstruction of objects based on geometric figures?

  Cubism
• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were the famous Cubist Artists.
• Dadaism is an art movement, encompassed a wide range of artistic expressions that were characterized by their rejection of traditional aesthetics and norms.
• Who was the most well-known Dadaist whose works were ordinary, selected, and with little or no alteration?

  Marcel Duchamp
• Surrealism means showing the image of the subconscious mind. It wanted to tap into a "higher reality" than what eye sees in the real world.
• Is an art that is not easy to define because it combines two contradictory terms, "Abstract" and "Realistic". Its goal is to use hypothetical painting techniques to somehow change the perception of a real object?

  Abstract Realism
• Benjamin Cruz was an award-winning Filipino painter who has the ability to dream and create new worlds. he transforms his pieces to new heights with this concept of manipulating dimensionality.
• What is an art style of popular culture. It is designed to be easily understandable and appreciated by a broad audience, often using familiar themes, styles, and techniques?

  Popular Art
• Who was the pioneer of Pop Art and he described it as "designed for a mass audience, with a short-term solution, expendable or easily forgotten, low costing, mass-produced, aimed at youth, witty, gimmicky, glamorous, and big business"?

  Richard Hamilton
• Optical Art, also known as "Op Art", is about physical sensations. Optical Illusions employed special effects made possible by merging old techniques and new technology. It fools the eye; creates a visual tension in the viewer's mind that gives works the illusion of movement.
• Types of Optical Illusions:

  1. Literal
  2. Physiological
  3. Cognitive
• Victor Vasarely was one of the key figures in the creation of Op art.