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Lesson 4. Subject type

GEC16
MODULE 4
Prepared by: Cristina C. Sanchez

Representational art or figurative art

represents objects or events in the real
world, usually looking easily
recognizable.

Nonrepresentational art may simply

depict shapes, colors, lines, etc., but may
also express things that are not visible –
emotions or feelings for example.

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MANNER OF
PRESENTING ART AS
A SUBJECT

01 Ways of Presenting Art

07
as a Subject
REALISM 03 05 SURREALISM

02 CUBISM MANGLING 08
ABSTRACTION
/ABSTRACT
04 06 FAUVISM
ABSTRACT
DISTORTION EXPRESSIONISM

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Ways of Presenting Art

as a Subject
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DADAISM EXPRESSIONISM

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FUTURISM SYMBOLISM

REALISM MANNER OF PRESENTING ART AS A SUBJECT

Artists portray subjects

coming from nature,
with the exact replica
on what the objects are.

Fruit Pickers Harvesting Under The Mango Tree (1939), Fernando

Amorsolo

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ABSRACTION/ABSTRACT
It finds its meaning with the
artist. The predisposition of
meanings is deposited
The Crowd (Diana Ong)
within the maker of the
work.

Windows Open Simultaneously (First Part, Third Motif, 1912)

(Robert Delaunay)

MANNER OF PRESENTING ART AS A SUBJECT

CUBISM
It takes precedence as a highly
influential visual art in the 20th Century.
Pablo Picasso’s work became the
landmark in the visual art presentation.
The common characteristics of this art
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, Pablo Picasso comprise the two dimensional surface
of the picture plane, that emphasizes
the flat, and also rejects the traditional
forms of foreshortening, modeling, and
perspective.
Cubism illustrated fragmented objects
and these do not focus on color, space,
texture, and space. Artists used cone,
sphere and cylinder as pictorial elements
of their desired outputs.

Girl with a Mandolin, 1910, Pablo Picasso

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DISTORTION
The figures or subjects
have been arranged in
Transfiguration, Napoleon Abueva such a way the
proportions differ from
that of the natural
measurements either by
twisting and stretching.

Virginia Woolf (Study I), Mathieu Laca

MANNER OF PRESENTING ART AS A SUBJECT

MANGLING
The common characteristics of
this presentation are the
Mangle, Barney Ortiz
objects and persons who are
severely injured, mutilated by
cutting, crushed, slashed, or
disfigured.

The Weeping Woman (1937), Pablo Picasso BarOrtiz

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Radical abstract styles –

showcases the separation of
line from color and
reintroduces drawing and
Blue Poles/Number 11, 1952, Jackson Pollock
painting.
Color field or action painting
– the work of art becomes an
event.
Gestural abstraction – the
process serves as the subject of
the art itself.
The unique features of this art
includes spontaneity, free and
personal emotional expression.

The Cry (1959), Isau Noguchi, Sculpture park, Otterlo,

Netherlands

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM MANNER OF PRESENTING ART AS A

Jose Joya was known to have
pioneered the growth of abstract
expressionism in the Philippine
SUBJECT

visual art.

Artists show considerable freedom

of execution and technique with
focus to the exploitation of the
variable physical characteristics of
paint to evoke qualities of
dynamism, violence, mystery,
sensuousness and lyricism

Hills of Nikko (1964), Jose Joya

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SURREALISM
It is a way of representing the
subject by combining realism and
distortion.
Horus-God of Egypt
Super realism.

Surrealism has been used to

reunite the conscious and
unconscious realms of
experiences as the worlds of
fantasy and dreams are merged
to the rational living.

God Ganesh Temple, Malaysia

MANNER OF PRESENTING ART AS A SUBJECT

SURREALISM
The Elephant Celebes (1921), Max Ernst

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FAUVISM
Artists use colors as
bright as they expressed
joy, happiness, and
freedom.

Charing Cross Bridge (1906), Andre Derain

DADAISM MANNER OF PRESENTING ART AS A SUBJECT

Dadaism started as a protest
against the arts in Zurich
Switzerland. Dada means hobby
hobby horse which technically
means non-sensical way of
Ubu Imperator (1923), Max Ernst presenting art.

Dada works often shows rejection

of logic, zeroing on nonsense,
intuition, and irrationality. Its
influence can be traced into cubism,
expression and futurism.

Dada arts intended to express

offensive and provoke artistry
and the political elites.

La Joconde fumant la pipe, Le Rire (1887)

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EXPRESSIONISM
Expressionism’s brushwork is
typically free and the applied paint
has the tendency to be generous
and highly textured. The color is
intense and naturalistic.

Artists let the viewers see the

depiction of subjects with swirling ,
swaying brushstrokes.

The common manifestations of this

style are identified through
exaggeration, primitivism, jarring,
violent, dynamic application of
formal elements and distortion.

Starry Night (1889), Vincent Van Gogh

MANNER OF PRESENTING ART AS A SUBJECT

FUTURISM
The common themes and
objects of futurism include
The City Rises (1910), Umberto Boccioni airplane, car, and urbanized city.

The advocacy of this art

inculcates the thrust of modern
technology in order to express
the dynamism and movement of
modern life.

Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin (1912), Gino

Severini

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SYMBOLISM
Symbolism artworks possessed
some difficulty in understanding. It
uses one thing to represent
The Wounded Angel (1903), Hugo Simberg
something else in their
representation.

Even the color used in this artwork

signifies meanings.

The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890), Mikhail Nesterov

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