Methods of Presenting The Subject of Art

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Methods of Presenting

the Subject of Art


Objectives
1. Demonstrate an effective knowledge of visual
methods on how arts are being presented.
2. Recognize and understand each method of
presenting art.
3. Demonstrate skills necessary for effective
preparation of artwork for public presentation,
using a variety of methods of presenting art.
4. Explain the methods used through artwork.
5. Differentiate various methods of presenting the
subject of art.
• Every artist has his own individual and unique
style of doing his artworks. This style is
almost always governed by his choice of the
methods of presenting his subjects.
• In presenting his subject, the artists choose
the methods to clearly express his thoughts,
ideas or sentiments.
• This method of presenting the subject leads
to a better understanding of the artist’s
intention and his effectiveness as an artist.
Methods of presenting the
art subject
1. Realism
 It is the attempt to portray the subject as
is. The artist selects, changes, and
arranges details to express the idea he
wants to make clear.
 The artist's main function is to describe
accurately what is observed through the
senses.
1. Realism
 Realism is a common way of presenting the
art subject. One example of this is Amorsolo’s
painting. Realism as a program of literary
aesthetics emerged in Western Literature in
1980 in reaction against the idealism of the
narrow social range of earlier literary
attitudes.
 Realism tended to stress the daily life of a
common man, often concentrating on the
2. SURREALISM
 Founded in Paris in 1924 by French poet
Andre Breton. It tries to reveal a new and
higher reality than that of daily life.
 They claim to create a magical world more
beautiful than the real one through art. It
came from the slang of super realism.
3. CUBISM
 Highly influential visual arts style of the 20th
century that was created principally by the artists
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between
1907 and 1914.
 The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-
dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting
the traditional techniques of perspective,
foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and
refuting time-honored theories that art should
imitate nature.
 Cubist painters were not bound to copying form,
4. IMPRESSIONISM
 A 19th-century art movement characterized by
relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open
composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of
light in its changing qualities (often accentuating
the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject
matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element
of human perception and experience, and unusual
visual angles.
 Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-
based artists whose independent exhibitions
brought them to prominence during the 1870s and
5. MINIMALISM
 In visual arts, music, and other mediums,
minimalism is an art movement that began in
post– World War II Western art, most strongly
with American visual arts in the 1960s and
early 1970s.
 The movement is often interpreted as a
reaction against abstract expressionism and
modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-
minimal art practices, which extend or reflect
5. MINIMALISM
 Minimalism in music often features repetition
and gradual variation. The term minimalist
often colloquially refers to anything that is
spare or stripped to its essentials. In software
and user interface design, minimalism
describes the usage of fewer design elements,
flat design, fewer options and features, and
tendentially less occupied screen space.
6. DADAISM or DADA
 The Dada movement consisted of artists who
rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of
modern capitalist society, instead expressing
nonsense, irrationality, and anti bourgeois
protest in their works. The art of the movement
spanned visual, literary, and sound media,
including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing,
and sculpture.
 Dadaist artists usually expressed their
discontent toward violence, war, and
7. SYMBOLISM
 Symbolism was a late 19th century
movement whose artists communicate
ideas through symbols instead of bluntly
depicting reality. It was created as a
reaction to art movements that depicted
the natural world realistically, such as
Impressionism, Realism, and Naturalism.
7. SYMBOLISM
 Instead of depicting their immediate
reality, the Symbolists expressed emotions,
thoughts and fantasies. Symbolists were
looking for an escape from their everyday
life.
 They found a sanctuary in their personal
beliefs, fantasies, mythical and biblical
stories. Love, erotism, sex, but also fear,
decadence, death, and the occult are often
8. ABSTRACT or ABSTRACTION
Its etymology is derived from Latin “abstractus”
"drawn away," or Latin past participle “abstrahere:”
from ab(s)- "away" + trahere "draw," which means
"withdrawn or separated from material objects or
practical matters." It is totally the opposite of
realism.
In abstract art, the artist does not show the subject
at all as an objectively reality, but only his idea, or his
feeling about it (exaggerated emotionalism). It is all
about what the artists feel and what mood they might
Forms of Abstraction
• Distortion.
 This is clearly manifested when the
subject is in misshapen condition, or the
regular shape is twisted out. It is a form
of emphasizing detail to the point that
something is no longer “correctly”
depicted.
 Example is Pablo
Picasso’s The Old
Guitarist.
 See how the left
shoulder is hitched up
so high and the other
shoulder barely exists;
how spidery his hands
are; and how his head
is twisted around
unnaturally.
 Another is Henry Moore’s
sculptural works and the
ancient Egyptian paintings
and sculptural works are good
examples of this kind.
• Elongation.
 It refers to
that which is
being
lengthened, a
protraction or
an extension.
• Mangling.
 This may not be a
commonly used way of
presenting an abstract
subject, but there are
few artists who show
subject or objects
which are cut,
lacerated, mutilated,
torn, hacked or
disfigured.
• Abstract Expressionism.
 Abstract Expressionism is a modern art
movement that flowered in America after
the Second World War and held sway until
the dawn of Pop Art in the 1960's.
• Abstract Expressionism.
 Abstract Expressionism was influenced by
the Existentialist philosophy, which
emphasized the importance of the act of
creating, not of the finished object. What
matters for the artist are the qualities of
the paint itself and the act of painting
itself.
• Abstract Expressionism.
 Abstract Expressionism was influenced by
the Existentialist philosophy, which
emphasized the importance of the act of
creating, not of the finished object. What
matters for the artist are the qualities of
the paint itself and the act of painting
itself.

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