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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.