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MAPEH - ARTS
Quarter 1 – Module 4:
Mood, Idea, Message &
Function of
Selected Artworks
from Different Art Movements
MAPEH – Arts – Grade 10
Self-Learning Module (SLM)
Quarter 1 – Module 4: Mood, Idea, Message & Function of Selected Artworks
from Different Art Movements

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Subject Area
Quarter 1 – Module 4:

Mood, Idea, Message & Function of

Selected Artworks from Different Art
Movements
Introductory Message
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Welcome to the MAPEH Arts - Grade 10 Self-Learning Module (SLM) on Mood,

Idea, and Message & Function of Selected Artworks from Different Art
Movements!

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Idea, Message & Function of Selected Artworks from Different Art Movements!

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the Mood, Idea, Message & Function of Selected Artworks from different art
movement! The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different
learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of
students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course.
But the order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the
textbook you are now using.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. The learner reflects on and derive the mood, idea, or message from selected
artworks. A10PL-Ih-1
2. The learner explains the role or function of artworks by evaluating their
utilization and combination of art elements and principles. A10PL-Ih-2
3. Describe the role or function of artworks in the different art movements base
on the utilization and combination of art elements and principles

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 What I Know

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of
paper.
1. It is the idea of the artwork impressionism: sunrise.
a. Down-trodden coal miner
b. Deserted Public Spaces
c. Natural Look at the docks in the town
d. Soft swirls of the sky, Cypress, Hills, and trees
2. It represents Van Gogh brings God to the village.
a. The hills and the trees on the ground
b. The spire of the church stretches up to the sky.
c. Soft angles that match the thin swirls of the sky
d. Straight lines and sharp angles divide the rest of the painting,
separating it from the heavens of the sky.
3. She is the woman in the artwork "woman with a hat."
a. Wife, Amelie
b. Mother, Emilia
c. Daughter, Emily
d. Neighbour, Amelia
4. Why did Gregorio De Chirico intentionally used different vanishing points of a
set parallel In the artwork Mystery and Melancholy of the street?
a. Destroying resemblance to reality
b. Separates two zones: Light and Darkness
c. To create a mysterious and impossible universe
d. To Create enigmatic experience and refute reality.
5. It symbolizes decay in the painting of Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory
and Dali's phobias.
a. The mountains
b. The Olive Trees
c. The fly on the clock on the table
d. The leftmost clock invaded by ants.
6. The red brick in the artwork of Ben Shahn’s Miner’s wives expresses what
emotion?
a. Grief
b. Sorrow
c. Anger and Torment
d. Blissfulness and Contentment

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7. The sculptured head by Amadeo Modigliani has a secure connection to a
specific ethnicity.
a. Asian
b. African
c. Hawaiian
d. Native American
8. What side of the woman’s face in the artwork girl before a mirror portrays her
at night?
a. A face with no make up
b. The other side with rough charcoal
c. The green discoloration on her forehead
d. A woman dolled up with her makeup done.
9. It was that time in history that inspired Gino Severini to paint the Armored
Train.
a. World War I
b. World War II
c. American Civil War
d. The Revolutionary War
10. It is the vision of Fernand Leger in painting his artwork The City.
a. 21st-century Metropolitan
b. 20th century Modern Technology
c. 21st-century Architectural Designs
d. 20th century of the modern environment
11. What new sense of harmony did Piet Mondrian learn in his new surroundings
that influenced his artwork, New York City?
a. Black lines
b. Towering buildings
c. Quadrangular Layout
d. The rhythm of modern Metropolis
12. What is the Idea of Jason Pollock’s Autumn Rythm?
a. Juxtaposed achromatic colors
b. Silkscreens that gives an assembly line effect
c. Build up dense, lyrical compositions comprised of intricate skeins of line
d. Narrowly separated blocks of color hover in a column against a
colored ground
13. It is the idea of Bridget Riley's artwork: Current.
a. Juxtaposed achromatic colors
b. Silkscreens that give an assembly line effect
c. Build up dense, lyrical compositions comprised of intricate skeins of
line
d. Narrowly separated blocks of color hover in a column against a
colored ground
14. In the Cordillera Labyrinth of Roberto Villanueva, What symbolizes the rocks
from the riverbed created with space peopled with spirit figures?
a. It is where life power emanates
b. Symbolizes the magic of nature
c. It is a worldly offering for the spirits
d. It symbolizes the heaven of the primitive Filipinos.
15. What did Monet want to portray In the artwork impressionism: sunrise by
using rapid brush strokes?
a. Effect of the water current
b. Effect of the ripples of water
c. Effect of the sun’s light into the sky
d. Effect of the sun’s light against water and its fluidity

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Lesson Mood, Idea, Message &

4 Function of Selected Artworks

from Different Art Movements
In this module, you will go through the observable details in every selected artwork
of the different art movements. From the objects in the painting, the brush strokes,
and other elements and principles used in the selected artworks, you will discover
the backstory, the artist's journey, and their art.

What’s In

Activity 2: REVIEW
Review the art elements and principles of a specific art style, the distinct
characteristics of art from the various movements, and the representative artists
and Filipino counterparts from the different movements.

Encircle the correct answer.

1. Uses bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions
a. Fauvism
b. Dadaism
c. Surrealism
d. Social Realism
2. It is characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and visual tricks and
fantasies.
a. Fauvism
b. Dadaism
c. Surrealism
d. Social Realism
3. Which of the following artwork does not belong to the group?
a. Woman with hat
b. I and the village
c. Persistence of Memory
d. Sunrise
4. He is the painter of “Las Damas Romanas”
a. Victorio Edades
b. Juan Luna
c. Fernando Amorsolo
d. Jason Pollock
5. He is the father of Modern Philippine Art.
a. Victorio Edades
b. Juan Luna
c. Fernando Amorsolo
d. Jason Pollock

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 What’s New

Activity 3: BEHIND THE ARTWORK: Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” backstory.

Instructions: Read the story behind Van Gogh's Starry Night's artwork and answer
the questions that follow.

“VINCENT VAN GOGH: STARRY NIGHT” VANGOGHGALLERY.COM

Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889 during his stay at the asylum
of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Van Gogh lived well in the
hospital; he was allowed more freedom than any of the other patients. He could
leave the hospital grounds; he was allowed to paint, read, and withdraw into his
room.
He was even given a studio. While he suffered from the occasional relapse into
paranoia and fits - officially, he had been diagnosed with epileptic fits - it seemed
his mental health was recovering.
Unfortunately, he relapsed. He began to suffer hallucinations and have
thoughts of suicide as he plunged into depression. Accordingly, there was a tonal
shift in his work. He returned to incorporating the darker colors from the
beginning of his career, and Starry Night is a beautiful example of that shift. Blue
dominates the painting, blending hills into the sky. The little village lays at the base
in the painting in browns, greys, and blues. Even though each building is clearly
outlined in black, the yellow and white of the stars and the moon stand out against
the sky, drawing the eyes to the sky. They are the big attention grabber of the
painting.
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Notice the brush strokes. For the sky, they swirl, each dab of color rolling
with the clouds around the stars and moon. On the cypress tree, they bend with
the curve of the branches. The whole effect is ethereal and dreamlike. The hills
easily roll down into the little village below. In contrast, the town is straight up and
down, done with rigid lines that interrupt the brush strokes flow.

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Tiny little trees soften the inflexibility of the town. They are bringing nature into the
unnaturalness of buildings.
One of the most significant points of interest in this painting is that it came
entirely from Van Gogh's imagination. None of the scenery matches the area
surrounding Saint-Paul or the view from his window. As a man who religiously
paints what he sees, it's a remarkable break from Van Gogh's usual work.
The contrast in styles plays on the natural versus the unnatural, dreams
versus reality. Nature could even be attributed to the divine in this work. In Genesis
37:9, Joseph states, "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren,
and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and behold the sun and the moon
and the eleven stars made obeisance to me." - predicting that one day his family
would bow to him as an authority. Some people associate this quote with the
painting.
Perhaps it is a reference to Van Gogh's family, who doubted his career (with
the notable exception of his brother). It could be that Van Gogh simply wanted to
breathe in the higher power into his art, as he grew up in a religious household.
Divide the painting into three parts.
The sky is divine. It is by far the most dreamlike, unreal part of the painting,
beyond human comprehension and just out of reach. Go down one level to the
cypress, the hills, and the other trees on the ground. They bend and swirl, still soft
angles that match the soft swirls of the sky. The last part is the village. The straight
lines and sharp angles divide it from the rest of the painting, seemingly separating
it from the "heavens" of the sky. However, note the dots of trees rolled through the
village, how the spire of the church stretches up to the sky. Van Gogh brings God to
the village.
There are various interpretations of Starry Night, and one is that this canvas
depicts hope. It seems that van Gogh was showing that even with a night such as
this, it is still possible to see the light in the houses' windows. Furthermore, with
shining stars filling the sky, there is always light to guide you. It seems that van
Gogh was finally being cured of his illness and had mostly found his heaven. He also
knew that he would be at peace in death and further portrays this by using bold
colors in the Starry Night painting.
In a letter to his brother, Theo, van Gogh comments: "I should not be
surprised if you liked the Starry Night and the Ploughed Fields. There is a greater
quiet about them than in the other canvases. " Later in the letter, he refers to Leo
Tolstoy's book My Religion and its lack of belief in the resurrection. Such fleeting
mentions of religion echoed van Goghs feelings towards the subject at this time; he
could neither forget it nor accept it.
Despite this, his use of the word 'quiet' and reference to Tolstoy's book
indicates that the night sky made him feel calm and brought to mind eternity.
Starry Night shows the vast power of nature and the church spire and cypress tree
- representing man and nature - both point to the heavens.
Source: https://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starry-night.html

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 FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS

MOOD, IDEA & MESSAGE

1. In your reflection and interpretation, what is the mood of the artwork “starry
night”?
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2. What do you think is the idea & message of Van Gogh’s Artwork?
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FUNCTION OF ARTWORK
3. What do the bold colors in the painting portray?
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4. What do the shining stars symbolize?
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5. What is the function of the spire that stretched up to the sky?
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ARTWORK ANALYSIS: Click the link below and find out if you got your
interpretations right!
Link: https://www.artble.com/artists/vincent_van_gogh/paintings/starry_night/
more_information/analysis

Activity 4: MOM’S KITCHEN MEETS VAN GOGH

Materials:
Coffee, Catsup (Ketchup), Soy Sauce, Chocolate syrup, mayonnaise
Instructions:
1. Choose one or more from the articles listed, as long as it is used for cooking,
baking, drinking, or eating and gives color.
2. In a blank sheet of paper, use it as a canvas for your artwork. Using the coloring
materials that you have from your kitchen, make an artwork that reflects your
current mood.
3. Dry your artwork under the sun.
4. On a separate sheet of paper, tell something about your artwork by answering
the follow-up questions.

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 Criteria 1 2 3 4 5
COMPOSITION Art Ideas are The composition Artwork exhibits Artwork exhibits masterful
/ DESIGN exhibits a expressed demonstrates good execution of the Principles
lack of with no unity limited knowledge composition and and Elements of Design
planning in of the principles design elements (Line composition, space,
in the composition and elements of movement, balance,
design design emphasis, pattern, unity,
and color, contrast, rhythm,
compositi texture, value, form)
on
COLOR Choices Ideas could Color choices and Artwork exhibits Color choice and
do not have been application shows good color application enhance the
represent expressed some knowledge of choices. Color is idea being expressed;
the idea better with color theory and effective in advanced color theory is
and other color relationships expressing the demonstrated. The use of
applicatio choices and idea color is attractive and
n is poorly better appealing
done application
CREATIVITY & The Artwork Artwork includes Artwork includes Artwork includes many
ORIGINALITY artwork includes an unique ideas several unique unique ideas with the
shows no Idea but ideas and creative execution of ideas.
evidence lacks the exploration of The student's
of originality of multiple ideas personality/voice comes
creativity idea or through
or technique
originality
CRAFTSMANSH Artwork is The artwork The artwork is The artwork is The artwork is complete
IP & incomplet is completed complete with completed with with substantial evidence
PRESENTATION e with minimal minimal effort, reasonable effort, of effort, finishing touches,
effort and little displaying and excellent presentation
carelessly craftsmanship, craftsmanship, and craftsmanship.
lacking in and a few finishing and meeting
neatness touches. requirements.

Adapted Analytic Rubric for painting from SimpleK12

Follow Up Questions:

1. Why did you come up with that kind of design?

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2. Did the color of your choice matched your idea and expressed the emotion you
are feeling?
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3. What is unique about your artwork?

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 What is It

Your activity was much fun! Isn't it? You truly have the skills of an artist! At this
moment, we will have more of ARTWORK ANALYSIS, the artwork’s mood, idea,
message, and function.

ART MOVEMENT ART ANALYSIS

IMPRESSIONISM Mood, Idea, or Message:

Claude Monet painted Impression: Sunrise in 1872 in Le

Havre, France. The scene is a natural look at the docks in
the town and is a concentration on the effects of the sun on
the sea. (2020, Impressionism: Sunrise, Artble.com )

Function:
Impressionism favored rapid brush strokes to accurately
depict the immediacy of the scene in front of them. In
Impression: Sunrise Monet uses such a fast brushstroke
technique to portray the effect of the sun's light against the
Artwork: Sunrise water and its fluidity in comparison to the rest of the scene.
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh (2020, Impressionism: Sunrise, Artble.com )

POST IMPRESSIONISM Mood, Idea, or Message:

There are various interpretations of Starry Night,

and one is that this canvas depicts hope. It seems that van
Gogh was showing that even with a night such as this, it is
still possible to see the light in the houses' windows.
Furthermore, with shining stars filling the sky, there is
always light to guide you. It seems that van Gogh was
finally being cured of his illness and had necessarily found
his heaven. He also knew that he would be at peace in
Artwork: Starry Night death and further portrays this by using bold colors in the
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night painting.
(2020, Starry Night, Mood, Tone and Emotion. Artble.Com)

Function:
The sky is divine. It is by far the most dreamlike,
unreal part of the painting, beyond human comprehension
and just out of reach. Go down one level to the cypress, the
hills, and the other trees on the ground. They bend and
swirl, still soft angles that match the delicate swirls of the
sky. The last part is the village.

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 The straight lines and sharp angles divide it from the rest of
the painting, seemingly separating it from the “heavens” of
the sky. However, note the dots of trees rolled through the
village, how the spire of the church stretches up to the sky.
Van Gogh brings God to the village.

EXPRESSIONISM: Mood, Idea or Message:

FAUVISM The artist's wife, Amélie, posed for this half-length
portrait. She is depicted in an elaborate outfit with classic
attributes of the French bourgeoisie: a gloved arm holding a
fan and a fancy hat perched atop her head. Her costume's
vibrant hues are purely expressive, however, when asked
about the dress's shade. Madame Matisse was wearing
when she posed for the portrait, the artist allegedly replied,
"Black, of course."
Function:
Femme au chapeau (Woman with a hat) marked a
stylistic change from the regulated brushstrokes of
Matisse's earlier work to a more expressive individual style.
His use of non-naturalistic colors and loose brushwork,
which contributed to a sketchy or "unfinished" quality,
seemed shocking to the viewers of the day.
Artwork: Woman With
Hat
Artist: Henri Matisse

EXPRESSIONISM: Mood, Idea, or Message:

DADAISM
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street is one of Giorgio
de Chirico’s unmatched images of empty public spaces
rendered in simple geometric forms. The painting
represents an encounter between two figures: a small girl
running with a hoop and a statue present in the art only
through its shadow.
The girl is moving towards the source of bright light
coming from behind the building on the right and
illuminating the arcades intensively on the left. The bright
yellow corridor stretched up to the horizon separates two
zones: light and darkness.

Function:
Artwork: Mystery And If you look closely at the two sharply contrasted
Melancholy Of Street
buildings, you will notice that lightning is not their only
Artist: Giorgio de Chirico
distinction. De Chirico intentionally used two different
vanishing points. A point in the picture plane that is the
intersection of the projections (or drawings) of a set of
parallel lines), thus destroying any resemblance to reality.

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 All of the lines of the fully illuminated building on
the left meet slightly above the horizon. The alignments of
the dark building meet when the truck roof touches the
yellow of the ground.
One last detail concerning the perspective is an
isometric depiction of a truck, or freight car, mysteriously lit
by a light coming from…well, nowhere. This juxtaposition of
light sources and perspectives enabled de Chirico to create
a mysterious and impossible universe where spaces will
never converge. The girl will never reach the statue.
The predecessor of the Surrealist movement,
Giorgio de Chirico, intentionally subverted fictive spaces.
Typically city squares bordered by arcades or brick walls to
create the enigmatic experience and refute reality.
EXPRESSIONISM: Mood, Idea, or Message:
SURREALISM It was the first appearance of the famous soft
watches that will become one of Dalí 's most beloved
symbols. Time melts, abandoning any claim to be an
absolute reference. With some references to Albert
Einstein's new Relativity Theory, according to which time
became a flexible, questionable coordinate.
If time is no longer reliable in real life, how
meaningful can it be in the dreamlike dimension?
Therefore, the persistence of time is relative: time is
Artwork: Persistence of unstable and volatile, and our memory is probably the only
memory
way to provide durability and stability. Simultaneously, the
Artist: Salvador Dali
concept of persistence becomes a hoax: the sensations
given by the painting are everything but a sign of
perseverance and solidity.
Function:
The presence of the natural elements in the
painting explains the landscape, the mountains, and the
olive tree, which become the last relics of a transition from
the realistic dimension to the dream one. A passage that
occurred in Dalí's mind in that precise moment. The white
figure lying on the ground looks like a closed eyelid
(sleeping). However, many have interpreted it as a self-
portrait of Dalí himself, in the center of his painting.
The leftmost clock, the only one with a solid
appearance, is invaded by ants, one of Dalí ‘s phobias. It is
considered the symbol of decay. The fly on the clock on the
table, on the other hand, suggests that time is not only
melting, but it gets rotten. Time, the last of the coordinates
falling under the shock of modernity, is under attack.
Without that, we no longer have footholds. The painting is
the fresco of the loss of all certainties.

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 EXPRESSIONISM: Mood, Idea, or Message:
SOCIAL REALISM
The Miner's Wives by Ben Shahn takes a bitter look
at one of the lifestyles of the early 20th century - that of the
down-trodden coal miner. In the foreground of the picture,
we see the miner's wife referenced in the title. She carries a
sad expression, her back turned to an older woman and a
child, presumably her mother and her offspring. Two men
walk away into the distance, and one set of clothing hangs
above, unclaimed by its owner. The woman has just
informed of the mining accident, which claimed her
husband's life.

Function:

Artwork: Miner’s wives The red brick wall behind her expresses the anger and
Artist: Ben Shahn torment she's feeling. It has to because she must remain
stoic for both her child and the world at large. She can't
rage at the mining company, and she must not let her child
see fear, so Shahn gives this wall the most brilliant, angry
color he can muster to express what she's feeling. The wall
is also a divider, separating the wives' miserable, lonely
existence from the mining bosses who walk away calmly.

EXPRESSIONISM: Mood, Idea, or Message:

NEOPRIMITIVISM In 1909, after a meeting Constantin Brancusi,
Modigliani began to produce sculptures by carving into
stone, completing about twenty-five works throughout his
short career. The style of these abstracted, elongated heads
echoed in his subsequent figure and portrait paintings.
Fittingly, this particular head, with its secure connection to
African Sculpture, was initially owned by the American
artist and African art Collector Frank Burty Haviland.

Function:
Amedeo Modigliani sought to establish a new
sculptural language, inspired significantly by African and
Artwork: Head ancient Greek and Egyptian examples. Modigliani intended
Artist: Amadeo for the heads to be parts of 'columns of tenderness' within a
Modigliani primordial 'temple of beauty' that remained unrealized.

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 ABSTRACTIONISM: Mood, Idea, or Message:
CUBISM
"Girl Before Mirror" March 1932. Produced in the style
Picasso was using at the time and evoked an image of
Vanity such as had been utilized in art in earlier eras.
Though Picasso shifts the emphasis and creates a very
different view of the image, the work is considered in terms
of the erotic in Picasso's art. Critics in different periods
have offered their assessments of the work to show a wide
range of reactions. The young girl was named Marie Therese
Walter and was painted multiple times during the 1930s by
Picasso.

Function:
Artwork: Girl Before A When you look closely at the image, you can interpret
Mirror many different symbols within different parts of the
Artist: Pablo Picasso painting. The woman's face for one; is painted with a side
profile and a full-frontal image. One side shows the day
time where she seems more like a woman, dolled up with
her make up done. On the other side, with the rough
charcoal texture portrays her at night. When she takes off
the mask of makeup, she is more vulnerable as a young
lady. One way of interpreting the painting is when the
woman looks at herself in the mirror; she sees herself as an
old woman. From the green discoloration on her forehead,
darkening of her facial features to the lines that show that
her young body has been distorted, and gravity has taken
its rightful place. Another way of viewing the painting is
that she is self-conscious, and she sees all the flaws in
herself that the world doesn't see.
ABSTRACTIONISM:
FUTURISM
Mood, Idea, or Message:

Painted in 1915, the year Italy entered World War I,

this work reflects a Futurist declaration of the same year:
“War is a motor for art.” Although poor health prevented
Severini from enlisting in the military, he was obsessed by
this first fully mechanized war. Living in Paris, he
witnessed the city's bombardment. From his studio, he had
an aerial view of the Denfert-Rochereau station and trains
transporting soldiers, supplies, and weapons.

Function:
Here, five faceless figures crouch in a militarized
Artwork: Armored Train locomotive car, aiming their rifles in unison. Smoke from gun
Artist: Gino Severeni and cannon fire eclipse the natural landscape.

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 ABSTRACTIONISM: Mood, Idea ,or Message:
MECHANICAL STYLE
Leger had a unique fascination with cities. "How I
will gobble Paris up if I'm lucky enough to go back there!,"
he wrote in a letter from the frontlines of World War I. Leger
was not afraid of urbanization and the effects that it would
bring. He wanted to make the cities part of him. The city
points the way artists should engage with the uprising of
the towns around them.

Function:
Artwork: The City
Artist: Fernand Leger The city is simply a vision from the 20th century of
the modern environment. His use of bold, geometrical
images and bright colors characterizes perfectly a typical
metropolitan.

Mood, Idea ,or Message:

ABSTRACTIONISM:
NONOBJECTIVISM
The exodus of European artists to America was a
widespread phenomenon during those years, and for all of
them, the new physical and intellectual environment
brought about changes in their art. As a result of the
impact of Manhattan and American culture, coupled with
the interest Mondrian had developed in jazz music years
earlier, his painting lost its previous rigidity and acquired
greater freedom and a more lively rhythm. From the outset,
he was powerfully attracted by the dynamism of the great
Metropolis. Its quadrangular layout and towering
buildings, which, as he used to say, were "the furthest from
Artwork: New York City nature, " but also by the latest developments in rhythm and
Artist: Piet Mondrian counter-rhythm in jazz and by the new boogie-woogie style
that had fascinated him earlier in Paris.

Function:
The paintings of the American era have a lot of
different colors compared to the gloomy canvasses ruled by
black lines, as they are in Europe. What's more, in these
lazy allegro rhythms, Mondrian has only a new sense of
harmony that he has learned in his new surroundings; this
is the rhythm of modern Metropolis. An example of a new
cultural model, New York City, has a radical influence on its
picture.

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 ABSTRACT Mood, Idea,or Message:
EXPRESSIONISM: In this nonrepresentational picture, thinned paint was
ACTION PLANNING applied to unprimed, unstretched canvas laying flat on the
floor rather than propped on an easel. The applied pigment
in the most unorthodox means; poured, dripped, dribbled,
scumbled, flicked, and splattered. The artist also used
sticks, trowels, knives, in short, anything but the
traditional painter's implement to build up dense, lyrical
compositions comprised of intricate skeins of line.
Function:
Artwork: Autumn There's no central point of focus, no hierarchy of
Rhythm elements in this allover composition. Every bit of the surface
Artist: Jason Pollock is equally significant. The artist worked with the canvas flat
on the floor, always moving all around it while applying it
and working from all four sides.

ABSTRACT Mood, Idea ,or Message:

EXPRESSIONISM: Narrowly separated, rectangular blocks of color hover in
COLOR FIELD a column against a colored ground. Their edges are soft and
PAINTING irregular so that when Rothko uses closely related tones,
the rectangles sometimes seem bare to coalesce out of the
ground, concentrations of its substance.

Function:
The green bar in Magenta, Black, Green on Orange, on
the other hand, appears to vibrate against the orange
around it, creating an optical flicker. The canvas is full of
gentle movement, as blocks emerge and recede, and
surfaces breathe.
Just as edges tend to fade and blur, colors are never
entirely flat. The paint solidity in their intensity besides
hinting at the artist's process in layering wash on a wash. It
also mobilizes a robustness a shifting between solidity and
impalpable depth.
Artwork: Magenta, Black
Green on Orange
Artist: Mark Rothko

ABSTRACT Mood, Idea,or Message:

EXPRESSIONISM: When we look at One and Three Chairs, we draw to
CONCEPTUAL ART admire its beauty, nor are we presented with a relatable
story or a figure to b admire. Instead, we are invited to
consider the concept of what a “chair” is, as well as the
nature of visual and linguistic representation itself—
fundamental questions that Plato asked more than two
thousand years ago. Like the Greek philosopher Kosuth,
he focuses the idea of a "chair," rather than merely its
physical representation. But he also reveals the importance
of the viewer's role in the function of conceptual artwork. It
is not until we approach pieces such as One and Three
Chairs and begin to intellectually engage with them that the
actual "artworks"—the concepts—emerge. In this sense,
Artwork: One and Three conceptual art can only exist in tandem with its audience
Chairs and is created anew each time we view it.
Artist: Joseph Kosuth

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 This emphasis on the viewer's participation was also
important for the related movements of performance and
participatory art, which gained momentum as well
beginning in the 1960s.

Function:
One and Three Chairs stripped art of its outer
casing and celebrated; instead, the importance of the
conceptual for both the artist and the viewer. Importantly,
it also stripped the artist of his or her role as a romantic
and existential agent of personal expression (an aspect of
art that was increasingly important from the nineteenth to
the mid-twentieth century). The conceptual artist appears,
instead, as a philosopher questioning the nature of reality
and the social world in which art and audience reside.
ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM: Mood, Idea or Message:
POP ART “In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted
something stronger that gave more of an assembly line
effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it
up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it
so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue.
That way you get the same image, slightly different each
time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled
with it. When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month,
Artwork: Marilyn Monroe I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face the first
Artist: Andy Warhol Marilyns.”-Andy Warhol
Function:
Half of the Marilyn diptych was heavily pigmented
while the other half was colored in black and white. Overall,
the work was a commentary on the relation between
Monroe’s life and death.
The Marilyn Diptych format, 1962, mirrors the form of
a Christian work of art depicting the Virgin Mary on one
side and the crucified Jesus on the other. The comparison
with the religious work references the idolization of Marilyn
Monroe

ABSTRACT Mood, Idea, or Message:

EXPRESSIONISM: Bridget Riley (1931) is a well-known British artist
OP ART celebrated since the mid-1960s for her distinctive, optically
vibrant paintings, called “Op Art.” She explores optical
phenomena and juxtaposes color by using a chromatic
technique of identifiable hues or selecting achromatic colors
(black, white, or gray).

Artwork: Current
Artist: Bridget Riley

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CONTEMPORARY ART: Mood, Idea, or Message:
INSTALLATION ART
Cordillera Labyrinth set up on the Cultural Center of the
Philippines (CCP) grounds in the summer of 1989. Forty-
five meters in diameter and 600 meters in length, the
installation consisted of a spiral labyrinth made of bamboo
and reeds. Its center was covered with rocks from a river
bed, creating a sacred space peopled with spirit figures from
which life power emanates.

Artwork: Cordillera Function:

Labyrinth When Roberto Villanueva moved to the northern
Artist: Roberto highlands of Baguio in 1980, he was inspired to create art
Villanueva built from the environment's basic materials. His art
acquired a shamanic aura, the source of its powerful energy
drawn from ancient but continuing community symbols,
rituals and traditions among the animist ethnic groups.

What’s More

Activity 5: IN THE BEHOLDER’S EYE

Whew! It did felt like touring around the famous Art Museums around the world! It
was much fun! Answer the following questions, and you will be scored based on the
rubric for the informal essay below.

FEATURES 4 3 2 1
Quality of The Piece was The Piece was The Piece had a The Piece had
Writing written in an written in an little style or no style or voice
extraordinary exciting style voice Provides no
style and voice. and voice Gives some new further
Very well Somewhat information but information and
informed and informative and poorly very poorly
well organized organized organized organized

Grammar, Virtually no Few spelling Several spelling, So many

Usage & spelling, and punctuation or spelling,
Mechanics punctuation or punctuations grammatical punctuation
grammatical errors, minor errors and
errors grammatical grammatical
errors errors that it
interferes the
meaning

Adapted Analytic Rubric for informal Essay from Janelle Cox

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 1. Among the Artworks presented, which of those you like the most? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
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2. In your interpretation, what do you think is the function of the Red Brick
wall in Miner's Wife painting by Ben Shahn?
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What I Have Learned

A PICTURE PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS

A painter’s work of art mirrors his or her emotions, personality and story in
life. An artist’s artwork is a materialized idea, a visual representation of what the
artist had in mind. The colours they use could represent a lot of things, even the
subject of the painting implies something. The red brick wall from the miner’s wife
expresses anger and torment, the shining stars from Starry Night symbolizes Hope,
the girl from the painting, girl before a mirror shows a self-conscious woman. Those
artworks I mentioned is a journey all its own.
What do I mean by journey all its own? The artwork is not purely a product
of nothing, nor it was created out of boredom. The artwork was created by an artist
who went a lot of things in his or her life. Vincent Van Gogh, created the Starry
Night out of his imagination, not from a real scenery, but It mirrors the sufferings
in his life and the hope he has for himself. The wife from the miner’s wife grieves
knowing her husband died. She feels angry and tormented. The artists use their
pain, their joy to create wonderful and remarkable work of art.

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 What I Can Do

Activity 7: VINCENT’S HAND

I am so excited about this activity! We will be doing art using the technique
Impasto as if we are Vincent Van Gogh! Ready your Materials Now!

Materials:
 Colouring Materials (You may use cooking ingredients or any paste-like
substance that can give color: Toothpaste, Catsup (Ketchup), Mayonnaise,
Cheese Spread, mixed coffee powder, and white mayonnaise)
 Blank sheet of paper
 Pencil
 Popsicle Stick / Flat end of the handle of a spoon

Reminders: Ask permission to your parents. You will need the following
ingredients from the kitchen, asking for enough amount for your painting.

Procedure:

1. In a blank sheet of paper, sketch a particular image you want to paint.

2. Lay the colors on your paint area in thick layers, usually thick enough that
the popsicle stick strokes are visible. Colors can also be mixed right on the
surface. When dry, impasto provides texture; the colors appear to be coming
out of the canvas.

Note: The result might not be as exactly as expected because of the alternative
materials used, but whatever the outcome after drying is acceptable.

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 RUBRIC FOR PAINTING

CRITERIA 1 2 3 4 5
COMPOSITION / Art exhibits a Ideas are The Artwork Artwork exhibits
DESIGN lack of expressed composition exhibits good masterful execution of
planning in the with no unity demonstrates composition the Principles and
design and in limited and design Elements of Design
composition composition knowledge of elements (Line composition,
the principles space, movement,
and elements balance, emphasis,
of design pattern, unity, color,
contrast, rhythm,
texture, value, form)

COLOR Choices do not Ideas could Color choices Artwork Color choice and
represent the have been and exhibits good application enhances
idea and expressed application color choice. the idea being
application is better with shows some Color is expressed; advance
poorly done other color knowledge of effective in color theory is
choices and color theory expressing demonstrated. The
better and the idea use of color is
application relationships attractive and
appealing
CREATIVITY & Artwork shows Artwork Artwork Artwork Artwork includes
ORIGINALITY no evidence of includes an includes includes many unique ideas
creativity or Idea but unique ideas several with creative
originality lacks unique ideas execution of ideas.
originality of and The student’s
idea or exploration of personality/voice
technique multiple comes through
ideas

CRAFTSMANSHIP Artwork is The artwork The Artwork The Artwork The Artwork is
& PRESENTATION incomplete is completed is completed is completed completed with
with minimal with minimal with good substantial evidence
effort and effort, little effort, of effort, finishing
carelessly craftsmanshi displaying touches, and
lacking in p and few craftsmanshi excellent presentation
neatness finishing p, and and craftsmanship.
touches. meeting
requirements

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 Assessment

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. It is the idea of the artwork impressionism:sunrise.
a. Down-trodden coal miner
b. Deserted Public Spaces
c. Natural Look at the docks in the town
d. Soft swirls of the sky, Cypress, Hills and trees
2. It represents Van Gogh brings God to the village.
a. The hills and the trees on the ground
b. The spire of the church stretches up to the sky
c. Soft angles that match the soft swirls of the sky
d. Straight lines and sharp angles that divides the rest of the painting,
separating it from the heavens of the sky
3. She is the woman in the artwork “woman with hat”
a. Wife, Amelie
b. Mother, Emilia
c. Daughter, Emily
d. Neighbour, Amelia
4. Why did Gregorio De Chirico intentionally used contradictory vanishing
points of a set parallel In the artwork Mystery and Melancholy of street?
a. Destroying resemblance to reality
b. Separates two zones: light and darkness
c. To create mysterious and impossible universe
d. To Create enigmatic experience and refute reality
5. It symbolizes decay in the painting of Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory
and one of Dali’s personal phobias.
a. The mountains
b. The Olive Trees
c. The fly on the clock on the table
d. The leftmost clock invaded by ants
6. The red brick in the artwork of Ben Shahn’s Miner’s wives expresses what
emotion?
a. Grief
b. Sorrow
c. Anger and Torment
d. Blissfulness and Contentment
7. The sculpture head by Amadeo Modigliani has a strong connection to
specific ethnicity.
a. Asian
b. African
c. Hawaiian
d. Native American

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8. What side of the woman’s face in the artwork girl before a mirror portrays
her at night?
a. A face with no make up
b. The other side with rough charcoal
c. The green discoloration on her forehead
d. A woman dolled up with her make up done
9. It was that time in history that inspired Gino Severeni to paint the Armored
Train.
a. World War I
b. World War II
c. American Civil War
d. The Revolutionary War
10. It is the vision of Fernand Leger in painting his artwork The City
a. 21st century Metropolitan
b. 20th century Modern Technology
c. 21st century Architectural Designs
d. 20th century of the modern environment
11. What new sense of harmony did Piet Mondrian learned in his new
surroundings that influenced his artwork, New York City?
a. Black lines
b. Towering buildings
c. Quadrangular Layout
d. The rythm of modern Metropolis
12. What is the Idea of Jason Pollock’s Autumn Rythm?
a. Juxtaposed achromatic colors
b. Silkscreens that gives an assembly line effect
c. Build up dense, lyrical compositions comprised of intricate skeins of
line
d. Narrowly separated blocks of color hover in a column against a
colored ground
13. It is the idea of Bridget Riley's artowrk: Current
a. Juxtaposed achromatic colors
b. Silkscreens that gives an assembly line effect
c. Build up dense, lyrical compositions comprised of intricate skeins of
line
d. Narrowly separated blocks of color hover in a column against a
colored ground
14. In the Cordillera Labyrinth of Roberto Villanueva, What symbolizes the
rocks from the riverbed created with space peopled with spirit figures?
a. It is where life power emanates
b. Symbolizes the magic of nature
c. It is a worldy offering for the spirits
d. It symbolizes the heaven of the primitive Filipinos
15. What did Monet want to portray In the artwork impressionism: sunrise by
using rapid brush strokes?
a. Effect of the water current
b. Effect of the ripples of water
c. Effect of the sun’s light into the sky
d. Effect of the sun’s light against water and its fluidity

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WHAT’S NEW
Activity 3: BEHIND THE ART WORK
1. There are various interpretations of Starry Night and one is that this canvas depicts
hope. It seems that van Gogh was showing that even with a dark night such as this it
is still possible to see light in the windows of the houses. Furthermore, with shining
stars filling the sky, there is always light to guide you. It seems that van Gogh was
finally being cured of his illness and had essentially found his heaven.
2. The contrast in styles plays on the natural versus the unnatural, dreams versus
reality. Nature could even be attributed to the divine in this work. In Genesis 37:9,
Joseph states, “And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and
said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and behold the sun and the moon and
the eleven stars made obeisance to me.” - predicting that one day his family would
bow to him as an authority. Some people associate this quote to the painting.
3. in death he would be at peace
4. With shining stars filling the sky, there is always light to guide you. It seems that van
Gogh was finally being cured of his illness and had essentially found his heaven.
5. Van Gogh brings God to the village.
Activity 8: POST-
TEST/ASSESSMENT
What's In What I Know
1. C
2. B Activity 2: Review Activity 1: Pre-Test
3. A
1. A 1. C
4. A
2. B 2. B
5. D
3. D 3. A
6. C
4. B 4. A
7. B
5. A 5. D
8. B
6. C
9. A
7. B
10. D
8. B
11. D
9. A
12. C
10. D
13. A
11. D
14. A
12. C
15. D
13. A
14. A
15. D
Answer Key
References

https://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starry-night.html
https://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/impressionism.ht
m
https://www.artble.com/artists/vincent_van_gogh/paintings/starry_night/more_i
nformation/analysis
https://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-before-mirror.jsp
https://auralcrave.com/en/2018/09/17/salvador-dali-the-persistence-of-memory-
and-the-lost-meaning-of-a-melting-world/
https://www.henrimatisse.org/woman-with-a-hat.jsp
https://galleryintell.com/artex/mystery-melancholy-street-giorgio-de-chirico/
https://www.writework.com/essay/miners-wives-ben-shahn
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79418
https://publicdelivery.org/fernand-leger-the-city/
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/mondrian-piet/new-york-
city-3-unfinished
https://www.jackson-pollock.org/autumn-rhythm.jsp
https://www.mark-rothko.org/magenta-black-green-on-orange.jsp
https://www.masterworksfineart.com/artists/andy-warhol/marilyn-monroe
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Bridget-Riley-Current-1964-synthetic-
polymer-paint-on-composition-board-1481-x-1493_fig9_15166116
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/riley.html
http://members.tripod.com/in_the_bag/roberto.htm

Horizons Music and Arts Appreciation for Young Filipinos Learner’s Material.
Department Education. Pp. 193-227.

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