ART APPRECIATION (APRIL 21, 2022) Classicism

-600 BC
-found in the ancient greek and roman sculptures
Art and History -idealist imitation of the beauty and perfection of
the human body
▪ Style- determined by history (time and place) by -the sculptors were praxiteles, polycritus, and
the presonality of the artists as well as by theory myron
of art.
▪ History of Art
Prehistoric Non- Western Art
Art Western Art
-25,000 to -Beginning -Beginning
3,500 BC 3,500 BC 600 BC

-Cave -Egyptian, -European

paintings Chinese, and American
Indian,
Islamic,
Philippine Medieval Art
-300 AD
▪ History of Western Art -style has religious subjects, and applies flat
THREE MAJOR PERIODS projection. The church is the patron of art. The art
Classical Art Modern Art Postmodem Art forms are mosaic, stained glass paintings,
600 BC 1870’s 1950’s illuminated manuscripts and calligraphy.

▪ Classical Art
-classicism, medieval art, renaissance art,
mannerism, baroque, neoclassicism
▪ Modern Art
-impressionism, expressionism, pointilism, art
nouveau, fauvism, surrealism, cubism,
suprematism, dadaism, ready made art, abstract
expressionism, color field painting, pop art.
▪ Post-modern Art
-installation art and conceptual art, environmental
art or earthwork, performance art, computer or
digital art
▪ Philippine Art
-prehistoric art, indigenous and folk art, religious
art and secular art, romantic realism, abstraction
and modernism, social realism, magic realism

Renaissance Art
-1450
-revival of ancient Greek and Roman Art.
-discovery and application perspective
-applied chiaroscuro and triangular composition.
-religious and secular subjects
-patrons of art: the church and wealthy families
-the highest development of art in the western
world
-early renaissance: Boticelli
-flemish achool of painting: Van Eyck
-high renaissance: florentine school of painting:
leonardo donatello, raphael michaelangelo
Baroque
-1550
-various subjects presented in highly realistic
way
-application of deep chiaroscuro
-dominance of curve lines to suggest motion
-Rembrant van rijn, Giorgione Castelfranco,
Peter Paul Reubens, Jan Vermeer
Mannerism
-1520
-Alternative style to Reneaissance Art
-Representation are stylized with elongated
figures and usually religious subjects
-manerist paintings are those by El Greco or
Dominikos Theotokopolus
Neoclassicism
-1700
-Revival of Renaissance & Classical Style
-Subject: Ancient Western society Highly
Realistic Representation
-Technique: Deep chiaroscuro Academic art and
the Salon
-Strict adherence to rules of painting
Impressionism
-Beginning of modern art subjects taken from
everyday ordinary life
-Surface filled with bursting light of the sun
-Pale colors and blur outlines indicate movement
and passage of time
Expressionism (Post-Impression) De Stijl or Neoplasticism
-1880 -1917
-Art is an expression of the artist’s emotion -also called plastic art, new plastic art or
-Unnatural representation concretism
-Symbolic use of color -purely non-objective painting
-Dominance of curve lines and distorted facial -represents subjectivity not objects
expressions for emotional effect -uses rectilinear shapes and primary colors
-Heavy impasto paints -paintings by Van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian
-Vincent Van Gogh, Edward Munch, Paul
Gaugin Classical Art Modern Art
400 BC to 1800 AD 1800 to 1960
Fauvism Formalism,
Idealist, Imitationism, Expressionism, Action
-1900 Representationalism Theory, Institutional
-name from french fauve that means “beast” Theory
-uses unnatural colors for exciting visual effect Governed by emotion,
Governed by conscious
passion, and the
-subjects are taken from everyday, ordinary reason and mathematics
unconscious (Dionosian
objects (Apollonian Beauty)
Beauty)
-paintings by Henry Matisse Conveys motion and
Depicts rest and eternity. passage of time thru pale
Suggests motion by curve colors, blur outlines,
Art Nouveou lines and radial balance. multi-view and multi-
-1900’s perspective
-poster-like paintings for advertisement Emphasizes the subject and Emphasizes the artist and
art technique. individual expression.
-subject are women in sensual postures Creates illusion for realistic
-linear compositions and flat projections Eliminates illusion so as
effect through perspective
art is to be seen as art.
-paintings by Alphone Ma. Mucha and chiaroscuro.

Cubism
PART 2: (May 12, 2022)
-1905
-This has flat projection, and uses geometrical Suprematism
shapes.
-purely non-objective
-The subjects are in multiview to suggest motion.
-Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Fernand Leger, -represents pure subjectivity not objects
Vicente Manansala, Mauro Malang Santos, Ang
-reduction into most basic shapes and colors
Kiokuk
-painting becomes true to itslef, finally seen as what it
is-a painting (Kasimir Malevich)
 Surrealism
Dadaism (1920’s) -art is a revelation of the artist’s subconscious mind
-from dada (baby talk) (psychoanalysis)

-anti-art movement -reactiom to rationalism & romamticism

-the purpose is to shock -emphasizes passion and imagination, weird, fantastic

and dream-like presented highly realistic way
-creates art by destroying art
Painters
-seeks to destroy established traditions and past histories Salvador Dali
to bring aout new social order (Marcel Duchamp) Marc Chagall
Rene Magritte
Prudencio Lamaroza

Ready-Made Art (1920’s)

-based on the Institutional Theory (Institutional art is a
governing art) Abstract Expressionism (1940s)

-anything may be art -based on action

-ordinary objects are put in the context of art by the -theory of painting
artit’s authority and powerplay -purely non-objective
-sense of freedom in the act of painting
 Artist
Artist Painting
Bridget Riley
Victor Vasarely

POP ART
-art taken from images in popular culture such as
Jackson Pollock commercial labels and mass products, comics, and
cartoons.
William de Kooming -pop “popularized”
Jose Joya

Color Field Painting (Beginning 1950)

ARTIST
-branch of action painting Roy Liechtenstein
Andy Warhol
-mass of colors on the flat surface
ARTIST ART
Styles of Postmodern Art
Installation Art
-exhibition space transformed into work of art, Use of
limitless range of materials arranged in place.
ARTIST
Tracy Erwin
Mark Rothko Christo Javacheff
Damien Hirst
Gus Albor Ai Weiwei
Medio Cruz
Louie Cordero

OPT ART/ Optical Art (Beginning 1960)

-creates optical illusion
-the illusion itself becomes the reality in art
Conceptual Art -Total of 127 animal and human figures
-Art is more the idea conveyed -Declared as National Cultural Treasure and World
by the work rather than the UNESCO Heritage Site
physical product. Has an
scandalizing effect on people,
but, this art made them think. Indigenous Art
-art before the colonial
peiod by the
indigenous people and
ARTIST ethnic groups of the
Christo Javacheff Philippines that has
Antonio Mazoni survived up to the
Yoko Ono present time.
Roberto Chabet
-Expressions of
religious beliefs, and
HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF PHILIPPINE ART used for rituals and
(FROM 800 BC TO PRESENT) ceremonies.
-Decorative and functional.

• Prehistoric Neolithic Art

-Angono Christian Philippine Art (1521)
-Petroglyphs
800 BC -works of sculptures and
• Indigenous Precolonial Art paintings that have developed
-Tabon Cave after the introduction of
-Ethnic Art Christian religion by the
• Spanish Christian Colonial Art Spaniards, with the church as
• Secular Art the patron of art.
1521
• Spanish Colonization
• Relegious Sculptures Paintings
• Romantic Realism
1900
-Amercican Colonization
• Modernism Secular Art
-cubism -the art that developed outside the confines of the Spanish
-abstract Christian Church in the Philippines, mostly meant for the
-expressionism
1950 elite illustrado class.
-color field
-Miniaturismo Style of Portraiture
• After WWII
-postcolonial period -Letras y Figuras
• Social Realism
1970 • Martial Lw
• Magic Realism (after 1986)

PREHISTORIC ART (900 BC)

-Angono Petroglyphs
-Cave paintings found in a cave in Rizal Province
Romantic Realism (1920)
-Shows only aspect of Magic Realism (1980)
beauty.
-subject taken from
-Subjects are the idyllic and everyday live of people and
exotic rural sceneries. seen with innocent and
fresh eyes that suggest
-Filled with form of light
fascination with the
and shadow sometimes used
ordinary
for tourism purpose.
Artist
Fernando Amorsolo Artist
Fabian de la Rosa Nestor Lyenes
Antonio Mahilum
Araceli Dans
Modernism (1940)
-Filipino artist appropriated of
the Western modern art and
interpreted it in the local
context in terms of the subjects
as well as some artistic forms.

ARTIST
Carlos Botong
Victorio Edades
Francisco
Prudencio
Vincente Manasala
Lamarozza
Cesar Legaspi Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Jose Joya
Hernando Ocampo

Social Realism (1970)

-with Marxixt orientation, the
art that depicted the social
reality in the country during
the Martial Law years ruled by
Ferdinand Marcos

ARTIST
Antipas Delotavo
Pablo Baens Santos
Onib Olmedo
Al Manrique
Brenda Fajardo