CONTEMPORARY ARTS REVIEWER Surrealism
-an artistic cultural
Humanities
- The study of human experience
-it includes philosophy, history, literature, art,
music etc.
Figurative Abstraction
- are abstractions or simplification of reality,
where detail is eliminated from recognizable
objects leaving on the essence or some degree of
recognizable form
Contemporary Arts
- the present day events and passion of society.
-Middle 20th century up to this very minute.
-Less is more
-post modernism in the west around late 1970’s
-produced by the 21st artists
Abstract Art
- it doesn’t relate to anything external or “try to
look like something”
-is a kind of art that uses a visual language or
form, color, and line to create a composition.
Integrative Art
- different art can be melded together to
prodeuced an integraded or combined art.
-Integration of Science and Humanities
-Integration of Dance, Music and Song
Visual Arts
- painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography,
installation art, mixed media works, illustration,
graphic arts, performance art and/or imaging
Fauvism Art
-an art movement that was established towards
the beginning of the 20th century
- bold colours, texture brushwork and non-
naturalistic depictions
Conceptual Art
- a visual representation that tells a story or
conveys a certain look.
movement that portrays a wide
array of themes of imagination,
choices of colors, and various art
techniques
- Surrealist artists focus
on displaying the unconscious
mind
Dadoism
- they often utilized collage, montage, and
assemblage of disparate elements to create their
art
-often had left-wing political views and created
work that questioned every aspect of society and
culture
Cubism
-Artists wanted instead to emphasize the two-
dimensional flatness of the canvas in their
artworks objects are analyzed broken up into
multitude of small facets and then assembled
into geometric forms to evoke the same figures
and to show the subjects from multiple views.
Distortion
-Artists used to store shin or obstruction to
convey feelings and a particular mood because
of intense can be expressed more successfully in
forms that are personalized rather than through
the use of realism
-Distortion is a change of a reality’s depiction
altering it in anyway that one is able to still
recognize the item itself but notices it is change
in some manner
Realism
-Realism is an attempt to make art and literature
resemble life the term realism is also used to
describe the movement in literature that attempts
to portray life as it is
Non- Objectivism
-There is totally no subject at all just an
interplay of pure elements like line shape or
color and so on
Color
-the most striking art element that catches the
eye is color
- it is a sensation created by visible wavelengths - The subject matter that carries the message of
of light caught in a prism the work.
- it is a mixture of organic or syntheticsubstance
called pigments. Form
- three dimensional
Shape - a figure that is separate from its background.
-When the ends of a line meets,they form a
shape.
- it can be geometric – angular
organic- curvy

Line
- line is the extension of a point

Value
- the degree of lightness and darkness of color
- in music it is called pitch

Texture
- the surface of an artwork
- it can really be felt by touch or it can be
illusory which means it can be only seen but not
felt.

Harmony
- the wholeness of the design
- the agreement between parts of a composition,
resulting in a united whole.
- in music it id th combinstion of musical notes
- in writing it the theme or the topic is the
uniting factor

Rhythm
-it is a flow, or feeling of movement
- rhythm or beat is natural ex. the human
hearbeat

Variety
- assortment or diversity

Proportion
- Elements have a relationship with one another

Emphasis and Subordination

- gives importance or dominance to a unit or an
area.

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