THE SUBJECT OF

ART
The term subject and refers to the main idea that is represented in the
artwork. It is the essence of the piece.
It is the matter to be described or to be portrayed by the artist
• this may refer to any person, object, scene or event.
To determine subject matter in a particular piece of art, ask yourself:

1. What is actually depicted in this artwork?

2. What is the artist trying to express to the world?
3. What is her or his message?
4. And how are the conveying the message?
MONA LISA
By Leonardo Da Vinci
There two kinds of arts as
to subject:
 Representational or
objective art
• Depicts object that are
commonly recognized by the
most people. Attempt to copy
what is real or portray the
subject as it is. Uses “form”
and are concerned with what
is it to be depicted.
 Non representational or
non objective art
• Without any reference or recognizable
objects. Abstract does not represent
real object. Uses contract and is
concerned with “how” the artwork is
depicted.
 The Artist in his choice

1. Everything under the sun is raw material for the artist to draw his subject.
2. The artist’s choice of subject, usually affected by his mediocre.
3. The piece of art depends largely upon the time in which he lived.
 Sources of subject of Art
Nature –most common inspiration and subject.
History- historical, people, advanced periods, Greek and Roman mythology.-
Myths are definite parts of inheritance.
Religion- anything that represents spiritual beliefs and doctrines
• Sacred Oriental Text – sacred text of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taonism,
Confucianism, Zoroastrianism ,Jainism and Islam.
 • Landscape

Subject of Art • Seascape

may be;

• Cityscape
 Still life
Inanimate objects arranged in indoor
setting
 Portraits
The realistic likeness of a person
accessories are very much
expressive because they revealed so
much of the person and his time.
Figure – Nude/clothed
Greeks – physical beauty
was the symbol of moral
and spiritual perfection
 Everyday life
Life around the artist, or
the actual setting.
 History and
Legends
History – consist of
verifiable facts
Legends – unverifiable
but they have be an
excepted as true
 Religion and
mythology
use to preach or teach

ART – handmade of
religion
Dreams and
fantasy
mostly used by sure a
list painters.
 these often refer to the
artistic movement that
began in France in the.
1850s.
• Realism popularity
increased with the
advent of the
photography, a new
visual medium that
generated people’s
desire to develop
objectively real things.
Realism
Ways to representing
the subject
 Through abstract art, the artist
presents the subject in no way as
an objective fact, but just his
idea or his feeling, (exaggerated
emotionalism) about it.

Abstraction
 A symbol is a clear
indication that anything like
an idea or a standard is
invisible.
• Symbolism uses symbol to
systematically focus or
amplify meaning rendering
the artwork more subject
(the rather than objective
and traditional.)

Symbolism
 it is there a vibe from
the French Les Phelps,
which mean is “the wild
beast”.
It is the last part of the
19th century artistic
movement that stress
spontaneity and the use
of excessively bright
colours.
Fauvism
 the word “Dada” is a
French word which means
“hobby horse” is the
children pet made of a
wooden horse. No undead
on a stick.
We may claim it with this
mythology dadaism is a
“Non sensical” art
movement.
Some would say it is not art
since it’s appeared to have
absolutely no sense.
Dadaism
 describe as a modernist
movement embracing the
future age or , the
automobile, then aircraft
than industrial town
reflected the development or
urban life and technological
success of a man beyond
nature.
Futurism
 It is an offshoot or a Dada boy sometimes,
now a super realism, which revolves around
the process of making thing look ordinary,
exceptional. It focuses on actual objects
found in imagination or fantasy, or it has
realistic subject found in the. Subsequently
illustrating the inner mainstream like image.

Surrealism
 It also often called optical realism
because of its interest in the actual
visual experience, including
things such as the influence of
color, light and motion on the
nature of the objects portrayed in
the works of art.

Impressionism
Thank You and God
bless
Prepared by: Jay Ann Bello
Prepared to: Ms. Shella Esclares