Chapter 4 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Artworks that depict something that can easily be recognized
Aims to represent or show actual
Representational or Objectives
Pictures of men & women
Popular before the invention of camera
Portraiture
Represents animals & plants
Became the trend due to man’s first encounters with plants & animals for survival
Animals and Plants
Representing inanimate objects or non living things
Always available and capable to be organized
Still Life
Example of Portraiture
Carlos Duarte
Bread and Shutter
Example of Animals and Plants
Patricia White
Michelle Mara
Example of Still Life
a basket of fruits, a bag of groceries, a pack of cigarettes, a bunch of flowers, and a bucket of chicken
Sejal Raval
Clara Peeeters
copying scenes happening in the community
Country life
Example of Country life
a barrio fiesta, a fluvial parade, a bountiful rice harvest, a big catch of fishes, and a natural calamity
Robert Duncan
Fernando Amorsolo
depicts picture of land forms
Landscape
Example of Landscape
Volcano,mountain, hill, valley, plain, cliff
Faim Faim
Anne Marie Bone
Pictures of any of the water forms
Seascape
Example of seascape
Ocean, sea, river, lake, brook, pond, falls
June Nelson
Anton Gorlin
Pictures of an aerial view of a city of a portion of it
Cityscape
Holy family, Madonna, and the child Jesus Christ, angels, saints, and other religious objects
Religious items
Example of Religious items
Rosaries
Shalin Indian Brass
Supernatural beings and fantasies technological items, and objects
Mythological, fictional, and cartoon characters (Zeus, Poseidon, Hercules and Cerebrus)
Artworks that have no resemblance to any real subject or objects or anything from nature
Non- Representational or Non-objective arts
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction or imagery in art
Departure from accurate representation can be slight, partial or complete
Abstract
What is the difference betw. subject and content in art?
Subject is the literal, visible image in a work while Content includes the connotative, symbolic and suggestive aspects of the image
Subject matter is the subject of the artwork
Ex: still life, portrait, landscape etc
Content is NOT subject or things in the painting. Communication of
Ideas, feelings, and reactions connected with the subject
Also known as naturalism
Attempt to represent things as it is with accuracy and precision
REALISM
an invented word meaning “super naturalism” or beyond realism
attempt to represent subjects which were the result of dreams and fantasies
SURREALISM
