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STYLES of ART

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STYLES of ART

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• Portrays people and things as they are seen by the eyes or really thought to be, without idealization and without distortion.

• The presentation and organization of details in the work seem so natural.

• It is the common way of presenting the art subject.• Reality is the essential raw material of all art, realism

has already existed since literature began.• In Western Literature, (1850) , realism emerged as a

coherent program of literary aesthetics stressing the daily life of an ordinary man with emphasis on the sordid and disagreeable

• Poetry and Dramas were influenced by realism but it was in the novel that realism achieved greatness.

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Examples of Realism in Novels

Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag

By : Eduardo Reyes

Dilim sa UmagaBy : Efren Abueg

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• “Abstract” means “to move away or separate”.

• Abstract art move from showing things as they really are.

• The artist becomes so engrossed in one phase of a scene or situation that he fails to show the subject as an objective reality.

• Unlike in realism, the artist shows his personal feelings or ideas about it.

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Two Basic Variations of Abstraction

GEOMETRIC or HARD EDGE

Suggest rationality and it is associated with such modern movement as

Constructivism, Cubism, and Concrete Art

LOOSER or ORGANIC

It is associated with such modern movements as abstract expressionism

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• Abstract Expressionism originates from New York Schools• From this artistic melting pot, Abstract Expressionism

flowered• It is characterized by large gestural brush strokes,

spontaneous, abstract imagery and fields of intense color

CUBISM• It is a style of painting introduced by Pablo Picasso and

Baraque• Deep objects are broken up into fragments and patterns og

geometric structures and are depicted on a flat canvas as if from several points of view

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• This method is introduced in Germany during the first decade of the 20th century

• Its influences were felt by the European artists from 1910 to present

• The exponents of expressionism believed in the necessity of a spiritual rebirth for man in an age that was fast becoming influenced by materialism

• The emotional expressions in expressionistic paintings could be described as involving pathos, morbidity, violence or chaos, and tragedy

• It sometimes portrays defeat• Art and color are freely distorted by the artist in order to

achieved by the artist or heightened emotional impact.• Van Gogh and Gauguin was an unbalanced expressionist

artist from Holland who used strong colors in his works expressive of his inner turmoil

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• A symbol, in general is a visible sign of something invisible such as an ideas or a quality

• It is the practice where art production represents ideas by means of symbols, thus giving meanings to objects, events and conditions

• Example of symbolism is the work of Juan Luna entitled “Spolarium” This artwork was an original painting of Juan Luna painted in Rome from July 1883 to March 1884. With the use of heavy and strong brush strokes, Juan Luna expressed his anger over abuses and cruelties during that time being suffered by his countrymen under the Spanish authorities

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• It is the opposite of abstrac to portraytion , a modern art that attempts to portray the subconscious mind through unconventional means and it was influenced by Freudian Psychology

• Uses art as a weapon against the evils and restrictions that surrealist see in society

• Surrealism is an invented word meaning super realism • It intends to express the true function of thought in the

absence of all control exerted by reason and outside all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.

• Surrealist portrayed dream imagery, fantasies and hallucinations.

• This movement in art and literature was founded in Paris in 1924 by the French poet Andre Beton

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• It is described as using brilliant primary colors in favor of color illumination on subjects like pictures of comfort, joy and leisure

• They used extremely bright colors• The subject matter centered on traditional nudes, still life and

illuminations• This was the first important art movement of the 19th century• This fauves did not attempt to express ethical, philosophical

or psychological themes• Fauvist painting was expressive and emotional and even

consisted of flat planes of strong colors

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• Futurist painters wanted their works to capture the speed of force and modern industrial society

• Their paintings glorified the mechanical energy of modern life

• Subjects included automobiles, motorcycles and railroad trains , subjects that express the explosive vitality of a modern city

• The often repeated word in Futuristic Cr edo is dynamism

• The leading Futurist painter and sculpture is Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) His drawing “ male figure in motion towards the left” illustrated the principle of dynamism