Art Appreciation

Representational Art

Also known as Objective Representational art or figurative art represents objects or events in the real world, usually looking easily recognizable. It uses “form” and is concerned with “what” is to be depicted in the artwork.

Non-representational Art

Also known as Non-objective, these are those arts without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation). It is non-objective because it has no recognizable objects. Abstract Art.

Primary sources

Provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented.

Secondary sources

Interpret and analyze the primary sources. It include pictures, quotes, or graphics of primary sources.

Still Life

These are groups of inanimate objects arranged in an indoor setting.

Landscapes, Seascapes and Cityscapes

Artists have always been fascinated with their physical environment.

Tony Bennett

Tuscan Landscape

Katsushika Hokusai

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

Animals

They have been represented by artists from almost every age and place. In fact, the earliest known paintings are representation of animals on the walls of caves.

Winslow Homer

The Fox Hunt

Portraits

People have always been intrigued by the human face as an index of the owner's character. As an instrument of expression, it is capable of showing a variety of moods and feelings.

Everyday LIfe

Artists have always shown a deep concern about life around them. Many of them have recorded in paintings their observation of people going about their usual ways and performing their usual tasks.

History and Legends

History Consists of verifiable facts, legends, of unverifiable ones.

Religion & Mythology

The Christian church commissioned craftsmen to tell the stories about Christ and the saints in pictures, usually in mosaic, murals, and stained glass windows in churches.

Factual Meaning

The literal meaning or the narrative content in the work which can be directly apprehended because the objects presented are easily recognized.

Conventional Meaning

Refers to the special meaning that a certain object has in a particular culture or group of people. Symbols.

Subjective Meaning

Any personal meaning consciously or unconsciously conveyed by the artist using a private symbolism which stems from his own association of certain objects, actions or colors with past experience.

Artist

An artist is a person who performs art. Creates for the sake of art, self-satisfaction and expression.

Artisan

A skilled worker. Creates for the sake of business. Outputs have functional value and sometimes decorative value.

Medium

Materials used by the artist to express feelings or thoughts. They select materials that can be handled with ease, that would suit their plan and execute the qualities they want to show

3D Art

A visual art that has length, height and width. Examples of these are architecture and sculptures.

2D Art

A visual art that has length and width. Ex. Paintings

Auditory

The Art of Arranging sounds in time.

Technique

Manner in which the artist controls his medium to achieve the desired efect

Vesti la Giubba

First recording to sell a million copies. Enrico Carusso

Giussepe Verdi

Composed and created the play AIDA

Encaustic

Powdered color and Hot wax. Came from the greek word, enkaustikos which means to heat or burn in

Fresco Secco

Dry fresco, a process that dispenses with a complex preparation. Used in painting ceilings. An example is the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

Buon Fresco

True fresco (wet), used in painting walls. Ex. The annunciation by Fra Angelico

Egg Tempera

Pigment is mixed with egg yolk. As it dries, egg yolk creates a film, protecting the pigments. Ex. Idealized Portrait of a Lady by Sandro Botecelli

Mosaic

Pattern or image made from small pieces of objects.

Oil Painting

Thick and hard to control. A paste made with ground pigment and linseed oil for drying.

Watercolors

Pigments mixed with water.

Acrylic

Synthetic acrylic resins.

Collage

“To Glue” Visual elements are combined to create a new image. First examples are form Pablo Picasso

Drawing

Made with pencil or pen rather than paints.