EXPRESSIONS OF ART PRODUCTION

Realism

• Attempts to portray the subject as it is

• Describes accurately and honestly as possible what is observed through the senses

Abstraction

Used when the artist becomes interested in one phase of a scene or a situation.

Does not show the subject as an objective reality; only the idea or feelings about it

Wassily Kandinsky’s Untitled

First Abstract Watercolor

was painted in 1910 and is considered by art historians to be the first purely abstract painting. The bold portrayal of vibrantly colored spots, smears, and lines foregoes all visual reference to objective reality.

Distortion

Manifested when the subject is misshapen or the regular shape is twisted.

Elongation

Achieved by lengthening, protracting, extending an aspect or feature of a subject.

The Portrait of Lunia Czechiuwska

Amadeo Modigliani drew this portrait pertaining to elongating the neck of a woman.

Mangling

Subjects are hacked and cut with repeated blows

Is rarely used by artist today. Here the subject is either cut, or mutilated

The Floppy Boot Stomp

Gina Litherland drew this portrait pertaining to a woman and a horse mutilated.

Cubism

Uses cones, cylinders, or spheres at the expense of other pictorial elements.

Connected

Thomac C. Fedro made this portrait.

Symbolism

Subjects represent an idea or concept devoid in the image but rather expressed through the various elements in the piece.

Isle of the Dead

Arnold Bocklin drew this portrait.

Fauvism

Subjects are typically of comfort, joy, and pleasure.

Les Fauves

The French word for “the wild beasts".

L’Estaque

Andre Derain drew this portrait.

Dadaism

Formed in 1916 by a group of artists and poets in Zurich, Switzerland.

Rejects logic, reason, and aesthetics of capitalist societies.

Indian Dancer

Hannah Hoch drew this portrait by rejecting logic, reason, and aesthetics of capitalist societies.

Futurism

Originated in Italy in the early 20th century

Emphasizes on speed, technology, youth, and violence and objects as cars, airplanes, and industrial cities.

Haycutters

Nathalia Goncharowa drew this portrait.

Surrealism

Founded in Paris in 1924 by French poet Andre Breton

Known for its visual artworks which sought to express the imaginings of the conscious mind

Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali drew this portrait; clocks

Watercolor

Pigments mixed with water and applied to fin white paper.

Gouache

An opaque watercolor

Fresco

Painting done on a moist plaster surface with colors ground in water or limewater mixture

Tempera

Mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk and ore

Pastel

Stick of dried paste made of pigment ground with chalk and compounded with gum and water

Oil

Appears as glossy and last long

Most costly material to use for painters

Mosaic

Small pieces of inlaid colored stones or glass called tesserae to create and image

Stained glass

small pieces of colored glass held together by bands of lead

Tapestry

Fabric produced by hand-weaving colored threads upon a wrap; hung on walls

Bistre

Brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood and often used in pen and wash drawing

Alissa

Ivanna Besevic drew this portrait.