lesson 2: Painting

Painting

Refers to the process of applying liquid colors on a flat surface.

Painting

Forms can be created using a wide variety of materials such as watercolor, acrylic, ink, oil pastel and charcoal

Easel painting

The most common form of painting.

Easel painting

As the name implies, this involves applying color to a board or canvas that is fixed on an upright support called an easel.

Murals

Describe as a huge wall sized painting

Telon painting

Describe as a backdrop or background for the stage

Telon painting

This backdrops are used for komedya, sarswela and sinakuli which are popular forms of the threater in the country

Jeepney and calesa painting

It is typically painted using one color. The borders of the kalesa are decorated with geometric patterns repetitive letters, and/or thin lines

Collage

Refers to a form of painting that involves combined images in a single artwork.

Collage

This entails cutting and pasting materials such as paper, fabric, tin foil, and other relatively flat matters

Genre painting

Portrays people in daily activities.

Genre painting

Subject include planting and harvesting rice, a young woman singing in front of guest, barong barong, vendors and fiestas

Historical painting

Depicts as a scene from the past. It's often has a lesson concerning national values

Interiors

This refers to a painting of the space inside of a part of a house or a building.

Interiors

This usually reveals a social class of the family living in that particular house, as well as a traits of the people living in it

Landscape

This paintings portray natural scenery of urban scenes

Portraits

This refers to a painting portraying one or more specific individuals

Portraits

This usually portrays the physical characteristics of the subject and seeks to show an understanding of that person's character

Nudes

This paintings that portray the unclothed human figure. Nowadays, a wide variety of materials and styles can be used in painting _

Religious painting

It includes a lone religious image, lives of the saints, and since based from the scripture like the nativity scene, and the stations of the cross

Still life

This refers to a painting that depicts natural or man-made objects that form a composition in a natural setting

Easel painting, murals, telon painting, jeepney and calesa painting, collage

Forms of painting

Genre painting, historical painting, interiors, landscape, portraits, nudes, religious painting, still life

Themes of painting