Art Appreciation and Art History Reviewer

Vocabulary flashcards covering Humanities, Western Art History, and Philippine Art History.

Humanus

The Latin word meaning human (ability to show kindness and rationality), cultured (learned in ways of a civilized society), and refined (improvement in good taste), from which Humanities originates.

Humanities

An academic discipline focused on the study of art and unique creations of individual imagination, celebrating human values and expressiveness.

Social Science

A field of study that views humans in the mass to create generalizations and predict behavior, encompassing subjects like history, economics, and psychology.

Ars

The Latin word meaning skill, from which the word art is derived.

Aesthetics

A concept value used to interpret beauty in art by evaluating how effectively the elements and principles of art interact.

Taste

A concept value in art interpretation that depends on a person's social class, culture, and background.

Pure Arts

Creative activities undertaken purely for mental contemplation and the upliftment of the spirit.

Practical Arts

Art created with a functional purpose to satisfy practical human needs.

Liberal Arts

Art directed toward the intellectual growth and development of a person.

Mixed Art

An art form that combines two or more different media forms together.

Kinetic Art

Art that utilizes motion and movement as its primary medium.

Phonetic Art

Art that makes use of sounds and words as its medium of expression.

Artisans

Craftsmen of folk traditions who create functional, utilitarian art by hand in small quantities.

Craft

A creative way of making things by hand requiring talent that is groomed and moulded through experience.

Circa

A term (abbreviated as c or ca) used before a date to indicate an approximate time when an exact date is unknown.

Medieval Art (AD 4 - 1300)

Western art centered on church themes, sacred stories, and promoting Christianity, featuring styles such as Christian, Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Ottonian, and Gothic.

Renaissance Art (AD 1300 - 1600)

An art period that celebrated humanism, innovation, and the revival of classical knowledge, marked by the rise of art academies.

Baroque Art (AD 1600 - 1730)

An art movement marked by grandeur, drama, swirling spirals, upward diagonals, and emotional intensity, sponsored by the Catholic Church as part of the Counter-Reformation.

Rococo Art (AD 1720 - 1780)

An extension of Baroque art originating in France under Louis XV, characterized by pastel colors, elegance, asymmetry, curved forms, and playful themes.

Neoclassicism Art (AD 1750 - 1830)

Art inspired by Ancient Greece and Rome that revived Renaissance symmetry and precision, focusing on inner harmony, clarity, restraint, and heroic moral values.

Romanticism Art (AD 1780 - 1880)

An art movement marking the beginning of modern art that celebrated passion and emotion over intellect and reason.

Realism Art (AD 1849 - 1900)

An art movement focused on detailed, life-like depictions of physical reality, addressing themes of social injustice, poverty, and labor.

Gustave Courbet

The artist known as the father of realism and painter of The Desperate Man.

Art Nouveau Art (AD 1890 - 1910)

An art style heavily influencing applied arts and graphics, characterized by long, sinuous lines and curves inspired by the natural world.

Impressionism Art (AD 1860 - 1890)

An anti-academic outdoor style characterized by lively brushstrokes, a bright color palette, and capturing the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere.

Post-Impressionism Art (AD 1886 - 1905)

An art movement evolving from Impressionism where artists used vivid colors and thick brushstrokes to express emotional and psychological responses.

Fauvism Art (AD 1900 - 1935)

An art movement led by Henri Matisse that rejected natural representation in favor of expressive, intense color, line, and brushwork.

Expressionism Art (20th century)

An art movement depicting non-objective reality, characterized by intense emotional subjectivity and individual experience.

Cubism Art (ca. 1907 - 1908)

An art movement invented by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque that rejected copying nature in favor of fragmented forms, multiple viewpoints, and geometric abstraction.

Surrealism Art (AD 1916 - 1950)

An art movement emerging from Dada that explored dreams and the unconscious mind, influenced by Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.

Abstract Expressionism Art (ca. 1940s - 1950s)

A non-representational art movement that abandoned convention to focus on spontaneity, improvisation, and the medium itself.

Contemporary Art (1946 - present)

Post-World War II art encompassing diverse global themes, media, and forms without a clear linear pattern or rigid rules.

GAMABA

Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan, an award conferred upon the bearers of traditional Philippine arts.

National Artist

A title conferred upon the bearers of non-traditional Philippine arts such as dance, music, theater, visual arts, literature, film, and broadcast arts.

Piloncito

Pre-colonial Philippine gold coins used as currency and as status-symbol ornaments.

Likha

Pre-colonial Philippine figurines depicting deities.

Anito

Pre-colonial Philippine images depicting ancestors.

Ilustrados

Native Indios during the Spanish Colonial Period who acquired economic wealth through agricultural export and became new patrons of the arts.

Tipos del Pais

A style of watercolor painting in the Philippines depicting local types and attire.

Damian Domingo

The father of Filipino painting and founder of the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura in 1821.

Miniaturismo

A Philippine painting style characterized by painstaking attention to minute details.

Letras t Figuras

An artistic style developed by Jose Honorato Lozano where letters are composed of figurative human and decorative illustrations.

Mariano Baldemor Madrinan

The first Filipino to win an international award in sculpture for his work Mater Dolorosa.

Fabian Dela Rosa

The first painter of note for 20th-century Philippine art, recognized for subdued cool colors and serving as the first dean of the UP School of Fine Arts.

Fernando Amorsolo

The first National Artist of the Philippines (1972), nicknamed 'Grand Old Man of Philippine Art' and 'The Painter of Philippines Sunlight', known for vibrant yellow-orange landscapes.

Guillermo Tolentino

A professor at the UP School of Fine Arts who sculpted The Oblation in 1935 and designed the Bonifacio Monument.

Thirteen Moderns

A group of post-WWII Philippine artists who introduced modern styles such as expressionism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism.

Victorio C. Edades

The Father of Modern Philippine Painting who utilized dark and somber colors depicting laborers and served as dean of UST's liberal arts program.

Carlos Botong Francisco

A UP Fine Arts dropout who revived the art of murals in the Philippines using fluid lines and brilliant colors while defying linear perspective.

Triumvirate

The artistic trio composed of Galo B. Ocampo, Victorio Edades, and Carlos Botong Francisco who led the growth of mural painting in the Philippines.