Art Appreciation Fundamentals

1. Classification and
Subject of Art
Group 2

2. Class Objectives
Classification of Art
Subject of Art
Methods of Presenting the Subject

3. CLASSIFICATION
OF ART

4. Main Classification
Visual Arts
Performing Arts
Literary Arts

5. Visual Arts

6. Visual Arts
The term "visual arts" refers to a broad range of artistic
disciplines that are primarily concerned with producing
works meant for visual enjoyment. Visual artists use a
variety of methods, supplies, and formats to convey their
thoughts, feelings, and worldviews through the use of visual
components like color, form, line, texture, and composition.
The visual arts are important to human society because they
provide a platform for individual expression, interpersonal
interaction, and aesthetic inquiry.

7. Painting
Includes various techniques such as oil painting, watercolor
painting, acrylic painting, and mixed media painting

8. Drawing
Involves different mediums
like pencil drawing, charcoal
drawing, ink drawing, and
pastel drawing.

9. Sculpture
Encompasses techniques
such as carving, modeling,
assemblage, and installation
art.

10. Printmaking
Includes subcategories like
etching, woodcut,
lithography, screen printing,
and monotype.

11. Photography
Covers areas such as
documentary photography,
portrait photography,
landscape photography, and
fashion photography.

12. Architecture
Focuses on the design and
construction of buildings
and structures.

13. Ceramics
Involves the creation of
pottery, earthenware,
porcelain, and ceramic
sculpture.

14. Performing Arts

15. Performing Arts
Performing arts encompass a range of creative
disciplines that are primarily focused on live
performances. Artists in the performing arts use
their bodies, voices, and various skills to convey
artistic expressions, emotions, and narratives to
an audience.

16. Dance
Includes various dance
forms such as ballet, modern
dance, contemporary dance,
jazz dance, and cultural
dances.

17. Music
Encompasses genres like
classical music, jazz, rock,
pop, folk, hip-hop, and
electronic music.

18. Theater
Includes sub-genres such as
drama, comedy, musical
theater, physical theater,
and experimental theater.

19. Opera
Combines singing, acting,
and musical accompaniment
in a theatrical presentation.

20. Mime
Involves using movement
and gestures to express
ideas and emotions without
speech.

21. Circus Arts
Covers disciplines such as
acrobatics, juggling, aerial
arts, clowning, and tightrope
walking.

22. Literary Arts

23. Poetry
Poetry encompasses diverse forms, including
sonnets, haiku, epic poems, narrative poems,
lyrical poems, spoken word poetry, and
experimental poetry. It explores rhythm, meter,
rhyme, imagery, and figurative language.

24. Prose
Prose covers a wide range of written works,
including novels, novellas, short stories, essays,
biographies, memoirs, literary fiction, science
fiction, fantasy, crime fiction, and non-fiction
works like history, philosophy, and journalism.

25. Drama
Drama includes plays, scripts, and theatrical works
meant to be performed on stage. It can be further
classified into genres like tragedy, comedy,
historical drama, absurdist drama, and
experimental theater.

26. Literature
Literature encompasses a vast array of written
works, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays,
and novels. It reflects diverse themes,
perspectives, and artistic styles across different
time periods and cultures.

27. Oral Storytelling
Oral storytelling refers to the tradition of passing
down stories, myths, legends, and cultural
narratives through spoken word. It can be found in
various cultures and encompasses folk tales,
fables, epics, and oral histories.

28. SUBJECT OF
ART

29. What Subject is ?
The subject of art refers to any person, object, scene or
event described or represented in a work of art.
Arts that have subject (eg Painting, Sculpture, Graphic
Arts, Literature and Theatre Arts)
Arts that have subject (eg Painting, Sculpture, Graphic
Arts, Literature and Theatre Arts)
(Representational or Objective)

30. Examples

31. Many contemporary painters have turned away from
representational to non-objective painting. They
have shifted their attention to the work of art as an
object in itself, an exciting combination of shapes
and colors that fulfills an aesthetic need without
having to represent images or tell a story.
Many modern paintings are like this making them
more difficult to comprehend

32. Ways of Representing Subject
The manner of representing subject varies according to
the intent and inventiveness of each artist.
Strictly speaking, no work of art is realistic. Since no
work of art is an accurate copy of what exists in the
natural world.
Some paintings seem to be photographic renderings of
facts or anchored on historical facts.

33. Example

34. Abstraction
By George Braque
the artist selects and
renders the objects with
their shapes, colors and
positions altered. In some
abstract works, enough of a
likeness has been retained
to represent real things

35. Distortion
it could also mean twisting,
stretching or deforming the
natural shape of the object.

36. Surrealism
it is a method where the artist in giving expression
to what it is in the subconscious composes
dreamlike scenes that show an irrational
arrangement of objects. The images are
recognizable, sometimes drawn from the nature but
they are so combined in utterly fantastic and
unnatural relationships.

37. Examples

38. Kinds of Subject
Artists have always been fascinated with their
physical environment.
Modern painters seem to be attracted to scenes in
cities. Vicente Manansala, Arturo Luz, and Mauro
Malang Santos are some who have done Cityscapes
Fernando Amorsolo is well known for having
romanticized Philippine landscapes.
Landscapes, Seascapes and Cityscapes

39. Examples

40. Still Lifes
These are groups of inanimate
objects arranged in an indoor
setting (flower and fruit
arrangements, dishes food, pots
and pans, musical instruments
and music sheets). The
arrangement is like that to show
particular human interests and
activities.

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

42. 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.
It is a realistic likeness of a person in sculpture, painting,
drawing or print but it need to be a photographic
likeness. A great portrait is a product of a selective
process, the artist highlighting certain features and de-
emphasizing others.

43. Examples

44. It does not have to be beautiful but it has to
be truthful.
Besides the face, other things are worth
noticing in portraits are the subject’s hands,
which can be very expressive, his attire and
accessories for it reveals much about the
subject’s time.

45. Examples

46. Figures
The sculptor’s chief subject has
traditionally been the human
body, nude or clothed. The body’s
form, structure and flexibility
offer the artist a big challenge to
depict it in a variety of ways,
ranging from the idealistic as in
the classical Greek sculptures to
the most abstract.

47. 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.
Genre Paintings – representations of
rice threshers, cockfighters, candle
vendors, street musicians and
children at play.

48. History and Legend
History consists of verifiable facts, legends of unverifiable ones,
although many of them are often accepted as true because tradition has
held them so far. Insofar as ancient past is concerned, it is difficult to tell
how much of what we know now is history and how much is legend.
History and Legend are popular subjects of art.
While many works may not be consciously done historical records,
certain information about history can be pieced from them. The
costumes and accessories, the status symbols, the kinds of dwellings or
the means of transportation.
Malakas and Maganda and Mariang Makiling are among the legendary
subjects which have been rendered in painting and sculpture by not a
few Filipino artists.

49. Example

50. Religion and Mythology
Art has always been a handmaiden of
Religion. Most of the world’s religions have
used the arts to aid in worship, to instruct,
to inspire feelings of devotion and to
impress and convert nonbelievers.
The Christian Church commissioned
craftsmen to tell the stories about Christ
and the saints in pictures, usually in
mosaics, murals and stained glass windows
in churches. It also resorted to the
presentation of tableaux and plays to
preach and teach.

51. Dreams and Fantasies
Dreams are usually vague and illogical. Artists especially the surrealists
have tried to depict dreams as well as the grotesque terrors and
apprehensions that lurk in the depths of the subsconscious.
A dream may be lifelike situation.
Therefore, we would not know if an artwork is based on a dream unless
the artist explicitly mentions it.
But if the picture suggests the strange, the irrational and the absurd, we
can classify it right away as a fantasy or dream although the artist may
not have gotten from the idea of a dream at all but the workings of his
imagination
No limits can be imposed on an artist’s imagination.

52. Examples

53. WHAT ARE THE
METHODS OF ART?

54. methods of art
There are numerous methods of creating art, ranging from
traditional to digital approaches. Some common methods
include painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography,
collage, digital art, and performance art. Each method offers
unique opportunities for artistic expression and creativity.
Artistic methods are the techniques and approaches artists use
to create their works. These methods can be combined and
adapted in various ways, allowing artists to explore their
creativity and produce a wide range of artworks.

55. Painting
Using pigments and a medium like oil, acrylic,
watercolor, or gouache to create images on
canvas, paper, or other surfaces.

56. Examples

57. Drawing
Creating images using various tools like
pencils, charcoal, pastels, ink, or markers
on paper or other surfaces.

58. Examples

59. Sculpture
Carving, molding, or assembling materials
like clay, stone, wood, metal, or found objects
to create three-dimensional artworks.

60. Examples

61. Printmaking
Techniques like etching, woodcut, lithography, and
screen printing to create multiple copies of an
image from a prepared surface.

62. Examples

63. Photography
Capturing images using cameras and then
manipulating or developing them using darkroom
techniques or digital tools.

64. Examples

65. Collage
Assembling various materials like paper, fabric,
photographs, and other objects to create a unified
composition.

66. Examples

67. Digital Art
Creating art using digital tools and software,
which can encompass various forms like digital
painting, 3D modeling, and graphic design.

68. Examples

69. Mixed Media
Combining different artistic materials and methods
in a single artwork.

70. Examples

71. Performance Art
Creating art through live performances that may
include elements of theater, dance, music, and other
forms of expression.

72. Examples

73. Installation Art
Creating large-scale, immersive artworks within a
specific space.

74. Examples

75. Ceramics
Creating art using clay that is shaped, fired, and
often glazed to produce functional or decorative
objects.

76. Examples

77. Mosaic
Assembling small pieces of glass, stone, or other
materials to create intricate patterns and images.

78. Examples

79. Encaustic
Using heated beeswax mixed with pigments as a
medium for painting.

80. Examples

81. Graffiti and Street Art
Creating art in public spaces using spray paint,
stencils, and other techniques.

82. Examples

83. Calligraphy
Artistic handwriting or lettering often used for
decorative purposes.

84. Examples

85. Thank
You!
REGINALDO, Louise
QUILLAN, Nicole
SALVADOR, Xypriel
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