CHAPTER 2 - METHODS OF PRESENTING ART SUBJECTS

Introduction
Certain methods of presenting arts are employed in order for it to be effective.

In presenting his subject, the artists uses different methods to express the idea he wants to make clear.

Methods in presenting art subjects

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Realism Abstraction Symbolism Fauvism Dadaism Futurism Surrealism Expressionism

1. Realism
It is the attempt to portray the subject as is. The artist selects, changes, and arranges details to express the idea he wants to make clear. The artist main function is to describe accurately what is observed through the senses.

-An art or a work is realistic when the presentation and organization of details in the work seem so natural. -This is a common way of presenting the art subject. -In literature, realism has for its goal the faithful rendering of the objective reality of human life. -Reality is the necessary raw material of art, realism has certainly existed since literature began.
FERNANDO AMORSOLOS PAINTING The making of the Philippine Flag

-But realism as a coherent program of literary aesthetics emerged in Western literature about 1850 in reaction against the idealism of the narrow social range of earlier literary attitudes. -Stressing the daily life of the common person -Poetry and drama were influenced by realism but it was in the novel that realism achieved greatness.

Barong-barong by Vicente Manansala (1958)

Examples of realism ARTS

Giora Eshkol (Daydreaming) a figurative realism fine artist, 3d animation creator, internet publishing pioneer (1994), Israeli artist.

Willem Claesz Heda (Banquet Piece with Mince Pie) a Dutch Golden Age artist from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still lifes. He is known for his innovation of the late breakfast genre of still life painting.

2. Abstract
It means to move away or separate. Abstract art moves away from showing things as they really are. The art work is not realistic.

Types of abstract art

Distortion. The subject is in misshaped condition. Elongation. The subject is lengthened for protraction or extension. Mangling, Subjects are either cut, lacerated, mutilated or hacked. Cubism. Subjects are shown in basic geometrical shapes.

Samples of abstract art

Mary Capan (Title Unknown)

Vincent van Gogh (Starry Night)

3. Symbolism
The presentation of an invisible sign such as an idea or a quality into something visible.
Author Unknown (Memento Mori)

4. Fauvism
Themes are either ethical, philosophical or psychological. Subjects express comfort, joy or happiness.

Japanese Propaganda poster during ww II

5. Dadaism
A protest movement formed in 1916 by a group of artist in Zurich, Switzerland. They try to provoke the public with outrageous forms of arts. Came from the French word dada meaning hobby horse.

Mona Lisa is an oil painting on a poplar wood panel by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world's most famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1506

6. Futurism
Its works aims to capture the speed and force of modern industrial society and to glorify the mechanical energy of modern life.

7. Surrealism
Founded in Paris in 1924 by French poet Andre Breton. It tries to reveal a new and higher reality than that of daily life. They claim to create a magical world more beautiful than the real one through art. It came from the slang of super realism.

Gennady Privedentsev (Bird`s Cocktail)

8.Expressionism. Introduced in German during the first decade of 20th century and influences felt by the European artists from 1910 up to the present. It influenced the playwrights in English and Filipino like the work of Amelia Lapena- Bonifacio in SEPANG LOCA (1958). They believed in the necessity of a spiritual rebirth for the human being in an age that was fast becoming influenced by materialism. Example: Paul Dumol Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio (1969) expresses truth, life or reality Revel Aguila Mapait sa Bao

Paul Dumol Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio (1969)