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- 2. Objectives: • Apply the skills and language of the specific visual art and demonstrate the ability to create in the visual arts. • Understand and evaluate how the specific visual art convey meaning.
- 3. Representational Art • Representational artwork aims to represent actual objects or subjects from reality. We can easily identify with recognizable subjects in a painting, drawing or sculpture. This make representational art widely accepted among masses. • Representational art also represent the largest collection of artwork created.
- 4. Mona Lisa Tobias and the Angel, 1470-80 The Madonna of the Carnation painting by Leonardo da Vinci
- 5. Abstract Art • Many people have difficulty in understanding the differences between abstract art and non-objective art. • Abstract art often misunderstood type of art known as abstraction aims to take subjects from reality but presents them in the way that is different from the way they are viewed in our reality. This may take the form of emphasizing lines, shapes, or colors that transform the subject. • Abstract art includes the subcategories of Minimalism, Cubism, and Precisionism. Abstraction can also happen when the artist decides to view the subjects in a traditional manner.
- 7. Non-objective Art • Non-objective art takes nothing from reality. It is created purely for aesthetic reasons. Non-objective art is abstract or non- representational art. It tends to be geometric and does not represent specific objects, people, or other subjects found in the natural world. • One of the best known non-objective artists is Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), a pioneer of abstract art.
- 8. How to read and understand Visual Art?
- 9. When you look at a painting or sculpture, do you wonder what it means? How does it make you feel? By Visual Art, we are going to learn strategies for understanding the elements of visual art, including theme, mood, and tone. Before we look at any examples, let’s. 1.) Theme- relates to the meaning of painting, rather than the subject, which is specific and basic. Usually about life, society or human nature, but can be any other subject. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a work. Themes differ from motifs in the visual arts in that themes are ideas conveyed by the visual experience as a whole, while motifs are elements of the content. 2.) Mood- Is the atmosphere in the artwork or the feeling expressed. Is the art tranquil, or is it dark or disturbing? 3.) Tone- refers to the lightness or darkness of colors used, which can help to create a sense of depth or distance in art. Artists use light and dark colors to convey a mood or an emotion. Color can harmonize, or bring elements together and create a pleasing sensation, or it may clash. Remember, the artist is making a choice about color and brushstrokes. Finally, the composition, or the underlying structure of the art, refers to where the artist placed the
- 10. Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781
- 12. THE SPOLIARIUM BY JUAN LUNA - FAMOUS ART - HANDMADE OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS The picture recreates a despoiling scene in a Roman circus where dead gladiators are stripped of weapons and garments. Together with other works of the Spanish Academy, the Spoliarium was on exhibit in Rome in April 1884. In 1886, the painting was sold to the provincial
- 13. The Death of Cleopatra When the triumphant Roman arrived, she attempted to seduce him, but he resisted her charms. Rather than fall under Octavian's domination, Cleopatra died by suicide on either August 10 or August 12, 30 B.C., possibly by means of an asp, a poisonous Egyptian serpent and symbol of divine royalty.
- 14. The Creation of Adam Michelangelo was inspired by the Genesis phrase "God created man in his own image" by drawing two similar bodies, both strong and robust. On the left side is Adam lying on the ground, and seems to be waking up, while God on the right side comes from