METHODS OF

PRESENTING
ART

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KINDS OF SOURCES OF ART SUBJECTS:
 Portraits
 Everyday life
 Animals
 Figures
 History
 Legend
 Religion
 Mythology
 Dreams
 Fantasy

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REALISM
The way of presenting a subject the way it looks in
every day life, the way as seen in the naked eye.

This method is sometimes disturbing or offending

for if something looks or sounds gross or shocking,
it is depicted as such.

Generally, it portrays objective truth about people,

life or situations, whether good or bad, pleasant or
harsh, ugly or beautiful.

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REALISM
It favors the actual portrayal of actual life in
real settings.

It avoids the use of exaggerated heroes in favor

of ordinary people.

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EXAMPLES OF REALISM ART

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ABSTRACTION

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ABSTRACTION

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 A. DISTORTION
The artist bends, twists or misshapes the image to
achieve an unnatural deviation of shape or position of
any part of the subject’s body producing visible
deformity.
What appears is a subject, misshapen or twisted, totally
unlike as it appears in the reality.

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 B. CUBISM
In this method, the artist uses geometrical shapes to
represent his subjects.

The subjects are presented as a series of cubes,

cones, or spherical shapes which can be seen form
different angles or viewpoints all together at the same
time.

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 B. CUBISM

Instead of depicting objects in one viewpoint, the artist

depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to
represent the subject in a greater context.

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 C. ELONGATION

This is a method used by the artist when he

intentionally lengthens or elongates the figure of
his subject to achieve a desired effect.

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 C. ELONGATION
This method shows a subject or part of a subject as
irregularity proportional to other parts of the subject like the
very long neck of the Madonna or the unusual length of the
child and the long arms of David as seen in the given
examples.

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 D. MANGLING
This is an uncommon way used by the artist to
present his subject. He achieves the effect by
cutting, chopping, mutilating, lacerating, or
hacking the image.

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 D. ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
 It is a movement of painting which began in new
york city that tried to declare its independence from
european styles.

According to www.answers.com, it is “a school of

painting that flourished after World War II until the
early 1960”.

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 D. ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
The forms are usually not found in the natural
world.

It emphasizes freedom of emotional

expression, technique, and execution.

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 D. ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
The act of painting becomes an art itself as the
process of painting becomes a drama of its own.

Action painting: the artist unleashes his ideas on

canvas, showing the glorification of the act of
painting as a means of visual communication.

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 SYMBOLISM
It is the artist’s way of presenting his idea or feeling
using a representation of sign to stand for something
other than itself.
The Up Oblation: represents The Canadian War Museum: Its
selfless dedication and facade represents the bow of the
service to the nation. ship, symbolizing the navy and the
role it played in wartime.

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1. Black
2. Red
3. Yellow
4. Green
5. Blue
ACTIVITY
 DADAISM
A short-lived art movement which began in Switzerland in 1916 and
ended in 1922.
It got its name from the french word “dada” which means “hobby
horse”
According to www.Historymania.Com, the basis of dada is nonsense.
If art was to have at least a clear message, dada strove to have no
meaning– interpretation of dada is dependent entirely on the viewer.

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 DADAISM
This method ignores aesthetics and intends to offend
man’s sensibilities.
It sought to ruin art for a world which did not deserve it. It
attacked the capitalists for allowing war to happen and this
movement became known as an anti-art association.
There was no attempt to find meaning in disorder, but rather
to accept disorder as the nature of the world.
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 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 term “super realism”.

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 SURREALISM
 Sought to release the creative potential of the
unconscious mind.

 Artists painted unnerving, unreasonable scenes,

created strange creatures from everyday objects and
developed painting techniques that allowed the
unconscious to express itself.

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 SURREALISM

Aimed to revolutionize human experience, including its

personal, cultural, social, political aspects, by freeing
people from what they saw as false rationality, and
restrictive customs and traditions.
SURREALISM IN OTHER FORMS OF ART
In literature, surrealists believe in “automatic
writing”, spontaneously writing without censoring
one's thoughts.

In the visual arts, it is a method which is a

combination of the depictive, abstract, and the
psychological.
About the painting:

At least it hides the face partly

well, so you have the apparent
face, the apple, hiding the visible
but hidden, the face of the person.
It's something that happens
constantly. Everything we see
hides another thing, we always
want to see what is hidden by
what we see.
About the painting:
A barrier of fabric prevents
the intimate embrace between
two lovers, transforming an
act of passion into one of
isolation and frustration.

Some have interpreted this as

the inability to fully show the
true nature of even our most
intimate companions.

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The Burning Giraffe by Salvador Dali
 The painting shows
Dali’s personal
struggle with the
battle in his home
country.

The Burning
Giraffe by
Salvador Dali
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 FUTURISM
Futurism is an avant-garde movement founded
in milan in 1909 by the Italian Poet Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti.

The work aims to capture the speed and

force of modern industrial society and to glorify
the mechanical energy of modern life.

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 FUTURISM
Concern with events and trends of the future or
which anticipate the future.

The futurists admired speed, technology, youth

and violence, the car, the airplane and the
industrial city, all that represented the
technological triumph of humanity over nature.

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The Street Light by
Giacomo Balla

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 EXPRESSIONISM

Refers to “art that expresses intense emotion”.

The artists work is an expression of his inner
experience rather than solely realistic portrayal.
 EXPRESSIONISM
An artistic style in which the artist attempts to depict
not objective reality but rather the subjective
emotions and responses that objects and events
arouse in him.
The artist accomplishes his aim through distortion,
exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the
vivid, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
EXPRESSIONISM
Expressionist artist substitutes to the visual
object reality his own image of this subject, which
he feels as an accurate representation of its real
meaning.
Expressionism in other art forms:
In literature, the writer uses expressionism through
disturbing incidents, tense dialogue, exaggerations and
distortions characterized by chaotic, frenzied imagery and
vehement tone.

In music, expressionistic music is often fragmented and

densely written, portraying what is going on inside the
composer's mind; it is an expression of what is felt.
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