 Affected by personal Statement.

 Affected by his medium.

 It depends largely upon the time in which the
artist lives.

 Medieval Religion
 Present Science Technology
 Subject – object, person, scenes.

1. Representational or objective
arts with subject
2. Non-representational or non- objective -
arts without subject

Program Music – musical compositions that has a

subject [imitates sound]

3. Line, color and forms.

Realism or realistic – the
way it normally appear.
The Reader by Monet
Little Corner of the Garden by Claude Monet
 Abstract or Abstraction

It is the process of simplifying and

or re-organizing objects and
elements with shapes and color.
The Crowd by Diana Ong
Figures have been arranged that
proportions differ from natural
measurements [twisting and
stretching]
Caricatures – to ridicule their
subjects.
Untitled by Arnold Rice
Savoy Saturday Nite by Gil
Mayers
Zeus of Olympia
Christ the Redeemer
It is realism plus distortion
Sculpture of Ganesha [Hinduism]
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Another well known set of objects in the museum are the figures
of the four sons of the god Horus. These acted as the guardians
of the internal organs when the body was mummified.
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 1. Landscape, Seascape and Cityscapes
Chinese – Japanese
Fernando Amorsolo –romanticized
Philippine Culture, Landscapes,
agrarian , rural areas.
Mona Lisa – background
 Philippine painter Fernando Amorsolo
was born in Paco, where he began his artistic
training at the age of thirteen. He was
apprenticed to his cousin, Fabian de la Rosa.
He attended the University of the Philippines
School of the Fine Arts.
He went on to study at the Escuela de
San Fernando in Madrid, after which he
traveled to New York. It was there that he
discovered the Impressionists and the Cubists,
whose work would influence his later
paintings. Amorsolo returned to the
Philippines and served as the Director of the
UP School of the Fine Arts from 1938-1952.
He was awarded the Gold Medal of
Recognition by Unesco, the Rizal Pro-Pratia
Award and the Araw ng Maynila Award.
Recognized as an influential and important
Amorsolo, Fernando C. Philippine artist, he was proclaimed,
1892-1972 posthumously, the first National Artist.
Mona Lisa by da Vinci
Waterfall by Mill
Inanimate objects
Chair On Sallys Patio
Pears In A Blue Bowl
Romeo Tabuena – he painted the carabao that
graced the Philippine Christmas Cards.
Napoleon Abueva – bronze and marble sculpture
that captured the graced and strength of the animal-
Carabao.
Sarimanok – Maranawas ,the legendary bird that
figured in the story of Indarapatra and Sulayman.
Dove – Holy Spirit, Trinity.
Fish and the Lamb – Jesus Christ
Phoenix - Resurrection
 Originally from the Philippines, Romeo
Tabuena studied architecture at the Mapua
Institute of Technology and painting at the
University of the Philippines. He has also
studied at the Art Students League in New
York and the Academie de la Grande
Chaumiere, Paris.
He has lived in Mexico since 1955,
but has remained a Philippine citizen, and
many would argue a Philippine artist. In
1957 he completed a mural in the Philippine
Embassy in Washington, D.C.
In addition to the solo exhibitions he
has held in Mexico, Canada, Brazil and
Manila he participated in the 1965 Sao Paulo
Bienniale and has enjoyed a retrospective
of his work in New York.
Tabuena, Romeo V. 1921
Resting in the jungle
koi crystal
Bald Eagle Soaring
 A realistic likeness of a person in a
work of art.
Hand –a favorite subject reveals about
the person and their time.
It marks a person’s milestones in life.
Child`s Head by Leonardo da Vinci
Creation of Adam (Detail) by Michelangelo
 It made use of human body naked
or clothed.
Greek – symbol of physical beauty
and perfect human shapes.
Discuss
Thrower
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Genre Paintings – it presents and shows deep concern
about life around them.
It records people’s tasks.
Fernando Amorsolo – Planting Rice, Batis
Anita Magsaysay-Ho – women’s daily chores.
Manansala – painted candle vendors
Carlos Francisco – the people from Angono
 Born in Manila, Anita Corpus Magsaysay-
Ho studied at the University of the Philippines
School of Fine Arts under Fernando and Pablo
Amorsolo and later at the School of Design with
Victorio Edades.
She continued her studies at the
Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan specializing
in egg-tempera painting under Zoltan Sepeshy and
the Art Students League, New York with Kenneth
Hayes Miller, Will Barnett and Robert Ward
Johnson.
Since has exhibited regularly in both New
York and Manila since her first show in 1945, held
in Manila.
Among her awards are first prize from the
Art Association of the Philippines for her works The
Cooks in 1952 and Two Women in 1960.
As one of the Southeast Asian artists
whose work has enjoyed increased attention in
recent years, Magsaysay-Ho holds the record for
most price paid at auction for a painting by a living
Magsaysay-Ho, Anita Filipina artist. She is admired for her Neo-Realist
Corpusb. 1914 pieces, executed in the difficult medium of egg
tempera.
Anita Magsaysay -Ho
Fernando Amorsolo
 Born in Macabebe, Vicente Silva Manansala attended
the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts in 1926.
He went on to attend the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Banff and
Montreal on a UNESCO grant and the Ecole des Beaux Arts
Paris on a French government scholarship. He also studied at
the Otis Art Institute and on a German government grant in
Zurich. Manansala was a member of the Philippine
avant-garde artists group of the 1950’s, retroactively named the
Neo-Realists. He was inspired mainly by the earlier work of the
Cubists. However, the Abstract Expressionist painters were
thriving while Manansala was studying in Europe and their
influence is clear in his work as well.
Among his awards are first prize in the
National Art Exposition, University of Santo Thomas for
Pounding Rice and first prize for Bankaloaot in the 1950 Art
Association of the Philippines First Annual Art Competition.
He was honored
with the Republic Heritage Award, 1963 and the Araw ng
Manila Award, 1970. Vicente Silva Manansala has painted
murals for the University of the Philippines Chapel, the
Manansala, Vicente National Press Club and the Philippine Heart Center. In 1981
Silva1910-1981 he was posthumously named National Artist of the Philippines
History – consists of verifiable facts.
Juan Luna – Spolarium a prize - winning
work. Blood Compact.
Carlos Francisco – Painted the Murals at
Manila City Hall.
Legend – consists of unverifiable facts.
Malakas at Maganda – Legendary Subjects
by Jose Blanco.
Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo – It depicts the
assassination of Gov. Bustamante.
La Lobra Negra – Fr. Jose Burgos – It depicts
the avenge of the wife against Gov’s Assassin.
The Onyx Wolf – a play written by Virginia
Moreno on the revenge of the wife of
Bustamante.
Itim –Asu – a dance on the same story.
 To aid in worship
Inspire feelings

Convert Non-believers.
 Judaism and Islam – Forbids other pictures
of God.
 Other forms with halo, wings or dark
complexion.
 Egyptians- half man, half animal –Sphinx
 Hindu –Shiva The destroyer
[four armed God]
 Buddha – by footprints, wheel.
 Christian World – eye, dove, fish, lamb,
shepherd, serpent – evil.
As a mystical experience in literature.
Divine Commedia –Dante Alighieri –
represented the finest statement of Christian
thought during the middle ages.
For the Philippines:
Solomon Saprid – Statue of Tikbalang
Aswang, Tianak and
Mangkukulam
Divine Comedy: Pity by William Blake
 Dreams
Vague and illogical and maybe lifelike
situations.
Fantasy
picture that suggests the strange,
irrational and the absurd.
Fantasy Wind Catcher
 It focuses on the facets of daily life,
they inform us of what the kind of
societies that produced them.
Portraits – artworks that are
informative.
 Twentieth Century

Arrangement in Grey and Black by James Abbott

McNeill Whistler
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre Auguste Renoir