•What I Know?

1) Starry Night:

•Answer:

•History/Story:
–The Starry Night is an oil canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van
Gogh.It was painted on June 1889,it depicts the view from the East-facing window of his
asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence,just before sunrise,with the addition of an
imaginary village.

•Mood/Message/Idea:
–In Starry Night countoured forms are a means of expression and they are to convey
emotion.Many feel that Van Gogh's turbulent quest to overcome his illness is reflected in the
dimness of the night sky.The village is painted with dark colors but the brightly lit windows
create a sense of comfort.

•Purpose:
–Widely hailed as Van Gogh's magnum opus.This Vincent Van Gogh's night stars painting
depicts the view outside his sanatorium room window at night,although it was painted from
the memory during the day.The Starry Night depicts a dreamy interpretation of the artist
asylum room's sweeping view of Saint-Remy-de-Province.

2) Persistence of Memory:

•Answer:

•History/Story:
–It was painted in 1931,at the height of the Surrealist Movement,During this time,innovative
artists explored ideas of automatism and the self conscious in their work.This experimental
approach to art culminated in a tendency toward peculiar subject matter that evokes dreams
and challenges perceptions.

•Mood/Message/Idea:
–Alludes to the influence of scientific advances during Dali's lifetime.The stark yet dreamlike
scenery reflects a
Freudian emphasis on the dream landscape while the melted watches may refer to
Einstein's Theory of Relativity,in which the scientist references the distortion of space and
time.

•Purpose:
–Shows the flaccid clock's melting away and thus losing power over the world around
them.Through his melting clock.Salvador Dali might suggest that our current time keeping
devices are primitive,old - fashioned and even impotent in this post - Einsteins world.

3) Impression Sunrise:
•Answer:

•History/Story:
–It was painted in 1872,The impression sunrise was one of the paintings Claude Monet
showed at the inaugural Impressionest Salon.The painting shows a harbor in Le Havre,with
the sun rising over the anchored ships.It was painted by Claude Monet in one sitting,with his
technique with looking out the window and simply drawing what he saw.

•Mood/Message/Idea:
–The port of Le Havre was the location that inspired Monet to paint the work that would
become synonymous with the Impressionist movement.Le Havre itself is a city situated in
the North West of France near the mouth of the river seine.It's the expanse of the water to
inspired Monet to paint Impression Sunrise.

•Purpose:
–The Impressionism Sunrise favored rapid brush strokes in order to accurately depict the
immediacy of the scene infront of them.In Impression Sunrise he uses such a rapid brush
stroke technique in order to portray the effect of the sun's light against the water and it's
fluidity in comparison the rest of the scene.

4) Autumn Rhythm:

•Answer:

•History/Story:
–Pollock had created his first "drip"painting in 1947,the product of a radical new approach to
paint handling.In this nonrepresentational picture thinned paint was applied to
unprimed,unstretched canvas that lay flat on the floor rather than propped on an essel.

•Mood/Message/Idea:
–In a time when America was recovering from a terrible war and gender,sexual identity was
being tested and shaken,a painting like Autumn Rhythm would be a comfort to the viewer as
they are a very simple expression of a collective thought shared by the Americans.

•Purpose:
–With the Autumn Rhythm,made in October of 1950,the artist is at the height of his power.It
assumes the scale of an environment enveloping both for the artist as he created it and for
viewers who confront it.The work is a record of it's process of coming into being.

5) Marilyn Monroe:

•Answer:

•History/Story:
–For the Warhol,Marilyn Diptych,1962, shortly after her death.The Marilyn Diptych is a
silkscreen painting which contains fifty images of the actress,all taken from the 1953 film
Niagara.
•Mood/Message/Idea:
–By focusing on her iconic features Warhol actually reminds us that there is a real woman
underneath.The art expert and historians have many theories about the symbolism hidden in
the Marilyn portraits about the reasons that Warhol used certain colours and
compositions,about the message he supposedly tried to pass into society.

•Purpose:
–It was both worship and an analysis that criticized and encouraged a culture that had
become obsessed with money and fame.At the same time,Warhol also used Marilyn to
criticize himself,as he was also after the same fame and celebrity that his famous subjects
enjoyed.

•What's In?

1)New York City:

•Answer:

•Description:

–Mondrian was captivated on seeing the City of New York in 1940.It's

bright,geometric,colorful design was a direct reflection of his own research.There,he came to
discover jazz and boogie-woogie which also made a strong impression on the artist.

•What is the movement of the line:

–The movement of the line are vertical and horizontal.

•Is there a balance:

–Yup,the lines and the spaces are very place well in good.

•What is being emphasized:

– The non-objectivism does not emphasize a figure of any representation,because it gives

the audience the freedom to make a meaning out of it.

•Does the painting have unity and harmony:

–Yes,because the elements are very excellently placed.

•Does the subject and spaces are proportionate:

–Yes,because the lines and the spaces create a dynamism,and at the same time spaces
give a feeling of emptiness where the eyes of the audience can rest from all the lines.

•What is It?
1) What Modern Art movement did you use as guide?

•Ans: I used ballpen,crayola and paper to draw and color an apple,stick and drum because I
didn't have any paint to use.

2) In what way are you portray the subjects (an apple,sticks,drum) in your masterpiece?

•Ans: I show it in the way I know like drawing,coloring and using a paper that came from my
mind and heart.

3) Are you satisfied with your masterpiece?Why?

•Ans: Yes,because I am the one who made it and I am proud of what I did that came from
my mind and heart.
• What's More?

1) Mi Hijo Andres:

•Answer:

•Description:

– The painting is called Mi Hijo Andres and was painted in 1889 by Anton Luna,who also
painted the famous Spoiliarium.According to the description the work is an oil painting of
Luna's first - born & only son when he was three years & four months old.

•Modern Art Movement:

– The art movement was Impressionism.

2) The Builders:

•Answer:

•Description:

– In his campaign for his modernism,Victorio Edades,a Filipino National Artist,this is one of
his paintings that shows his enhance knowledge and skill in modern art.This artwork
emphasize linear and structural composition above other pictorial elements,conveying the
essence of men engage in labor through the contortion of the bodies.

•Modern Art Movement:

– The art movement was expressionism.

3) Nuclear Ecce Homo:

•Answer:

•Description:

– The Nuclear Ecce Homo is an expression of the sentiments of the Filipinos particularly
during the onset of the World War ll.This masterpiece of Galo Ocampo is a benchmark of the
technique offered a personal solution on his life following after a traumatic World War l.

•Modern Art Movement:

– The art movement was Surrealism.

4) Sungka:

•Answer:
•Description:

– The Sungka is a representation of the every Filipino's tradition.The Cubic Artist,Vicente

Manansala who introduced this kind of technique to Filipino audience stayed close to the
figures of the subjects integrated with the simplified basic geometric means.

•Modern Art Movement:

– The art movement was Cubism.

•What I Have Learned?

•Answer:

1)Impressionism
2)Expressionism
3)Cubism
4)Surrealism
5)Abstract Expressionism
6)Pop Art
7)Landscape
8)Claude Monet
9)Anton/Juan Luna
10)Geomtrical Shapes
11)Pablo Picasso
12)Vicente Manansala
13)Spontaneity
14)Jackson Pollock
15)Jose Joya

•Assessment:

1)C. Edvard Munch

2)D. Impressionism
3)B. Georgio De Chirico
4)D. Andy Warhol
5)A. Cubism
6)A. Expressionism
7)C. Abstract Expressionism
8)A. Jose Joya
9)B. Surrealism
10)D. Pop Art
11)B. Cubism
12)A. Jackson Pollock
13)C. Galo Ocampo
14)C. Impressionism
15)D. Anton/Juan Luna