ART APPRECIATION
the 1950s and flourished in the
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (action painting,
New York City)
- Started at 1943
- And developed at the end of WW2
- It characterized in large abstract
painting
- ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST: BARNETT
NEWMAN, WILLIAM DE KOONING,
HELEN FANKENTHALER
- JACKSON POLLOCK: the most influential
one; his painting featured messes of
line bouncing around in a canvas
SURREALIST – an artist who is exponent of the
avant-garde movement in art and literature
which sought to release the creative potential
of the unconscious mind.
CONSTRUCTIVISM - Constructivism was a
Russian avant-garde art movement that
used geometric shapes and industrial
materials.
CONSTRUCTIVISTS - Constructivism was a
Russian avant-garde art movement that
used geometric shapes and industrial
materials.
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO – was a founding
member of Russian Constructivism-the avant-
garde movement, characterized by
unembellished abstraction-along with Vladimir
Tatlin
DE STIJL – means style in Dutch
- Also known as NEO-PLASTICISM
- Started at 1917 and roughly ended at
1931
- De Stijl was founded in 1917 by two
pioneers of abstract art, Piet
Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg.
POP ART – is short for popular art
- an art movement that emerged in
1960s in America and Britain
- drawing inspiration from sources in
popular and commercial culture
- famous pop art painting: ANDY
WARHOL – “CAMPBELL SOUP CANS”
- ROY LICHTENSTEIN – “CRYING GIRL”
OP ART – stands for Optical Art
- These are pieces that trick the brain;
means illusions of movement
- Featured at Time Magazine in 1964
- BRIDGET LOUISE RILEY: born in London,
April 24 1931.
PHOTOREALISM - is an extremely realistic
style of painting and drawing, in which the
artwork is based entirely on a photograph
- Louis K. Meisel in 1969 and
appeared in print for the first time in
1970 in a Whitney Museum
catalogue for the show "Twenty-two
Realists."
MINIMALISM – is a style of art from 1960s to
1970s
- An extreme form of abstract art
- Artworks composed of simple
geometric shapes based on the square
and the rectangle
- FRANK STELLA: whose Black Paintings
were exhibited at the Museum of
Modern Art in New York in 1959,
began to turn away from the gestural
art of the previous generation.
CONCEPTUAL ART – also called as post-object
art or art-as-idea
- Usually manipulated by the tools of
language and sometimes documented
by photography
- Is all about ideas and meanings rather
than works of art
 - Characterized by its use of text,
imagery, variety of ephemeral, typically
everyday materials and found objects
INSTALLATION ART – it is an artistic genre of
three-dimensional works that are often site-
specific and designed to transform the
perception of a space
- It is characterized by the experience of
the person immersed in it, see these
works by walking into them or through
them and being surrounded by them
- Sensory experiences involving: sight,
sound, smell, and sometimes touch
SOULMAKING – making and deriving meaning
from art
- Semantics and grammatical rules
context and symbolism
- Arts: visual element, principles of
design, art styles, subject matter,
totality of artwork
IMPROVISATION – doing something without
prior preparation; to act upon something that
may not necessarily be planned
GEORGES MATHIEU – he started the “action
painting” wherein the process is seen real-time;
the process is more important than the finished
product
APPROPRIATION – taking something for one’s
own use, typically without permission from, or
acknowledgement of, the owner, creator, or
culture of origin
OBJECT APPROPRIATION – transfer of objects
from one culture to another
CONTENT APPROPRIATION – involves
reproduction of non-tangible artworks like
stories, music and dramatic composition
STYLISTIC APPROPRIATION – not on works but
more on styles
MOTIF APPROPRIATION – related to stylistic
appropriation; appropriation of basic ideas
SUBJECT APPROPRIATION – someone from one
culture represents members or aspects of
another culture
TEXTILE ARTS – arts and craft that use plant,
animals, or synthetic fibers to construct
practical or decorative objects
- Textile is from Latin “texere” which
means “to weave”, “to braid”, or “to
construct”
- Most textile arts begin with twisting or
spinning and plying fibers to make yarn
called “thread” when it is very fine nad
rope when it is very heavy.
- North Carolina: yarn spinning
- Felting: the simplest textile art
- Paracas – culture of Peru produced
some of the most “dazzling: textiles the
world has seen
- The history of textile arts is also the
history of international trade
- Tyrian purple dye: was na important
trade good in the ancient
Mediterranean
- The silk road brought the trade of
Chinese silk to India, Africa and Europe
- The Luddites were 19th century English
textile artisans who protested against
the newly-developed labor saving
machinery from 1811 to 1817
OKIR or UKKIL– it is the term for geometric and
flowing designs (often based on an elaborate
leaf-and-vine pattern) and folk motifs that can
be usually found in Maranao and Muslim-
influenced artwork in Mindanao, especially in
the Sulu Peninsula.
- Ukkil usually ahs motifs shaped like
waves, ropes, calligraphy, décor, and
colors
- It is a symbol of power and prestige
usually adorned during festivities
 - Ukkil Leaf-and-Vine Pattern; Dahun
Putsuk or Potiok Dahun Kambangtuli,
Dahun Andalan, Dahun Suha, Dahun
Angilan, Dahun Paku-paku
ETHNICA TRADITIONAL – Philippines Indigenous
Art
CONTEMPORARY ARTS – it uses a combination
of different methods, materials, and ideas.
- Refers to the recent and current
practice of art ranging from the 1470s
up to the present

- Dance: the dances in the country during

pre-colonial times vary depending on
the area where our ancestors thrive
- Visual Arts, poetry, weaving, wood
carving and metal crafting was made up
of the available materials surrounding
them
- Folk Literature: verbal of daily
experiences

SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD – Spanish regime

- Tend to replace the Philippine

indigenous art
- Literary works: Komedya
- Piano, bands, and orchestra were
introducing for Zarzuelas and Operas
- Secular Dances: are dances during
gatherings
- Paintings and sculpture depicted
religious beliefs matters like saints and
angels
- Reduccion: Halimbawa ng Pueblo
- Arts in the country did not result in pure
Western art but a mix of Western and
indigenous art

AMERICAN COLONIAL TRADITION – brought

many changes in the politics, economy,
education and culture

- Filipinos went abroad to study and

came back with the concept of modern
art
- Modern art refers to the practice of the
art in the 1860s-1960s
- Emergence of new technology affecting
the way of art making