The Subject and

Content
LESLIE ANNE V. LIGSA, LPT
GNED 01, INSTRUCTOR
 OBJECTIVES:
Subject of Art
Sources of Subject
Ways of Presenting the Subject
SUBJECT
OF
ART
 REFERS TO WHAT THE WORK REPRESENTS

PERSONS OBJECT SCENE EVENT

 Representational or
Objective Arts

THE ARTWORKS THAT HAVE

SUBJECTS
 MONA LISA

ARTIST:
LEONARDO DA
VINCI
THE MORNING
OF THE
FISHERMAN

PAINTING BY:
VALENTINA
KOSTADINOVA
 Non-Representational or
Non-Objective Arts

THE ARTWORKS THAT DO NOT HAVE

SUBJECTS
SOURCES
OF
SUBJECT
NATURE PEOPLE HISTORY LEGENDS

DREAMS AND
RELIGION MYTHOLOGY TECHNOLOGY
FANTASY

SOURCES OF ART SUBJECT

 WAYS
OF PRESENTING
THE SUBJECT
 NATURALISM

IN GREEK (HELLINISTIC) ART,

GODS
AND HEROES, LOOKED AND
BEHAVED
LIKE HUMAN BEINGS
 REALISM

PORTRAYING THE SUBJECT

AS IT IS.
IT IS THE MOST POPULAR
WAY OF
PRESENTING THE ART
SUBJECTS.
 ABSTRACTION
ABSTRACT MEANS
“TO MOVE AWAY” OR
“TO SEPARATE FROM”

MOVES AWAY FROM REALITY,

FROM
PRESENTING THE SUBJECT AS IT
REALLY IS.
FOLLOWING FORMS
OF ABSTRACTION

DISTORTION
ELONGATION
MANGLING
CUBISM
 DISTORTION
ARRANGED THAT ITS PROPORTIONS
DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY
FROM REALITY
ELONGATION
THE SUBJECT IS STRETCHED
VERTICALLY AND /OR SOME PARTS
LENGTHENED TO GIVE THE
IMPRESSION OF THINNESS.
PORTRAIT OF
LUNA
CZECHOWSK

BY:
AMEDEO
MODIGLIANI
 THE SHOT

BY:
ERNIE BARNES
 MANGLING
COMMON IN
(SCULPTURE, THEATER, & FILM)

ARTISTS SHOW SUBJECTS AS CUT,

LACERATED, MUTILATED OR
HACKED WITH REPEATED BLOWS
 CUBISM
ABSTRACT FORM IS PRESENTED
THROUGH THE USE OF FIGURES
 SYMBOLISM

DEFINED AS A VISIBLE
SIGN OF
SOMETHING INVISIBLE
SUCH
AS AN IDEA OR QUALITY
 FAUVISM
BEGAN IN FRANCE
LITERALLY MEANS WILD
BEASTS
PAINTED PICTURES OF
COMFORT, JOY, &
PLEASURE
THEY USED BRIGHT
COLORS
 DADAISM
DADA IS FRENCH FOR
HOBBYHORSE
ART MOVEMENT THAT
DOESN’T
FOLLOW TRADITIONS AND
PRINCIPLES
SHOWS THE WICKEDNESS
OF THE SOCIETY
 FUTURISM

BEGAN IN ITALY
WANTS THEIR WORK TO
CAPTURE THE SPEED AND
FORCE OF THE MODERN
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
MY MAGICAL ATTIC:ITALIAN FUTURISM
 SURREALISM
INVENTED WORD FOR SUPER
REALISM
BEGAN IN PARIS IN 1924 BY
ANDRE BRETON
SHOW MAN’S INNER MIND
AND HOW HE MAY PERCEIVE
THE OUTSIDE WORLD
ARTWORKS SHOWS
VIOLENCE AND CRUEL
EXPRESSIONISM

OCCURRED DURING THE 1ST

DECADE OF THE 2OTH
CENTURY IN GERMANY
DEPICTS THE EMOTIONS
AROUSED BY OBJECTS AND
EVENTS
INVOLVES CHAOS, SADNESS,
TRAGEDYAND DEFEAT
 THE OLD
GUITARIST

BY:
PABLO PICASSO
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for
Listening!