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PANGASINAN STATE UNIVERSITY

LINGAYEN, PANGASINAN
GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

GEE 3 – READING VISUAL ARTS

COURSE MODULE

SOURCES AND KINDS OF SUBJECT

1.Historical
Artworks are based on or inspired
by history or specific event in history.

First Mass at Limasawa by Carlos “Botong” Francisco

2.Still life
A work of art in which ordinary household objects such
as vases of flowers, plates, fruits, food, and the like are depicted
as the main subject.

Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh

3.Portraits and figures

A work of art that depicts a person especially one that presents
on the face or head and shoulders.

Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

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4.Nature
Work of art that depicts natural environment.
 Animals and plants - presents figures of animals, trees, and other element of nature.
 Landscape - presents natural scenery especially bodies of the land and other bodies of water.
 Seascape - presents natural scenery especially the sea and ocean.

(Landscape) Landscape with Plowman (Seascape) Impression, Sunrise

5.Cityscape
Work of art that presents life in the city or urban places.

Luncheon of the Boating Party Impression, Sunrise

by Auguste Renoir

6. Events
Work of art that presents events or specific situation,
celebration, or scene.

Death of Marat
by Jacques Louis David

7. Fiction
Work of art that presents figures or scenes that are unreal and product of imagination.
 Mythology - subjects that are usually about gods, demigods, and legendary heroes that are not true.
 Dreams - subjects that are based on someone else’s dreams.

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 Fantasies - subjects that are created by imagination.

(Mythology) Hercules Sitting on a Bull (Imagination) The Forgotten Dreams

METHODS OF PRESENTING THE SUBJECTS

1. Impressionism

Created by late 19th century French painters, depicted the

appearance of images by using strokes of unmixed colors to
give the impression of the reflected light.

Impression, Sunrise by Edouard Manet

2. Expressionism
An art movement seeking to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in
the artist. This art movement includes:

 Fauvism - characterized by vivid colors, free treatment of

form, and a resulting vibrant and decorative effect.
Blue Window by Henry Matisse

 Surrealism - depicts illogical, subconscious dream world

that seemed to exist beyond the reality. It presents an
altered mental state experience.
Persistence of Memory by Salador Dali

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 Dadaism - art movement based on deliberate

irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values. Its
non-style and playful characteristic came from a place
of protest and pain.

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico

 Social Realism - art used to comment on or protest against

social ills such as injustice, inequality, war, poverty, and
other social issues.
Guernica by Pablo Picasso

3. Realism
Presents artwork that is close to reality or has a
picture-like view.

4. Symbolism
Symbolist painters believed that art should reflect an
emotion or idea rather than represent the natural world in the
objective, quasi-scientific manner embodied by Realism and
Impressionism.

The Blind Man’s Meal by Pablo Picasso

5. Abstractionism
An artistic style in which the natural appearance
of objects becomes unimportant and images are reduced
to geometrical shapes an other elements. This art
movement includes:

 Cubism - a style in art that stresses abstract

structure at the expense of other pictorial elements,
especially the use of geometric shapes.
Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso

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 Futurism - an art movement that gives formal expression

to the dynamic energy and movement of mechanical
process.
Armored Train by Gino Severini

 Nonobjectivism - an art movement that gives formal

expression to the dynamic energy and movement of
mechanical process.

New York City by by Piet Modrian

6. Pointillism
Art style that uses dots or points to establish an image or the entire
picture.

Model in Profile by Georges Seurat

7. Minimalism
An artistic style that uses minimal elements of art to
present a subject or convey a message.
Minimalist Artwork

REFERENCES:

Bernard, T. (2021a, October 7). What Are The Classifications Of Art? Teresa Bernard Oil Paintings. http://teresabernardart.com/what-are-the-
classifications-of-art/
Bernard, T. (2021b, October 7). What is Fine Art? Teresa Bernard Oil Paintings. http://teresabernardart.com/what-is-fine-art/
Tabotabo, C. V. (2010). Art Appreciation. Mindshapers.
TABOTABO, C. V., CORPUZ, R. M., & HIDALGO, R. F. (2013). Introduction to the Humanities and the Basics of Art Appreciation. PURELY
BOOKS TRADING & PUBLISHING CORP.

JOSHUA C. PARINGIT
Reading Visual Arts Instructor