SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE

Sogod, Southern Leyte

LEARNING MODULE NO. 7

Name: __________________________________________ Score: ________________

Course & Year: __________________________________. Date: _________________
Subject: Art Appreciation
Module Title: UNIT III (Culture and the Arts): Artworks from Different Art Movements
Learning Outcome: By the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
1. identify the different art movements;
2. classify specific artworks from different art movements;
3.value the different artworks.
References:
Wolf, J. (n.d.)."Minimalism Movement Overview and Analysis." In The Art Story:
Modern Art Insight. Retreived from http://www.theartstory.org/movement-
minimalism.htm.
m.artpieces.net and https://artsandculture.google.com
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I. Concept Notes/Big Ideas/ Summary
UNIT III: CULTURE AND THE ARTS ARTWORKS FROM DIFFERENT ART MOVEMENTS
Module 7: Lesson 25
What is an artwork? (is an aesthetic physical element or artistic creation, a creative production
of objects or displays that have aesthetic or emotional significance, usually visually-oriented,
but not always)
~MODERN ART (includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the
1860s to the 1970s, the term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past
have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. More recent production is often called
contemporary art or postmodern art. Begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van
Gogh, Paul Cezanne, etc., all of whom were essential for the development of modern art)
Artwork: 1935 White Relief by Ben Nicholson (It is you might say, simply a lavatory artform, a
clean antiseptic bathroom art which extracts from their functions the splash-board and the
lavatory basin and sets them sleeping and dreaming together in a world whose objects are
forbidden to have associations' Gordon Porteus, 1935, another concern of these words
highlight the possibilities of health and societal nourishment within the new modern
architecture, represented a move away from canvas to board, and from subject to object,
where the object becomes the embodiment of an idea of perfection.
~CONTEMPORARY ART (the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in
the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and
technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods,
concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well
underway in the 20th century. Is a part of a cultural identity, family, community, and
nationality)
Artwork: Thomson No. 13 (Northern Lights) by Douglas Coupland 2011 (inspired by the iconic
works of Emily Carr, the Group of Seven (G7) and Tom Thomson, the paintings and prints that
form this series are based on degraded digital images of Canadian masterpieces that were
found on the internet. Using geometric language, Photoshopped by Coupland, these well-
known landscapes and reduced their compositions into flat planes of color.
~GOTHIC ART (term denoting styles in the art and architecture of the West from about the mid-
12th century to the 15th (Italy) or mid-16th. First used by Vasari to describe pre-Renaissance
architecture, following humanist who had associated architectural before Brunelleschi with
gentle barbara or Germance. Was restricted to the centuries between Romanesque and the
Renaissance)
Artwork: Nativity (Gentile da Fabriano) in 1420-1422 (several subjects coexist in the painting:
Madonna of Humility, the Nativity, and the Annunciation to the Shepherds •as the Madonna of
Humility, the Virgin sits upon the ground, her hands folded in worship.•presenting the Nativity,
a sleeping Saint Joseph is shown at he left and an ox and donkey can be seen in the stable at
the right.•in the distance, a night landscape depicts shepherds receing word of Christ's birth.
~FOLK ART (term used broadly to describe those arts that exist outside the received canons of
taste established by or on behalf of the leaders of a given society. Exists in clearly defined
geographical regions among people with shared characteristics such as language or religion. Is
as inseparable from folk building as it was inseparable from daily life. The "applied" or
"decorative" arts (e.g. furniture) have their 'folk' equivalents)
Artwork: Noah"s Ark by Edward Hicks 1846 (-this unusaul image is based on an 1844
lithography by Nathaniel Currier. The animals Hicks added to the scene resemble these in his
earlier representations of his favorite biblical subject: Isaiah's prophecy of the "peaceable
kingdom". The cooperative animals express Hicks Quaker belief in mankind's ability to live
together harmoniously in nature, just as rhe story of Noah promises humanity a fresh start.
~ART DECO (descriptive term applied to a style of decorative arts that was widely disseminated
in Europe and the USA during the 1920s and 1930s. The term has been used nly since the late
1960s, when there was a revived of interest in the decorative arts of the early 20th century. It
has been applied to a wide variety of works produced during inter-war years. Essentially of
French origin, therfore applied on to French works and rhose from countries directly influenced
by France)
Artwork: French Art Deco 1920 (popularized internationally and reached its peak in that year
(1920). Design was inspired by and utilized elements from non-Western cultures such as
Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, and Persian designs. The dramtic stylized approach characteristic
of the Art Deco style saw its greatest expression in the decorative arts and architecture.
~CONCEPTUAL ART (term applied to work produced from the mid-1960s that either markedly
de-emphasized or entirely eliminate a perceptual encounter with unique objects in favor of an
engagement with ideas. Helped spawn the move towards multimedia installations that
emerged to such prominence from the 1980s)
Artwork: Kaldor Public Art Project by Sol LeWitt 1977 (wall drawing: "All two part
combinations of arc from four corners,arcs from four sides, straight, not-straight and broken
lines in four directions". March-July 1977. Art gallery of New South Wales, Sydney "Lines to
points on a grid. On yellow:Lines from the center of the wall. On red: Lines from four sides. On
blue:Lines from four corners. On black:Lines from four sides, four corners and the center of the
wall".
~MINIMALISM (describe a style characterized by an impersonal austerity, plain geometric
configurations and industrially processed materials. Derives its name from the "minimum of
operating means".- David Burlyuk)
Artwork: Incomplete open cubes 5/6 by Sol LeWitt 1974 (are a sequence of open-sided cube
structures, each missing between one and nine of their sides. This artwork exemplifies
conceptual practice and have been widely interoreted as embodying systematic rationality,
they are based on an arithmetic concept which they take to its logical extreme.
~BYZANTINE ART (comprised the body of Christian Greek artistic products of the Eastern
Roman Empire, as well as the narions and states that inherited culturally from the empire)
Artwork: Female head known as "Teodora" Byzantine sculpture 6th century (found in 1846
during excavations in Via San Primo and is traditionally identified with a portrait of the Empress
Theodora, beloved wife of Justinian, based on resemblance to the representation of that
sovereign in the mosaics of the Basilica of St. Vitale in Ravenna. With hair gathered in a cuo
embelished with an elaborate circlet of pearls, with large almond-shaoed eyes, the soft
sculpting of cheeks and mouth dialogue with the essential, geometric rendering of the volumes.
Wide open and fixed on an unfathomable horizon, mark the sacred dimention of sovereignty in
line with imperial portraiture of the period.
~ACADEMIC ART (or academicism, is a style f painting, sculpture, and archirecture produced
under the influenced by the standards of the French Academie des Beaux-Arts. Sometimes
linked with "historism"/"syncretism")
Artwork: Winding the skein by Frederic Leighton circa 1878 (Leighton's pristine vision of the
antique world is set on a fervace overlooking the bay of Lindos, a view studied by the artist on
his visit to the island of Rhodes in 1867. Plane is a contrast between the humble domesticity of
the task and the heroic classicism of its presentation. This picture was described as "quite the
most strictly beautiful" work in the Academy.
~KINETIC ART (concerned with real and apparent movement. It encompasses machines,
mobiles and light objects in actual motion. Includes works in virtual or apparent movement.
Originated between 1913 and 1920)
Artwork: Tree of the Wind Harp by Lubo Kristek 1992 (this sculpture responds to the
surrounding environment by sounds. Using a fragment of a piano and combined it with iron
tears to create a wind propelled assemblage. The visitor is invited to play this unique
instrument. This artwork references the original inhabitants of Pohansko with its steinged
fragment. Pilgrim often brings flowers to the sculpture.

II. ACTIVITY
QUIZLET!
Arrange the jumbled letters and write the correct word. (2 points each)
1) dciotropun-. production 6) zybnietan- byzantine

2) tikcnei-. kinetic 7) manqeroesnu- Romanesque

3) hantsinibat-. inhabitants 8) ryontemoracp- contemporary

4) ulertcu-. culture 9) tuoncepcla - conceptual

5) thecisaet-. aesthetic 10) ltradoitina- traditional