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PERSPECTIVES ON
ART
PLATO
Art as MIMESIS
ARTIST=IMITATORS
Artwork= Imitation
WORLD OF FORMS
The Physical World
Art
Art as mimesis
Art is an imitation of an
imitation.
Art as mimesis
“rose”
Plato's Doubt in the ARTS
• Art appeals to EMOTION rather
than RATIONALITY.
BEAUTY as
INHERENT in a
IMMANUEL KANT
work of ART.
Art has its own reason for being.
It implies that an art is best
understood as an autonomous
creation to be valued only for its
success as it organizes color and
line into a formally satisfying and
beautiful whole.
Art as COMMUNICATION
OF EMOTION
ART is of great importance as it
plays a huge role in
communication to its audience's
emotions that the artist previously
experienced.
LEO TOLSTOY
ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS
and
METHODS
REALISM- presents the subjects
as they appear in real life.
• Micheangelo Buonarroti
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Raphael Sanzio
FERNANDO AMORSOLO
-The father of Philippine Realism
Planting Rice
ABSTRACTIONISM
(drawing away from reality)
• DISTORTION-
presents the subjects
in a mishaped form.
ABSTRACTIONISM
• MANGLING-
presents the subjects
with parts which are
cut, lacerated,
mutilated, or hacked
ABSTRACTIONISM
• ELONGATION-
presents the subjects
in an elongated or
stretched form
El Greco's
"The Resurrection of Christ"
ABSTRACTIONISM
• CUBISM- presents
the subject with the
use of geometric
figures.
Vicente Manansala's
"Balut Vendors"
ABSTRACTIONISM
• ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM-
presents the subject
with the use of strong
color, uneven brush
strokes, and rough
texture with a
deliberate lack of
refinement in the Jackson Pollock's
Number 18
application of paint
SURREALISM
presents the subject as if the subject does
not form a part of the real world
Guillermo Tolentino's
"Oblation"
FAUVISM
"optimistic realism"
-uses bright colors suggesting comfort, joy, and
pleasure
HENRY MATISSE
MARCEL DUCHAMP
EXPRESSIONISM
"emotional realism"
EDWARD MUNCH
Scream
IMPRESSIONISM
-presents real-life subjects
with the emphasis on the
impression left on the artist
CLAUDE MONET