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    This document discusses the concepts of subject and content in art appreciation. It defines subject as the matter depicted by the artist, which can be real or imaginary people, objects, scenes or events. Content refers to the meaning or message conveyed by the artwork through its imagery, symbols, context and cultural associations. The document classifies artworks based on subject into representational/objective art that depicts recognizable real-world subjects, and nonrepresentational/nonobjective art that has no literal subject and focuses more on form, ideas and feelings. Examples of different subject types like still life, portraits and landscapes are provided. The levels of meaning in art from factual to conventional to subjective interpretation are also outlined.

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    This document discusses the concepts of subject and content in art appreciation. It defines subject as the matter depicted by the artist, which can be real or imaginary people, objects, scenes or events. Content refers to the meaning or message conveyed by the artwork through its imagery, symbols, context and cultural associations. The document classifies artworks based on subject into representational/objective art that depicts recognizable real-world subjects, and nonrepresentational/nonobjective art that has no literal subject and focuses more on form, ideas and feelings. Examples of different subject types like still life, portraits and landscapes are provided. The levels of meaning in art from factual to conventional to subjective interpretation are also outlined.

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    ART APPRECIATION

    Subject and Content

    Chazeline Caberos-Bautista
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
    ANGUD: A FOREST ONCE
    Junyee (Luis Yee, Jr.)
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
    PALEOLITHIC CAVE PAINTING
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
    AWIT NG ISANG INA
    Athena Santos Magcase-Lopez
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
    GUERNICA
    Picasso
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
    32 VARIATIONS ON SABEL
    Ben Cabrera
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

    🞑 Video of Peta
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
    SUBJECT and CONTENT
    Art Appreciation

    Learning outcomes:

    Classify artworks according to subject

    Analyze how artists present their subjects in relation to the

    real subject

    Differentiate content from subject

    Chazeline Caberos
    What do we mean by SUBJECT?

    🞑 matter described or portrayed by the artist

    🞑 varied: person, object, scene, event

    🞑 make-believe, imaginary, invented or real


    Kinds of ART according to SUBJECT
    1. Representational or objective art
    🞑 depict (represent) objects that are commonly recognized by
    most people
    🞑 copies ‘reality’
    🞑 focused on ‘what’ is depicted
    🞑 portrays the world as it is
    🞑 achieves objectivity
    Representational Art
    a. Still life – inanimate
    subject matter

    🞑 natural (food, flowers,


    plants, rocks, shells)
    🞑 man-made (glasses,
    books, vases, jewelry)

    Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573–1621)


    Still-Life of Flowers (1614)
    Representational Art
    b. Portrait – the face and its
    expression is predominant;
    purpose may be to show
    resemblance, personality or
    disposition of the individual

    Leanardo Da Vinci
    Monalisa
    Representational Art
    c. Landscapes, Seascapes,
    Moonscapes, Cityscapes

    Johann Anton Eismann


    Meerhaven
    Representational Art
    Bertel Thorvaldsen d. Mythology, Religion,
    The Dance of the Muses at Mount Helicon
    (1807)
    Dreams and Fantasies
    Kinds of ART according to SUBJECT
    2. Nonrepresentational or Nonobjective art

    🞑 Has no reference to anything outside itself

    🞑 nonobjective: has no recognizable objects

    🞑 abstract: does not represent real objects

    🞑 focused on the “how”

    🞑 depiction of ideas and feelings not objectively or realistically


    Jason Pollock
    One: Number 31 (1950)
    Piet Mondrian
    Broadway Boogie Woogie
    (1942-43)
    What do we mean by CONTENT?
    🞑 meaning, message, feeling imparted by a work of art
    🞑 mass of ideas associated with each artwork
    communicated through:
    a. The Art’s imagery
    b. The symbolic meaning
    c. Its surroundings where it is used or displayed
    d. customs, beliefs and values of the culture it is related
    with
    e. writings that help explain the work
    Levels of meaning

    🞑 Factual : literal or narrative content


    🞑 Conventional: special meaning related to the
    object or color or elements present
    🞑 Subjective: individual meaning, using personal
    symbolism
    Work on this

    🞑 Identify the subject of each famous artwork


    🞑 Explain the possible meaning of the subject as
    depicted by the artist
    Marcel Duchamp
    Fountain
    Patricia Ramos
    #CardboardJustice
    Sandra Orgel
    Linen Closet
    Mideo Cruz
    Kulo Exhibit

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