Art Styles and Periods
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Which style of art emerged as an alternative to Renaissance Art and is characterized by stylized and elongated figures?

  • Classicism
  • Baroque
  • Neoclassicism
  • Mannerism (correct)
  • Which movement in art is characterized by the use of ordinary objects in a context of art, and is based on the institutional theory?

  • Surrealism
  • Dadaism
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Ready-Made art (correct)
  • Which style of art is known for its use of geometrical shapes and flat projection, and presents subjects in multiple views to suggest motion?

  • Fauvism
  • Pointillism (Divisionism)
  • De Stijl or Neoplasticism
  • Cubism (correct)
  • Which style of art is characterized by the use of a mass of colors on a flat surface, and is a branch of action painting?

    <p>Color Field Painting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which style of art is characterized by the use of unnatural colors to create an exciting visual effect?

    <p>Fauvism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which style of art is characterized by the use of points or dots as the main visual element, and is based on the principle of optical mixing?

    <p>Pointillism (Divisionism)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which style of art is characterized by the use of rectilinear shapes and primary colors, and represents subjectivity rather than objects?

    <p>De Stijl or Neoplasticism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which style of art is characterized by the use of images from popular culture, such as commercial labels and mass products, comics, and cartoons?

    <p>Pop Art</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which style of art is characterized by the use of natural things in the environment as media of art?

    <p>Environmental Art</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which style of art is characterized by the use of idyllic and exotic rural sceneries, and shows an aspect of beauty?

    <p>Romantic Realism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Art Movements and Styles

    Prehistoric Art

    • Cave paintings, e.g., Angono Petroglyphs in Rizal province

    Non-Western Art

    • Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Philippines art

    Western Art

    • European and American art

    Classical Art

    • Classicism: idealist imitation of human body, found in ancient Greek and Roman sculptures
    • Medieval art: religious subjects, flat projection, and church as patron
    • Renaissance Art: revival of ancient Greek and Roman art, discovery of perspective
    • Mannerism: stylized representations, elongated figures, and religious subjects
    • Baroque: highly realistic, various subjects
    • Neoclassicism: revival of Renaissance and classical style

    Modern Art

    • Impressionism: everyday life subjects
    • Expressionism: artist's emotion, unnatural representation
    • Pointillism (Divisionism): uses points or dots, optical mixing principle
    • Fauvism: unnatural colors, exciting visual effect
    • Cubism: flat projection, geometrical shapes, multi-view
    • De Stijl or Neoplasticism: non-objective, rectilinear shapes, primary colors
    • Suprematism: purely non-objective, basic shapes and colors

    Historical Evolution of Artistic Styles

    • Dadaism: anti-art movement, shocking the viewer, "destroying" art
    • Ready-Made art: institutional theory, ordinary objects in art context
    • Surrealism: subconscious mind, passion, and imagination, weird and dream-like
    • Abstract Expressionism: action theory, freedom in painting
    • Color Field Painting: action painting, mass of colors on flat surface
    • Op Art or Optical Art: optical illusion
    • Pop Art: popular culture, commercial labels, comics, and cartoons

    Postmodern Art

    • Installation Art: exhibition space transformed, limitless materials
    • Conceptual Art: idea/concept more important than finished art product
    • Environmental Art: natural things as media, also called Earthwork
    • New Media Art: digital art, multimedia art, computer art, cyber art, net art

    Styles of Philippine Art

    • Prehistoric Art: Angono Petroglyphs
    • Indigenous Art: religious belief, rituals, and ceremonies
    • Christian Philippine Art: sculpture and paintings after Christian introduction by Spaniards
    • Secular Art: art for the illustrado class, outside Christian Church
    • Romantic Realism: beauty, idyllic and exotic rural sceneries
    • Modernism: Western art interpreted in local contexts
    • Social Realism: social reality during Martial Law years
    • Magic Realism: everyday life, fascination with the ordinary

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