Artwork Mood and Temper Quiz

Art Terms and Movements

• The term "aesthetic" refers to the mood or temper of the artwork, defining its style and character.

Art Movements

• The art style found in ancient Greek and Roman sculptures presents highly realistic subjects and applies flat projection, known as Classicism.
• Pointillism is the art movement that uses points or dots as the main visual elements.
• Fauvism is the art style that uses unnatural colors for an exciting visual effect, often seen in poster-like paintings for advertisements.
• Non-Objective Art is the movement that focuses on purely non-objective painting, reducing forms into basic shapes and colors.
• Dadaism is the 'anti-art' movement that aimed to shock or destroy traditional art, asserting that anything could be art.
• Action Painting is the art movement that focuses on the revelation of the artist's subconscious mind, based on the action theory of painting.

Art Forms

• Environmental Art is the general term for art that uses natural things in the environment as the medium.

Specific Artworks

• The cave painting found in the province of Laguna, declared as a national cultural treasure, was created by the indigenous people before the colonial period.
• Folk Art is the art form that developed outside the confines of the Spanish Christian church, distinguished by the depiction of alphabet letters and contoured shapes of human figures.
• Social Realism is the art term that refers to the art that depicted the social reality in the country, with subjects taken from everyday lives of people and seen with innocent and fresh eyes.