Introduction to Painting Forms

_______ refers to the process of applying color on a flat surface.

Forms can be created using a wide variety of materials such as watercolor, acrylic, ink, oil, pastel, charcoal, etc.Surfaces include wood, canvas, cardboard, and paper and tools such as brush, palette knife, spray, finger, etc.______ is considered two- dimensional, meaning it only has height and width.

The following are the forms of painting according to (Panisan, Gazzingan, Samar & Boongaling, 2016, pp. 9-10): 1.Easel _______.

A mural is described as a huge wall-sized __________; it is applied to a surface of a wall or ceiling.

Jeepney painting on the other hand evolved from calesa _______.

____ involves combined images in a single artwork and entails cutting and pasting materials such as paper, fabric, tin foil, etc. onto a board or canvas.

Themes of Painting Contemporary paintings found in the Philippines range from the academic style, the artistic style espoused by the European art academies of 1800s to that of the stark realism and abstraction of many modernist and contemporary styles. Themes used are varied which are the following: 1. Religious themes. It is the primary subject during the Spanish colonial times. Subjects include lone religious image, lives of the saints, scenes based from scriptures, etc. like that of Joey Velasco’s Hapag ng Pag-asa and Renato Habulan’s boceto pen and ink series shows similarities of the suffering of the human condition with that of the passion of Christ through the use of Christian ____.

Historical themes depict a scene from the past and often have a lesson concerning national values. Historical themes can be seen in the works of Angono Rizal native Carlos Botong V. Francisco (1912-1969) whose masterpiece Filipino Struggles through History depicts ____ historical events.

Portrait usually portrays the physical characteristics of the subject and seeks to show an understanding of that person’s character. Many artists started their careers as portraiture artists such as Iloilo-born Antipas Delotavo and Rafael del Casal, a favorite portraiture artist of the Philippine elite who was the commissioned artist to create the portrait of San Pedro Calungsod in ____.

Still life is a work of art that portrays inanimate objects. It was traditionally composed of a basket or bowl of fruits and flowers in vases on a table. One of the most notable and earliest still life artists was Paz Paterno. Other notable still life artists are Filipino-Chinese Ang Kiukok, and the cubist and Kapampangan artist Vicente Manansala who created still life paintings that feature items and ingredients one would find in a typical Filipino ____.