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SUBJECTANDCONTENTS OFARTS SUBJECT CONTENT FORM THE WHAT THE WHY THE HOW SUBJECT Subjectis whatever is representedin a work of art.Itis the expressionof the artist’s viewof his/her existenceinhis/herart.It is thethemeortopicoftheartistin his/herart.Thet...

SUBJECTANDCONTENTS OFARTS SUBJECT CONTENT FORM THE WHAT THE WHY THE HOW SUBJECT Subjectis whatever is representedin a work of art.Itis the expressionof the artist’s viewof his/her existenceinhis/herart.It is thethemeortopicoftheartistin his/herart.Thetermsubject in artreferstothemain ideathatis represented intheartwork. Itis basicallytheessenceofthepiece. Not all arts have subjects. Those arts without subject are called “nonobjective”; they do not represent anything. They are what they are without reference to anything in the natural world. ERECTHEUM, PORCH OF THE MAIDENS, ATHENS, GREECE  TYPES OF SUBJECT THESE TYPES OFARTHAVE SUBJECTSTHATREFERTOOBJECTS OREVENTS OCCURINGIN THEREALWORLD ALSOTERMEDFIGURATIVEARTBECAUSEOF THE FIGURES DEPICTEDAREEASY TO MAKEOUTAND DECIPHER REPRESENTATIONAL ART  TYPES OF SUBJECT ARTFORMS THATDONOTMAKEAREFERENCE TOTHEREALWORLD,WHETHER ITISA PERSON,PLACE,THING,OR EVEN A PARTICULAR EVENT ITIS STRIPPED DOWN TOVISUAL ELEMENTS , SUCH AS SHAPES,LINESAND COLORS THAT ARE EMPLOYEDTOTRANSLATEAPARTICULAR FEELING,EMOTION AND CONCEPT NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART  TYPES OFSUBJECT LOOKING ATTHE COMBINATION OFLINES, SHAPESANDCOLORSOFTHESCULPTUREWILL POINT TO AHEADOFAWOMAN. EVEN WITH THE ABSTRACTION OFTHE IMAGE, THIS WORKISARGUABLYA REPRESENTATIONAL ART ABSTRACT ART NON-REPRESENTATIONAL REPRESEN TATION AL ART ART NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART ORABSTRACT ART?  SOURCES AND KINDS OF SUBJECTS "IFYOU REALLY ASKIN A PLAIN WAY WHAT CAN BESOURCES OF ART IN SUBJECTS,EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF YOU WOULD BE THE ANSWER. EVERYTHING THAT MADE YOU INSPIRED WITH."  PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT Artists have always been fascinated with the beauty of their physical environment. They would observe nature on its beautiful and restful mood, and apply pigments on canvas on varying textures and colors. Wivenhoe Park (1816), John Constable  GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY The Greek and Roman mythologies are also rich sources of art subjects. Stories from Greek and Roman Mythology centers on the gods, goddess and heroes. The Lament for Icarus (1898) by Herbert James Draper  RELIGION Religion has played an enormous role in inspiring works of virtual arts, music, architecture, and literature through the ages. The Last Judgement (1534-41),Michelangelo  FIVE MAIN SUBJECTS ARTISTS HAVE BEEN EXPLORING IN ART FOR CENTURIES STILL LIFE A collection of inanimate objects arranged together in a specific way The Basket of Apples (1893), Paul Cezanne LANDSCAPE Landscape painting is the depiction of natural scenery in art. Landscape paintings may capture mountains, valleys, bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts and may or may not include man-made structures as well as people. The Rainbow Landscape by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636 PORTRAITURE An image of a particular person or animal, or group thereof. Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer ABSTRACT A non-representational work of art Jackson Pollock - Full Fathom Five, 1947 NATURE A focused view of interpretation of specific natural element WAYS OF PRESENTING THE SUBJECT  REALISM It concerns with the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life. The artist’s main function is to describe accurately what is observed through the senses. The Stone Breakers by Gustave Courbet (1849-1850) Composition VII (1913) by Wassily Kandinsky ABSTRACTION B. ELONGATION The subject or painting is being lengthened or extended C. MANGLING It shows subjects or objects which are cut, mutilated, lacerated, or hacked. D. CUBISM Subjects are shown in basic geometrical shapes. Objects are broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form. Uses cones, cylinder, sphere or other pictorial elements. The Women of Algiers by Pablo Picasso, 1955  E. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM Uses large canvasses; lack of refinement in the application of paint, strong color uneven brush and rough texture The Liver is the Cock's Comb by Arshile Gorky (1944)  ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM They depict forms unrealistically or, at the extreme end, forms not drawn from the visible world (nonobjective). They emphasize free, spontaneous, and personal emotional expression, and they exercise considerable freedom of technique and execution to attain this goal, with a particular emphasis laid on the exploitation of the variable physical character of paint to evoke expressive qualities (e.g., sensuousness, dynamism, violence, mystery, lyricism). They display the abandonment of conventionally structured composition built up out of discrete and segregable elements and their replacement with a single unified, undifferentiated field, network, or other image that exists in unstructured space  EXPRESSIONISM It presents the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.  FUTURISM It emphasizes and glorifies themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed and technology. Its work aims to capture the speed and force of modern industrial society and to glorify the mechanical energy of modern life. Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913, cast 1972)  SURREALISM It tries to reveal a new and higher reality than that of life. They try to claim to create a magical world more beautiful than the real one through art. It came from the slang of super realism. Salvador Dali, The Perseverance of Memory, 1931 Surrealist artists used their canvases to visualize what happens when the conscious and unconscious realms unite. The meaning of surrealism is to unleash the creative potential of the unconscious mind through art to depict unspoken desires. Frida Kahlo, "self-portrait on the border line between Mexico and the United States," 1932  FAUVISM Themes are either ethical, philosophical, or psychological. It uses extreme bright color. Most of the fauves tried to paint pictures of comfort, joy and pleasure. Portrait of Madame Matisse by Henri Matisse, 1905  Fauvism preferred a simpler and less naturalistic form of expression. The genre’s followers adopted an expressive emotionalism that emphasized the artist’s inner feelings and ideas with the intricate arrangement of cold and warm colors and the creation of decorative compositions. André Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1905-06  DADAISM Came from the French word "Dada" meaning hobby horse. Dadaist reacted to what they believe were outworn traditions in art and the evils they saw in the society. Typical Vertical Mess as Depiction of the Dada Baargeld by Johannes Theodor Baargeld, 1920  Dadaism was an avant-garde artistic and cultural movement prompted by the European societal climate after World War I. It was a rejection of modern capitalism, bourgeois culture, and wartime politics that aligned with other far-left radical groups. This was expressed through the use of non-traditional art materials, satire, and nonsensical content. Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917 CONTENT IN ART  LEVELS OF MEANING FACTUAL MEANING CONVENTIONAL MEANING SUBJECTIVE MEANING The most rudimentary level of meaning Pertains to the acknowledged When subjectivities are consulted, a for it may be extracted from the interpretation of the artwork using variety of meanings may arise when a identifiable recognizable forms in motifs, signs and symbols and other particular work of art is read the artwork and understanding how cyphers as bases of its meanings. these elements relate to one another