GROUP 5

VARIOUS WAYS OF
REPRESENTING
VISUAL ART
DEXTER BRONOSA
SHEENA MAE CABJUAN
KERLA JANE CACHUELA
ANGEL DELA CRUZ
MA. ELAINE GAMPAYON
JOHN CARL GARCIA
ABEGAIL SEVILLEJA
MAE KARELLE UDAC
 Visual arts
Visual arts refers to art forms that express their
message, meaning, and emotion through visual means.
Art is usually subjective and may be interpreted in
various ways.
The intent of visual art forms may be to visually please
the viewer through an artwork that is beautiful or
calming. Some artworks aim to entertain the viewer
through interesting or amusing images or as a
captivating visual story. The intent of other artwork
may be to shock or disturb the viewer to provoke
thought and discussion on an important topic or
pressing issue.
Decorative art

Commercial art

Fine Art
 REALIS
In visual art, realism is the M
precise, and detailed portrayal of an
object's, scene's, or figure's visual appearance. It strives to represent
subjects accurately, without embellishment or hyperbole. In order to
portray their subjects as realistically as possible, realist painters work
hard to capture the subtleties of light, shadow, color, and shape.
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter
truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural
elements.
 The Gleaners By
Jean-François Millet
• It depicts three peasant women
gleaning a field of stray stalks of
wheat after the harvest. The
painting is famous for featuring in a
sympathetic way what were then the
lowest ranks of rural society; it was
received poorly by the French upper
classes. 'gleaning' meant to look for
left-over or missed produce. Land
owners were mandated by law to
ensure that sufficient un-harvested
food was left to enable the poor, the
migrant and the orphaned to
survive.

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 ABSTRACTI
ON
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color
and line to create a composition which may exist with a
degree of independence from visual references in the
world. Abstract art is often seen as carrying a moral
dimension, in that it can be seen to stand for virtues such
as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality. Even art that
aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to
be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect
representation is impossible.
 Composition X
By Wassily Kandinsky's
• Representing a culmination of his
artistic exploration into abstract
form and expression. It's
fascinating how he used color,
especially black, in this. The use of
black could be seen as evoking
cosmic themes or perhaps
reflecting his contemplation of
mortality. This painting reflects the
depth of Kandinsky's artistic
journey and the profound impact
he had on the development of
abstract art.

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 symbolism
In symbolist art, artists used symbolic images and metaphors to express abstract
ideas, emotions, and the subconscious. Some key characteristics of symbolist art
include:
1. Symbolic imagery: Symbolist artists used symbolic objects, figures, and scenes
to represent deeper, often spiritual or psychological, meanings.

2. Subjective expression: Symbolist art focused on the artist's personal, subjective

experiences and inner emotional states, rather than objective, realistic
depictions of the external world.

3. Dreamlike and mystical qualities: Symbolist works often had a dreamlike,

mysterious, and mystical quality, evoking a sense of the unknown and the
unconscious.

4. Emphasis on suggestion and ambiguity: Symbolist art relied on suggestion and

ambiguity, allowing the viewer to interpret the work in multiple ways, rather
than providing a single, definitive meaning.
 The Cyclops
By Odilon Redon
• Like many other Symbolist
paintings, The Cyclops takes its
inspiration from Greek
mythology. It shows the cyclops
Polyphemus looking at Galatea,
the naiad he was in love with.
Polyphemus is usually painted
as a dangerous brute, but here
Redon depicts him in a gentler
and more passive way. The
shapes of Galatea and
Polyphemus both evoke
genitalia.

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 Jealousy
By edvard munch
• The painting Jealousy is
regarded as belonging to a
series of pictures Munch
painted in the north German
seaside town of Warneminde in
1907. In this series Munch
shows the other side of love.
The motifs are negatively
charged and look at the
complicated I relationships
between men and women.

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 surreALISM
This movement in art and literature was founded in Paris
in 1924 by the French poet Andre Breton. Surrealism
aims to revolution is human experience. It balances a
rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of
the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s artists find
magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the
uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.
Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and
unconscious realms of experience so completely that the
world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the
everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a
surreality.”
 The Persistence
of Memory
By Salvador Dalí
• The painting depicts a dream-like
landscape on which three clocks are
melting and a variety of other objects,
landmarks, and figures are placed. In
addition to the original painting, Dalí
created several companion pieces,
including sculptural representations and
another painting. The well-known
surrealist piece introduced the image of
the soft melting pocket watch.[2] It
epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness"
and "hardness“

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 cubis
m
Cubism was a revolutionary style of modern art
developed by Pablo Picasso. It was the first style of
abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the
20th century in response to a world that was
changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was an
attempt by artists to revitalize the tired traditions of
Western art which they believed had run their course.
The Cubists challenged conventional forms of
representation, such as perspective. Their aim was to
develop a new way of seeing which reflected the
modern age.
 Factory, Horta De
Ebro by Pablo Picasso

• It depicts a landscape view of a

factory and palm trees,
portrayed in the artist’s
signature style of simplified
geometric shapes. The painting
stands as one of Picasso’s Proto-
Cubist works. Where he was
inspired by the industrial
landscapes that surrounded him.
Its composition emphasizes
Picasso’s bold use of color
contrasts and layered forms.

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 expressionis
m
Expressionism refers to art in which the image of reality is
distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist’s inner
feelings or ideas. Artistic style in which the artist seeks to
depict not objective reality but rather the subjective
emotions and responses that objects and events arouse
within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through
distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and
through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of
formal elements. The style extended to a wide range of the
arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature,
theatre, dance, film and music.
 The Scream
by Edvard Munch
• one of the most iconic modern art
pieces in the world. It is renowned for
embodying the profound sense of angst
and anxiety that permeated the early
modernist era. I was walking along the
road with two friends – the sun was
setting – suddenly the sky turned blood
red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and
leaned on the fence – there was blood
and tongues of fire above the blue-
black fjord and the city – my friends
walked on, and I stood there trembling
with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite
scream passing through nature

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