ARTS 10 – First Quarter

MODERN ARTS

EXPRESSIONISM & CUBISM:

The Splashed Emotions on a Canvas.

These two famous art movements of the modern era depict a deep series of emotions
and feelings. It is the face of expression and the flip of ultimate transition from actual
figures to shapes into an artistic form.

With the power of vivid colors and combination of multiple symbolism and feelings.
Both cubism and expressionism showcases the dark history of someone’s life but also
with their happiest one too. Both of this art style explicitly tells the expressiveness of
an expressionist when it comes to their feelings and emotion, painted and splashed
through a blank canvas in front of them.

Learning Competencies
1. Reflects on and derive the mood, idea, or message from selected artworks
2. Explains the role or function of artworks by evaluating their utilization and
combination of art elements and principle
3. Uses artworks to derive the traditions/ history of the various art movements

Objectives

1. Comprehend the basic structure of expressionism and cubism through colors

and shapes.
2. Assessing mood and deep feelings with the use of paintings styles and
characteristics.
3. Categorizing different art styles that can express deeply through different
functions and movements.
4. Reflecting on how traditions or history affects the evolution of art movements
especially with expressionism and cubism.

Let’s RECALL
Activity 1: Remember IMPRESSIONISM. Directions: Define or describe the following
words/names given below:

Impressionism Vivid and heavy

Claude Monet
brush strokes

Aggressive Emotions Vincent Van Gogh Juan Luna

Let’s UNDERSTAND

Expressionism:

Façade of Emotions

Portrayed strong feelings in art works are best characteristic of this art movement. This
art has a more personal expressiveness view for life itself.
 The Scream: Edvard Munch, 1892 Black Frame Wassily Kansinsky, 1922
Oil Canvas Oil Canvas

The Builders Victorio Edades, 1928

Oil Canvas

Though expressionism is a modernist movement, it started in Germany in the form of

poetry and painting. This painting is subjective to perspective and distorting radical
emotions that has a goal to provoke feelings along the viewers. Some of the subjects
conveyed so many feelings that the audience somewhat feel uncertain or bothered
with the paintings.

Expressionist: Famous Icons on Expressionism

1. Edvard Munch- This expressionist is the most famous forerunner of

expressionism. He has his dark ages in the spam of his life filled with sickness,
death, insanity, unhappy love affairs and guilt—the most iconic feelings that
radiant on his paintings. Much was one of the expressionists who believe that
paintings can conveyed worrying and suffering and show it to the world but aside
from it painting can also manifest beautiful and euphoric things in life.
 2. Wassily Kandinsky- this man started his career as a realistic painter but he is
also the one of the first to exhibit beautiful abstract art with color and form to take
the expressiveness of life. With shape, line and color; this can radiant emotional
properties that can be used to show heightened feelings

3. National Artist Victorio Edades,- He was acknowledged as the Father of

Philippine Modern Art depicted Filipinos during the time of the American
colonization in where the industrial progress is in a huge havoc on running with
time. This man knew that the modernism experimentation and the new discover
view at looking at the world was the thing that the country need.

In expressionist art, color can be heightened and be out of natural hues, strokes are
free hand and paint distribution tends to be spread wide on the canvas and with high
or rough textured. Art works are emotionally depicted and a continuation of
Romanticism.

Also take note that the term expressionist can be applied to any artist from a different
era, it was highly used in the twentieth century. There are also theories that this term
started to arise along with Vincent Van Gogh.

Term may also be associated with German art that is also preferably called German
Expressionism.

Characteristic of Expressionism:
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Cubism:
Shaped the future

Cubists fractured the laws of perspective, breaking up space into jagged planes without a
sense of logic- even presenting the eye of one figure from a frontal view and face in profile.

The cubist style derived its name from the cube, a three-dimensional geometric figure
composed of strictly measured lines, planes, and angles. Cubist artworks were, therefore, a
play of planes and angles on a flat surface.
 Weeping Woman

Pablo Picasso1937

Can you see the jagged blue and

white shapes of the woman’s
mouth as she bites onto her
handkerchief? Can you also
notice how the artist overlapped
the flat shapes in and abstract
design?

PABLO PICASSO

Pablo Picasso was the first to use such unrealistic style. He was the leader of the new
movement called cubism. He is a significant influence on the 20th – century art. He was
also considered as an innovative artist with the growth of his works in his 92-plus years
on earth. He's not just a painter but also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramic and etching
artist and writer.

Girl Before a Mirror

(detail)
Pablo Picasso, 1932
Oil on canvas

Guernica
Pablo Picasso
Houses of Estaque George Braque, 1908 Oil Canvas Sungka Vicente Manansala, 1967 Oil Cavas

FILIPINO ARSTIST IN INFLUENCE OF CUBISM

Market Scene Vicente Manansala Oil Canvas Combancheros Cesar Legaspi, 1972 Oil Canvas

Vicente Manansala and Cesar Legaspi are the some of the unique artists
who didn’t follow the complexity of cubism in the aspect of modern art.
Manansala work hard in breaking image into pieces like a jigsaw puzzle the
way that Picasso and Braque did in their works. Like he said, his works are
“easy to understand” cubism that showcases “transparency”—he declared
that this one is developed by him.

Cesar Legazpi on the other hand is the pioneer of “Neo-Realist” of the

country. He is the one responsible for refining the cubism in the Philippines.
He also belonged on the group “Thirteen Moderns” before his current title
now. His daring themes and unique styles is an important factor of the
modern art in the country.
 CHARACTERISTICS
1. Subjects are showcase into multipleOF CUBISMat once.
perceptions
2. Geometric shapes portrayal is one of the basic structures of cubism.
3. It also exhibits a “new way of seeing” that can input observations and
memories in the art works.
4. Shattered shapes are laid on space and geometric series of colors.
5. 2-D surface as the new arrangement of forms and colors.
6. Multiple angles
7. Reconstructed objects
8. A battle between what the eyes can see and what the mind should
know on what is supposed to be there.
9. Subject is broken, analyzed and rebuild in an abstract

Let’s APPLY

Activity 2: Compare and Contrast

Using the Venn Diagram, differentiate Cubism from Expressionism thus sitting both
of their similarities as well. This activity is worth 20 points.

EXPRESSIONISM
CUBISM
Activity 3: Red Alert! Examine this PAINTING!
Directions: This famous artwork of Vicente Manansala has been one of the most
famous paintings in the Philippine History of Cubism. You can apply the various
characteristics present in the artwork along with some Exhibited on the paintings are
some of the traditions, explicit emotions and interpretation, which are the points that
you need to identify. You can apply the various characteristics present in the artwork
for your answers. This activity is worth 20 points.

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Let’s ANALYZE

Activity 4: Let’s Organize this Mess.

Inside this box are some of the words/names/artworks associated with either
Expressionism or Cubism. Organize these words and place them on their respective
column. This activity is worth 30 points.

Sungka Cesar Legazpi Pablo Picasso geometric techniques vivid colors

Guenica 2-D Surface distorted multiple angles Edward Munch

Victorio Edades shapes emotions The Scream Market Scene

 EXPRESSIONISM CUBISM

Let’s EVALUATE

Activity 5: Guess what do I FEEL!

Directions. This activity is worth 20 points. Below is the famous Expressionism painting
entitled “The Scream”. Since expressionism is all about vibrant emotions and deep
sentiments. This time you are assessing this painting on what feelings this particular
piece shows. Write your answers on the given space below.

THE SCREAM
 Let’s CREATE

Activity 6: WE DO ART TO EXPRESS, not to impress!

Directions: On a separate paper, make an artwork with any dry medium available in
your home (e.g. oil/soft pastel, color pencil, ink). Please do take note that the given
artwork should be inclined with the following characteristic of Expressionism or
Cubism. You can use any available impressionistic artwork for reference.

Rubrics:

1. 20 points – Cleanliness and following instructions.

2. 50 points – Based on the different characteristic of Expressionism or Cubism
3. 30 points – Creativity of the work itself.