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Subject and Content of Art

The document discusses the subject and content of art, explaining that the subject can be anything from real events to imaginary scenes, categorized into representational and non-representational art. It highlights various sources of artistic subjects, including nature, history, mythology, and religion, while differentiating content as the meaning and message conveyed by the artwork. Additionally, it outlines three levels of meaning in art: factual, conventional, and subjective.

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Subject and Content of Art

The document discusses the subject and content of art, explaining that the subject can be anything from real events to imaginary scenes, categorized into representational and non-representational art. It highlights various sources of artistic subjects, including nature, history, mythology, and religion, while differentiating content as the meaning and message conveyed by the artwork. Additionally, it outlines three levels of meaning in art: factual, conventional, and subjective.

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SUBJECT AND CONTENT OF ART

THE SUBJECT OF ART


• The subject of art is the matter to be described or to be
portrayed by the artist. The subject of art is varied.
• This may refer to any person, objects, scene, or event. In
general, the subject of an art artwork is anything under the
sun.
• The subject could be make-believe, imaginary, and invented.
• Subjects can also be real events, like devastation brought
about by super typhoons entering the Philippines or
catastrophic tsunamis hitting many Asian countries.
TWO KINDS OF ART AS TO SUBJECT:

• REPRESENTATIONAL OR OBJECTIVE ART

• They are those arts that depicts


(represent) objects that are commonly
recognized by most people. They
attempt to copy, even if in subjective
manner, something that is real. They
use “form” and are concerned with
“what” is to be depicted in the artwork.
EXAMPLES OF REPRESENTATIONAL/OBJECTIVE
ART
• STILL LIFE - is groups of inanimate objects
arranged in an indoor setting such as flower and
fruit arrangements, food, pots and plants, and
music instruments.

• PORTRAIT is a realistic likeness of a person


whether in sculpture, painting, drawing, or print.
It need not be photographic in likeness but is a
selective process of highlighting and de-
emphasizing certain features.
EXAMPLES OF REPRESENTATIONAL/OBJECTIVE
ART
• Landscapes, Cityscapes, Moonscape
and Seascapes are artworks whose
primary focus is the natural scenery such
as the mountains, valleys, rivers, and
skyscrapers

• Mythology, and Religion, Dreams and


Fantasies
TWO KINDS OF ART AS TO SUBJECT:

• NON REPRESENTATIONAL OR NONOBJECTIVE


ART

• They are those arts without any reference


to anything outside itself. This kind of art is
non objective because it has no
recognizable objects. It is abstract in the
scene that it does not represent real
objects in our world.
SOURCES OF THE SUBJECT OF ART

• NATURE
• Next to animals and people and their activities, nature
as landscapes has been the common subject of the
arts. It has been the most common inspiration and
subject.

• HISTORY
• All art is conditioned by the historical period in which it
is created. Rulers like to have themselves and the great
deeds of their time perpetuated, consequently, statues
and paintings of the great are found in each civilization.
SOURCES OF THE SUBJECT OF ART

• GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY


• This has been a very important source of subjects in
the arts. These arts are so famous that they count as
a definite part of inheritance. During the Renaissance
period, poets, painters, and sculptors drew largely
from Greek and Roman sources for subjects.

• RELIGION
• It has played an enormous role in inspiring works of
visual arts, music, architecture and literature through
ages.
SOURCES OF THE SUBJECT OF ART

• SACRED ORIENTAL TEXTS


• Sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism,
Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism,
Jainism and Islam
THE CONTENT OF ART
• The content of art is the meaning, message, and/or
feeling imparted by a work of art. This is not the
same thing as the subject matter the work depicts.
Content is inextricably linked with form, which
refers to the pictorial aspects of art. It is the mass
of ideas associated with each artwork and
communicated through the following:
1. The Art’s imagery.
2. The symbolic meaning
3. Its surroundings where it is used or displayed.
4. The customs, beliefs, and values of the culture that
uses it.
5. Writing that help explain the work.
THREE LEVELS OF MEANING

• FACTUAL MEANING
• Literal statement or narrative content in the
work that can be directly apprehended
because the objects presented are easily
recognized.

• CONVENTIONAL MEANING
• It refers to the special meaning that the
certain object or colors has for a particular
culture or group of people when it is shown in
an art work.
THREE LEVELS OF MEANING

• SUBJECTIVE MEANING
• It refers to the individual meaning deliberately
and instinctively expressed by the artist using
a personal symbolism that stems from his own
alliance with certain objects, actions, or colors
with past experiences.
• It becomes fully understandable if the artist
gives details of what he really means.

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