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    The document discusses different types of subject matter in visual art. It describes representational/objective art as art that depicts recognizable objects from the real world, such as still lifes, portraits, landscapes, religious themes, and genre scenes. Non-representational/non-objective art does not depict recognizable objects and is abstract, using shapes, forms, colors and lines without reference to the external world, examples being visionary expression and abstract art. The subject of a work of art can be anything that motivates the artist.

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    The document discusses different types of subject matter in visual art. It describes representational/objective art as art that depicts recognizable objects from the real world, such as still lifes, portraits, landscapes, religious themes, and genre scenes. Non-representational/non-objective art does not depict recognizable objects and is abstract, using shapes, forms, colors and lines without reference to the external world, examples being visionary expression and abstract art. The subject of a work of art can be anything that motivates the artist.

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    The document discusses different types of subject matter in visual art. It describes representational/objective art as art that depicts recognizable objects from the real world, such as still lifes, portraits, landscapes, religious themes, and genre scenes. Non-representational/non-objective art does not depict recognizable objects and is abstract, using shapes, forms, colors and lines without reference to the external world, examples being visionary expression and abstract art. The subject of a work of art can be anything that motivates the artist.

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    SUBJECT OF

    ART
    Jojanne Mildred C. Bitara
    BSA 4

    Subject
    Subject matteris what the artwork is all about.
    The subject of visual art can be a person, an object,
    a theme, or an idea. Though there are many and
    varied ways of presenting the subject matter, it is
    only important to the degree that the artist is
    motivated by it.
    Two Kinds of Art as to Subject:
    1. Representational Art or Objective Art
    2. Non-representational Art or Non-objective Art

    Representational Art or Objective Art


    They are those arts which depict (represent) objects
    that are commonly recognized by most people.
    They attempt to copy, even if in a subjective
    manner, something that's real. It uses form and
    is concerned with what is to be depicted in the
    artwork.

    STILL LIFE
    A drawing or painting of an arrangement of
    nonmoving, nonliving objects , such as fruit,
    flowers, or bottles. Usually, a still life is set indoors
    and contains at least one man-made object, such as
    a bowl or vase.

    PORTRAITURE (PORTRAIT)
    is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic
    representation of a person, in which the face and its
    expression is predominant.

    LANDSCAPES
    Alandscape painting or drawingrefers to an
    artwork whose primary focus is natural scenery,
    such as mountains, forests, cliffs, trees, rivers,
    valleys, etc.

    RELIGIOUS THEME
    - is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and
    motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to
    the spiritual.

    GENRE
    - is the pictorial representation in any of various
    media of scenes or events from everyday life, such
    as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn
    scenes, and street scenes. Such representations
    (also calledgenre works,genre scenes,
    orgenre views) may be realistic, imagined, or
    romanticized by the artist

    SELFPORTRAIT
    - is a representation of
    an artist that is
    drawn, painted,
    photographed, or
    sculpted by that
    artist.

    Frida Kahlo,
    Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace
    and Hummingbird
    ,

    Non-representational Art or Non-objective Art


    They are those arts without any reference to
    anything outside itself (without representation). It is
    nonobjective because it has no recognizable
    objects.
    It is abstract in the sense that it doesnt represent
    real objects in our world. It uses content and is
    concerned with how the artwork is depicted.

    Visionary Expression
    - Art that involves simplification and/or
    rearrangement of natural objects to meet the needs
    of Artistic expression.

    ABSTRACT ART
    - Abstract artuses avisual languageof shape,
    form, color and line to create a composition which
    may exist with a degree of independence from
    visual references in the world.[1]

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