COURSE MATERIAL (Video Transcript)

Second Term, AY 2020-2021

Course Code ART APP

Course Description Art Appreciation
Prerequisite None
Credits 3 units; 36 hours (Lecture)
Mode of Delivery Online
Week Number 8
Lesson/Topic Exploring Historical and Philosophical Underpinnings of
Art – Art History
Micro-Learning At the end of the lesson, the students must be able to:
Outcomes a. classify the various art movements; present the
history and movements of art through time; and
b. cite important characteristics in an art work
based on the era movement.
Assessment Measures Gap filling worksheet
Video Transcript Hi, everyone! This is Enrique F. Taragua from the Department of
Communication and Humanities. In this lesson we will classify the various
art movements; present the history and movements of art through time; and
cite important characteristics in an art work based on the era movement.
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common
philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of
time. Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each
consecutive movement was considered as a new “avant – garde”,a French
word which means works that are experimental, radical or unorthodox, with
respect to art, culture or society (Karmel, 2003).

According to theories associated with modernism and the concept of

postmodernism, art movements are especially important during the period
of time corresponding to modern art. The period of time called "modern art"
is posited to have changed approximately halfway through the 20th century
and art made afterward is generally called contemporary art. During the
period of time corresponding to "modern art" each consecutive movement
was often considered a new avant-garde. Also during the period of time
referred to as "modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a
somewhat grandiose rethinking of all that came before it, concerning the
visual arts (Jencks and Everdell, 1997).
Postmodernist theorists posit that the ideas of art movements are no longer
as applicable, or no longer as discernible, as the notion of art movements had
been before the postmodern era. The term refers to tendencies in visual art,
novel ideas and architecture, and sometimes literature. In music it is more
common to speak about genres and styles instead (Desmond, 2011).
Now, there are top twenty-five (25) art movements and styles throughout
history according to magazine.artland.com, and these are:

1. Abstract expressionism, which encompasses a wide variety of American

20th century art movements, depicting large abstract painted canvasses;
2. Art Nouveau, a decorative style that flourished between 1890 and 1910
throughout Europe and the US;
3. Avant-garde, innovative or experimental concepts in the realms of culture,
politics and art;
4. Baroque, an art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th
to mid-18th century;

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5. Classism, embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the different
types of art from ancient Greece and Rome, concentrating on traditional
forms with a focus on elegance and symmetry;
6. Conceptual art, arose during 1960s, emphasizing ideas and theoretical
practices rather than the creation of visual forms;
7. Constructivism, developed by the Russian avant-garde around 1915, a
branch of abstract art, rejecting the idea of “art for art’s sake” in favor of art
as a practice directed towards social purposes;
8. Cubism, An artistic movement begun in 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque who developed a visual language whose geometric planes
challenged the conventions of
representation in different types of art;
9. Dada/Dadaism, An artistic and literary movement in art formed during the
First World War as a negative response to the traditional social values and
conventional artistic practices of the different types of art at the time;
10. Expressionism, an international artistic movement in art, architecture,
literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920,
especially in Germany and Austria, that sought to express the meaning of
emotional experience rather than physical reality;
11. Fauvism, associated especially with Henri Matisse and André Derain,
whose works are characterized by strong, vibrant color and bold brushstrokes
over realistic or representational qualities;
12. Futurism, an Italian development in abstract art and literature, founded
in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, aiming to capture the dynamism,
speed and energy of the modern mechanical world.
13. Impressionism, associated especially with French artists such as Claude
Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley, who
attempted to accurately and objectively record visual ‘impressions’ by using
small, thin, visible brushstrokes that coalesce to form a single scene and
emphasize movement and the changing qualities of light;
14. Installation art, movement in art, developed at the same time as pop art
in the late 1950s, which is characterized by largescale, mixed-media
constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of
time;
15.Land art/ Earth art, Land art, also known as Earth art, Environmental art
and Earthworks, is a simple art movement that emerged in the 1960s and
1970s, characterized by works made directly in the landscape, sculpting the
land itself into earthworks or making structures in the landscape using
natural materials such as rocks or twigs;
16.Minimalism, art movements from the 1960s, and typified by works
composed of simple art, such as geometric shapes devoid of representational
content;
17.Neo-Impressionism, an avant-garde art movement that flourished
principally in France from 1886 to 1906, renounced the spontaneity of
Impressionism in favor of a measured and systematic painting technique
grounded in science and the study of optics;
18.Neoclassicism, almost the opposite of pop art, drawing inspiration from the
classical art and culture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, which is not
uncommon for art movements;
19.Performance art, emerged in the 1960s to describe different types of art
that are created through actions performed by the artist or other
participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted;
20.Pointillism, a technique of painting developed by French painters Georges-
Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac, it is characterized by works made of countless
tiny dots of pure color applied in patterns to form an image;
21.Pop art, an art movement emerged in the 1950s, composed of British and
American artists who draw inspiration from
‘popular’ imagery and products from popular and commercial culture, as
opposed to ‘elitist’ fine art;
22.Post-Impressionism, a term coined in 1910 by the English art critic and
painter Roger Fry to describe the reaction against the naturalistic depiction
of light and color in different types of art movements like Impressionism;
23.Rococo, a movement in art, particularly in architecture and decorative art,
that originated in France in the early 1700s, Characteristically, it consists of
elaborate ornamentation and a light, sensuous style, including scroll work,
foliage, and animal forms;

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24.Surrealism, founded by the poet André Breton in Paris in 1924, its main
goal of Surrealism painting and Surrealism artworks was to liberate thought,
language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of
rationalism by championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary;
and,
25.Suprematism, a relatively unknown member of the different types of
abstract art movements, outside of the art world, a term coined by Russian
artist Kazimir Malevich in 1915 to describe an abstract style of painting that
conforms to his belief that art expressed in the simplest geometric forms and
dynamic compositions was superior to earlier forms of representational art.

That’s all for this lesson. I am glad that you learned much from our discussion
on this topic. GOD bless everyone and keep safe always.

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