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What is a painting?
Contemporary Painting
Painting
• the process or art of using paint, in a
picture, as a protective coating, or as
decoration.
Note: ”Pastels require a different approach
to painting."
Contemporary Painting
• It broadly includes artwork
produced during the late 20th
and early 21st centuries. It
generally defines art produced
after the Modern Art
movement to the present day.
Artist’s Statement
• “The painting is based on a scene in a
parking lot in Megamall, where drivers
sleep, text, and watch late night news
inside a cubicle while waiting for their
employers. This is an image of
ordinary Filipinos’ dedicated service to
their job.” – Elmer Borlongan, March
1, 2015.
• What is the essence of including the
artist’s statement?
• What is your idea about art production?
Art Production
• Every art-making process is dictated by the artist’s
style. Style has many meanings. It can mean the art
produced in a particular historical period. It can
also refer to the art of a nation or a region within a
country.
• Evolution of style – the growth of the artist’s way of
working
Art Production
• Style can be a certain technical approach to the
making of art.
• Scientific classification, it’s necessary to sort
artworks based on common traits or qualities.
• Styles of art can be thought of as groups.
• Style may be discerned not only by how it looks like
but also based on the quality of the painting.
Art Production
• Contemporary painting is made in many styles at one
time throughout the globe.
Art Production
• Stylistic Tendencies are manifested in artwork.
• Stylistic Changes are apparent in stylistic tendencies
which are attributed to the creative inventions or
artists working at a certain times and in specific
places.
Art Production
• To properly understand this, look at the development
of artist Pacita Abad. She was born in Batanes and
leaned art-making in New York, USA.
• While in Boston, Massachusetts in early 1980s, she
discovered trapunto painting.
Art Production
• Trapunto – technique in stitching and stuffing her
painted canvas to give a three dimensional sculptural
effect.
Art Production
• In 1983, she made more than 110 wayang
paintings in Indonesia.
Art Production
• Then she travelled to Papua New Guinea and made 15
large masks in tribal colors, combining her trapunto
technique with local cowry shells, feathers, bones,
and vegetable dyed colors.
Art Production
• Brenda Fajardo maintains
her style in tarot cards
series through which she
takes local historic and
mythical stories and renders
them in paintings of
contemporary sociopolitical
relevance.
Art Production
• There are 4 styles that are based on stylistic
tendencies: (a) objective accuracy; (b) formal
order; (c) emotion; (d) fantasy.
• Edmund Burke Feldman’s (1981) Varieties of Visual
Experience guides us in discussing these styles.
A. The Style of Objective Accuracy
• detached observer or by employing selective eye.
• The Artist as Detached Observer
A. The Style of Objective Accuracy
Edgar Degas’ painting Jose Marie
Picornell’s painting
A. The Style of Objective Accuracy
• The Artist as Selective Eye – the ‘illusion of
reality’ is created by elimination of details that the
eye might see. He/She must ‘know’ the subject as
well as ‘see’ its surface characteristics.
Devices for Objective Accuracy
1. Accuracy of size and shape relationships. Correct drawing
is the most common device. He/She must learn to
distinguish between imitation of surfaces and informed
representation.
2. The artist’s control and handling of illumination help in
creating realistic images.
Devices for Objective Accuracy
3. Focus is achieved through sharpness or softness,
distinctness or vagueness of form and contour.
4. Color is a powerful instrument. It is mainly
connected with the description of the objects.
5. Perspective is the pictorial device that relates to
the artist’s ability to create illusion of deep space
within the painting.
B. The Style of Formal Order
• Formal Order in contemporary art is
associated with stability and permanence.
Formal order is exhibited by its qualities: (a)
intellectual order, (b) biomorphic order, and (c)
aesthetic order.
• The last two are more applicable to sculpture
and architecture.
B. The Style of Formal Order
• Intellectual order is clearly applied to painting. This
style is visible in cubism where an intellectual
method of analyzing forms is employed by the
painter.
• Using geometric forms.
• Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Vicente Manansala
C. The Style of Emotion
• Themes of emotion, feeling, romance are
common features in painting. Romanticism and
emotion are used in painting when the artist
wishes to disclose personal feelings in relation
to love, and so on.
D. The Style of Fantasy
• As artists work, they discover a variety of possibilities of
achieving form and visual effects, even new worlds they
have not seen before or will never exist in the real world.
• Because fantastic art originates in both logical and
irrational mental processes, it presents no common set
of visual qualities.
• Fantastic works may be objectively accurate or
subjectively distorted.
D. The Style of Fantasy
• Illusionism is used in contemporary art to create
fantastic images or substitute real objects for the
illusionistic treatment of reality.
• May be surrealistic, mechanical-biological, quasi-
cubist, or reassembling parts of automobile to
create context or meaning.
Benefits of Painting
1. Promotes Stress Relief
Finding an emotional release like painting
allows a person’s mind to relax and let go of all
the problems that contribute to a high stress
level.
2. Expands Creative Growth
Painting comes more naturally to artistic, right-
brain people, but more analytical left-brainers
can stimulate and nurture their creative growth
by practicing painting as well.
3. Bolsters Memory
Painting sharpens the mind through conceptual
visualization and implementation, plus, boosts
memory skills.
4. Enhances Problem-Solving
As an artist thinks conceptually to bring multiple
solutions to life when painting, they are using
critical thinking skills. During the process, what
an artist imagines may evolve due to color
limitations or unexpected outcomes that occur
during artistic implementation.
5. Cultivates Emotional Growth
Releasing emotions through artwork is a helpful
experience for many painters. As an artist pours out
their emotions through their artwork, they can also
evaluate and understand factors that contribute to
varying moods.
6. Stimulates an Optimistic Attitude
Painting provides a relaxing, open environment where
artists feel safe to explore their own creativity and
encourages a more optimistic approach to life. The
reward of creating visually appealing artwork that others
admire gives the painter a sense of pride and
happiness in the work which helps boosts self-esteem
and inspires people to reach new levels of skill.
Pair Discussion
•What is the
importance of style in
art production?
“All you need to paint is a few
tools, a little instruction, and a
vision in your mind.” --Bob
Ross
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