Nopuente, Ramil A.

01/06/2020
BSIT-II Arts Appreciation

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-
impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the
history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks,
including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his
life. They include landscapes, still life’s, portraits and self-portraits, and are
characterized by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that
contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful,
and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness and poverty.

- Still Life with Cabbage and Clogs (November-December 1881)

- Beach at Scheveningen in Calm Weather (August 1882)

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- A Wind-Beaten Tree (August 1883)

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- Weaver Facing Right (Half-Figure) (January 1884)
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- Weaver Facing Left with Spinning Wheel (March 1884)

Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French

Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of
the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature,
especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

- Corner of a Studio (1861)

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- Hunting Trophy (1862)
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- Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread and Wine (1862–1863)

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- Farmyard in Normandy (1863)

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- Road by Saint-Simeon Farm (1864)

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker

and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a
key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

- View of Basel and the Rhine (1927-28)

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- The Sleigh Ride (1923)

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- Self portrait (1925)

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- Brücke bei Wiesen (1926)

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- Snowy landscape (1930)
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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 was a Spanish painter,
sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who
spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most
influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the
Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention
of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and
explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the
bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian air forces during the
Spanish Civil War.

- Girl on the ball (1905)

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- Child with dove (1901)
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- Portrait of Dora Maar (1937

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- Cat catching a bird (1939)

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- Guernica (1937)

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Georges Seurat

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best

known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism
as well as pointillism. While less famous than his paintings, his conté
crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation.

- Flowers in a vase (1879)

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- The Suburbs (1882-83)

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- Fishing in The Seine (1883)
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- Gray weather, Grande Jatte (1888)

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- The Eiffel Tower (1889)

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Damian Domingo

Damián Domingo y Gabor was the father of Philippine painting. Domingo

established the official Philippine art academy in his residence in Tondo
in 1821.

- Portrait of Governor General Enrile

- Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

- Chair of St. Peter in Rome

- Self-portrait
Fernando Amorsolo

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was one of the most important artists in the
history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and
painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his
craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.

- Mango pickers, oil on Canvas, 1936.

-The making of the Philippine Flag

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (February 21, 1855 – March 13, 1913)
was a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino
painters of the late 19th century, and is significant in Philippine history
for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the
Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar,
Mariano Ponce and Graciano López Jaena, although he neither involved
himself directly in that movement, nor later associate himself with the
First Philippine Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.

-The murder of Governor-general Fernando Manuel de Bustillo

Bustamente y Rueda painting by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo at Philippine
National Museum of Fine Arts

Don Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto (May 5, 1869 – December 14, 1937) was a
Filipino painter. He was the uncle and mentor to the Philippines' national
artist in painting, Fernando Amorsolo, and to his brother Pablo. He is
regarded as a "master of genre" in Philippine art.

- Young Filipina. Oil on canvas, 1928, from the Paulino Que Collection.
Agustín Sáez and Glanadell ( Murcia , Spain , 1828- Manila , Philippines ,
1891) was a Spanish painter 1 who ended up settling in the Philippines ,
where he would become the teacher of two of the most important painters
of that country at the end of the 19th century : Juan Luna 2 and Félix
Resurrección Hidalgo .

-Work Tulga, king of the Visigoths owned by the Prado Museum ( Madrid )
 Collective Conclusion about the Artworks, Artists, and Art itself

Painters have different ways or style in creating artworks. Some of craft

that I saw through these artists are telling stories or showing messages
and expressing something they feel about things or even by their own
experiences and how they see their surroundings or the world. I firmly
believe that passion is one of the most important things when you are
doing something like art in a way of doing painting, they can create
crafts that are so impressive.

According to my research about Van Gogh, He used color for its “symbolic
and expressive values” rather than to reproduce light and literal
surroundings. His emotional state highly affected his artistic work and it
deeply analyses his unconscious mind. Van Gogh’s art represents a deep
psychological sketch. He left a profound, soul- searching description of his
jagged life in his art work. Then, Claude Monet was a key figure in the
Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second
half of the nineteenth century. In these paintings I have seen and research
I have searched I learned the words that I haven’t heard before or known
before the first one is “Impressionism” it is a style or movement in painting
originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with
depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the
shifting effect of light and color. And the word” Expressionism” it is a style
of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express
emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
Painting can also be a way of preserving history that should never be
forgotten. Most of famous Filipino painters has the paintings inspired from
Philippine history and there are also paintings of memories a person that
they want to remember by losing back or admiring the painting.

Take a short look at Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s masterpieces, who made few
painting collections that focuses highly on individual approach to color,
which he viewed as the fundamental building block of his paintings which
I truly agree. Based on my research, this artist in general encompasses
various media through his artwork, whether that would be through
photography, printmaking, sculpture and even decorative arts. Rather
than accepting the traditional hierarchy that placed fine art solely at the
pinnacle of an artist’s achievement, Kirchner compared his activity in
these different fields to “a tightly woven, organic fabric, in which process
and completion go hand in hand and one aspect drives the other on His
artworks, primarily the (Bridge) became one of the most anticipated
murals which acclaimed as experimental, showing an art of rare beauty
and strong emotional the appeal. In its totality, “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner”
underscores the artist’s evolving approach to color and his uncanny
ability to capture the spirit of his time, which doesn't go far from Pablo
Picasso's work of art.

Picasso's impact on art is tremendous. He had an eclectic attitude to style,

and although, at any one time, his work was usually characterized by a
single dominant approach, he often moved interchangeably between
different styles, sometimes even in the same artwork. No one has achieved
the same degree of widespread fame or displayed such incredible
versatility as Pablo Picasso has in the art history. Picasso's free spirit, his
eccentric style, and his complete disregard for what others thought of his
work and creative style, made him a catalyst for artists to follow. Now
known as the father of modern art, Picasso's originality touched every
major artist and art movement that followed in his wake. Even as of today,
his life and works continue to invite countless scholarly interpretation
and attract thousands of followers around the world.

Therefore, the classic artworks made by these artists are visionary

reflections of events, random ideas cultivating cultural importance in
their early times that stays indefinitely as time age, transmitted from
generation to generation. Art is uniquely positioned to move people—
inspiring us, inciting new questions and provoking curiosity, excitement,
and outrage. Any various emotional insights, impacting our approach
and realizations to whatever things we can picture out from these
presented masterpieces. Art is an essential ingredient that empower
people's mind. Say for example, a simple photo of a child suffering from
poverty can pull and encourage people to make a social change. Similar to
those artists who create music and movies that entertains people. These
shows reflective points and helps people see what the artist sees when he/she
created the piece.

Art is also a remarkable mode of depicting culture from all over the world,
has the power to take cultural practices from where they are from and then
transport and integrate them into different parts of the world without
losing their identity. There, these art forms can be used to entertain,
create awareness, and even inspire people from other countries to accept
these cultures, no matter how strange or alien they may seem as these
became part of their historical beginnings.

Moreover, art has played an important role in fighting against social

intolerance like racism and other forms of societal segregation. Art in
general has the power to educate people about almost anything, creates
awareness and present information. It also promotes cultural
appreciation, if it weren’t for artwork, we would’ve forgotten our history
and culture on a generation that is currently preoccupied with
technological advancement and assesses higher order of thinking.
Creativity is a form of intelligence that helps you unlock potentials,
helping you create art on your own.

Art and its definition will always be controversial. There will always be
debates about what art is and what is not. But no matter what the
definition may be, it has been around us for as long as humans have
existed. Whether or not we are aware of it, we allow arts to affect our lives
one way or another, and the reasons why we make art are many. We use
the arts for our entertainment, cultural appreciation, aesthetics, personal
improvement, and even social change. We use the arts in order to thrive in
this world.