PAINTING B Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base).

Is one of the oldest and most important arts. Since pre-historic times, artists have arranged colors on surfaces in ways that express their ideas about people the world and religion. They provide people with both pleasure and information.

History The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, claimed by some historians to be about 32,000 years old. earliest evidence of painting has been discovered in two rock-shelters in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia. In the lowest layer of material at these sites there are used pieces of ochre estimated to be 60,000 years old.

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Among the continuing and current directions in painting at the beginning of the 21st
century are Monochrome painting, Hard-edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Appropriation,Hyperrealism, Photorealism, Expressionism, Minimalism, Lyr ical Abstraction, Pop Art, Op Art, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Neoexpressionism, Collage, Intermediapainting, Assemblage painting, Computer art painting, Postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting, Shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, traditional figure painting, Landscape, Portrait painting, and paint-on-glass animation. Elements Intensity In practice, painters can articulate shapes by juxtaposing surfaces of different intensity; by using just color (of the same intensity) one can only represent symbolic shapes. Thus, the basic means of painting are distinct from ideological means, such as geometrical figures, various points of view and organization (perspective), and symbols. Color and tone Color and tone are the essence of painting as pitch and rhythm are of music. Color is highly subjective, but has observable psychological effects, although these can differ from one culture to the next. For example, Black is associated with mourning in the West, but in the East, white is. Rhythm Rhythm is important in painting as well as in music. If tone defines rhythm as "a pause incorporated into a sequence", then there can be rhythm in paintings

Pauses allow creative force to intervene and add new creationsform, melody, coloration.
Non-traditional elements

Some modern painters incorporate different materials such as sand, cement, straw or
wood for their texture. Use computers to paint color onto a digital canvas using programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and many others. These images can be printed onto traditional canvas if required. Style Style is used in two senses: It can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an individual artist's work. It can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is associated with. Western Painting Styles Modernism Impressionism

Portrays the effect of the experience upon the consciousness of the artist and the audience.
A famous art movement was born in Paris, France.

 Edward Manet first impressionist painter.

Shockes art audiences with Le de jeuner sur lherbe (The luncheon on the Grass ; 1863)

Claude Monet portrayed landscapes depicting sunlight playing on water. August Renoir showed movement on Human Figures especially women radiating vitality and health

Camille Piscarro was called the Village Impressionist

George Seurat made composition using dots, a technique called pointillism Impressionist show features of vagueness, fleeting and transitory. Abstract styles Expressionism is the visual, literary and performing arts, a movement or tendency that strives to express subjective feeling and emotions.

Have its roots in Germany during the 20th century.

Terms that characterizes expressionistic painting.

Harsh Brutal Introspective Tragedy

Emotional expression

Pathos Morbidity Violence/chaos Tragedy

Van Gogh a Hollander, painted the starry night which depicts his violence and subjective attitude which is the feature of expressionism Ernest Ludiurg Kirchner (1880-1938) is a German Expressionist who portrayed his emotion and experience with large, simple forms and clear colors. The street conveys the emotional state of a German City following World War 1. Emil Noldes (1867-1956) paintings showed bold strong colors: yellow-orange, blue green and redviolet. German School mst important expressionist in 2oth century and was originated by the following painters.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Erich Heckel Rottluff Karl Schmidt who organized a group in Dresden, called Die Brucke (german for the
Bridge) in 1995. Max Weber and Ivan Albright are among the most famous American Expressionists.

Tranquility utilizes dark and rich colours and the forms are distorted. E. Aguilar Cruz A modern Filipino ezpressionist
Philippine ambassador of UNESCO in Paris in 1979. Modern Painting Influence by political, social, ideological and cultural trends of a particular time. Examples:

Cubism - A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes. Expressionism Surrealism - is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best

known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur;
Post Modernism Dadaism a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France,

Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty
Fauvism - An early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of

French artists and marked by the use of bold often distorted forms and vivid colors. Cannot be classified as modern art because the movement lastred only up to 1970s

Modern Painters

Cesar Legaspi (1917-1994)

National Artist Awarded Visual Arts 1990 Pioneer of neo realism in the Philippines

One of the Thirteen Moderns, a group of modernists led by Victorio Edades whose
works wents against the conservative academic art of that period.

He had 1st one-man show at the Luz Gallery in 1963. Holds the record of fine retrospective exhibitions at different venues.
The Museum of Philippine Art in 1978, the National Museum & Metropolitan Museum in 1988, & Luz Gallery & the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1990.

Fabian Cueto de la Rosa (May 5, 1869-Dec. 14, 1937)

 Uncle and member to the Philippines National Artist in Painting, Fernando Amorsolo.
Master of Genre in Philippine art.

Federico Aguilar ALcuaz (June 6, 1932 Feb. 2, 2011) An award winning Filipino Painter who exhibited extensively internationally and whose
work win recognition both in the Philippines and abroad. Conferred the title of National Artist for Visual Arts, Painting, Sculpture and Mixed Media in 2009.

master of the still life and in this, he releases his great love of painting. He takes over from Picasso, Braque
and Juan Gris, as well as from Dali, but discovers his own pleasures.

Benedicto Cabrera Reyes Best known as BenCab

Was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006. Arguably the best selling painter of his generation or Filipino artists.

Lasarati - Benedicto Cabrera(BenCab) Teodora Alonzo Reads the Story "The Moth and
the Flame" to HerSon, Jose Rizal 1996 charcoal and pastel on paper.