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]