THE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF ART

These types of art have subjects that refer to objects or events occurring in the real world.

• Non-representational Art

• Abstract

• Representational Art

• Representative Art

It is one of the ways of representing the subject when the artist selects and renders the objects with their shapes, colors and positions altered. In some other works, enough of a likeness has been retained to represent real things.

• Surrealism

• Abstraction

• Realism

• Distortion

It is one of the ways of representing the subject wherein the artist is giving expression to what it is in the subconscious composes dreamlike scenes that show an irrational arrangement of objects.

• Surrealism

• Abstraction

• Realism

• Distortion

It is one of the ways of representing the subject that portrays twisting, stretching or deforming the natural shape of the object.

• Surrealism

• Abstraction

• Realism

• Distortion

What is a type of a subject that do not present descriptions, stories, or references to identifiable objects or symbols? Rather they, appeal directly to the senses primarily because of the satisfying organization of their sensuous and expressive elements?

• Realism

• Non-objective

• Representational

• Objective

What is a kind of subject that are groups of inanimate objects arranged in an indoor setting (flower and fruit arrangements, dishes food, pots and pans, musical instruments and music sheets)? The arrangement is like that to show particular human interests and activities.

• Figures

• Portraits

• Landscape

• Still Lifes

What is a kind of subject when artists show a deep concern about life around them? Many of them have recorded in paintings their observation of people going about their usual ways and performing their usual tasks.

• Dreams and Fantasies

• Genre

• Landscape

• Still Lifes

What is the most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork and understanding how these elements relate to one another?

• Factual Meaning

• Conventional Meaning

• Subjective Meaning

• Content Meaning

What is the content analysis that stem from the viewer’s or audience’s circumstances that come into play when engaging with art (what we know, what we learned, what we experienced; what values we stand for)?

• Factual Meaning

• Conventional Meaning

• Subjective Meaning

• Content Meaning

What is the content analysis that pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, and symbols and other cyphers as bases of its meaning?

• Factual Meaning

• Conventional Meaning

• Subjective Meaning

• Content Meaning