Painting

Painting

● a two-dimensional art form

● done on a flat surface and with suitable

instrument

Historical Overview

of

Painting

Spanish Colonial Period

Spanish Colonial Period

● opening of Suez Canal in 1869 brought so

many opportunities

● Ilustrados- term for an educated Filipino

- commissioned portraits celebrating

their social ascendance

Miniaturismo

● style in painting

which pays

attention to the

embroidery and

textures of the

costumes

First Non-Religious Art

The Basi Revolt - series of painting by

Esteban Villanueva

- depicted the revolt of the

Ilocanos against the

Spaniards because of

the wine called “basi”

Academia de Dibujo y Pintura

● established in 1821

● headed by Damian Domingo

Damian Domingo

● known for his

watercolor albums

of tipos del pais

Tipos del Pais

● Inhabitants of the

archipelago dressed

in the typical

costumes of their

occupation and

social class

American and

Contemporary Tradition

Highlights

Classism:

- Fabian de la Rosa

- Fernando Amorsolo

*creating a myth of a

rural paradise(smiling

girls while harvesting)

Modernism:

- Introduced by

Victorio Edades

*making more room

for the terrible and

ugly

Classism vs. Modernism

Planting Rice, Amorsolo

The Builders, Edades

Themes

Religious Paintings

• Depicts a lone

image

Ex: Via Crusis

Historical Paintings

• Compositions of

human figure

depicting a scene

from history

Example: The First

Mass by Fernando

Amorsolo

Portraits

• Subject is one or

more particular

individual

Ex: Romana Carillo

Nude

• Subject is the

naked human

figure

Ex: Odalisque by Juan

Luna

Genres

• Depicts people in

everyday activities

Ex: Boxer Codex

(Pintados)

Interiors

• Shows the

disposition of space

inside a house

Ex: Tampuhan by

Juan Luna

Landscapes

• Depicts natural

scenery and

countryside

Ex: Hidalgo’s painting

done in the Academia

de Dibujo y Pintura

Seascapes

• A body of water is

the subject

Ex: Felix Hidalgo’s

Marina con Rocas

Still Lifes

• An artwork by

painting the

inanimate objects

Ex: Still Life by Paz

Paterno

Materials for Painting

Tempera

● consists of

pigments ground

with egg yolk,

producing a great

intensity of hue

Fresco

● water-based

pigments which

are absorbed by

the wall

Watercolor

also called aquarelle,

-the paints are made of

pigments suspended in a

water-soluble vehicle.

Ink

• a liquid or paste that contains

pigments or dyes

Crayons

a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other

material.

Pencil and Graphite

is a writing implement or art

medium

.

Pastels

• consisting of pure

powdered pigment and a

binder

Charcoal

• made of finely grounded

organic materials that are

held together by a gum or

wax binder

Acrylic

● a fast-drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer

emulsion.

● is water soluble, but becomes water-resistant when dry.

Common Painting Surfaces

Wood or Panel

• flat panel made of

wood

Canvas

is an extremely heavy-duty

plain-woven fabric

Masonite

● a thin, medium-brown made from

steamed wood chips,stretched

into fibers and pressed together

with enough pressure

Paper

● a thin material produced by

pressing together moist

fibers, typically cellulose pulp

derived from wood, rags or

grasses, and drying them into

flexible sheets

Cardboard

● a generic term for a heavy-duty paper of

various strengths

Techniques/Processes

Direct Method

- paint is directly applied

onto the surface with a

brush

Indirect Method

- Paint is applied in thin layers of transparent

colors

* Stumbling -an opaque layer of oil paint is worked over another layer so that small

areas of color beneath show through in uneven, broken manner

Watercolor

- Paper is first soaked

then stretched to

avoid wrinkling during

the process

Wet-on-Wet

- Creates

atmospheric effects

Tempera Painting

Forms

Easel Painting

- Executed on a portable

support such as panel or

canvas

Murals - from the Latin word

“muros” which means wall

- classified as any

large, wall-sized painting.

Telon Painting

- as stage backdrop for komedya, sarswela and

sinakulo

Calesa painting

-the calesa is painted in

a single color and its

borders decorated with

thin lines, geometric

patterns, or repetitive

designs.

Jeepney painting

- grew from the calesa

tradition

- hood and the sides of the

jeepney are areas of

decoration.

Ex: Sarao Jeepney in Las

Piñas

Collage

• a scissor-and-

paste method of

combining ready-

made images

Semiotic Reading

Art and Power

España y Filipinas

• meaning “Spain and the Philippines”

• Both are wearing traje de mestiza or

"dress of the mestiza“

• representation of the benevolent image

of colonialism

Spoliarium

• Interpreted as an allegory of

imperial Rome corresponding

to imperial Spain

La Tragedia Del Gobernador Fernando Bustamante y

Bustillo

-Catholic revolution to Gobernador

Fernando Bustamante

-Consists of Dominicans,

Augustinians and Franciscans.

-To overthrow the tyrant, they united

and produced immense power.

Art and Gender

Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho

(Christian Virgins Exposed to the Populace)

• Showed a group of

captive Christian

maidens persecuted and

offered as slaves to

leering men

Fernanda de Jesus

• Aim to represent and

celebrate an ideal

example of Filipino

womanhood

La Bulaqueña( The Lass from Bulacan)

• A serene portrait of

a Filipina in a Maria

Clara outfit

ART AND FAITH

Art and Faith

Langit, Lupa at Impierno by Josef

Luciano Dans, 1850

-the painting can be found in the wall of

San Cristobal Church in Paete, Laguna.

when the Spaniards colonized the

Philippines, Catholicism emerged in our

religion and since then, Heaven and

Hell has been an ideology of the

Filipinos.

Art and Faith

The Late 16th-century Frescoes in

the Monastery of San Agustin in

Intramuros

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