Blog #6 -- arts beyond the west

This topic is the ultimate overview of the past blogs. In arts beyond the west, many cultures and styles have emerged in different parts of the world from Asia to America.

I have learned that their styles and characteristics were similar to each other. For example, in Asia such as Japan, Korea, China and India, they are very traditional in terms of their subject matter.
They all present their gods through paintings and sculptures.

While in the American side, from Africa to the Pacific and the North America, they usually make masks and sculptures than paintings, they all possess the "hunting" characteristic with their artwork, they used naturalism because their life and events are shown in their artworks.

It influenced us Filipinos a lot, we have statues of our saints, we also portray them through different art forms.
Many painters also paint the daily lives of Filipinos.

So for me, arts beyond the west is the collaboration of the different art forms from the whole world.

Blog #5 -- The baroque Period

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. 


It is a French transliteration of the Portuguese phrase "pérola barroca", which means "irregular pearl", and natural pearls that deviate from the usual, regular forms so they do not have an axis of rotation are known as "baroque pearls".




I personally think that baroque period has the most powerful artworks because it shows motion, tension, details, grandeur and beauty.

Like for example, a simple sculpture of a man in a fight, in baroque sculpture, it is very detailed until to the smallest parts of it. We can actually see the muscles of a man or simply how the wind blew the dress. Take note that it is on a sculpture! how difficult is that to do?! 

Baroque period is somewhat like an extension of the renaissance period where in they just improved it and make use of other subject matter. but the styles are similar.

In this period, they have used 2 kinds of style.

1. Naturalism. 

-it is naturalism because it portrays the different activities or daily events happening around us.It shows life.

2. Classicism

-because of the use of the techniques during the renaissance period such as the chiaroscuro and other styles found in the renaissance era. It also shows elegance and beauty.

Blog #4-- RENAISSANCE PERIOD

RENAISSANCE means "rebirth"


It is called rebirth because in this period, different styles of art are used once again, like naturalism, expressionism, post- expressionism and many more. In the previous era which is the Christian Art which portrays religious based concepts and styles.

Many artists boomed in the renaissance period, some of them are Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio and Michaelangelo Bounarroti. Their artworks are very popular during this era because people are so excited to see artworks that portrays realism and naturalism.

In this period, we witnessed a revival of classical themes in art and literature, a return to the realistic depiction of nature through keen observation, and the revitalization of the Greek Philosophy of humanism, in which human dignity, ideas, and capabilities are of central importance.

For me, art in this era has the most number of great artists.
The famous Mona Lisa always reminds me of the Renaissance period, it has been one of the trade mark of this period although the identity of the lady on the painting has not yet been determined with such evidence.
Leonardo da Vinci might really leave it a mystery so that no matter how many decades may pass, people will not stop admiring his Mona Lisa.