PAINTING PAINTING: Refers to the process of applying color on a flat surface. Forms can be created using a wide variety of materials such as water color, acrylic, ink, oil, pastel, and charcoal. Surfaces for painting include wood, canvas, cardboard, and paper. Painting is considered twodimensional, it only has height and weight. FORMS OF PAINTING: Easel Painting Is perhaps the most common form of painting. As the name implies, this involves applying color to a board or canvass that is fixed on an upright support called an easel. - Are meant to be framed and hanged on a wall after creating them. MURALS: Is described as a huge wall-sized painting. During the 1980’s, some artist believed that the murals should be used to impart messages to increase social awareness especially to issues at that time. Portable Mural – was developed in order to prevent the mural from being erased from the wall. The portable mural was created by using bold stroke in applying bright color on pieces of cheesecloth or canvas. TELON PAINTING: Is described as a backdrop or background for the stage. These are used for komedya, sarswela, and sinakulo which are popular forms of theater in the country. Jeepney and Calesa Painting The calesa is typically painted using one color: The borders of the calesa are decorated with geometric patterns, repetitive patterns, and or thin lines. COLLAGE: This refers to a form of painting that involve combine images in a single artwork. This entails cutting and pasting materials such as paper, fabric, tin foil, and other relatively flat materials onto a board or canvas. THEMES OF PAINTING Genre Painting Portrays people in daily activities. Subjects include planting and harvesting rice, a young woman singing, vendors and fiestas. Historical Painting Depicts a scene from the past. It often has a lesson concerning national values. Interiors Refers to painting of the space inside a part of a house or a building. This usually reveals the social class of the family living in that particular house, as well as the traits of the people living in it. Landscape Portrays natural scenery or urban scenes. Mixed media is now used in creating landscape paintings. Closely related to landscapes are seascape, which focus on large body of water. Portraits Refers to a painting portraying one or more specific individuals. This usually portrays the physical characteristics of the subject and seeks to show an understanding of the person’s character. Nudes These are painting that portrays the unclothed human figure. Nowadays a wide variety of materials and styles can be used in painting nudes. Nude painting sessions are conducted in galleries. Religious Painting Common subjects are lone religious image, lives of the saints, and scene based from the scriptures like the nativity scene, and the stations of the cross. Still Life Refers to painting that depicts natural or man-made objects that form a composition in a natural setting. Baroque Rococo Abstract Neo-Realism – Philippine contemporary period which involves creating representational figures that also look abstract. Hyperrealism – or magic realism in which the subject is painted in a highly realistic way that it resembles a photography. Social Realism – entails creating paintings that depict socioeconomic and political problems.
