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• Prehistoric art (8000 BC - 5000 BC) includes paintings, sculpture, and drawings with no written records and no verbal accounts
• 3 PHASES of Prehistoric art

  • STONE AGE
  • BRONZE AGE
  • IRON AGE
• Paleolithic


  "paleo" means old and "lithic" stone, started 30000 BC - 10000 BC
• Mesolithic


  started 15000 BC - 10000 BC
• Neolithic


  "Neo" means new and "lithic" stone, started 10000 BC - 4000 BC
• Bronze Age


  2900 BC - 1500 BC
• Iron Age


  750 BC-450 AD
• Characteristics of Prehistoric art


  • Their subject is their daily lives
  • Images of animals dominate their drawings and paintings
  • Images of humans are just like stick figures
  • Paintings were realistically represented
  • Human figures have little details
• Egyptian art


  Land of pharaoh and desert land, communities were made up of hunters, soldiers, slaves, priests, and scribes
• Scribes


  Scholars who were able to read and write
• Pharaoh


  Highest rank in the Egyptian period, believed to be half man and half god
• Characteristics of Egyptian art

  • They have a lot of pyramids
  • Pyramids were used as tombs for pharaohs
  • They mummified the dead
  • Tombs were put with things believed to be used after life
  • First pyramid was built 2600 BC located at Giza with a guardian called the Great Sphinx
  • They used hieroglyphics - the early form of writing
  • They used different colors: blue and green for the Nile river, yellow for their god, red for power and vitality
• 3 Purposes of Egyptian art

  • Ceremonial - used for religious purposes
  • Narrative - they used hieroglyphics to narrate
  • Functional - sacrophagus: coffin or vase for inhumation burials
• Ancient Roman art (200 BCE - 400 ACE) would show off and celebrate the power of their emperor, was less religious and less idealized than Greek art, and they had a lot of Roman coins that depicted the faces of their emperors
• 3 Periods of Ancient Greek art

  • Arcaic Period (700 - 400 BC)
  • Classical Period (480 - 323 BC) - also known as the Golden Age of Greece
  • Hellenistic Period (323 - 30 BCE)
• Gothic art is a derogatory word used during the Renaissance period to describe the Middle Ages, and is characterized as being related to Christianity and religion
• There are 2.2 Billion Catholics all over the world
• Characteristics of Renaissance art

  • They gave emphasis to the human figure from the face to the waist to the whole body
  • Paintings, drawings, and sculptures featured naked human figures
• Baroque period


  Barioco which means irregularly shaped pearl, primarily talks about human emotions
• Characteristics of Fauvism


  • They used bold vibrant colors
  • They used different brush stroke techniques
• Fauvism


  Artists: Henri Matisse (Father of Fauvism), Andre Derain
• Characteristics of Cubism


  • They wanted to show how things really look like (what you see is what you get)
• Cubism


  Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Draque
• Characteristics of Futurism


  • Aim to capture the modern world in art
• Futurism


  Artists: Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini
• Characteristics of Romanticism


  • Based on imagination and experience
• Romanticism


  Artists: William Blake, Francisco Goya
• Characteristics of Realism


  • They used visible brush strokes and unblended color
• Realism


  Artists: Jean Francois Millet, Gustave Courbet
• Characteristics of Impressionism


  • They did not mix all their palette and they used large open brush strokes
• Impressionism


  Artists: Claude Monet, Pierre Aguste