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• Prehistoric art periods


  • 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
• Prehistoric art


  • Paintings, sculpture, and drawings with no written records and no verbal accounts
  • 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
• Prehistoric art was created from 8000 BC - 5000 BC
• Scribes


  Scholars who were able to read and write in ancient Egypt
• Pharaoh


  Highest rank in the Egyptian period, believed to be half man and half god
• 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 built 2600 BC at Giza, guarded by the Great Sphinx
  • They used hieroglyphics, the early form of writing
  • They used colours like blue, green, yellow, and red to represent the Nile river, their god, and power/vitality
• Purposes of Egyptian art

  • Ceremonial
  • Narrative
  • Functional
• Sacrophagus


  Coffin or vase for inhumation burials
• Ancient Roman art


  • They would show off and celebrate the power of their emperor
  • Less religious and less idealized than Greek art
  • They had a lot of Roman coins depicting the faces of their emperors
• Ancient Greek art periods

  • Archaic Period (700 - 400 BC)
  • Classical Period (480 - 323 BC, also known as the Golden Age of Greece)
  • Hellenistic Period (323 - 30 BCE)
• Gothic art


  Derogatory word used during the Renaissance period to describe Middle Ages art, related to Christianity and religion
• There are 2.2 Billion Catholics all over the world
• Renaissance art


  • Emphasis on the human figure from the face to the waist to the whole body
  • Paintings, drawings, and sculptures of naked human figures
• Baroque period


  Primarily talks about human emotions
• Fauvism


  • Used bold vibrant colors
  • Used different brush stroke techniques
• Fauvism artists


  • Henri Matisse (Father of Fauvism)
  • Andre Derain
• Cubism


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


  • Pablo Picasso
  • Georges Draque
• Futurism


  • Aimed to capture the modern world in art
• Futurism artists


  • Giacomo Balla
  • Gino Severini
• Romanticism


  • Based on imagination and experience
• Romanticism artists


  • William Blake
  • Francisco Goya
• Realism


  • Used visible brush strokes and unblended color
• Realism artists


  • Jean Francois Millet
  • Gustave Courbet
• Impressionism


  • Did not mix all their palette and used large open brush strokes
• Impressionism artists


  • Claude Monet
  • Pierre Aguste
• Prehistoric art periods


  • Paleolithic (30000 BC - 10000 BC)
  • Mesolithic (15000 BC - 10000 BC)
  • Neolithic (10000 BC - 4000 BC)
  • Bronze Age (2900 BC - 1500 BC)
  • Iron Age (750 BC-450 AD)
• Prehistoric art


  • Paintings, sculpture, and drawings with no written records and no verbal accounts
  • Subject is their daily lives
  • Images of animals dominate their drawings and paintings
  • Human figures are just like stick figures
  • Paintings were realistically represented
  • Human figures have little details
• Paleolithic


  "paleo" means old and "lithic" stone
• Neolithic


  "Neo" means new and "lithic" stone
• Egyptian art was created in the land of pharaoh and desert land
• Egyptian communities


  • Hunters
  • Soldiers
  • Slaves
  • Priests
  • 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
• 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 built 2600 BC at Giza with a guardian called the Great Sphinx
  • They used hieroglyphics - the early form of writing
  • They used colours like blue, green, yellow, and red with specific meanings