Arts App

• Prehistoric art


  All artworks produced by ancient men before any preconceived culture and known methods of writing and record keeping ever existed, simply meaning art before history
• Cave painting or petrograph


  Any parietal art, which involves the application of color pigments on the walls, floors, or ceilings of ancient rock dwellings inhabited by prehistoric man

  
• Monochrome cave paintings


  • Images with only one color, for example, black, just like the cave images found in Chauvet cave in France

  
• Polychrome cave painting


  • Has two or more colors, as can be seen in the multicolored images of bison on the ceiling at Altamira cave in Spain

  
• Philippine primitive art encompasses the diverse artistic traditions of indigenous communities, including weaving, wood carving, body adornment, and ritual objects
• The Angono Petroglyphs were dated back to circulate Neolithic and were declared a National Cultural Treasure
• Ancient cave art in the Philippines

  • Angono Petroglyphs
  • Red hematite prints in Anda Peninsula, Bohol
  • Charcoal drawings on cave walls in Peñablanca, Cagayan and Singnapan Caves in Palawan

  
• The secondary burial jar found in Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan is considered one of the Philippines' national cultural treasures
• Manunggul Jar


  The image on top of the jar cover is a boat with two human figures representing two souls on a voyage to the afterlife, clearly showing the belief of early Filipinos in life after death
• Classical art


  The art form from Greece and Rome, which is a standard for taste that classicists want to copy or imitate
• Classical Greek art


  • Remnants of cultures pre-dating the Greeks could be seen in early statues, such as stone figures called "kouroi"
• The Greeks achieved new heights in art, architecture, theater, and philosophy during their Golden Age or Classical Period, with democracy in Athens improved under the leadership of Pericles
• Parthenon


  • One of the most wonderful accomplishments in Athens during their time, rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles with the help of his friend Pheidias, who created a new statue of Athena, sculpted in ivory and gold, on the Acropolis
• Massive Statue of Zeus at Olympia and the Statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon


  • The greatest-known works of the Classical Period, made of chryselephantine
• Linear perspective, one of the great innovations of the Renaissance, was actually a rediscovery according to Boorstin
• Medieval art, spanning from the Sack of Rome (c. 450 C.E.) to the Early Italian Renaissance (1400), was predominantly sponsored by the Christian Church in Rome and Constantinople
• Medieval architecture


  • Primarily focused on sacred buildings like churches, symbolized Christian faith and served as expressions of religious devotion, while secular medieval architecture, mainly exemplified by castles and walls, prioritized defense
• Romanesque architecture


  • Prevalent in western Europe from 500 to 1150, characterized by massive structures, thick walls, round arches, sturdy pillars, barrel vaults, large towers, and decorative arcading, influenced by the Carolingian Renaissance and developed under Emperor Otto the Great
• Gothic architecture


  • Emerged in 12th-century France, characterized by light, graceful, and spacious design, incorporating Arab architectural influences from the Crusades, featuring pointed arches, ribbed vaults, buttresses, slender clustered piers replacing heavy ones, and larger windows alongside taller vaults and spires
• Byzantine architecture


  • Also known as Eastern Roman, originated in the 6th century under Emperor, featuring massive domes with square bases, rounded arches, spires, and prominent use of glass mosaics, enduring particularly through the influence of the Greek Orthodox Church
• Renaissance


  The term is from the French word meaning "rebirth", and its movement began in Italy
• Mosaic


  Art made from broken pieces of colored glass, rock, or other materials
• Mosaic


  • Used in Christian churches and cathedrals for wall and ceiling displays
• Gothic sculpture


  Evolved from the rigid and elongated style of Romanesque art to a more naturalistic form in the late 12th and early 13th century
• Stained glass art


  • Featured in Medieval churches, cathedrals, and castles, survived the Middle Ages
  • Uses fragmented pieces of glass arranged to form images, joined by lead strips and supported by a sturdy frame
• Heraldry


  The art of creating coats of arms for nobles, involved using materials like parchment, paper, painted wood, embroidery, enamel
• Renaissance


  Rebirth, movement began in Italy and later spread in the entire Europe, influenced literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, and religion
• Early Renaissance


  First part of the Renaissance era, lasted from about 1400 until the 1490s, focused on realism and naturalism in art
• High Renaissance


  Spanned the four decades from 1490 to the destruction of Rome in 1527, represented the summit of Renaissance art, classical ideas of humanism were fully implemented in both painting and sculpture
• Mannerism or Late Renaissance


  Known for exaggerated qualities, often results asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant art, more artificial than High Renaissance
• Baroque


  Combination of the idealism of Renaissance and slightly forces nature of Mannerism, more on drama, exuberance and grandeur in sculpture, painting and literature
• Rococo


  Also referred to as Late Baroque, known as the age of artificiality as depicted in artworks showing unreal or artificial subjects
• Neoclassicism


  An aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity, invoking harmony, clarity, restraint, universality, and idealism
• Romanticism


  Romantics believed that mysteries could be revealed through emotion, imagination, and intuition, emphasizing individualism, glorification of the past, and nature
• Impressionism


  Created by Claude Monet and other Paris-based artists in the early 1860, aimed to capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere, prioritizing the immediate visual impression over detailed realism
• Post-Impressionism


  Emerged as a reaction against Impressionist concern for naturalistic depiction, rejected the idea that the main focus of the artwork should be the optically of the creation
• Art Nouveau


  Artistic movement popular between 1890 to 1905, practiced in the field of art architecture and applied art, best described by an organic plant motif
• Symbolism


  Painting represents a mixture of form and feeling of reality and the artist's inner subjectivity, first defined by Albert Aurier in 1891
• Fauvism


  Started in France and became the new artistic style in the 20th century, total different from the dark disturbing nature of symbolist art
• Expressionism


  A modernist movement, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, where the artist tried to describe the subjective emotions, objects, and events that aroused him