Arts Appreciation (2)

• Prehistoric art


  Primarily focused on hunting, shows great variety of stylistic treatment, and sophistication of form, color, and line
• Greek art


  Rejected magic, combined sport and religion and imbued scientific view of nature
• Roman art


  Preference for sharp forms and elongated figures, served the cult of ancestors and defied emperors
• Medieval art


  Focused on spiritual expression than physical beauty, symbols were also emphasized
• Peacock to represent immortality
• Renaissance painting


  Simplicity, pretty, gesture and expression
• Famous Renaissance painters


  • Giotto
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Raphael Sanzio
  • Michaelangelo
• Baroque art


  Painting style is ornate and fantastic, appealing to the emotion, sensual and highly decorative, with light and shadow for dramatic effect
• Rococo art


  Painting style emphasized voluptuousness, picturesque and intimate presentation of farm and country, made use of soft pastel colors rendering the landscape smoking, and hazy with the subject always in the center of the canvas
• Romantic art


  Emphasizes the painter's reactions to past events, landscapes, and people
• Romantic painter


  • Francisco Goya, "Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga"
• 19th Century Painting (Modern Art)


  Art was aimed to please the public
• 19th Century Painting Movements


  • Impressionists
  • Expressionists
  • Simplicity in art
• Impressionism


  Spontaneous painting method in which an artist attempts to capture the impression of light in a scene
• Greatest Impressionist


  • Paul Cezanne, Father of Modern Art
• Expressionism


  Characterized by distortion and exaggeration to create an emotional effect
• Father of Expressionism


  • Vincent Van Gogh
• Simplicity in art


  Simplifying outline but uses strong patches of colors
• Simplicity in art painter

  • Paul Gauguin
• Prehistoric sculpture


  Consisted of rude forms carved in stones and woods to produce figures and images to commemorate heroes and heroines and perpetuate the memory of men

  
• Egyptian sculpture


  Has the elements of nature as the sun, moon, stars, sacred animals on wall carvings, life size figures of men and women, decorated the tombs of the dead with scenes from his life

  
• Egyptian sculpture


  • Horus, a god in the form of a falcon
• Greek sculpture


  Calm, thoughtful, and is more focused on the form of men and women's body
• Roman sculpture


  More represented in bust forms of famous men and women

  
• Byzantine sculpture


  Focused more on churches and biblical figures
• Romanesque sculpture


  Subject matter were on biblical characters and human figures, carved in statue form or in relief and the bodies were fully clothed, flat and elongated-looking

  
• Gothic sculpture


  Stressed figures with carving of their garments to show impression of real bodies and limbs

  
• Renaissance sculpture


  Gave attention to anatomical shapes, proportions and perspectives, became more secular and later, sculpture were on legends and myths of Greece and Rome

  
• Baroque sculpture


  Depicted beauty of the art and expression of emotion
• Baroque sculptor


  • Gregorio Fernandez, "Piedad"
• Rococo sculpture


  Designed for ornamental purpose, highly ornate and exquisite, appeared largely in furniture, panels, vases and urns

  
• 19th Century sculpture


  Depicted perfect human anatomy in Neo-classical schools and realistic figures with psychological attitudes of the French Revolution in Romantic-Realistic schools
• 20th Century sculpture


  Mainly concerned with human body
• 20th Century sculptors


  • Henry Moore, depicting sculpture of anxiety and terror
  • Alberto Giacometti, carving a figure endowed with either action or feeling by using thinned-out matter rising upward in empty space
  • Pablo Picasso, Father of Abstract sculpture
  • Julio Gonzales, advocate of regeneration of plastic shapes through geometric organization of the human body
• Neolithic Age architecture


  The beginning of architecture, man used caves for shelter and most probably for religious ceremonies
• Paleolithic and Mesolithic Periods architecture


  Man used caves for shelter and most probably for religious ceremonies
• The oldest traces of early man are tools made of stone, some more than 200,000 years old
• Formal periods of western architecture development

  • Ancient world
  • Medieval period
  • The Modern world
  • The Contemporary world
• Ancient world architecture areas

  • Architecture of Mesopotamia
  • Architecture of Ancient Egypt
  • Aegean and Ancient Architecture
  • Etruscan and Ancient Roman
• Aegean architecture


  The Palace at Knossos, Crete (1600-1400 BC) is an example