Art app semis

• Prehistoric art


  • Artifacts from ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome
  • Artists employed resources from their natural environments such as clay, rocks, minerals, animal hair, bones, wood, fat and blood to create images
  • Subject matter included animals and people and often told stories
• Ancient Egyptian Arts


  • Arts connote a religious function
  • Arts originate from building tombs and preserving the remain of dead (mummification)
  • Mastaba (eternal house) - chamber for dead (tomb)
• Ancient Arts of Mesopotamia


  • Female figurine, Samara (6000 BC)
  • Nimrud ivories, Neo-Assyrian period (9th–7th centuries BC)
  • Fragment of the Stele of the Vultures, Early Dynastic III period (2600–2350 BC)
• Ancient Arts of China


  • Terracotta Army Collection of terracotta sculptures depict the armies of Qin Shi Huang, (first Emperor of China) Discovered in 1974 (Lintong District, Xi'an)
• Ancient Arts of India


  • Bhimbetka rock shelter
  • Taj Mahal (1648) - "teardrop on the cheek of eternity"
  • Emperor Shah Jahan (Mumtaz Mahal)
• Western Art (Primitive Age)


  • Arts is related to culture (way of life/ belief)
  • Early primitive people paints animal on the wall of cave to have successful hunting
  • Sculpture is associated with magical Belief
  • Small animals statue are the first subject of sculpture
  • Fertility statues are made because of the belief (bring many offspring/ survival of human species)
  • Architecture is learned when man discovered burying the death
  • Gravestones are the firstarchitectural designs
• Roman Arts


  • The Roman sculptures imitated the Greek forms and techniques
  • The Romans developed a new artistic subjects like "still life", "Landscape", and "architectural motifs"
  • The Roman architectures imitated the certain features of Greek architectures (Doric – Tuscan orders)
  • The Romans imitated also the Greek literature
• Medieval Arts


  • Art was largely produced at this time with a variety of medium including illuminated manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, stained glass, metal works, mosaics and even textiles
• Byzantine Arts


  • Merging of Classical and Asian artistic tradition
  • Emphasized the clarity of line and sharpness of outline
• Renaissance Arts


  • Art focused on man's thoughts, feelings and imaginations
  • The ideals of classicism became the artistic standards of the renaissance orders
  • Painting and sculpture subjects remained religious by nature (classical mythology)
  • Renaissance period emphasized the ideal man (jack-of- all-trade) – well rounded man and knowledgeable in different fields (philosophy, science, and arts)
• Mannerism Arts


  • A period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 and lasted until about 1580 in Italy
  • The word mannerism derives from the Italian maniera, meaning "style" or "manner"
• Baroque Arts


  • Relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail
  • In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy
• Romanticism Arts


  • A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual
  • Romanticism is a reaction against the order and restraint of classicism and neoclassicism
  • Romanticism rejects rationalism, and characterized the Enlightenment
• Romanesque Arts


  • Romanesque period developed their own arts; metal work, geometric designs, and stylized animal form
• Modern and Contemporary Arts

  • German Expressionism
  • Fauvism
  • Cubism
  • Futurism
  • Dada
  • Surrealism
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Action Painting
  • Color Field
  • Pop Art
  • Minimalism
  • Op Art
• German Expressionism


  • Beginning as a cultural reform of art and poetry in Germany, this period in art history is coined as "avant-garde", or experimental and innovative
  • Artists became interested in depicting an emotional experience rather than reality based imagery
• Fauvism


  French for the wild beasts, Fauvism became a period where artists kept in tradition with Impressionist style, while exploring color and painterly qualities within their work
• Cubism


  • Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are the creators of this unique artistic style
  • Characterized by broken, reassembled and abstracted forms, cubism transformed art into a unique modern style
• Futurism


  • Originating in Italy, this style of art sought to transform how we see old forms in new innovative ways
  • The Futurists explored every medium of art, including interior design and theatre
• Dada


  • A cultural movement rooted in Switzerland, Dada was a response to the seriousness of war
  • Rejecting traditional standards of art, Dada artists found art and humor in the meaningless objects of everyday life
  • Dada art is characterized as Anti-war and Anti-art
  • Dada was a foundation for future art movements such as surrealism and pop art
• Surrealism


  • Characterized by it's dreamlike qualities, Surrealism became a way for artists to create a unique world of an imagined reality
  • Artists such as Salvadore Dali experimented with reality and psychological elements
• Abstract Expressionism


  • A post-WW2 movement, Abstract Expressionism is known for it's spontaneous and subconscious style
  • Instead of working with representational forms, the Abstract Expressionists' work interprets emotional intensity
• Action Painting


  • Also known as "Gestural Abstraction", this unique style of painting explores the application and expression of medium
  • Jackson Pollock is known as the quintessential Action painter
  • Drips, drizzles and splatters are characteristics of his unique style of painting
• Color Field


  • Originating in NY city, this abstract form of painting is known by it's application of flat fields of color
  • A focus on a refined and consistent application of paint is characteristic of this style
• Pop Art


  • Emerging in Britain in the 1950's, Pop art explored the influences of Popular culture such as advertising, comic books and cultural `objects
  • Pop art was innovative in that it was a the first style of art to emerge that used mass-produced imagery in a fine arts context
• Minimalism


  • A post-WW2 movement, Minimalism became an expression of the basic and simplified form
  • Minimalism is known as a reaction against the Abstract Expressionists
• Op Art


  • The art of optical illusion
  • Artists such as Vasarely and Riley sought to explore the illusion of space while experimenting with line, shape, pattern and color
  • The result is an impression of movement, vibration, swelling, warping and hidden imagery
• Pop Art


  • It was both modernist and contemporary art which is based on modern popular culture and mass media, especially as a critic or ironic comment on traditional fine arts values
  • It started out by depicting a more up-to-date reality, using images of film-stars and other celebrities, as well as mass-made consumer goods
  • But this was rapidly eclipsed by an increasing post-modern focus on impact and style
• Word Art


  It was a brand new form of painting or sculpture which used text- based imagery
• Conceptual Art


  • A postmodernist art movement founded on the principle that art is a concept rather than a material object (Dada arts/ Marcel Duchamp)
  • Art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product (essential component)
• Andre Del Sarto - An Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. An artist senza errori ("without errors")
• Peter Bruelghel -'Peasant Bruegel' or 'Bruegel the Peasant' Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes
• Jacopo Comin "Tintoretto" - Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style
• Michaelangelo Dela Vega
• Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - An Italian artist who is popular in marble sculpture and a prominent architeot. He is me leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture
• Miceangelo De Carravaggio - his paintings, which combine e realist observation of the numan state, physical and emotional, in a dran atic use of lighting, hade formative inf ence on the Baroque school of painting
• Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix - French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists
• Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes - Spanish romantic painter and printmaker, and court painter to the Spanish Crown. 1792 and early 1793, a serious illness, whose exact nature is not known, left Goya deaf, and he became withdrawn and introspective. 1814 to 1819 his works are mostly commissioned portraits
• Johannes Vermeer