history of arts

• paleolithic means old stone
• paleolithic derive form the greek word paleos mans old and lithos means stone
• paleolithic began in 2 million years ago 13000 bc
• mesolithic is culture included gradual domestication of plants and animals, formation of settled communities
• mesolithic use of bow and development of delicate stone and pottery
• mesolithic is aware of the use of fire
• neolithic also called new stone
• neolithic starts from 10 200 bc
• cave art is generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function, sometimes both
• cave art have been created within the frameworks of shamanic belief and practices
• egyptian art and architecture, the architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings and applied crafts of ancient egypt
• egyptian art is example of pyramid of giza
• greek art stands out among the other ancient cultures of its development of naturalistic but idealized depiction of human body in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation
• roman medieval it covered a variety of subjects including natural themes like landscape and narrative themes taken from literature and mythology
• roman painting was largely form of frescos
• the primary color use in roman painting is primary colors of deep red yellow green violet black
• chinese painting are often served as a means to submit to the will of heave through ritual and sacrifices to heaven through ritual andsacrifice
• archaic bronze vessels were made for sacrifices to heaven and to the spirits of clan ancestor, who were believed to influence the living for good if the rites were properly and regularly performed
• renaissance art is marked by aa gradual shift form the abstract forms of the medieval period to the representational forms of the 15 century. subject grew from mostly biblical scenes to include portraits episodes from classical religion and events from contemporary life
• Mannerist is a sixteenth century style of art and design characterised by artificiality, elegance and sensuous distortion of the human figure. Mannerist artists evolved a style that is characterized by artificiality and artiness, by a thoroughly selfconscious cultivation of elegance and technical facility, and by a sophisticated indulgence in the bizarre
• In the Baroque style, the preference is for saturation, volume, and a massive scale
• Rococo style focuses on elegance, intricate details, playfulness, and linearity
• Baroque art is dramatic and strong, whereas Rococo art is more intimate, gentle, and appealing
• Neoclassicism in the arts is an aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity, which invokes harmony, clarity, restraint, universality, and idealism
• Realism sought truth in the ordinary and the tangible. It focuses on the sublime, using high contrast and intense emotion to convey its subjects
• Romanticism leaned towards the extraordinary, the emotional, and the intangible. focuses on detailed, sometimes gritty depictions of reality.
• Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life.
• Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
• Fauvism can also be seen as a form of expressionism in its use of brilliant colors and spontaneous brushwork. It has often been compared to German expressionism, which emerged at around the same time and was also inspired by the developments of postimpressionism.
• Futurism is an avant-garde art and social movement that originated in Italy. Several manifestos were created in the wake of futurist philosophy and the most important of them was the Manifesto of Futurism, published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. The attitude towards the past that the Futurists had was based on an uncompromising rejection of tradition.
• Cubism is an avant-garde art movement that originated in France. The originators of this revolutionary artistic practice were Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Cubism formulated a new painting based on mobile perspective and geometrization of scenes. This procedure was created with the aim of achieving the authentic twodimensional nature of the image.
• Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
• Dada was an artistic and literary movement in Europe and the United States that began in the early twentieth century during the cultural and social upheaval following the first World War. Dadaism mocked and antagonized the conventions of art itself, emphasizing the illogical, irrational, and absurd.
• Surrealism aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement's artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional
• Constructivism art is an experimental and dynamic form of modern art that has been changing the way we think about creativity for decades.
• A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made
• Op artworks are abstract, with many betterknown pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or swelling or warping.
• Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture
• Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object
• Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.