MODULE 3

• City of Good Character
• DISCIPLINE • GOOD TASTE • EXCELLENCE
• Department of Education, National Capital Region, SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE, MARIKINA CITY
• Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health
• ARTS, First Quarter-Module 3, Western Classical Architecture
• Writer: NOLI L. BRAGAIS, MAED
• In the first two modules, you were able to understand the characteristics and art functions of the painting and sculpture from the prehistoric era, ancient Egypt, Classical Greek and Roman periods, to the Medieval era.
• This particular module would provide you knowledge and insights about the western classical architecture.
• The main topic for this module is about the Western Classical Architecture
• At the end of this module you, as a learner, are expected to: 1. Reflect on and derives the mood, idea, or message from selected artworks; 2. Discuss the use or function of artworks by evaluating their utilization and combination of art elements and principles.
• After you go through this module, you are expected to: 1. identify distinct characteristics of arts during the different art periods; 2. analyze art elements and principles shown in the style of architectural work from ancient art, classical art and medieval art; 3. compare and contrast the characteristics of the different art periods.
• Test II. Identify the particular era/period (prehistoric, Ancient Egypt, classical Greek, Roman, medieval) of the following architectural masterpieces
• 11._________________ 12._________________ 13.____________________
• 14._______________________ 15.________________________
• ACTIVITY 1: Below are the characteristics of western classical sculpture. All you have to do is to rearrange the jumbled words to make them the correct characteristic of the given art period.
• 1. (ULTRA-PRIMITIVE)

  Prehistoric
• 2. (LEMNOS)


  Ancient Egypt
• 3. (REILGOIUS)

  Classical Greek
• 4. (DAME OT SSIMPER)

  Classical Roman
• 5. (MASLL REFIEL)


  Byzantine
• 6. (OREVWHELMNGILY GIOUSLERE)


  Romanesque
• 7. (LAEBOTEAR)

  Gothic
• Architecture is the art and science of making or designing physical structures like buildings, houses, bridges, and other artificial constructions.
• Even in the prehistoric times, early humans created their own distinct dwellings.
• It developed over time. Each era showed significant architectural developments and have become more and more complex.
• ACTIVITY 2: Shape me
• Materials: 3 colored papers ( 3 different colors), scissors, glue or paste, bond paper/Oslo paper.
• Procedure:

  1. Cut each of the colored papers in 4 (to make it four ¼ sheets). You have now twelve ¼ sheets of colored papers.

  2. Using your scissors, cut out these shapes from your colored ¼ sheets: 1 rectangle, 2 squares, 2 circles, 2 semi-circles, 2 triangles, 2 diamond shapes, 2 star shapes. Note: 1 shape per ¼ sheet, better to have a bigger shape.

  3. Now, paste the shapes on your Oslo/bond paper, create an artistic and creative architectural image (e.g., house, temple, etc.) using your cut out shapes. All the shapes must be used up. It is all right to overlap shapes from one another, as long as it would create an awesome architectural design of your choice.

  4. Write a title/name of your design.
• PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE
• Though no one could really trace how the early stages of the process by which the true architecture grew out of the first attempts of man at building, yet we could still behold up to this very day the products of this process--the megaliths, or great blocks of stone arranged in rows, circles or avenues, sometimes with huge lintels resting upon them.
• Menhir


  A prehistoric monument consisting of an upright megalith, usually standing alone, but sometimes aligned with others.
• Dolmen


  Remains consisting of two or more large upright stones supporting a horizontal stone slab, usually regarded as altar or tomb.
• Cromlech


  A circular arrangement of megalith enclosing a dolmen or burial mound
• Tumulus


  An artificial mound or earth or stone, especially over an ancient grave.
• Cairn/Carn


  A heap of stones piled up as a monument, tombstone or landmark.
• The best preserved megalith is the Stonehenge.
• The Stonehenge


  • Located at the southern part of Salisbury Plains, West of Avebury
  • The focal point of the densest concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age
  • Had undergone 4 periods of building and use
  • Used from c.3000 BC until after 1100 BC
• ANCIENT EGYPT ARCHITECTURE
• The ancient Greek architecture reflected the two fundamental characteristics of Egyptian culture: the belief that life of earth was merely a brief interlude compared with the eternal afterlife, and the fact that Egypt was a theocracy, whose king (Pharaoh) was worshipped as a God, with absolute powers.
• Egyptian architectural designs were monumental but not architecturally complex: they used post and lintels, not arches.