ARTS APPRECIATION REVIEWER

PRE HISTORIC

Paleolithic era is distinguished by the development of stone tools and hence known as the Stone Age.

Lower and Middle Paleolithic: 750,000 -40,000 BC. The early paleolithicchart the evolution of
neanderthals, cro-magnon man and homo erectus into more modern humans and early nomadic
patterns of the human species.

Upper Paleolithic: 40,000 -10,000 BC. This was a period of evolutionary change for the human species as
Neanderthals became extinct, the last ice age and human tribes spread across the earth.

Mesolithic: 10,000 -7,000 BC. Transition period between nomadic tribesmen and development of
agriculture.

Neolithic: 7,000 -1,500 BC. The end of the last ice age included the development of technology such as
the wheel, wide spread agriculture, domesticated animals and the rapid spread of the human
species

ANCIENT MAPMAKING

topographical compositions -include animal pens and "maps" of villages and, later, towns.

Bedolina Map-the most ancient map known in Europe,

Vase decoration is a typically Neolithic art form.

The cave and rock art of the later Old Stone Age or Upper Paleolithic is especially famous and has
certain particular characteristics.

Hands arc frequently encountered in Upper Paleolithic cave art.

ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT

PURPOSES OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART

•Ceremonial-most of their art was used for religious purposes that dealt with the afterlife and the gods.

•Narrative-Hieroglyphics that told stories of everyday life.

•Functional-sarcophagus held dead, vases held organs.

ART SUBJECT MATTERS IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART

•Portraits-stylized paintings of pharaohs, slaves, and everyday life.

A cartouche is an oblong frame for an inscription that goes inside it.

MEDIEVAL ART

MEDIEVAL-OF OR RELATING TO THE MIDDLE AGES.

MIDDLE AGES-THE PERIOD OF EUROPEAN HISTORY FROM THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE
WEST (5TH CENTURY) TO THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE (1453), OR, MORE NARROWLY, FROM CIRCA
1100 TO 1453.

TIME PERIODS

EARLY, HIGH AND LATE MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE

RELIGIOUS ICONS
ROMANESQUE ART/ARCHITECTURE
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

BYZANTINE EMPIRE
RELIGIOUS ICONS
BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

MEDIEVALCHURCHES & MONASTERIES

ROMANESQUE STRUCTURES FEATURED ROUND ARCHES AND HEAVY THICK WALLS, SMALL WINDOWS
LIKE THE ROMAN STYLE

GOTHIC STRUCTURES FEATURED POINTED ARCHES AND HAVE SLENDER FEEL AS IF THEY SOAR UPWARD
(TO HEAVEN), LARGE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS FILTERED IN LIGHT AND COLOR.

BYZANTINE STRUCTURES FEATURED LARGE DOMES THAT COVER SOARING SPACES, ARCHES AND
LAVISH DECORATION.

EARLY MIDDLE AGES

- ALSO CALLED DARK AGES
-CHRISTIANIZATION “AGE OF FAITH” INFLUENCED ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
-MONASTERIES AND CHURCHES GREW IN NUMBER, SIZE AND POLITICAL IMPORTANCE

CATHEDRAL
-THE CHURCH THAT CONTAINS THE BISHOP’S THRONE.

BYZANTINE EMPIRE
-CAPITAL CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE (MODERN DAY TURKEY.)

CLAY
-A SOFT, MOIST MATERIAL USED TO CREATE ARTWORKS SUCH AS SCULPTURE AND POTTERY.
SCORE
-TO SCRATCH HATCH MARKS INTO CLAY; TO ATTACH TWO PIECES OF CLAY TOGETHER.

FIRING
-HEATING CLAY TO THE REQUIRED TEMPERATURE TO HARDEN.

KILN
-THE FURNACE IN WHICH CLAY IS FIRED TO HARDEN IT.

GLAZE
-A GLASS-LIKE SURFACE COATING FOR CERAMICS THAT IS USED TO DECORATE AND SEAL THE PORES OF
THE FIRED CLAY.

MODERN ART

Modern art is the creative world's response to the rationalist practices and perspectives of the new
lives and ideas provided by the technological advances of the industrial age that caused contemporary
society to manifest itself in new ways compared to the past.

Claude Monet
-was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism, which was
concerned with capturing light and natural forms.
- "Impression, Sunrise"(1873),depicted Le Havre's harbor in a morning fog

Henri Matisse
-was a French artist, known For his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship

PABLO PICASSO

Cubism
-was an avant-garde art movement that changed forever the face of European painting
And sculpture while simultaneously affecting contemporary architecture, music and literature.

FUTURISM
- Founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Futurist art glorified speed , technology ,the automobile ,the
airplane and scientific achievement

EXPRESSIONISM

- Vincent Willem van Gogh, The main contribution of expressionism to "modern art" was to popularize
the idea of subjectivity in painting and sculpture, and to show that representational art may legitimately
include subjective distortion.

DADA

- The main contribution of Dada was to shake up the arts world and to widen the concept of " modern
art ", by embracing totally new types of creativity ( performance art and ready mades ) as well as new
materials (junk art) and themes.
SURREALISM

-FOUNDED BY ANDRE BRETON

- was to generate a refreshingly new Set of images. Whether these images were uniquely non-rational

Is doubtful.

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

-FOUNDED BY JACKSON POLLOCK

-WAS TO POPULARIZE ABSTRACTION

POP ART

-FOUNDED BY ANDY WARHOL

- was to show that good art could be low-brow ,and could be made of anything.

POST MODERN ART

Postmodernism is distinguished by a questioning of the master narratives that were embraced during
the modern period, the most important being the notion that all progress – especially technological -
Is positive.

BRICOLAGE
-Art technique where works are constructed from various available materials

CONCEPTUALISM/CONCEPTUALART
-Deconstruction of what makes something "art", designed to confront viewers and their concept
Of art.

APPROPRIATION
-Repurposed objects or existing art, that with minimal transformation, subversively gives them new
Meaning and context.

DECOLLAGE
-Images given new meaning by tearing or removal, started with a mashup of commercial posters and
those underneath.

BANKSY
-GRAFFITI

UMBERTO BOCCIONI
-FUTURISM ART
CHRIS BURDEN- INARTISTIC GESTURE

MARCEL DUCHAMP- CUBISM AND FUTURISM

JASPER JOHNS- FLAGS AND MAPS

BARBARA KRUGER- SILKSCREEN PRINTS PLACED A CONCISE AND DIRECT CAPTION ACROSS THE SURFACE
OF A PHOTOGRAPH

Roy Lichtenstein- BOLDLY COLORED PARODIES OF COMIC STRIPS AND ADVERTISEMENTS

Rene Magritte- SIMPLE GRAPHICS

James Rosenquist- COLLOSAL COLLAGE PAINTINGS

ROBERT WILLIAMS- LOWBROW /POP SURREALISM