PABELLO, RHAIZA P.
WS 10:30 AM – 12:00 NN
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ARTISTIC PERIODS
A. ANCIENT ART
Refers to the many types of art produced
by the advanced cultures of ancient
societies with some form of writing, such
as those of ancient China, India,
Mesopotamia, Persia, Palestine, Egypt,
Greece, and Rome. Art played an
important role in these growing societies
by providing a means to enforce religious
and political order
B. MEDIEVAL ART
The era encompasses many artistic styles
and periods, including early Christian and
Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon and Viking,
Insular, Carolingian, Ottonian,
Romanesque, and Gothic. During the
medieval period, the various secular arts
were unified by the Christian church and
the sacred arts associated with it.
C. RENAISSANCE ART
The period immediately following the
Middle Ages in Europe saw a great
revival of interest in the classical
learning and values of ancient Greece
and Rome. Renaissance art sought to
capture the experience of the
individual and the beauty and mystery
of the natural world.
D. BAROQUE ART
Baroque is a period of artistic style that
started around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and
spread throughout the majority of
Europe. It is characterized by
exaggerated motion and clear detail
used to produce drama, exuberance, and
grandeur in sculpture, painting,
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architecture, literature, dance, and
music. Chiaroscuro is often used in
Baroque paintings of dimly lit scenes to
produce a very high-contrast, dramatic
atmosphere.
E. ROCOCO ART
Rococo painting, which originated
in early 18th century Paris, is
characterized by soft colors and
curvy lines, and depicts scenes of
love, nature, amorous encounters,
light-hearted entertainment, and
youth.
F. NEOCLASSICAL ART
Neoclassical Art is a severe and
unemotional form of art harkening back
to the grandeur of ancient Greece and
Rome. Its rigidity was a reaction to the
overbred Rococo style and the
emotional charged Baroque style.
G. ROMANTICISM
The tenets of romanticism included: a
return to nature - exemplified by an
emphasis on spontaneous plein-air
painting - a belief in the goodness of
humanity, the promotion of justice for
all, and a strong belief in the senses and
emotions, rather than reason and
intellect.
H. ACADEMIC ART
Academic Art is the painting and
sculpture produced under the influence
of the Academies in Europe and
especially France, where many artists
received their formal training. It is
 characterized by its highly polished style,
its use of mythological or historical
subject matter, and its moralistic tone.
I. REALISM
Realism, sometimes called naturalism,
in the arts is generally the attempt to
represent subject matter truthfully,
without artificiality and avoiding artistic
conventions, or implausible, exotic, and
supernatural elements.
J. IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism is a 19th-century art
movement characterized by relatively
small, thin, yet visible brush strokes,
open composition, emphasis on accurate
depiction of light in its changing qualities
(often accentuating the effects of the
passage of time), ordinary subject
matter, inclusion of movement as a
crucial element of human perception and
experience, and unusual visual angles.
K. POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Post-Impressionism is a predominantly
French art movement that developed
roughly between 1886 and 1905, from
the last Impressionist exhibition to the
birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionists
extended Impressionism while rejecting
its limitations: they continued using vivid
colors, often thick application of paint,
and real-life subject matter, but were
more inclined to emphasize geometric
forms, distort form for expressive effect,
and use unnatural or arbitrary color.
L. SYMOBOLISM
As opposed to Impressionism, in which
the emphasis was on the reality of the
created paint surface itself, Symbolism
was both an artistic and a literary
movement that suggested ideas through
symbols and emphasized the meaning
behind the forms, lines, shapes, and
colors.
M. FAUVISM
Fauvism is the style of les Fauves, a group
of early 20th century modern artists
whose works emphasized painterly
qualities and strong color over the
representational or realistic values
retained by Impressionism.
N. EXPRESSIONISM
Expressionism is a modernist movement,
initially in poetry and painting,
originating in Germany at the beginning
of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to
present the world solely from a
subjective perspective, distorting it
radically for emotional effect in order to
evoke moods or ideas.
O. CUBISM
Cubism is a highly influential visual arts
style of the 20th century that was created
principally by the artists Pablo Picasso
and Georges Braque in Paris between
1907 and 1914. The cubist style
emphasized the flat, two-dimensional
surface of the picture plane, rejecting
the traditional techniques of
perspective, foreshortening, modeling,
and chiaroscuro, and refuting time-
honored theories that art should imitate
nature.
P. FUTURISM
Futurism was an artistic and social
movement that originated in Italy in the
early 20th century. It emphasized speed,
technology, youth, violence, and objects
such as the car, the airplane, and the
industrial city.
Q. ABSTRACT ART
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.
R. DADAISM
Dadaism is an artistic movement in
modern art that started around World
War I. Its purpose was to ridicule the
meaninglessness of the modern world.
Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it
influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk
rock. It went against the standards of
society.
S. PRECISIONISM
Precisionism is a style of representation
in which an object is rendered in a
realistic manner, but with an emphasis
on its geometric form.
T. SURREALISM
Surrealism is a 20th-century avant-garde
movement in art and literature which
sought to release the creative potential
of the unconscious mind, for example by
the irrational juxtaposition of images.
V. POP ART
Pop art is an art movement that
emerged in the United Kingdom and the
United States during the mid- to late-
1950s. The movement presented a
challenge to traditions of fine art by
including imagery from popular and mass
culture, such as advertising, comic books
and mundane cultural objects.
W. PHOTOREALISM
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.
X. CONCEPTUAL ART & INSTALLATION ART
Conceptual art is art for which the idea
(or concept) behind the work is more
important than the finished art object. It
emerged as an art movement in the
1960s and the term usually refers
to art made from the mid-1960s to the
mid-1970s.

U. ART DECO
The distinguishing features of the style
are simple, clean shapes, often with a
“streamlined” look; ornament that is
geometric or stylized from
representational forms; and unusually
varied, often expensive materials, which
frequently include man-made
substances (plastics, especially Bakelite;
vita-glass; and ferroconcrete) in addition
to natural ones (jade, silver, ivory,
obsidian, chrome, and rock crystal).