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Western Classical Art Traditions
(Painting)
 ART
How do you define
ART?
 ART
the expression or application of
human creative skill and imagination,
typically in a visual form such as
painting or sculpture, producing
works to be appreciated primarily for
their beauty or emotional power.
Objectives:

❖ Analyze art elements and principles in the production of work

following the style of a Western and Classical art

❖ Identify distinct characteristics of arts during the different art

periods

❖ Compares the characteristics of artworks produced in the

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different art periods

❖ Creates artwork guided by techniques and styles of Western

Classical art traditions
 ELEMENTS OF ARTS

LINE

SHAPE
 ELEMENTS OF ARTS

FORM

COLOR
 ELEMENTS OF ARTS

VALUE

TEXTURE

SPACE
 PRINCIPLES OF ARTS & DESIGN

CONTRAST
BALANCE

EMPHASIS
VARIETY
 PRINCIPLES OF ARTS & DESIGN

UNITY

RHYTHM &
MOVEMENT

PATTERN & PROPORTION

REPETITION
 Look at the different artworks. Can you identify the names of this artworks?

Calyx Crater
Cave of Lascaux (Mixing Bowl) Pitsa Panel
Look at the different artworks. Can you identify the names of this artworks

Rose Window Diver’s Tomb

EXAMINE ME!
1. What elements
and principles
of art are
manifested on
the picture?
2. How does this
elements and
principles of art
affect the
artwork?
1. PAINTINGS FROM THE ANCIENT ERA
PRE-HISTORIC ERA
Pre-historic includes all
human existence before the
emergence of writing.
Their paintings were found
inside the caves which may
have been their way of
communicating with each
other.
It may also be for religious or
ceremonial purposes.
Pre-historic drawings of
animals were usually correct
in proportion

Cave of Lascaux, 1
5000 -10000 B.C – Stone Age 1
Image from treasures of the World.
1961 CCP Library
 2. PAINTINGS FROM
THE ANCIENT EGYPT
⮚ The purpose of Egyptian paintings is to
make the deceased afterlife place
pleasant.
⮚ It emphasizes the importance of life after
death and the preservation of the
knowledge and the past.
⮚ Most paintings were highly stylize,
symbolic and shows profile view of animal
or a person.
⮚ The main colors used were red, black,
blue, gold and green taken derived from
mineral pigments that can withstand
strong sunlight without fading.
 Classical Greek Era

3. Paintings
from the
Classical Era Romantic Era
PAINTINGS FROM THE
CLASSICAL GREEK ERA
⮚Paintings during the classical era
were found in vases, panels, and
tombs. It depicts natural figures
with dynamic compositions.
⮚Most of the subjects are battle
scenes, mythological figures, and
everyday scenes.
⮚It reveals a grasp of linear
perspective and naturalist
representation
 PAINTINGS FROM THE CLASSICAL GREEK ERA
Most Common methods of Greek
Painting:
1. Fresco – method of painting water-
based pigments on a freshly applied plaster
usually on a wall surfaces. Colors are made
with grind powder pigments in pure water,
dry and set with a plaster to become a
permanent part of the wall. Ideal for
murals, durable and has a matte.
2. Encaustic – developed to use by Greek
ship builders, who used the hot wax to fill
the cracks of the ship. Soon
pigments(colors) was added and used to
paint a wax hull
Vase Painting
1. Kerch Style – also referred to as
Kerch vases are red-figured
pottery named after the place
where it was found.
Shapes commonly found are:
a. Pelike (wine container)
b. Lekanis ( allow bowl with two
horizontal handles and a low
broad foot)
c. Lebes Gamikos (with high
handles and lid use to carry bridal
bath)
d. Krater (bowl use for mixing wine
and water)
 Panel Painting
These are paintings on flat panel of wood. It can be
either a small single piece or several panels joined
together.
Most of the panel paintings no longer exist because
of its organic compositions.
The earliest known panel painting is the Pitsa Panel
(Archaic period between 540 and 530 B.C.E)
(Image from treasures of the World, 1961 CCP library)

Tomb Paintings

Tomb of the Diver (Paestrum 480 BCE)

( Image from treasures of the World, 1961 CCP library)

In tomb paintings, artists rely on the shade

and hues of paint to create depth and a life-
like feeling
4. Paintings
from the
Medieval Era
Byzantine
Era
Romanesque
Era
Gothic Era
Paintings from the Romantic Era

⮚ Most of the paintings in this era

were copied or imitated from
Hellenic Greek paintings.
⮚ Fresco technique was used in
brightly colored backgrounds
⮚ Roman paintings have a wide
variety of subjects, animals,
everyday life, still life, mythological
subjects, portraits and landscape.
⮚ Development of landscape
(panorama) painting is the main
innovation of Roman painting from
Greek painting

Fresco from the Villa of Mosaic – is an art process where an Head of Alexander
Image from Treasures of the World,
Mysteries image is created using an 1961 CCP Library
Pompeii 80 BC
assemblage of small pieces of
colored glass, stones or other
materials
 Byzantine
Painting
▪ The lively styles of paintings which had been
invented in Greek and Rome lived on in Byzantium
but this time for Christian subjects

▪ By the 11th century, the Greek styles seem to blend

together in magnificent, imposing images, which
adorned the churches in large and small forms

▪ Theodora was an Asian Queen with dark eyes and

hair with fierce expression

Fresco from the Villa of Mysteries

Pompeii 80 BC
Image from Treasures of the World, 1961 CCP
library
 Romanesque Painting
It has an amazing range of creative traditions
such as modelling of faces and draperies that
examine Byzantine convention the refreshingly
decorative feelings comes from Southern French
style

▪ Largely placed mosaics on the walls of

the churches that follows a strict
frontal pose.
▪ It shows traces of Mozarabic influence
(Arabize influence) through elongated
Christ in Majesty
oval faces, large String eyes and long Painting from the Church of Saint Clemente, Tahull,
Larida Spain,c 1123 Musue Nacional d’Art de Catalunya,
noses, figures against flat colored Barcelona
bands and heavy outlining

Rose window from the North
Transcept about 1230
Lady and the Unicorn Tapestry
1506-1513
Paintings from the Gothic Era
⮚ Paintings have been confined in the
illumination of manuscript pages and the
painting of frescoes on the walls of
churches in cosmopolitan style, elegant,
mannered and sophisticated.
The Shepherd David
13 century, Gothic manuscript
th ⮚ Subjects usually depicts popular legends
illustration
and love stories, patterns like “mille fleur”
or thousand flowers show influence which
may have been due to the crusades.
⮚ Stained Glass windows were created to
transform the vast stone interiors with
warm and glowing color and at the same
time to instruct Christians in their faith