Art History
Art History
Art History
Aristotle
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana History is a discipline of assessing evidence of the past as well as analyzing different historical interpretations.
The history of art is the academic school of study based on art and its developmental history as well as stylistic context (format, design, look, genre).
Ancient Near East art history in the ancient near east would include art of Mesopotamian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, Hittite, Elamite, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Achaemid, Persian, and Sassanian societies.
Greek Art Mainly specialized in architecture and sculpture. Influenced both the West and the East. Alexander the Greats conquests- contact between Indian, Central Asian, and Greek cultures. In the nineteenth century, Greek art traditions dominated the entire western art world.
Roman Art
Spans Ancient Rome as well as the territories of the Roman Empire. Believed to have borrowed from Greek art (which it did rely on quite heavily), it also contains elements from Etruscan, Egyptian, and native Italic culture.
Byzantine Art
refers to art created in the territories of the Byzantine Empire between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. The Byzantine Empire was the political continuation of the Roman Empire, and therefore the classical artistic heritage is carried on through Byzantine art. Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, was adorned with large amounts of classical sculptures. Byzantine art became more abstract, favoring symbolism rather than realistic representations.
This category includes art from European and Germanic societies before the Christianization of Europe. Some of these include Scythian, Celtic, Iron-Age European, Ango-Saxon, and Viking societies.
Islamic Art
art produced in the seventh century and onwards by culturally Islamic populations. does not necessarily include only religious art. It also includes elements from other aspects of Islamic society. includes the extensive use of decorated calligraphy and the use of arabesque, the geometrical repetition of vegetal or floral designs.
Gothic Art
Followed from a Medieval art progression that grew out of France from the Romanesque art tradition in the midtwelfth century. International Gothic developed in the late fourteenth century, developing further until the late fifteenth century. Late Gothic art grew in Germany as well as many areas well into the sixteenth century. Prominent Gothic art include panel-painting, sculpture, illuminated manuscript, fresco, and stained glass.
Baroque Art
Grew during the 17th and 18th centuries. It is considered part of the Counter-Reformation, the movement which sought to reconfigure the Catholic Church as a response to the Protestant Reformation. Baroque art placed great emphasis on high detail and overly ornate decorations. It would develop into Rococo in the mid-18th century, which was even more richly decorated and gaudy. Contempt for such ornateness would eventually inspire Neoclassicism. Chiaroscuro technique in visual arts
The date 1863 is commonly identified as the beginning of modern art; it was the year that Edouard Manet exhibited the painting Le dejeuner sur lherbe (Luncheon on the Grass) in Paris.
Contemporary Art
produced since World War II. Exhibitions of contemporary art are typically at museums and other similar art institutions. These places are artist-run and are supported by the likes of awards, grants, prizes, and direct sales of exhibited works. Contemporary art institutions are often criticized for their exclusivist behaviors, or more specifically, their tendencies to regulate what can or cannot be considered contemporary art. Outsider art, technically contemporary because they are created in present times, might be largely ignored by contemporary art institutions because the artists are selftaught and are therefore working beyond any art historical context.
PREHISTORIC ART
Paleolithic Art- 600,000 to 10,000 (paleo means old and lithio/ lithic means stone) Mesolithic (near East)- 7,000 to 6,000 Mesolithic (Europe)- 7,000 to 4,000 Neolithic (Europe)- 4,000 to 1,500 Neolithic (Near East)- 6,000 to 3,500
her large breasts and the roundness of her stomach, suggests that the "subject" of the sculpture is female procreativity and nurture and the piece has long been identified as some sort of fertility idol.
SUBTRACTIVE technique as a sculptural process Has counterparts in other civilization both in Europe and Asia.
Class Activity:
Sketch Venus of Willendorf in your sketchpad or notebook. Capture its details (form, texture)
REMINDER
Quiz no. 1 on Friday