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Period: 30,000 BCE to 2500 BCE
Stone Age
30,000 b.c.-2500 b.c. - cave painting, fertility paintings and goddesses became the new popular form -
Period: 495 BCE to 429 BCE
Ancient Greece and Rome
Ancient Greek and Rome-
Pericles acropolis, Athens (hub of the city)
Phidias- he focused on beauty and craftsmanship
Parthenon inspired western buildings
Limited idea of democracy
Fluting- vertical lines -
Period: 327 BCE to 27 BCE
Hellenistic period:
-The idea of collection for social status
-art was seen as a menial task -
Period: 1300 to
THE RENAISSANCE
humanism and Leonardo divinci
Della Pictura-
a picture should evoke a sense or spatial and historical actuality
a painting should have a istoria, or theme
the particular theme should be elaborated through the appropriate sue of color
Georgio Vasari academia del disegno -
1377
First Moveable Type
jikji- first moveable metal type- 1377 Korea -
1415
Linear perspective- 1415
brunelleschi –examined a building and painted this building. He drills a hole in painting and hold the painting up in front of him and also holds a mirror up to see where is lines are accurate and where they are wrong. -
Period: 1440 to 1445
Printing
Gutenberg’s printing press- 1440 combines moveable metal type with screw → everything is becoming more accessible
Gutenberg’s bible 1454→ mass prints it -
Period: 1463 to
Early Motherhood Works of Art
madonna of loreto raphael
Jan Van Eyck
catherine opie - self portrait nursing 2004
she identifies as queer
references madonna breastfeeding her child -
Period: to
THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM AND THE FRENCH ACADEMY
-2 hours a day for life drawing
-included the teaching of architecture, geometry, perspective -
Period: to
Neoclassical
Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
"Vanitas" peter claez -
First Photo
first known photograph ‘view from the window at le gras’ 1826/27 “heliography” -
Period: to
Realism
Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
rustic painting
Manets Paintings are a great example -
Period: to
Cubism
Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new
forms to express modern life
Picasso, bocconi -
Period: to
Surrealism
Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the
unconscious
Duchamp - 'Portrait of chess' -
Period: to
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism
Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles
-cindy sherman, frank Gehry -
Period: to
WeIrd ArT
The reincarnation of saint orlan
-made a permanent shift into famous works done by men
stelarc
“third ear” (2007)
-grew his own ear on his arm using cloning -
Feminist Movement
late 70s-present
“guerrilla girls” 1985
-made anonymous, wore masks
‘you are my sunshine’ 2015
-female form is central in her work
-black empowerment -
Period: to 1400
MIDDLE AGES AND THE BENEDICTINE ORDER
ending of the western and beginning of romanticism
arts sole purpose is to honor god and top communicate the truths of the gospel
carol- a private work space → became popular
less interest in the arts, more interest in work. The grand notions of art disappear → decline in literacy
guilds: unions of different kinds of crafts workers, established rules. Provided legal advice to one another
apprentice (similar to co-op): training started around 13 or 14,