art app lesson 3 mt Flashcards
refers to all artworks produced by
ancient men before they preconceived culture and
known methods of writing and record keeping ever
existed, simply meaning art before history.
Prehistoric art
refers to any parietal
art, which involves the application of color
pigments on the walls, floors, ceilings of ancient
rock dwelling inhabited by prehistoric man.
❖Cave painting or petrograph
refers to an
engraved drawing, that is, etched or done by
cutting lines on the rock surface with a sharp object
probably a flint or stone tool.
Cave drawing and petroglyph
Old Stone Age where primitive
cave artworks were created with the use
of primitive stone tools by primitive
men.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD
New Stone Age when man
began to develop culture and
change his lifestyle
NEOLITHIC PERIOD
refers to the art form from
Greece and Rome
❖Classical art
is a general term
describing the long period of time in cultural
history when Mediterranean Sea was the
center.
❖Classical period
in the arts favors the classical
period, classical antiquity (ancient times), in
the western tradition, as standard for taste,
which the classicists want to copy or imitate
Classicism
was the time when the Greeks achieved new
heights in art, architecture, theater and philosophy.
Greek’s Golden Age or the Classical Period of ancient
Greece
was the most powerful nation for over a
millennium, defeating all others at military, organization
and warfare, engineering and architecture.
Roman
were describe as idealistic,
imaginative and spiritual
Greeks
copied life realistically,
especially in sculpture and literature.
❖Hellenistic arts
comes from the word
Hellazein, which means “to speak Greek
or identify with the Greeks.”
“Hellenistic
were practical people and wanted
their art and architecture to be useful.
❖Romans
are planned. They planned
their cities and built bridges, aqueducts,
public baths, marketplaces, apartment
houses and harbors.
Roman arts
