History Flashcards
art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods off record-keeping, or makes significant contact with other culture that has make some record of major historical events.
Pre historic 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.
Ancient ART
Famous Renaissance Artists
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michael Angelo
Sandro Boticelli
Hieronymus Bosch
Titian
art evolves as humans continue addressing the traditional and the new, including Biblical subjects, Christian dogma, and classical mythology
Medieval art
painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature produced during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Europe under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classical learning and a more individualistic view of man.
Renaissance art
comes from the Italian word “maniera” referring to personal style, the term was derived from mano, meaning hand, because style was considered inseparable from personal touch, or hand of the artist.
Mannerism
10 Famous Baroque Artists
Caravaggio
Artemisia Gentileschi
Nicolas Poussin
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Francisco de Zurbarán
Diego Velázquez
Rembrandt van Rijn
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Johannes Vermeer
Elisabetta Sirani
An ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gliding white and pastel colors, sculpted moulding and frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
Rococo
Famous rococo artist
1.Francois Boucher
2.Jean Antoine Watteau
3.Jean Honore Fragonard
4. Jean Baptiste Greuze
5.Francisco Goya
Famous Neoclassical Artworks
Jacques Louis David – Oath of the Horatii
was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
Neoclassicism
attitude or intellectual orientation that characterize many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid- 19th century.
Romanticism
Romanticism famous artwork
Second of may
The nightmare
Realism famous artwork
Stone breakers
The cleaners
Sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to present the subject truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.
Realism