LESSON 2. Part 2 Flashcards
A term that refers to
Stone Age, Paleolithic, and Neolithic art and artifacts, literally referring to the time before recorded history.
Prehistoric Art
This period stresses the nude sculpture such as the kouros (nude male figure of
athlete) and the kore (fully clad female figure).
Archaic Period
In this period, Arts were influenced by the earlier civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt like
the use of geometric art in pottery.
Archaic period
This period is considered as the remarkable civilization of ancient Greek, the “Golden age of Athens”.
Classical Period
In this period, arts achieve the aesthetic ideals (emphasize forms and follow the
principles of design) and sculpture evolve from the frontal and rigid of kouros
Classical Period
Sculptures in this period are influenced by the Oriental and the political instability which brings new set of aesthetic ideals particularly in paintings and sculptures.
Hellenistic Period
This is the end of the golden age of Athens, the time of Alexander the Great
(338 BC) who conquered the Greek cities.
Hellenistic Period
Is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically
commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made
Still life
It comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the
physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements
including different forms of land use, buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions.
Landscape
It is produced by Christians or under Christian patronage. Arts were influenced by the early Christian symbols like cross, fish,
lamb, Alpha, Omega, wreath, grapes, doves, and peacocks. Arts introduced a new sense of values which emphasized spiritual and the life after death.
Early Christian Arts
An art movement originated in the late 18th
century that emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of
individual
Romanticism Art
Refers to the period of European arts of the 17th
and 18th centuries that follows mannerism and it is distinct with
ornate detail.
Baroque Arts
Refers to the period of European arts that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance
around 1520 and lasted until about 1580 specifically in Italy. This
16th century period of arts were characterized by unusual effects of
scale, lighting, perspective, and the use of bright, often lurid colors.
Mannerism Arts
a style or movement in painting
originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by
a concern with depicting the visual impression of
the moment, especially in term of the shifting effect
of light and color.
Impressionism
A technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny
dots of various pure colors, which become blended
in the viewer’s eye.
Pointillism