The Historical Development of Art Flashcards
Art history looks at art works and people have created them
Susan Vreeland
Prehistory Arts
There was 3 ages of Stone Age
Paleolithic Period
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Ancient art has 4 main periods
Stone age (Neolithic or Paleolithic)
Bronze age
Iron age
People in this era represented their worldviews through images. Animals are the favorite subject in the creation of Art.
Ancient
Ancient
Engravings, paintings, sculptures, and potteriesare expression for
beauty and complex socio-spritual systems
Artworks done by ancient people before the invention of writing. It is a symbolic practice that is an integral segment of the culture that originates from it (Honour and Fleming, 2005)
Pre-historic arts
Scientists like archaeologists have identified Stone age art, such
Ancient sculpture
Petroglyphs
Pictographs
Megalithic arts
Sample of Stone Age Art
Ancient Sculpture
Totemic status, Ivory engraving
Sample of Stone Age Art
Petroglyphs
Cave rock carvings and wall engravings
Sample of Stone Age Art
Pictographs
Graphic imagery, Symbols
Sample of Stone Age Art
Megalithic
Works associated with the formation of stones
First known period of prehistoric human culture, during which work was done with stone tools
Prehistoric or Old Stone Age Art
The oldest cave art in Europe is
El Castillo Cave (Cave of the Castle)
Discovered by a Spanish archeologist in 1903
Hermilio Alcalde del Rio (1866-1947)
Old stone age derived from the greek word paleos=old and lithos=stone
Paleolithic
Most of the images were drawn during the first period some
human footprints belongs to a child
One of the earliest sculptures discovered yet is
Extraordinary Ivory sculpture
People lives in a small groups more than 60 people
Paleolithic
Culture included gradual domestication of plant and animals, formation of settled communities, use of bow and development of delicate stone and pottery. They also well aware of the use of fire
Mesolithic Period
- Also called New Stone Age
- Greek words Neo means New and litho means Stone
Neolithic Period
Characteristics of Neolithic
- use of stone with some metals
- settling permanent community
- development of agriculture and animal husbandry
In Neolithic the whole wall was painted with the scenes of
Group of people hunting, farming or dancing
Neolithic sculpture theme was primarily on the
female or mother goddes
Neolithic pottery it began replacing by simple stone and wood Potter and become more
highly decorated
Vase was made of Clay, one handled jug with round ody and tall neck
neolithic vase
Four types of tools used by Paleolithic Man
Pebble Tools (Pebble Chopper)
Bifacial Tools
Flake Tools
Blade Tools
First cutting device and considered the oldest tools made by human
Pebble Tools
It is a hand axe prehistoric stone tool flake with two faces or sides
Bifacial Tools
Hand tools used during the Stone Age
Flake Tools
A stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core
Blade Tools
This red figured pottery is named after the place where it discovered
Kersh Vase Painting
A specially famous for making beautiful altarpiece
Panel Painting
During ancient time use either encaustic (wax) or tempera (water-based) as a method of fresco
Tomb/Wall Painting
They were hand-shaped cooking pots, jar, and pitches
Ceramics
It is a method of painting in water-based pigments on applied plaster on wall surfaces
Fresco
It is the arts of crafting figures with small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials
Mosaics
They were excellent artists who created new shapes of jewelry
Goldsmith and silversmith
It is applied solely to the windows of medieval castles, churches, and cathedrals
Stained glass
They were colorful religious texts which often use gold and silver as its main features
Illuminated manuscripts (Illumination)
A very skilled in creating religious objects for church decorations
Metal work
It is embroidery in colored wool
Bayeux Tapestry
It is manner of designing or creating coats of arms and insignia
Heraldry
It experiments with innovations to build wider buildings in stone such as the pointed arch and flying buttresses, as architects complete across to build ever-taller cathedrals
Gothic Architecture
People during this period did see themselves as different from their medieval predecessors
Renaissance Arts
It is detailed, elaborated and characterized by exaggerated motion and clear detail. Direct, dramatic and obvious, intending to appeal emotions
Baroque
It is characterized by curvy lines, soft colors, and portrays romantic encounters such as scene of love, nature, light-hearted entertainment, and youth. It derives from rocaille which is french for rock.
Rococo Art
It refers to movements in the arts that draw inspiration from classical art and culture of Greece and Rome during ancient times
Neoclassicism
It emphasizes emotion, glorification, and individualism of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than classical
Romanticism
It is an artistic movement. The realist depicted everyday subjects and situations in contemporary settings and attempted to portray individuals of all classes of society in similar way
Realism
It is an art style in which the artist takes the image an objects as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it
Impressionism
Artist used brilliant, pure color, aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes
Fauvism
He made mosaics and painting, which include the frescoes of New Testament scenes in the upper church of St. Francis ofAssisi
Giovanni Cimabue
He worked with other artists for the Cathedral of San Francisco Assisi and began painting a fresco style there with scenes from Old and New Testament
Giotto de Bondone
He was a scuptor and goldsmith in one of florentine workshops
Flippo Brunelleschi
He was admitted to the Gold Guild and started his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in 1392
Lorenzo Ghiberti
He leared thee fabrication of metals and other substances known as metallurgy
Donatello
Also known as Beato Angelico, means “Blessed Angelic One”
Fra Angelico
As an Architect, he was hired by Pope Nicholas V in the renovation of the papal palace and of the Roman bridge of Acqua Vergine
Leon Battista Alberti
