Art History Overview: Ancient to Modern Art

ART HISTORY A rt Movement is a collective name given to a series of art with a common style, philosophy, and technique Ancient Art Medieval Art Asian Art Early Modern Art 19th Century Art...

ART HISTORY A rt Movement is a collective name given to a series of art with a common style, philosophy, and technique Ancient Art Medieval Art Asian Art Early Modern Art 19th Century Art 20th Century Art Ancient Art Roman Art Cave Art used marble, fresco, and mosaic used natural pigments such as featured portraiture and ochre, charcoal, minerals, twigs, architectural innovations like animal hair Pantheon and Aqueducts featured simple forms, honored emperors and heroes silhouettes, and outlines Augustus commissioned the Ara depicted dynamic animals, hand Pacis and the Forum of Augustus. stencils, and geometric patterns utilized for hunting rituals and documenting significant events Medieval Art Artists are unknown, reflecting a used illuminated manuscript, collective cultural effort of early stained glass, and sculpture hunters. noted for flat, symbolic representations Egyptian Art conveyed biblical stories and teachings used stone, wood, metal, and Limbourg Brothers was known for papyrus Très Riches Heures du Duc de featured hieratic scale, frontal Berry. poses, and symbolism emphasized the afterlife and the divine to honor gods and Asian Art pharaohs Chinese Painting for religious and funerary used ink and brush on silk or rice Imhotep designed the Pyramid of paper Djoser. Two main styles: Landscape painting and calligraphy Greek Art Wang Wei was known for A Solitary Temple Amid Clearing used marble, bronze, and pottery Peaks. employed naturalism and Ukiyo-e (Japanese Printing) Contrapposto to create lifelike used woodblock printing figures employed bokashi to create color celebrated human achievement, gradients and depth explored mythology and public captured fleeting moments in spaces landscapes, kabuki actor, beautiful Phidias was known for Zeus at person (bijin) Olympia and Praxiteles was known Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa for Aphrodite of Knidos (Cnidus). Hiroshige were known artists.