2nd Quarter Arts 9: Renaissance and Baroque Art PDF

ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIOD ARTS 9 2ND QUARTER RENAISSANCE period of economic progress (1400-1600) the period stirred enthusiasm for the study of ancient philosophy and artistic values. Italian renaissance began in the late 14th century. an era of great arti...

ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIOD ARTS 9 2ND QUARTER RENAISSANCE period of economic progress (1400-1600) the period stirred enthusiasm for the study of ancient philosophy and artistic values. Italian renaissance began in the late 14th century. an era of great artistic and intellectual achievement with the birth of secular art. The focus was on realistic and humanistic art. RENAISSANCE Renaissance painters depicted real-life figures and their sculptures were naturalistic portraits of human beings. Architecture during this period was characterized by its symmetry and balance. period of artistic experimentation The greatest cathedral building of the age was the rebuilding of st. Peter’s basilica in rome.  CHARACTERISTICS OF RENAISSANCE ARTS Anatomically Linear Realism Humanism Approved Perspective Bodies LIGHT AND NATURALISM Secularism SHADOWS  1. REALISM Renaissance artists introduced realism into their art. In other words, different techniques to make their subjects look as they do in real life. Most of the art works prior to this period used to focus primarily on religion and Christianity. They began to paint the power and the identity of a person as an individual. Renaissance sculptures and paintings brought a more realistic approach to their mythical figures, usually in the midst of a movement or an activity.  2. HUMANISM ▪Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity. This movement first began in Italy and then spread across western Europe. ▪Human bodies and faces became more real, and kids looked more like kids rather than miniature forms of human adults. 3. ANATOMICALLY APPROVED BODIES Leonardo da vinci was a renaissance artist from Italy who set higher standards for painting and drawing bodies. He started painting bodies that were anatomically correct. To be able to do this, he performed around 20 autopsies to learn about the human muscles, organ placement and bone structure.  4. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE Another characteristic of renaissance art is that painters of that era rediscovered the ideas of horizon line, vanishing point, linear perspective and others. They incorporated this in their works with the aim to add 3-D space and depth to their art. Linear perspective was rendered by drawing in such a way that someone is looking out of a window and drawing exactly what is seen from that perspective. All the objects in the painting were sized depending on how close or far they were. The objects that were farther away were painted smaller, and the objects that were closer were painted bigger. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE Horizontal line is the line dividing the earth from the sky. In the renaissance it was placed near the top rather than at eye level, as this is how we see it from in real life. Vanishing point is a spot on the horizon line to which the receding parallel lines diminish. This kind of effect can be experienced by standing in the middle of a road and looking at the edges receding into the distance.  5. LIGHT AND SHADOWS Renaissance art works played with how light creates shadows and hits the objects in their path. Artists used light and shadows to draw a person’s attention to a specific point in the drawing. It aimed at achieving the perfect realism we can see in real life. 6. NATURALISM This is another characteristic of the renaissance art that brought about change in world patterns. Renaissance artists aimed at making their drawings more realistic and natural, especially when painting people. Human figures in these art works displayed emotions and looked solid, allowing the viewers to connect with their thoughts and feelings.  7. SECULARISM It is the transition of predominant beliefs and thought patterns from religious themes to broader themes. The incorporation of practices such as architecture and sculpture. Renaissance artists portrayed non-religious themes, meanwhile, medieval art was exclusively religious in nature.  CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BAROQUE ART TENEBRISIM Realism and LINES Naturalism  Tenebrism is the name given to the contrasting light and darkness. 1. TENEBRISM It’s common in the baroque pieces to see a source of light and shadows, which was a practice used to give dramatism to the paintings, as they both have an impact in the emotions of the viewer and the intensity of the work.  The Realism is an important aspect of the Baroque. Rubens, the painter, hugged reality in his art, especially in his painting “Saint George and the dragon”. In the work, Saint George is a muscly man that wore an armor that looked exactly as it was made in real life during that 2. REALISM era. His horse, as well, is designed as a healthy and powerful animal, as well and brave and strong. AND NATURALISM The Naturalism was also seen in the baroque art with unique, common details from the day-to-day life. Caravaggio applied this technique in his work by showing local places, like taverns; and local people, like farmers. He puts the viewer into the painting smearing things as part of the first plane and the central space.  Lines help to transmit movement and they were frequently used in Baroque pieces. Whether they’re asymmetric, vertical or 3. LINES horizontal, this technique can trick the human eye rather easily and give space to the painting, which is exactly for what they were used during the baroque.