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THE BEGINNINGS OF ART, WESTERN AND ASIAN ART Ann Margaret N. Castillo “Art is the signature of civilizations” – Beverley Sills.  The Beginnings of Art It begins around 44,000 years ago with the first known cave paintings in Sulawesi, Indonesia that predate...

THE BEGINNINGS OF ART, WESTERN AND ASIAN ART Ann Margaret N. Castillo “Art is the signature of civilizations” – Beverley Sills.  The Beginnings of Art It begins around 44,000 years ago with the first known cave paintings in Sulawesi, Indonesia that predate writing in the journey of human race. Art is a significant aspect of history since it is one of the few things to survive.  WESTERN AND ASIAN ART PREHISTORIC AND ANCIENT ART were around 44,000 B.C.E. to This Art period includes 400 BCE those of prehistory to the the art period that includes ancient civilizations of cave paintings, fertility Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the statues and bone flutes to nomadic tribes. approximately the end of the Roman empire.  Pre-historic Art PREHISTORIC CAVE ART IN SULAWESI, INDONESIA discovered in the 1950's Archeologists discovered This art is of indigenous their age to be around mammals; a small water forty thousand years, at buffalo, a warty pig, and a least same age as the pig-deer, and hand oldest known art in stencils. Europe.  Pre-historic Art PREHISTORIC CAVE ART IN LASCAUX, IN FRANCE Seventeen thousand years ago realistic images of bison, bulls, horses, stags, and other animals They made stencils of their hands, too.  Pre-historic Art PREHISTORIC CAVE ART IN SULAWESI, INDONESIA Pre-historic Art  Ancient Art includes the works found The artwork of this time in classical civilizations is as varying as the like the Greeks and Celts cultures that created it. as well as that of the What relates them early Chinese dynasties. together is their purpose Ancient Art Ancient Art Ancient Art  Asian Art Hindu Art This Art reflects the plurality of beliefs, Hindu Temples, which depicts their architecture and where sculptures are found, typically are devoted to different deities. Hindu Art is portrayed by holy symbols like the Om, an invocation of divine consciousness of God.  Asian Art Chinese Art Chinese artistic styles are classified according to the dynasty under which they were produced. The art forms most worthy to mention are calligraphy and painting though Chinese art also encompasses fine arts, folk arts, and performance arts. Asian Art Japanese Art Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, calligraphy on silk and paper, ink painting, kirigami, origami, and dorodango sculpture, and, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, and more recently manga, a modern method of Japanese cartooning and comics. Asian Art  Byzantine Art Byzantine art is about Byzantine forms of religious expression and architecture and painting more specifically about was based on religious church doctrine translated concerns which made art into aesthetic forms. uniform, anonymous, and perfected within this austere tradition. Byzantine Art  Medieval Art To some, the millennium from 400 and 1400 A.D. is considered as the Dark Ages the art in this period were depicted as grotesque or brutal scenes while others were focused on formalized religion Medieval Art  Early to High Renaissance 1400 through 11500 The famous 15th-century Renaissance literally artists like Brunelleschi and means rebirth and Donatello paved the way to the describes the resurgence work of Botticelli and Alberti. of curiosity in the artistic When the High Renaissance achievements of Greece took over in the next century, and Rome the work of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael emerged. Early to High Renaissance  Venetian and Northern Renaissance 1430-1550 Stone sculpture was not extremely Northern Renaissance was popular, but the Germans boost up famous due to advance their wood carving techniques. technique in oil painting, Dutch art was governed by empirical realistic, vivid altarpiece perspective. art, wooden panel paintings, Dutch aimed to get to the basics, woodcuts, and printmaking. capturing every single detail. The painters learned from direct observation and their knowledge of the consistency of things. Venetian and Northern Renaissance  Mannerism 1527-1580 The compositions are marked by introduced a highly imaginative clashing colors which lacks the period in art balance, naturalism, and dramatic The figures can be represented by colors of High Renaissance. a powerful twisting and bending Mannerist artwork seeks instability with distortions, exaggerations, and restlessness with fondness for elongations of the limbs, bizarre allegories that have lascivious posturing on one hand, graceful undertones. posturing on the other hand and the rendering of the head as uniformly small and oval. Mannerism  Baroque Art 1600-1750 The defining characteristics of the The word baroque means Baroque style were real or implied something that is elaborate and movement, an attempt to represent highly detailed. infinity, an emphasis on light and its characterized by exaggerated effects, and a focus on the motion and clear detail used to theatrical. produce drama, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.  Baroque Art Techniques This allowed for a blurring of the quadro riportato- frescos that boundaries between painting, incorporated the illusion of being sculpture, and architecture that was composed of a series of framed signature to the movement. paintings Chiaroscuro technique is a trait of quadrature- ceiling painting Baroque Art in which the treatment trompe l'oeil techniques of light and dark in an artwork assisted to create dramatic tension. Example of Quadrature  Baroque Art The chiaroscuro technique was further evolved by Baroque master Caravaggio into tenebrism. Tenebrism- the intensification of contrast within dark atmospheric scenes to highlight particular elements. Baroque Art  Neoclassical period of enlightenment cleaner style, sculpted forms, a started in Europe in the 1700's shallow depth of background and a and spread into the colonies more realistic approach focus of this was on Neoclassical painting and sculpture government, ethics, and involved emphasis on austere linear science which varies from the design in the depiction of classical previous period that focused event, characters and themes, using on religion, imagination, and historically correct settings and costumes. emotions Neoclassical  Romanticism 1750-1850 The subject matter varied widely spread all over Europe and the including landscapes, religion, United States at the end of the revolution, and serene beauty. 18th century to the 19th The artists emphasized that sense Romantic art concentrated on and emotions - not simply reason emotions, feelings, and moods and order - were equally important to challenge the rational ideal means of understanding and held so tightly during the experiencing the world. Enlightenment. Romanticism Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct Théodore Gericault Romanticism  Realism Realism (1848-1900) is also They depicted people of all classes in called naturalism. ordinary life situations which The accurate, detailed, reflected the changes brought on by straightforward depiction of the industrial and commercial nature or of contemporary life. revolutions. Realism MODERN ART  Modern Art refers to late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century art showcase artists’ interest in re-imagining, reinterpreting, and even rejecting traditional aesthetic values of preceding styles IMPRESSIONISM This is the style of painting that emerged in the mid and late 1800s. emphasizes on an artist’s immediate impression of a moment or scene, communicated through the effect of light and its reflection, short brush strokes and separation of colors. Modern life is often used as the subject matter by impressionist painters. POST-IMPRESSIONISM Post-impressionism (1885-1910) bridged the gap between the restrictive techniques found in the impressionist period and the emphasis on geometry found in modern art. Post-Impressionism is an art movement characterized by a subjective approach to painting. POST-IMPRESSIONISM  Fauvism and Expressionism (1900-1935) Fauvism Fauvism is a term to denote The artists used pure, brilliant color the use of distortion and applied straight from the paint tubes exaggeration for emotional to create bright effects from the effect, which first surfaced in canvass. the art literature of the early twentieth century.  Fauvism and Expressionism (1900-1935) Expressionism Expressionism is an artistic It is accomplished through style in which the artist distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, attempts to portray not and fantasy through vivid, violent, or objective reality but rather the dynamic application of formal subjective emotions and elements. responses that objects and events awaken in him. Fauvism and Expressionism (1900-1935)  Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Still (1905-1920) Cubism Futurism an artistic movement, created Italian art movement that by Pablo Picasso and Georges took speed, technology, and Braque modernity as its inspiration employs geometric shapes in portrayed the dynamic depictions of human and other character of 20th century life, forms elevated war, and machine age, and favored the growth of Fascism  Dadaism and Surrealism (1917-1950) Dadaism Surrealism first conceptual art movement intends to channel the unconscious where the focus of the artists means to unlock the power of was not to craft aesthetically imagination pleasing objects but create Strongly influenced by works that upended bourgeois psychoanalysis sensibilities also influenced by Karl Marx in the aimed to generate difficult sense that surrealists hoped that the questions about the society, human psyche had the power to reveal contradictions in the everyday the role of the artist and the world and spur on revolution. purpose of art Dadaism and Surrealism (1917-1950)  Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism (1940-1950) is an art movement of mostly nonrepresentative painting. It was neither wholly abstract nor expressionist and comprised several fairly various styles. What integrated them in one art movement was an aim to redefine the nature of painting.  Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art Abstract Expressionism The emergence and fast propagation of Abstract Expressionism turn out to be possible owing to the following factors. First, was the coming to US of many modern artist refugees from European autocratic regimes of 1930s and war disasters of 1940s Second, was the advent of a new network of New York museums and galleries that staged (for the first time in US) major exhibitions of European modern art.  Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art Abstract Expressionism  Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art Pop Art (1960s) a movement marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the afluence in post-war society most prominent in American art but soon spread to Britain a direct descendant of Dadaism in the way it mocks the established art world by appropriating images from the street, the supermarket, the mass media, and presents it as art Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art CONTEMPORARY ART  Contemporary Art the art of today, created by artists who are living in the twenty-first century provides a chance to reflect on contemporary civilization and the matters relevant to us, and the world around us a dynamic mixture of materials, techniques, concepts, and subjects that question traditional boundaries and challenge easy definition is diverse characterized by the extreme lack of a consistent, unifying principle or ideology concerned on personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality POST MODERNISM AND DECONSTRUCTIVISM  Postmodern art refers to a group of movements that began in the late 1950s and early 1960s artist rejected established practices and questioned the importance of their roles in the artistic process use familiar images from consumer and pop culture and mass media to confront or question art and society has an irreverent almost mocking view of artistic importance Postmodern art  Deconstructivism a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building characterized by an absence of harmony, continuity, or symmetry Frank O. Gehry Canadian-American most well-known proponent of Deconstructivism building design one of the prominent American architects of the Postmodern era  Deconstructivism Frank O Gehry