PABELLO, RHAIZA P.

WS 10:30 AM – 12:00 NN
HUM SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

ARTISTIC PERIODS

A. ANCIENT ART architecture, literature, dance, and

Refers to the many types of art produced music. Chiaroscuro is often used in
by the advanced cultures of ancient Baroque paintings of dimly lit scenes to
societies with some form of writing, such produce a very high-contrast, dramatic
as those of ancient China, India, atmosphere.
Mesopotamia, Persia, Palestine, Egypt,
Greece, and Rome. Art played an E. ROCOCO ART
important role in these growing societies Rococo painting, which originated
by providing a means to enforce religious in early 18th century Paris, is
and political order characterized by soft colors and
curvy lines, and depicts scenes of
B. MEDIEVAL ART love, nature, amorous encounters,
The era encompasses many artistic styles light-hearted entertainment, and
and periods, including early Christian and youth.
Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon and Viking,
Insular, Carolingian, Ottonian, F. NEOCLASSICAL ART
Romanesque, and Gothic. During the Neoclassical Art is a severe and
medieval period, the various secular arts unemotional form of art harkening back
were unified by the Christian church and to the grandeur of ancient Greece and
the sacred arts associated with it. Rome. Its rigidity was a reaction to the
overbred Rococo style and the
C. RENAISSANCE ART emotional charged Baroque style.
The period immediately following the
Middle Ages in Europe saw a great G. ROMANTICISM
revival of interest in the classical The tenets of romanticism included: a
learning and values of ancient Greece return to nature - exemplified by an
and Rome. Renaissance art sought to emphasis on spontaneous plein-air
capture the experience of the painting - a belief in the goodness of
individual and the beauty and mystery humanity, the promotion of justice for
of the natural world. all, and a strong belief in the senses and
emotions, rather than reason and
D. BAROQUE ART intellect.
Baroque is a period of artistic style that
started around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and H. ACADEMIC ART
spread throughout the majority of Academic Art is the painting and
Europe. It is characterized by sculpture produced under the influence
exaggerated motion and clear detail of the Academies in Europe and
used to produce drama, exuberance, and especially France, where many artists
grandeur in sculpture, painting, received their formal training. It is
 characterized by its highly polished style, symbols and emphasized the meaning
its use of mythological or historical behind the forms, lines, shapes, and
subject matter, and its moralistic tone. colors.

I. REALISM M. FAUVISM
Realism, sometimes called naturalism, Fauvism is the style of les Fauves, a group
in the arts is generally the attempt to of early 20th century modern artists
represent subject matter truthfully, whose works emphasized painterly
without artificiality and avoiding artistic qualities and strong color over the
conventions, or implausible, exotic, and representational or realistic values
supernatural elements. retained by Impressionism.

J. IMPRESSIONISM N. EXPRESSIONISM
Impressionism is a 19th-century art Expressionism is a modernist movement,
movement characterized by relatively initially in poetry and painting,
small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, originating in Germany at the beginning
open composition, emphasis on accurate of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to
depiction of light in its changing qualities present the world solely from a
(often accentuating the effects of the subjective perspective, distorting it
passage of time), ordinary subject radically for emotional effect in order to
matter, inclusion of movement as a evoke moods or ideas.
crucial element of human perception and
experience, and unusual visual angles. O. CUBISM
Cubism is a highly influential visual arts
K. POST-IMPRESSIONISM style of the 20th century that was created
Post-Impressionism is a predominantly principally by the artists Pablo Picasso
French art movement that developed and Georges Braque in Paris between
roughly between 1886 and 1905, from 1907 and 1914. The cubist style
the last Impressionist exhibition to the emphasized the flat, two-dimensional
birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionists surface of the picture plane, rejecting
extended Impressionism while rejecting the traditional techniques of
its limitations: they continued using vivid perspective, foreshortening, modeling,
colors, often thick application of paint, and chiaroscuro, and refuting time-
and real-life subject matter, but were honored theories that art should imitate
more inclined to emphasize geometric nature.
forms, distort form for expressive effect,
and use unnatural or arbitrary color. P. FUTURISM
Futurism was an artistic and social
L. SYMOBOLISM movement that originated in Italy in the
As opposed to Impressionism, in which early 20th century. It emphasized speed,
the emphasis was on the reality of the technology, youth, violence, and objects
created paint surface itself, Symbolism such as the car, the airplane, and the
was both an artistic and a literary industrial city.
movement that suggested ideas through
Q. ABSTRACT ART V. POP ART
Abstract art uses visual language of Pop art is an art movement that
shape, form, color and line to create a emerged in the United Kingdom and the
composition which may exist with a United States during the mid- to late-
degree of independence from visual 1950s. The movement presented a
references in the world. challenge to traditions of fine art by
including imagery from popular and mass
R. DADAISM culture, such as advertising, comic books
Dadaism is an artistic movement in and mundane cultural objects.
modern art that started around World
War I. Its purpose was to ridicule the W. PHOTOREALISM
meaninglessness of the modern world. Photorealism is a genre of art that
Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it encompasses painting, drawing and
influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk other graphic media, in which an artist
rock. It went against the standards of studies a photograph and then attempts
society. to reproduce the image as realistically as
possible in another medium.
S. PRECISIONISM
Precisionism is a style of representation X. CONCEPTUAL ART & INSTALLATION ART
in which an object is rendered in a Conceptual art is art for which the idea
realistic manner, but with an emphasis (or concept) behind the work is more
on its geometric form. important than the finished art object. It
emerged as an art movement in the
T. SURREALISM 1960s and the term usually refers
Surrealism is a 20th-century avant-garde to art made from the mid-1960s to the
movement in art and literature which mid-1970s.
sought to release the creative potential
of the unconscious mind, for example by
the irrational juxtaposition of images.

U. ART DECO
The distinguishing features of the style
are simple, clean shapes, often with a
“streamlined” look; ornament that is
geometric or stylized from
representational forms; and unusually
varied, often expensive materials, which
frequently include man-made
substances (plastics, especially Bakelite;
vita-glass; and ferroconcrete) in addition
to natural ones (jade, silver, ivory,
obsidian, chrome, and rock crystal).