Art Appreciation Reviewer

ART APPRECIATION REVIEWER Archaic Period(800-600 BC)- Stylized forms,
geometric pottery.
Classical Period: Realistic portrayals of human
ART HISTORY
and animal forms.
PREHISTORIC PERIOD (30,000 BCE-3,000 BCE)
3 ORDER
Art- appeard as one of the earliest activities of man.
*doric order
*ionic order
CAVE PAINTINGS
*corinthian order
Early artworks found in caves (e.g., Lascaux, France)
Hellenistic Period: Focused on human
were created by primitive humans.
emotions and dynamic sculptures
SCULPTURE
THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (476 AD - 1400)
fertility statues- first work o f sculpture aside from
-known as the Dark Ages
small animal statue
-European art was the property of the Church- often
religious theme
Architecture began with burial practices, including -Art lacked balance and perspective, with flat, two-dimensional figures.
structures like menhirs, dolmens, and cromlechs. -Symbols like halos represented holy figures.
Menhirs of manhattan RENAISSANCE PERIOD (14TH- 16TH CENTURY)

Stonehenge cromlechs, England -means rebirth and generally refers to this period's
Poulnabrone Dolmen, Ireland revival of an interest in classical
-Art became more realistic with advanced use of
EGYPTIAN ART (3100 BCE) perspective and color.
*Centered around religious beliefs, particularly the
afterlife.
*Major architectural works include tombs (e.g., Mastabas and pyramids).
Mastaba- chamber of dead THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (16TH CENTURY)
*Wall reliefs and sculptures often featured gods and goddesses.
-Mannerist Period are generally characterized by a
GREEK ART (1000 BCE)
sense of instability and ambiguity
Forms of Mannarism -cast these aside, and ornament developed like an
-Subject (Madonna of the Long Neck) organicc growth with spirals and twisting lines,
-Space (El Greco’s St. Martin and the beggar) tendrels, fantastic shapes, and shell like motifs, thus
-Value (The Nativity by Beccafumi) becoming increasingly ornate.
-Line (Last Judgement by Michelangelo)
-Gesture (By Parmigianimo, Vision of Saint Jerome) Neo-Classicism
-Fantastic and Bizzare (by Arcimboldo’s Allegory of Formal discipline and antiquity-inspired works (e.g.,
winter) David’s The Oath of the Horatii).
THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH Romanticism

CENTURY (17TH-18TH CENTURY) -stressed the individial freedom of the artist and his
subjective reaction to the world around him- to nature,
Baroque Art people, and events
In painting - Emphasized individual freedom and emotions (e.g.,
characterized by movement, energy, restlessness. Delacroix’s Liberty Guiding the People).
In Scuplture Realism
a restless, dynamic style with its diagonals and floating Focused on depicting ordinary people and daily life without idealization.
curved lines, its striking chaiaroscuro, and its Key figures: François Millet (e.g., The Angelus, The Man with the Hoe).
sensuous textural effects set its indebible stamp on
sculpture and architecture.
Twentieth Century Art
In Architecture
marked by sculptural, highly ornamental facade Modern Art
-Rapid social changes led to new art movements like Expressionism, Dadaism, and
Rococo Art Surrealism.
-hedonistic style known as rococo
-is an extension of baroque art in its ornate aspect. -The invention of photography freed artists from the need to replicate reality.
ART
-is derived from the Latin word “ars” meaning “ability”
or “skill.”
VISUAL ART -The oldest documented forms of art
A traditional role of visual art is to describe our self

and our surroundings.
Architecture- is often included as one of the visual arts
Form -refers to all of ARTS visible elements and the

particular way these come together as a whole.
*The color of the work and the way color has
been used in terms of tonal variation, contrast,
harmony, coolness, warmth, opacity,and
translucence
*The use of line in the work and whether or not it

is curved, angular, directional, repetitive,
flowing, and irregular
*The texture or surface of the work and whether

it is rough, smooth, tactile, repellant, viscous,
and fluid

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ART APPRECIATION REVIEWER Archaic Period(800-600 BC)- Stylized forms,

Menhirs of manhattan RENAISSANCE PERIOD (14TH- 16TH CENTURY)

THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH Romanticism

VISUAL ART -The oldest documented forms of art

A traditional role of visual art is to describe our self

Architecture- is often included as one of the visual arts

Form -refers to all of ARTS visible elements and the

*The use of line in the work and whether or not it

*The texture or surface of the work and whether

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