ARTS 1013: ART APPRECIATION
Activity for APRIL 2020
NAME: Phoebe Marieghile A. Cuntapay
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INSTRUCTIONS: Read the learning resources given for this lessons then complete the table below. If the data will not come
from the given discussions, please do not forget to cite your references.
KINDS OF ART GENERAL DESCRIPTION
(Time/Period of
Art History)
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan
GREEK ART civilization, and gave birth to Western
classical art in the
subsequent Geometric, Archaic  reaching one's full potential.
and Classical periods (with further
developments during the Hellenistic Period).
It absorbed influences of Eastern
civilizations, of Roman art and its patrons,
and the new religion of Orthodox
Christianity in the Byzantine era and
absorbed Italian and European ideas during
the period of Romanticism (with the
invigoration of the Greek Revolution), until
the Modernist and Postmodernist. Greek art
is mainly five forms: architecture, sculpture,
painting, pottery and jewelry making.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_art
Roman art is generally associated with the
ROMAN ART overthrow of the Etruscan kings and the
establishment of the Republic in 509 BC.
Roman art is traditionally divided into two
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Influences to Art
The Greeks incorporated a fundamental
principle of their culture: arete. To the
Greeks, arete meant excellence and
Ancient Greek art emphasized the
importance and accomplishments of
human beings. Even though much of Greek
art was meant to honor the gods, those very
gods were created in the image of humans.
https://www.ushistory.org/civ/5e.asp
The Romans had very unique art, but it
was mostly influenced by Greek art. The
Romans sculpted statues of Gods, heroes,
and real people in their culture. (their
EXAMPLE OF ARTWORK
Indicate one specific artwork, the name of
the artist then briefly describes the artwork
or its purpose. Cite your sources.
Parthenon Frieze
By: Phidias
The Parthenon frieze is the high-
relief pentelic marble sculpture created to
adorn the upper part of the Parthenon’s naos.
It was sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC,
most likely under the direction
of Pheidias. The rest is known only from the
drawings attributed to French artist Jacques
Carrey in 1674, thirteen years before
the Venetian bombardment that ruined the
temple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_Frie
ze
Arch of Septimius Severus
by: Septimius Severus
The famous Arch of Septimius Severus was
built to symbolize and signify Roman
 main periods, art of the Republic and art of
the Roman Empire (from 27 BC on), with
subdivisions corresponding to the major
emperors or imperial dynasties.
Roman art includes architecture, painting,
sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury objects
in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory
carvings, and glass, are sometimes
considered in modern terms to be minor
forms of Roman art, although this would not
necessarily have been the case for
contemporaries.
https://www.crystalinks.com/romeart.html
The Medieval Era, or Middle Ages, ran from
MEDIEVAL the fall of Rome until the beginning of the
ART Renaissance in Europe, or roughly from the
fourth to the early 16th century. Most of the
art of this time was created for the church to
glorify God more than appeal to aesthetic
sensibilities. Art subjects were almost always
the holy family and the saints, but sometimes
paintings and sculptures depicted war themes
or animals and nature. There were some
regional influences, with the most striking
being the Islamic culture with its mosaics,
sculpted arches and Middle Eastern rugs.
These elements came into Europe through
Spain and the south.
https://www.ehow.com/info_8486784_medie
val-art-characteristics.html
celebrities) They also painted and made a
lot of pottery for the households, for
cooking, and cleaning. In our culture today
we have cooking and cleaning pottery, too.
We also use pictures and sculptures for
decoration.
The Romans were actually the first people
to start putting faces of our leaders on
money. We have continued on this
"tradition" to today.
https://prezi.com/j4j7vbua1i5f/how-the-
roman-art-influenced-on-us-today/
Medieval art illustrates the passionate
interest and idealistic expression of the
Christian and Catholic faith. Architectural
designs and their interior décor showed
avid expressions of the deep religious faith
of the people of the Middle Ages.
This was an era when political order was
almost non-existent, and every common
man or woman had no hope in life and
little to live for, except the hope of
happiness and peace in heaven.
The churches served as the centre of town
life and were designed and built by the
people and not the clergy. They served
other purposes that met the requirements of
their daily life, with many housing schools,
libraries, museums, and picture galleries.
https://owlcation.com/humanities/medieval
-art-history-ancient-art-forms-of-the-
middle-ages
victories over the Parthians towards the end
of the second century BC. Septimius had a
triumphal arch put up to reflect the military
conquests that played a major role in
expanding the Roman Empire into areas of
present-day Iraq and Iran. Standing at almost
21 meters tall and with a width in excess of
23 meters, this monumental arch was made
of Proconessian white marble from the Sea
of Marmara.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Septi
mius_Severus
Madonna from the Annunciation
By: Simone Martini
This painting was once the right-hand wing
of a folding diptych showing the
Annunciation. The left wing, with its image
of the Archangel Gabriel, her head bowed,
she listens calmly to the words of the
heavenly messenger, telling her that she is to
give birth to the Savior of the human race.
Here the artist sought to embody not the
physical but the spiritual in the appearance of
Mary.
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/port
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Renaissance art, painting, sculpture,
RENNAISANCE  architecture, music, and literature produced
during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in
Europe under the combined influences of an
increased awareness of nature, a revival of
classical learning, and a more individualistic
view of man. Scholars no longer believe that
the Renaissance marked an abrupt break
with medieval values, as is suggested by the
French word renaissance, literally “rebirth.”
Rather, historical sources suggest that
interest in nature, humanistic learning,
and individualism were already present in the
late medieval period and became dominant in
15th- and 16th-century Italy concurrently
with social and economic changes such as
the secularization of daily life, the rise of a
rational money-credit economy, and greatly
increased social mobility.
https://www.britannica.com/art/Renaissance-
art
Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance,
MANNERISM
is a style in European art that emerged in the
later years of the Italian High
Renaissance around 1520, spreading by
about 1530 and lasting until about the end of
The first way that Renaissance art
influenced society was by allowing the rest
of the world to realize something
revolutionary. Art did not just have to be
made to symbolize the Church.
Renaissance art showed the world around
it that art could be used to show emotion in
people as well.
Second, Renaissance art later proved to the
world that art could later help to
show/explain the features of object or
people. Art could be used to show a 3-D
object such as a building. This artistic
technique was called Renaissance
perspectives.
Finally, Renaissance art influenced
throughout the world the fact that by using
different shading techniques and color
patterns, you could be able to showcase the
mood of any setting. This did not just have
to be under the Church topic, in fact the
mood of a setting could be shown during a
war or even in a fantasy.
https://prezi.com/k7kjcfmhdndf/renaissanc
e-art-changing-society/
The Renaissance stressed harmony and
beauty and no one could create more
beautiful works than the great three artists
listed above. The artists who came a
generation after had a dilemma; they could
not surpass the great works that had
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Mona Lisa
By: Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa, also called Portrait of Lisa
Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo,
Italian La Gioconda, or French La
Joconde, oil painting on a poplar wood panel
by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s
most famous painting. It was painted
sometime between 1503 and 1519, when
Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now
hangs in the Louvre Museum, in Paris, where
it remained an object of pilgrimage in the
21st century. The sitter’s mysterious smile
and her unproven identity have made the
painting a source of ongoing investigation
and fascination.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mona-
Lisa-painting
Madonna with the Long Neck
By: Parmigianino
The painting depicts the Virgin Mary seated
on a high pedestal in luxurious robes,
holding a large baby Jesus on her lap. Six

the 16th century in Italy, when
the Baroque style largely replaced
it. Northern Mannerism continued into the
early 17th century.
Stylistically, Mannerism encompasses a
variety of approaches influenced by, and
reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated and elongated forms.
with artists such as Leonardo da
Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo.
Where High Renaissance art emphasizes
proportion, balance, and ideal beauty,
Mannerism exaggerates such qualities, often
resulting in compositions that are
asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant. The
style is notable for its intellectual
sophistication as well as its artificial (as
opposed to naturalistic) qualities. This
artistic style privileges compositional tension
and instability rather than the balance and
clarity of earlier Renaissance painting.
Mannerism in literature and music is notable
for its highly florid style and intellectual
sophistication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism
Baroque (derived from the Portuguese
BAROQUE 'barocco' meaning, 'irregular pearl or stone')
describes a fairly complex idiom, originating
in Rome, which flowered during the period
c.1590-1720, and which embraced painting,
and sculpture as well as architecture. After
the idealism of the Renaissance (c.1400-
1530), and the slightly 'forced' nature of
Mannerism (c.1530-1600), Baroque art
above all reflected the religious tensions of
the age - notably the desire of the Catholic
Church in Rome (as annunciated at the
Council of Trent, 1545-63) to reassert itself
in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.
already been created by da Vinci, Raphael,
and Michelangelo. This is when we start to
see Mannerism emerge. Younger artists
trying to do something new and different
began to reject harmony and ideal
proportions in favor of irrational settings,
artificial colors, unclear subject matters,
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundle
ss-arthistory/chapter/mannerism/.
The Baroque style is still used today as
inspiration when it comes to decorating
a home in a rich manner. This style is
well known for being dramatic and
over the top, characteristics which can
transform a simple home into a
flamboyant abode.
Many people choose to decorate their
living space in a baroque style, and
there are a variety of ideas that you can
incorporate; like using baroque patterns
to enrich cushion covers, linen,
angels crowded together on the Madonna's
right adore the Christ-child.
In the lower right-hand corner of the painting
is an enigmatic scene, with a row of marble
columns and the emaciated figure of St.
Jerome. A depiction of St. Jerome was
required by the commissioner because of the
saint's connection with the adoration of the
Virgin Mary.
The painting is popularly called Madonna of
the Long Neck because "the painter, in his
eagerness to make the Holy Virgin look
graceful and elegant, has given her a neck
like that of a swan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_with
_the_Long_Neck
The Jewish Bride
By: Rembrandt
The painting acquired its current name
during the early 19th century, when a Dutch
art dealer described the subject as that of a
Jewish father giving a necklace to his
daughter on her wedding day. Today, while
the identities of the two people remain
obscure, most art historians believe them to
be Isaac and his wife Rebecca from the Old
Testament. A highlight of Dutch 17th
century painting from the permanent
collection of the Rijksmuseum in
Amsterdam, the picture is one of the few real
 Thus it is almost synonymous with Catholic
Counter-Reformation Art of the period.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-
art/baroque.htm
upholstery, curtaining and much more. expressions of love created by Dutch Realist
artists during the Baroque era.
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Rococo painting, which originated in
ROCOCO early 18th century Paris, is
characterized by soft colors and curvy
lines, and depicts scenes of love,
nature, amorous encounters, light-
hearted entertainment, and youth. The
word “rococo” derives from  rocaille,
which is French for rubble or
rock. Rocaille refers to the shell-work
in garden grottoes and is used as a
The Rococo style began in France in the
1730s as a reaction against the more formal
and geometric Style Louis XIV. It was
known as the style  rocaille, or rocaille style.
[2]
 It soon spread to other parts of Europe,
particularly northern Italy, Austria, southern
Germany, Central Europe and Russia.[3] It
also came to influence the other arts,
particularly sculpture, furniture, silverware
and glassware, painting, music, and theatre.
The Swing
By: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The painting depicts an elegant young
woman on a swing. A smiling young man,
hiding in the bushes on the left, watches her
from a vantage point that allows him to see
up into her billowing dress, where his arm is
pointed with hat in hand. A smiling older
man, who is nearly hidden in the shadows on
the right, propels the swing with a pair of
 descriptive word for the serpentine
patterns seen in the Decorative Arts of
the Rococo period.
https://news.artnet.com/market/a-brief-
history-of-rococo-art-32790
Impressionism is a movement of art that
IMPRESSIONIS emerged in 1870s France. Rejecting the rigid
M rules of the beaux-arts (“fine
arts”), Impressionist artists showcased a new
way to observe and depict the world in their
work, foregoing realistic portrayals for
fleeting impressions of their surroundings—
which, often, were found outside.
“Instead of painting in a studio, the
Impressionists found that they could capture
the momentary and transient effects of
sunlight by working quickly, in front of their
subjects, in the open air (en plein air) rather
than in a studio,” the Tate explains. “This
resulted in a greater awareness of light and
color and the shifting pattern of the natural
scene. Brushwork became rapid and broken
into separate dabs in order to render the
fleeting quality of light.”
https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-
impressionism-definition/
GENERAL IMPRESSION/INSIGHTS:
(Write your general impression or your insights about the art and point out their similarities and differences briefly but
substantially. You can have it in a bullet format.)
 Although originally a secular style
[4]
primarily used for interiors of private
residences the Rococo had a spiritual aspect
to it which led to its widespread use in
church interiors, particularly in Central
Europe, Portugal, and South America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo
Though he never exhibited with them, Van
Gogh was influenced by his friendship with
Impressionists. After seeing their paintings in
Paris, he began to user brighter colors and
broken brushstrokes. However, he differed
from them in one important way. As he
wrote in 1888, “Instead of trying to render
what I see before me, I use color in a
completely arbitrary way in order to express
myself powerfully”.
The Impressionists created a model for
freedom and subjectivity that promoted
artistic freedom that which many artists of
the past longed for.  Their example
empowered later artists that took it much
further than they did. Due to the never
ending supply of resources we have at our
command in our present lives, art continues
to expand and will still continue to grow and
break limits that will fascinate people.
http://www.impressionism.org/finis.htm
ropes. The older man appears to be unaware
of the young man. As the young lady swings
high, she throws her left leg up, allowing her
dainty shoe to fly through the air. The lady is
wearing a bergère hat (shepherdess hat).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swing_(p
ainting)
Poppies
By: Claude Monet
The painting “Poppies”, presented at the first
Impressionist exhibition, Monet depicted his
wife Camille and their son Jean in a field
near his home in Argenteuil. As in many
other works by Monet, Camille is drawn
with an umbrella in his hand, and his
graceful contours give the film a special
charm. Wanting to convey a sense of
movement, Monet said second pair of
figures, on top of a hill. They are connected
with the figures in the foreground of faint,
running through the grass on the footpath.
https://painting-planet.com/poppies-by-
claude-monet/