Module 10

CHARACTERISTICS COMMONS

1. Cave Art, Egyptians Cave Art – type of parietal

and Greek Art art found on the wall or
ceilings of caves.
Egyptian Art – famous for
the extraordinary Egyptian
pyramids
Greek Art – was meant to
honor the Gods
2. Roman, Medieval Roman Art - This paintings
and sculpture was based on
Greek traditions.
Medieval Art – time of
artwork that was
characterized by
iconographic painting
illustrations of Biblical
scenes.
3. Chinese Painting, Chinese Painting – usage of
Ukiyo-E brush exist. Done on paper
or silk.
Ukiyo-E – means “picture of
the floating world”. Genre of
Japanese art. Ink is applied
to the surface of the
woodblock.

4. Renaissance and Renaissance - Subjects grew

Mannerism, Baroque from mostly biblical scenes
and Rococo to include portraits. Human
figures are often rendered in
dynamic poses, showing
expression, using gesture,
and interacting with one
another.
 Mannerism - Slender,
elongated limbs, splayed,
twisting and turning bodies,
contradicting all the
traditional laws of
proportion.
Baroque - grandeur,
sensuous richness, drama,
dynamism, movement,
tension, emotional
exuberance, and a tendency
to blur distinctions between
the various arts.
Rococo - 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.
5. Neo-classical, Neo-classical - grandeur of
Romantic and scale, simplicity of
Realism geometric forms, Greek
especially Doric or Roman
detail, dramatic use of
columns, and a preference
for blank walls.
Romantic - focused on
emotions, feelings, and
moods of all kinds including
spirituality, imagination,
mystery, and fervor.
Realism - generally the
attempt to represent subject
matter truthfully, without
artificiality and avoiding
speculative fiction and
supernatural elements.
6. Impressionism, Post- Impressionism - small, visible
Impressionism and brushstrokes that offer the bare
Neo-Impressionism impression of form, unblended
color and an emphasis on the
accurate depiction of natural
light.
Post-Impressionism - artists
continued using vivid colors, a
thick application of paint and
real-life subject matter, but were
more inclined to emphasize
geometric forms, distort forms
for an expressive effect and use
unnatural and seemingly
random colors.
Neo-Impressionism - color
pigments are no longer mixed
either on the palette or directly
on canvas, but instead placed as
small dots side by side. Mixing
of colors takes place from a
suitable distance, in the
observor's eye, as an "optical
mixture".

7. Symbolism, Art Symbolism - used a wide

Nouveau variety of subjects including
heroes, women, animals, and
landscapes. They typically gave
these subjects deep meanings
such as love, death, sin, religion,
or disease.
Art Nouveau - use of a long,
sinuous, organic line and was
employed most often in
architecture, interior design,
jewelry and glass design,
posters, and illustration.
8. Fauvism, • Fauvism - they have bright
Expressionism colors and simplified forms. A
radical use of unnatural colors
that separated color from its
usual representational and
realistic role, giving new,
emotional meaning to the colors.

Expressionism - artistic style in

which the artist seeks to depict
not objective reality but rather
the subjective emotions and
responses that objects and events
arouse within a person.

9. Abstract or non- Abstract or non-objective - no

objective, Dadaism, recognizable subject
Surrealism,
Dadaism - type of artistic
Constructivism,
rebellion conceived out of the
Abstract
social and political times during
Expressionism,
1910.
Optical Art, Pop
Art, Minimalism, Surrealism - artist relies on
Conceptual Art their unconscious, but reality and
the conscious combines with this
state of consciousness when the
unconscious finds a way to
express the reality and render it
into the canvases that these
artists make.
Constructivism - optimistic, but
would not tend to be emotional
in any way and subjectivity and
individuality were subsumed in
favor of objective, universal
forms.
Abstract Expressionism -
expression of reality is expressed
in a non-representational
statement with line, color and
 size as well as the aggressive
mingling of colors, shapes and
forms that creates a painting of
pure thought and emotion.
Optical Art - art style that uses
foreground and background
elements with stark contrast
(often black and white or
complementary colors) to create
illusory effects that confuse the
eye.
Pop Art - popular, transient,
expendable, low-cost, mass-
produced, young, witty, sexy,
gimmicky, glamorous and big
business.
Minimalism - focuses on things
like geometry, line, and color.
Conceptual Art - all about
"ideas and meanings" rather than
"works of art". It is characterized
by its use of text, as well as
imagery, along with a variety of
ephemeral, typically everyday
materials and "found objects".

10. Photo-Realism Photo-Realism - Visual

complexity, heightened clarity
and a desire to be emotionally
neutral led to banal subject
matter that likened the
movement to pop art.
11. Installation Art, Installation Art - new genre of
Body Art, Earth contemporary art which involves
and Land, the "installation" of objects in a
Performance Art space or surface.
Body Art - the artist's own body
becomes the "canvas" or
"artwork".
Earth and Land - uses the
natural landscape to create site- Shared
specific structures, art forms, and certain characteristics with
sculptures. Minimalism, including its
concerns with how objects
occupied their space; the
interaction of humans with
works of art; and, especially,
simplicity of form.
Performance Art - a time-
based art form that typically
features a live presentation to an
audience or to onlookers (as on a
street) and draws on such arts as
acting, poetry, music, dance, and
painting.

CONTRIBUTIONS

1. Cave Art, Egyptians and Greek Art
2. Roman, Medieval
it serves as some of the best means of
showing the interaction between our
primitive ancestors and the world as they
perceived it
Many artistic forms, like relief
sculptures, frescoes, mosaics and
freestanding sculptures, came from
Roman traditions as did architectural
forms, like the basilica, and details, like
columns and arches.
3. Chinese Painting, Ukiyo-E
4. Renaissance and Mannerism,
Baroque and Rococo
5. Neo-classical, Romantic and
Realism
6. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism Rebelled against classical subject matter
and Neo-Impressionism
7. Symbolism, Art Nouveau
8. Fauvism, Expressionism
9. Abstract or non-objective,
Dadaism, Surrealism,
Constructivism, Abstract
Expressionism, Optical Art, Pop
Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art
10. Photo-Realism
Chinese painting employs the use of
brushes, Chinese ink and dye.
Promoted the rediscovery of classical
philosophy, literature and art.
First explicitly anti-institutional,
nonconformist art movement.
and embraced modernity, desiring to
create works that reflected the world in
which they lived.
Popularize the idea of subjectivity
in painting and sculpture, and to show
that representational art may legitimately
include subjective distortion.
Movement aimed to blur the boundaries
between "high" art and "low" culture.
Artists would often
project photographs onto canvas to allow
the images to be captured with precision
and accuracy. Favoring representation
over abstraction, photorealism emerged
during the same period that produced a
variety of disparate art movements,
including Conceptual art, Pop art, and
Minimalism.
11. Installation Art, Body Art, Earth
and Land, Performance Art
Performing arts help society as a whole
in self-knowledge and understanding.
Theatre and the performing
arts teach society about itself, hoping to
point out the attitudes and mindsets of
current society. It can be a tool used to
educate people about their current
conditions.