Project in Art Appreciation

Submitted By: Ralph C. Oriendo

Submitted To: Prof. Mary Grace Perez

ART EXAMPLES INTERPRETATION
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art
produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures
beginning somewhere in very late geological
history, and generally continuing until that culture
either develops writing or other methods of
record-keeping, or makes significant contact with
another culture that has, and that makes some
record of major historical events.

Ancient Egyptian art refers to art

produced in ancient Egypt between the
31st century BC and the 4th century AD,
spanning from the Early Dynastic Period
until the Christianization of Roman Egypt.
It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings
on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories,
architecture, and other art media.

Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan

civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art
in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and
Classical periods (with further developments
during the Hellenistic Period).

The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its

Republic and later Empire, includes architecture,
painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury
objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory
carvings, and glass are sometimes considered to
be minor forms of Roman art, although they were
not considered as such at the time. Sculpture was
perhaps considered as the highest form of art by
Romans
 The medieval art of the Western world covers a
vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of
art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western
Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art
movements and periods, national and regional art,
genres, revivals, the artists' crafts, and the artists
themselves.

Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD) is the painting,

sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of
European history known as the Renaissance,
which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about
AD 1400, in parallel with developments which
occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science,
and technology.

The Baroque is a style of architecture, music,

dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts
that flourished in Europe from the early 17th
century until the 1750s. In the territories of the
Spanish and Portuguese empires including the
Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new
styles, until the first decade of the 19th century. 

Romanticism began in Europe at the end of

the 18th century, amidst the Age of
Enlightenment. A focus on science and
rationality drove the Age of Enlightenment.
For the first time, philosophers and thinkers
were pulling back the curtain of common
standard practices to reevaluate the
progressing world. The individual and self-
discovery were beginning to take center stage
against an age of societal control. Through
this discovery, Romanticism was born,
creating new paths for the world of art,
literature, and music.
The 20th century was a time of rapid
artistic change and development where
preconceived, traditional concepts were
challenged. The role of the artist, the
relationship between representation and
significance, and the growing relevance of
mass-produced visual images were
considered and redefined.

The history of art since 1945 is typically

understood in terms of the ascendance,
crisis, and transformation of modernism.
In this account, a select group of 19th and
early 20th-century European avant-gardes
established the models by which
subsequent advanced art would be
produced and judged.