ART HISTORY AND

ITS DEVELOPMENT
Mr. Ricky S. Oroa, LPT, MEM
At the end of this lesson, you shall be able to:

❖ Identify the underlying history, philosophy of the era

or movement;
❖ Classify the various art movements by citing their
important characteristics such as historical
background factors, influential person, sociopolitical
issues and prevalent artists, art forms and media;
❖ Present the history of the arts through the various
eras or movements; and
❖ Cite important characteristics in an artwork based
on the era or movement
PREHISTORIC ART
(CAVE ART)
 PREHISTORIC
❖Prehistoric art refers to all artworks produced by
ancient men before they preconceived culture and
known methods of writing and record keeping ever
existed, simply meaning art before history.
❖Cave painting or petrograph refers to any parietal
art, which involves the application of color
pigments on the walls, floors, ceilings of ancient
rock dwelling inhabited by prehistoric man.
❖Cave drawing and petroglyph refers to an
engraved drawing, that is, etched or done by
cutting lines on the rock surface with a sharp object
probably a flint or stone tool.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD
- a.k.a Old Stone Age where primitive
cave artworks were created with the use
of primitive stone tools by primitive
men.
NEOLITHIC PERIOD
- a.k.a New Stone Age when man
began to develop culture and
change his lifestyle
CLASSICAL PERIOD
 CLASSICAL PERIOD
❖Classical art refers to the art form from
Greece and Rome.
❖Classical period is a general term
describing the long period of time in cultural
history when Mediterranean Sea was the
center.
❖Classicism in the arts favors the classical
period, classical antiquity (ancient times), in
the western tradition, as standard for taste,
which the classicists want to copy or imitate
 GREEK ARTS
Greek’s Golden Age or the Classical Period of ancient
Greece was the time when the Greeks achieved new
heights in art, architecture, theater and philosophy.
 ROMAN ARTS
Roman was the most powerful nation for over a
millennium, defeating all others at military, organization
and warfare, engineering and architecture.
 DIFFERENCE OF GREEK ART AND
ROMAN ART
❖Greeks were describe as idealistic,
imaginative and spiritual.
❖Hellenistic arts copied life realistically,
especially in sculpture and literature.
❖“Hellenistic” comes from the word
Hellazein, which means “to speak Greek
or identify with the Greeks.”
❖Columns are evident in their
architectures.
❖Romans were practical people and wanted
their art and architecture to be useful.
❖Roman arts are planned. They planned
their cities and built bridges, aqueducts,
public baths, marketplaces, apartment
houses and harbors.
❖Mixing of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman
culture produced a new culture
called Greco-Roman culture. This is also
often called classical civilization.
❖Arches are evident in their architecture.
READING ACTIVITY
GLIMPSE OF PHILIPPINE ART
HISTORY
THANK YOU
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