ART APPRECIATION

SAVITA RAJE
19-1-21
• The Qualities of Great Art
• Art Appreciation is the knowledge and
understanding of the universal and timeless
qualities that identify all great art.
 Art History Timelines

Art History Timelines : important art movements and styles in their historical
order.
Major artists and their illustrative works
• Gothic Art, The Early Renaissance, The High
Renaissance and Mannerism, The Northern
Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo Art, Dutch
Art, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, Realism
and Pre-Raphaelite Art, Impressionism and
Post Impressionism, Fauvism and
Expressionism, Abstract Art, Cubism and
Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism and
De Stijl, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract
Expressionism, Pop Art
 Artists, Movements and Styles in
Western Art (1150-1600)
• Gothic Art
(c.1150-1400)

• CIMABUE (1240-1302)
'Maestà (Majesty)', c.1280- 85 (tempera on
panel)
• Gothic Art defines much of the late medieval art that grew
out of the Byzantine and Romanesque traditions. These were
very formal artistic traditions with rigorous religious
conventions that limited the personal creativity of the artist.
At this time, the quality of an artwork was judged by the
richness of the materials used to create it and the skill with
which they were applied.
• Gothic art is distinguished from its predecessors by an
increasing naturalism in the shape and posture of the figures,
and an expressive use of line, pattern and color, allowing the
artist more freedom of interpretation. Gothic art started in
13th century Italy and developed throughout Europe until the
15th century.
• The term ‘Gothic’, originally related to the
barbarity of the Gothic tribes (the Ostrogoths
and Visigoths) in their destruction of the art of
Ancient Rome. It was first coined by 16th
century Italian Renaissance critics as a term of
abuse for various developments in medieval
art and architecture up to the start of the 14th
century.
 PROMINENT ART STYLES
• HIGH RENNAISSANCE
• IMPRESSIONISM
• DADA AND SURREALISM
 High Rennaisaance
early 1490s to 1527
• Harmony
• Beauty
• Serenity
– Leonardo Da Vinci
– Michelangelo
– Raphael
 The High Renaissance (c.1480-1520)

• Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine (1489-90)

• Leonardo da Vinci, Study for The Last Supper (1495)
• Leonardo da Vinci, Anatomical Studies (1510-11)
• Michelangelo, Pietà (1499)
• Michelangelo, The Doni Tondo (c.1506)
• Michelangelo, The Damned Soul (c.1525)
• Raphael, Madonna dell Granduca (1505)
• Raphael, The Transfiguration (1516-1520)
• Titian, Portrait of Ludovico Ariosto (1512)
• Titian, A Young Englishman (1545)
• Giorgione, Double Portrait (1502)
• Giorgione, The Tempest (1508)
'The Holy Family'
(Doni Tondo) (1560)
by Michelangelo
 Mannerism
• artificiality and artiness
• self-conscious cultivation of elegance and
technical facility
• Sophisticated indulgence in the bizarre
• pushing exaggeration and contrast to great
limits
 Mannerism (c.1520-1580)

• Jacopo Tintoretto, The Crucifixion (1565)

• Jacopo Tintoretto, Christ at the Sea of Galilee (1575-80)
• Bronzino, Lucrezia Panciatichi (1540)
• Bronzino, Eleonora of Toledo and her Son (1545)
• Parmigianino, Madonna and Child with Saints (1530)
• Parmigianino, Pallas Athene (1539)
• El Greco, Baptism of Christ (1608-14)
• El Greco, The Opening of the Fifth Seal of the
Apocalypse (1608-14)
Madonna of the Long Neck, oil on wood by
Parmigianino, c. 1535; in the Uffizi, Florence.
2.2 × 1.3 m.
 Impressionism
late 19th and early 20th century
• to accurately and objectively record visual
reality in terms of transient effects of light and
colour
• In music, it was to convey an idea or affect
through a wash of sound rather than a strict
formal structure
• Impressionism and Post Impressionism
• Impressionism (c.1870-1890)
• Claude Monet, Autumn in Argenteuil (1873)
• Claude Monet, The Irises (Monet’s Garden) 1900
• Pierre Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de La Galette (1876)
• Pierre Auguste Renoir, Tilla Durieux (1914)
• Edgar Degas, Women Ironing (1884)
• Edgar Degas, Dancers in the Wings (1900)
• Camille Pissarro, The Orchard (1872)
• Camille Pissarro, The View from My Window (1886-88)
• Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh (1887)
• Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette (1892)
• Alfred Sisley, Moret-sur-Loing (1891)
• Alfred Sisley, The Church at Moret (1894)
• Mary Cassatt, Summertime (1894)
• Mary Cassatt, Sara with her Dog in an Armchair (1901)
'The Japanese Footbridge and the
Water Lily Pool, Giverny' (1899) by
Claude Monet
• Post Impressionism (c.1885-1905)
• Vincent Van Gogh, Shoes (1888)
• Vincent Van Gogh, Thatched Cottages at Cordeville
(1890)
• Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Women (1891)
• Paul Gauguin, The White Horse (1898)
• Paul Cézanne, Apples and Oranges (1899)
• Paul Cézanne, Mont Saint Victoire (1902-04)
• Georges Seurat, Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor at
High Tide (1888)
• Georges Seurat, Le Chahut (1889-90)
• Dada and Surrealism (c.1916-39)
• Giorgio de Chirico, Le Chant d'amour (1914)
• Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914)
• Marcel Duchamp, The Large Glass (1915-23)
• Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q (1919)
• Raoul Hausmann, Dada Siegt (1920)
• Raoul Hausmann, The Spirit of Our Age (1920)
• Kurt Schwitters, Cherry Picture (1921)
• Kurt Schwitters, Construction for Noble Ladies (1919)
• Man Ray, Le Violon d'Ingres (1924)
• Man Ray, Noir et Blanche (1926)
• Max Ernst, Ubu Imperator (1923)
• Max Ernst, L'Ange du Foyer or The Triumph of Surrealism (1937)
• André Masson, Automatic Drawing (1924)
• André Masson, The Fruitful Night (1960)
• Joan Miró, The Tilled Field (1923-24)
• Joan Miró, Still Life with Old Shoe (1937)
• René Magritte, The Human Condition (1933)
• René Magritte, The Explanation (1954)
• Salvador Dali, Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish on a
Beach (1938)
• Salvador Dali, Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of
Voltaire (1940)
• Yves Tanguy, Indefinite Divisibility (1942)
• Yves Tanguy, Reply to Red (1943)
• Jean Arp, Berger de Nuages (1953)
• Jean Arp, Leaf Resting (1959)
 Expressionism
later 19th and 20th century
the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but
rather the subjective emotions and responses that
objects and events arouse within a person
distortion, exaggeration, primitivism and fantasy
vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of
formal elements
qualities of highly subjective, personal,
spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide
range of modern artists and art movements
The Scream, tempera and
casein on cardboard by
Edvard Munch, 1893; in the
National Gallery, Oslo
 Pointillism
neo impressionism late 1880s to firstr decade of 20th century

§ divisionism and chromo-luminarism

§ the practice of applying small strokes or dots
of colour to a surface so that from a distance
they visually blend together
Seurat, Georges: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884