ART APPRECIATION

GROUP 9:

MARY ROSE MEQUIN

DIANNA LYNN MOLINA
AL NARVASA
KRISTAL MAE DONIA
 CAVE ART
Cave art refers to the numerous
paintings and engravings found in
European caves and shelters dating
back to the Ice Age, approximately
between 40,000 and 14,000 years
ago. The first painted cave
acknowledged as being Paleolithic.
Cave art is generally
considered to have a
symbolic or 1 religious
function, sometimes both.
Most cave art consists of paintings
made with either red or black pigment.
The reds were made with iron oxides
(hematite), whereas manganese dioxide
and charcoal were used for the blacks.
Engravings were made with fingers on
soft walls or with flint tools on hard
surfaces in a number of other caves and
shelters.
CAVE PAINTINGS OF LASCAUX,
FRANCE
 EGYPTIAN ART
Egyptian art must be viewed from the
standpoint of the ancient Egyptians to
understand it. The somewhat
static,usually formal, strangely
abstract, and often blocky nature of
much Egyptian imagery has, at times,
led to unfavorable comparisons with
later, and much more 'naturalistic,'
Greek or Renaissance art.
 GREEK ART
The ancient Greeks lived in many
lands around the Mediterranean
Sea,from Turkey to the south of
France .
BRONZE AGE GREECE ARCHAIC PERIOD

CLASSICAL PERIOD
 ROMAN ART
The first Roman art can be dated back
to 509 B.C.E., with the legendary
founding of the Roman Republic, and
lasted until 330 C.E. (or much longer,
if you include Byzantine art). Roman
art also encompasses a broad spectrum
of media including marble, painting,
mosaic, gems, silver and bronze work,
and terracottas, just to name a few.
 REPUBLICAN ROME

The mythic founding of the Roman

Republic is supposed to have happened
in 509 B.C.E., when the last Etruscan
king, Tarquinius Superbus, was
overthrown. During the Republican
period, the Romans were governed by
annually elected magistrates, the two
consuls being the most important among
them, and the Senate, which was the
ruling body of the state.
 MEDIEVAL ART

The medieval period of art history spans

from the fall of the Roman Empire in 300 AD
to the beginning of the Renaissance in 1400
AD. Medieval art during the Middle Ages saw
many changes up to the emergence of the
early Renaissance period. Early art subjects
were initially restricted to the production
of Pietistic painting (religious art or
Christian art) in the form of illuminated
manuscripts, mosaics and fresco paintings in
churches. There were no portrait paintings
in the art of the Middle Ages. The colors
were generally somewhat muted.
 CHINESE PAINTING
The history of Chinese painting can be
compared to a symphony. The styles and
traditions in figure, landscape, and
bird-and-flower painting have formed
themes that continue to blend to this day
into a single piece of music. Painters
through the ages have made up this
"orchestra," composing and performing
many movements and variations within this
tradition.
 UKIYO-E (Japanese print)
Ukiyo-e, often translated as "pictures of
the floating world," refers to Japanese
paintings and woodblock prints that
originally depicted the cities' pleasure
districts during the Edo Period, when the
sensual attributes of life were encouraged
among a tranquil existence under the
peaceful rule of the Shoguns. These idyllic
narratives not only document the leisure
activities and climate of the era, they also
depict the decidedly Japanese aesthetics of
beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love,
and sex.
RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM

RENAISSANCE means a "rebirth"

suggesting that the 15th and 16th
centuries marked an awakening from the
"dark ages".
The most famous person in this period
is Leonardo da Vinci.
The Virgin and Child
with Saint John the
Baptist
 
Artist: Leonardo da
Vinci
Year: c. 1499-1500 or
c. 1506-1508
Medium: charcoal, black
and white chalk on
tinted paper mounted on
canvas
Location: National
Gallery, London
 
 MANNERISM

It is derived from the

Italian term maniera which
means "style" or "manner"
and it emphasizes "self-
conscious artifice above
genuine portrayal".
Madonna with the
Long Neck
 
Artist: Girolamo
Francesco Maria
Mazzola, also known
as Francesco
Mazzola or, more
commonly, as
Parmigianino
Year: 1535-1540
Medium: oil on wood
Location: Uffizi,
Florence
 COMPARISON OF
RENAISSANCE AND
MANNERISM
Early Renaissance begins from Milan High
from Rome and Mannerism from Florence.
Painting in the Mannerist style is more
artificial and less naturalistic than painting in
the Renaissance style.
 BAROQUE AND ROCOC
BAROQUE - it is derived from the Portuguese
‘barocco’ meaning ‘irregular pearl or stone’.
Characteristics of BAROQUE
• Dynamic movement
• drama
• death scenes
• rape scenes
• religious scenes
• theatrical effect
• chiaroscuro
Girl With a Pearl Earring
 
Artist: Johannes Vermeer
Year: 1665
Medium: oil painting on
canvas
Location: Mauritshuis
ROCOCO - It is derived from the
Latin word shell. It was an 18th
century artistic style and is
sometimes called the 'late
Baroque style'.
 
Characteristics of ROCOCO
• have an exuberant decoration
• have an abundance of curves
• Undulations
•  have elements modeled on nature.
The Triumph of
Venus
 
Artist: François
Boucher
Year: 1740
Medium: oils
Location: National
Museum
NEOCLASSICISM,
ROMANTICISM, AND REALISM
 
NEOCLASSICISM - is the 18th and 19th century
movement that developed in Europe as a reaction to
the excesses of Baroque and Rococo.
 
Characteristics of NEOCLASSICISM
• Clarity of form
• sober colors
• shallow space
• strong horizontals/ verticals (suggest timelessness
rather than motion)
• classical themes
The Death of
General Wolfe
 
Artist: Benjamin
West
Year: 1740
Medium: Oil paint
Location: National
Gallery of Canada
ROMANTICISM - it is a
movement in the arts and
literature that originated in
the late 18th century,
emphasizing inspiration,
subjectivity, and the
primacy of the individual.
The Liberty Leading the
People
 
Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Year: 1830
Medium: Oil paint
Locations: Louvre
Museum (since 2013),
Louvre-Lens Museum
(2012–2013), Louvre
Museum (1874–2012),
Louvre Museum
REALISM - It is a
movement began in the
mid-19th century as a
reaction to
Romanticism and
History painting. It is a
movement against the
ideas of Romanticism.
Christina’s World
 
Artist: Andrew
Wyeth
Year: 948–1948
Medium:
Tempera, Gesso
IMPRESSIONISM, AND POST-
IMPRESSIONISM
 
IMPRESSIONISM - is an art movement that originated
in France during the late 19th century as an artistic
reaction to the rapidly changing urban environment.
 
Characteristics of IMPRESSIONISM
• Vibrant colors rather than mixing them
• Spontaneous brushstrokes in broad strokes, either
using a painting knife or a brush
• Emphasis on accurate depiction of light along with its
changing quality
• Unusual visual angles
• Subjects from the modernized urban life
Impression, Soleil
levant (Impression,
Sunrise)
 
Artist: Claude Monet
Year: 1872
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Musée
Marmottan Monet, Paris
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
It is an art movement that originated in the same
century in France as a reaction to impressionism.
One pioneering artist is Vincent van Gogh.
 
Characteristics of POST-IMPRESSIONISM
• Displaying symbolic and highly personal
meanings through their subjects, the use of
symbolic motifs
• Maintaining the structure, order, and the optical
effects of color
• Use of unnatural colors
• Focus on abstract form and pattern in the
application of paint to the surface of the canvas
• Painterly brushstrokes
 
The Starry Night
 
Artist: Vincent van
Gogh
Year: June 1889
Medium: oil paint
Location: The
Museum of Modern
Art
 NEO-
IMPRESSIONISM
• Neo-impressionism is the name
given to the post-impressionist
work of Georges Seurat, Paul
Signac and their followers who,
inspired by optical theory, painted
using tiny adjacent dabs of
primary colour to create the effect
of light.
• Neo-impressionism is
characterised by the use of the
divisionist technique (often
popularly but incorrectly called
pointillism, a term Paul Signac
repudiated).
Symbolism initially developed
as a French literary movement
in the 1880s, gaining popular
credence with the publication
in 1886 of Jean Moréas’
manifesto in Le Figaro.
Reacting against the
rationalism and materialism
that had come to dominate
Western European culture,
Moréas proclaimed the
validity of pure subjectivity
and the expression of an idea
over a realistic description of
the natural world. Symbolism
was soon identified with the
artwork of a younger
generation of painters who
were similarly rejecting the
conventions of Naturalism.
 Nouveau Art Nouveau,
ornamental style of art that
flourished between about 1890
and 1910 throughout Europe
and the United States. Art
Nouveau is characterized by its
use of a long, sinuous, organic
line and was employed most
often in architecture, interior
design, jewelry and glass
design, posters, and
illustration.
Fauvism was an early-twentieth-
century art style of like-minded
artists who were initially ridiculed
and called Les Fauves, meaning “the
savages” or “the wild beasts” in
French. It was modernist art critic
Louis Vauxcelles who first dubbed
them after he saw the radical
paintings by Henri Matisse, André
Derain, and Maurice de Vlaminck at
the 1905 Salon d’Automne
e7xhibition in Paris. The term
‘Fauvism’ refers to a novel style in
painting that characterized the
works of a closed circle of French
artists that was primarily structured
around Henri Matisse, but also
indirectly influenced other artists
like Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque, or
Georges Rouault.
Expressionism was an art
movement and
international tendency at
the beginning of the 20th
century, which spanned the
visual arts, literature,
music, theatre and
architecture. The aim of
Expressionist artists was to
express emotional
experience, rather than
physical reality.
Cubism, highly influential visual arts
style of the 20th century that was
created principally by the artists
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in
Paris between 1907 and 1914. The
Cubist style emphasized the flat,
two-dimensional surface of the
picture plane, rejecting the
traditional techniques of perspective,
foreshortening, modeling, and
chiaroscuro and refuting time-
honoured theories that art should
imitate nature. Cubist painters were
not bound to copying form, texture,
colour, and space. Instead, they
presented a new reality in paintings
that depicted radically fragmented
objects.
Futurism was a modern art movement
which started in Italy in the early 20th
century. Futurism celebrated
technology, progress, and dynamism of
the modern life. The founder of
Futurism was Italian poet Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti (1876 – 1944) who
announced the birth of the movement
in his Futurist Manifesto published in
1909. Futurist painters called for art
that would capture dynamism, change,
and energy of the modern world.
Marinetti chose the name “futurism” to
indicate that the new movement offers
a vibrant vision of the future,
celebrating technology, innovation, and
progress
Abstract or non
objective
existing in thought or
as an idea but not
having a physical or
concrete existence.
 is art that does not
attempt to represent
an accurate depiction
of a visual reality but
instead use shapes,
colours, forms and
gestural marks to
achieve its effect.
What is Dadaism?

It is A movement in art and literature

founded on deliberate irrationality and
rejection of traditional artistic values.
Dadaism as a movement began during
the early hours of the 1910s
The word “Dada” in dadaism  is a
colloquial French word which means
“hobby-horse
Dada was an art movement formed
during the First World War in Zurich in
negative reaction to the horrors and
folly of the war
 Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917)

Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle

Wheel (1913)
 What is Surrealism?
It is a cultural movement that developed in Europe
in the aftermath of World War I in which artists
depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and
developed techniques to allow the unconscious
mind to express itself.

Features of Surrealistic Art

• Dream-like scenes and symbolic images.
• Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions.
• Bizarre assemblages of ordinary objects.
• Automatism and a spirit of spontaneity.
Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory Rene Magritte's The Treachery of Images
(1931) (1928)

Frida Kahlo's The Wounded

Deer (1946)

Joan Miró's The Hunter (Catalan

Landscape) (1924) Meret Oppenheim's Object (1936)
Constructivism

• was a Russian
avant-garde art
movement that
used geometric
shapes and
industrial
materials
Principles of constructivism
The movement emphasized
building and science, rather than
artistic expression, and its goals
went far beyond the realm of art.
The Constructivists sought to
influence architecture, design,
fashion, and all mass-produced
objects.
 Abstract expressionism
• It is often characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making,
and the impression of spontaneity.

Leo Tolstoy is called a

father of abstract
expressionism and the
expressionist movements
of the 19th and
20th centuries.
 Characteristics and Style of
Abstract Expressionism

Monumental in scale and ambition, Abstract

Expressionist painting evokes the distinctly
American spirit of rugged individualism.
Valuing freedom, spontaneity and personal
expression, the movement naturally produced a
variety of technical and aesthetic innovations.
 Optical art
 

The word optical is used to

describe things that relate to
how we see.

Artists use shapes, colours and

patterns in special ways to
create images that look as if
they are moving or blurring.
What Are the
Characteristics of Op
Art?   ( Op art or optical
art)
• Op Art exists to fool the eye. ... 
• Op Art is not meant to represent
reality. ... 
• Op Art is not created by chance. ... 
• Op Art relies on two specific
techniques. ... 
• Op Art typically does not include
the blending of colors. ... 
• Op Art embraces negative space.
 Pop art

art based on modern popular culture and

the mass media, especially as a critical or
ironic comment on traditional fine art
values.

Why it calls pop art?

In reference to its intended popular

appeal and its engagement with
popular culture, it was called Pop art.
3 characteristics
of pop art
• Appropriating images
from mass media:
• Elevating the ordinary
• Repetition
 Minimalism

is an extreme type of abstract art

that usually is depicted through
simplistic shapes and hard edges, all
while exposing the essence of the
forms and materials used.
It focuses in geometry, line, and
color.
 Characteristics
of minimalism
art
• Minimalist artwork
uses precise, hard-
edged forms, often
squares and
rectangles, to create
nonhierarchical,
mathematically
regular compositions
 Conceptual art

is an art for which the idea (or

concept) behind the work is more
important than the finished art
object
It emerged as an art movement in
the 1960s and the term usually refers
to art made from the mid-1960s to
the mid-1970s.
It is characterized by its use of text, as well
as imagery, along with a variety of
ephemeral, typically everyday materials
and "found objects.
 Photorealism
is a genre of art that encompasses
painting, drawing and other graphic
media, in which an artist studies a
photograph and then attempts to
reproduce the image as realistically
as possible in another medium.
Also an artwork so realistic that the
boundaries between reality and
imagination.
 Characteristics

• Visual complexity,
heightened clarity and a
desire to be emotionally
neutral led to banal
subject matter that
likened the movement to
pop art.
 Installation art
• is a mode of production and display of artwork
rather than a movement or style.
• Typically characterized by three-dimensional
(3D) objects, the art movement known as
installation art includes everything from life-
size sculptures made of recycled materials and
room-sized displays to light and sound
experiences inside an art gallery.
• Installation Art can comprise traditional and
non-traditional Media, such as Painting,
Sculpture, Readymades, Found Objects,
Drawing and Text.
 Body  art
• The installation involving body painting is
a meeting point of different art directions
and visual aspects
• It could be a combination of assemblage
art, land art, fashion, stage design,
costumes, props, objects, sculptures,
plants, performance, and painted bodies.
 Earth and land  art
• Land art is made directly in the landscape by
sculpting the land itself or by making
structures in the landscape with natural
materials.
• Land art, also known as earth art, was part
of the wider conceptual art movement in the
1960s and 1970s.
Types of Earth and land art
• Environmental art. Environmental art is art
that addresses social and political issues
relating to the natural and urban
environment.
• Conceptual art.
• Psychogeography. Psychogeography
describes the effect of a geographical
location on the emotions and behaviour of
individuals.
• Landscape.
 Performance art
• Artworks that are created through
actions performed by the artist or other
participants, which may be live or
recorded, spontaneous or scripted.
• Performing arts may include dance,
music, opera, theatre and musical
theatre, magic, illusion, mime, spoken
word, puppetry, circus arts, professional
wrestling and performance art.
 Branches of
performance art

• Music
• Drama
• Arts