THE ASSU M P T ION S

OF ART
MODULE 2
ART
IT IS A PART OF LIFE. EVERY NOW AND THEN,
WE LIVE WITH IT AS WE COOK, SPEAK, SING,
DANCE AND WRITE ARE OUTCOMES OF OUR
PRODUCTIVE IMAGINATION.
“IMAGINATION IS AN ABSTRACTION OF A
CERTAIN THOUGHT OR FEELING THAT
PRODUCES A GOOD ART BASED ON REALITY OR
EXPERIENCE. “
-HOLLICK(2014)
EXPRESSION
AN AUTOMATIC RESPONSE TO IT. UNEXPRESSED
IMAGINATION IS NOT ART; IT IS NOT ART WHEN
AN INDIVIDUAL FAILS TO REALIZE THE BEAUTY
AND UTILITARIAN PURPOSE.
ART HISTORY
BEGINS WITH THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN
BEING WHOSE IMAGINATION PROPELS AS
EXPRESSION OF REAL LEGACIES THAT HUMAN
CIVILIZATION HAS WITNESSED. ART IS AS OLD
AS HISTORY.
PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD

CRO-MAGNON MAN MADE CARVINGS ON

WOOD AND ROCKS AND PRINTED THE CAVES TO
SCORE WILD BEASTS TO PROTECT THEIR
FAMILIES AND BAND.
Cro Magnon Man
 ANCIENT PERIOD
•REPRESENTED THE
ARCHITECTURAL
CONSTRUCTION OF STONES
AND BRICKS FOR TEMPLES,
FORTRESS TOMB AND
PALACES THAT SYMBOLIZES
POWER AND AUTHORITY.
•IN 2700 BC, THE SUMERIANS
CONSTRUCTED ZIGGURAT OF
Enlil
UR AS A VOTIVE OFFERING TO
ENLIL , THEIR DEITY.

The Great Ziggurat of UR

•THE GATE OF ISHTAR
WAS CONSTRUCTED IN
575 BC IN BABYLON.

Gate of Ishtar featured in

Marvel’s ETERNALS
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
IT WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO:
1. EARLY MEDIEVAL (410 C.E. TO 1024 C.E.)
•FEATURED THE WEAPONS OF THE WARLORDS
•BYZANTINE ART (324 TO 1453 C.E.)
•ISLAMIC ART (622 C.E. TO 1924)
•ROMANESQUE ART (1110 TO 1453)
EX: STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF HAGIA SOPHIA,
BYZANTINE MOSAIC, KORAN, CALLIGRAPHY,
DOME OF THE ROCK
 Byzantine Mosaic

Hagia Sophia

Koran
Calligraphy

Dome of the Rock, Israel

2. LATE MEDIEVAL (1400-
1500 C.E.) - COINCIDED
WITH THE MASSIVE
DEVELOPMENT OF ART
DURING THE
RENAISSANCE; REBIRTH 3 Views of Saints Nicholas & Victor Altarpiece by
Hermen Rode
OF CLASSICAL CULTURE
 mannerism

MODERN PERIOD
ENLIGHTENED BY THE FOLLOWING
AGES:
• MANNERISM (1550)
• BAROQUE (1650)
• ROCOCO (1700) rococo

• NEO CLASSICAL (1800)

romanticism
• ROMANTICISM (1800)
• REALISM (1860) nouveau

• PHOTOGRAPHY (1850)
• NOUVEAU (1900)
• IMPRESSIONISM (1865)
• POST IMPRESSIONISM (1900)
• FAUVISM AND
EXPRESSIONISM (1910) fauvism
 de stijl
constructivism
• CUBISM
• FUTURISM
• CONSTRUCTIVISM
• DE STIJL (PRONOUNCED
AS DEH-SHTYLE) OR dadaism
surrealism
NEOPLASTICISM (1905-
1920)

• DADA OR DADAISM (1920)

• SURREALSIM (1920)
CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

• ABSTRACT abstract expressionism

EXPRESSIONISM (1945)

• POP ART (1960)

pop art
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
1. ART IS UNIVERSAL.
2. ART IS NOT NATURE.
3. ART IS CULTURAL.
4. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE.
THANK YOU!