Western Art: Mapeh Majorship in Let

WESTERN ART
MAPEH MAJORSHIP IN LET
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PREHISTORIC ART
• Among the earliest
evidences of human
intelligence
• Typical themes: hunting
and fertility
Venus of Willendorf
PREHISTORIC ART
Cave paintings in Lascaux, France
EGYPTIAN ART
Sphinx
EGYPTIAN ART
 Many forms of art and architecture reflected the
Egyptian preoccupation with Death
 Resistant to change
 Egyptian art is primarily religious and religion by nature
clings to tradition
 The pharaoh was the chief patron and subject of art,
therefore artisans were expected to meet his
specifications and not to innovate
EGYPTIAN ART
• Drawings and paintings of people followed strict
conventions
• Hieroglyphics – a form of picture writing
• Papyrus – plant fiber paper
Palette of
Narmer
King Nebamun hunting
birds on a boat, 1900 BC
GREEK ART
• Admiration of the
human body
– Korous – idealized male
sculptures, used as grave
markers for soldiers
– Kore – “clothed” female
sculptures
GREEK ART
Aphrodite of Melos Nike of Samothrace
RATIONALISM IN ARCHITECTURE
Parthenon
ROMAN ART
• Roman Architecture had many contributions to
modern architecture
• Roman Arch
• Cement
• City planning
• Civil engineering
Roman Aqueducts Coliseum
Pantheon
MEDIEVAL ART
• Marked return to religious themes and subject
matter
• 4 main periods:
– Byzantine
– Carolingian
– Romanesque
– Gothic
MEDIEVAL ART
Mosaic of Justinian and Retinue at
Charlemagne’s Apse Entry
Court School
MEDIEVAL ART
• Gothic
Chartres Cathedral
– Dedicated to the Virgin Mary
– Gothic Arch and Flying buttresses
– Stained Glass Windows of Chartres
– The Rose Window/The Rose of France
RENAISSANCE
• Means “rebirth”; return to
mythological themes
• Humanism; focused on Man
and the development of his
full abilities
• Wide variety of themes;
religion, mythology, history
La Gioconda, Oil on Poplar
by Leonardo da Vinci
RENAISSANCE
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus
BAROQUE
• Return to more somber, religious themes
– Catholic church used art as propaganda against the
Protestants
The Incredulity of St. Thomas
by Caravaggio
BAROQUE
• Characterized by dark and
dramatic lighting:
chiaroscuro
Heavenly Love and Earthly Love
by Giovanni Baglione
ROCOCO
• Characterized by light,
fanciful, imagery
• Highly decorative
The Swing
by Jean Honore Fragonard
NEO CLASSICAL PERIOD
• Returned to “Classical” modes; Greek and Roman Art
Oath of the Horatii
by Jacques Louis‐
David
ROMANTIC PERIOD
• Very
passionate
• Coincided with
the American
Civil War and
the Industrial
Revolution
Raft of the Medusa
by Eugene Delacroix
MODERN ART
 Art from the 1900s up to the Present
 Involves many art movements:
 Expressionism
 Impressionism
 Formalism
 Cubism
 Surrealism
 Pop Art
 Abstract Expressionism
EXPRESSIONISM
• Sought to express
emotions, meaning and
thought, rather than actual
reality
The Scream
by Edvard Munch
EXPRESSIONISM
Composition VII
Watercolor on paper
by Wassily Kandinsky
IMPRESSIONISM
• Derived from Claude
Monet’s artwork;
Impression Soleil Levant
• Emphasis on the
depiction of light
IMPRESSIONISM
• Artist worked quickly in
order to capture their
impression of their subject
matter
– Therefore brushwork is
evident, the use of visual
mixing
Still Life, Apples
by Paul Cezanne
Starry Night
by Vincent Van Gogh
Post Impressionist/Expressionist
A Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte
by Georges Seurat
Post Impressionist
Inspired Filipino painters: Ibarra dela Rosa, Manuel Rodriquez,
Sr., Nemesio Miranda
CUBISM, SURREALISM AND POP ART
Marilyn by Andy Warhol
CUBISM, SURREALISM AND POP ART
Guernica
by Pablo Picasso
The Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dali
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
• Artists were concerned
with the flatness of the
painting surface.
Opposition of Lines: Red & Yellow
by Piet Mondrian

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