Check out the specimen test Historical/social concepts/Themes Why does art have a history and what does

it mean Work of art and historical evidence Vitality and reality of its own Art history = product of European modernity Dependent on: 1. Sense of difference between present and past 2. Sense that it has a shape 3. Recognisable causes as to why 4. Artworks feature in broader pattern of history R. Georgio Vasari = written a book first pub. I550 key sourcebook for the renaissance Produces a king of narrative rather than creating an inventory Giotto Before him based on stereotypes, after based on visual recordings/observations Art on a continual improvement to life likeness Gombrich the story of art Pinnacle of realism = John Constable clouds Winkelman attempted to provide shape and organisation for the numerous sculptures being dug up at the time art of antiquity No mere narrative of the chronology and alterations of art Lays emphasis on styleunlike Vasari reason nobody knew why really/who sculpted them so he attempted to organise them in style archaeological, classical style and into. In trying to explain why these style changes occur way of thinking changed based it on weather climate heat = over stimulates imagination i.e. Egyptians/Anubis Greeks = moderate climate Georg Hamel history of and reflected the absolute of the general people i.e. mostly divinity Egyptians focused on shape = showed under developed sense of divinity and understanding of the absolute struggle to give it form so they made everything big in terms of architecture Art = expression of wider ideas of culture Vasari value made judgements have to make a selection Winckelman, Hegal art history = construct a narrative give shape to history not just a history explores relations between work - what is the nature of the structure and how do we explain the development of art Raphael Student of Perugino learn from workshop Emulation Michael Angelo Michel Angelo Crucial Emulation of the antique Rejection/confrontation Egon Shielde birth of Venus Thomas Gainsborough Mr and Mrs. Andrews more than a portrait celebration of owning of land and social status Gwen John - - women! Absent from early on his Applied/decorative arts e.g. coins, bronze, not included in histories of Art focuses on Europe and the west creates divide, non-western art signifies awkwardness