Art Through The Ages How Does Art Reflect the Era

Medieval Art & Architecture: Pre- 1400s Many columns used to hold up the roofs of large buildings. Bright colors Items in pictures are not in proportion Mostly religious themes Pointed (Gothic) & Rounded (Roman) arches No rose windows

Medieval Art

                      Medieval Art

Medieval Architecture

Medieval Architecture

Medieval Architecture

Renaissance Art and Architecture: 1400s & 1500s Much more realistic Items pictured are in proportion Both secular and religious themes Blended colors, due to the use of tempura paints Pointed arches Flying buttresses & fewer columns Highly ornate detail Rose windows

Giotto: Transition

Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art

Northern Renaissance Art

Northern Renaissance Art

Northern Renaissance Art: Do not forget this guy…

Renaissance Architecture

Renaissance Architecture

Renaissance Architecture

Reformation Art: 1500 & 1600s Catholic Reformation art was of the BAROQUE style and was designed to impress an illiterate population with the glory and grandeur of the Catholic church. Protestant Reformation art was simpler and usually depicted every day life. It is often referred to as the art of the Dutch Masters, such as Rembrandt and Hals.

Reformation Art

Reformation Art

Reformation Art… Baroque is Catholic Reformation

Baroque Art The desire to evoke emotional states by appealing to the senses, often in dramatic ways, underlies Baroque Art. Characteristics include grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, vitality, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and often a natural background.

Baroque Art

Baroque Art

Baroque Architecture

Baroque Architecture

Rococo Art = Pre-Rev 1700s The Rococo style in painting is decorative and non-functional, like the declining aristocracy it represented. Subjects are painted with wispy brushstrokes & the colors used often included pastels, luscious golds and reds. Its subject matter frequently dealt with the leisurely pastimes of the aristocracy and risqué love themes such as sensual intimacy, love, frivolity, & playful intrigue. Rococo art often looks fuzzy. (see examples)

Rococo Art Characteristics of the Rococo style: Fussy detail Complex compositions Certain superficiality More ornateness Sweetness Light Playfulness

Rococo Art

Rococo Art

Rococo Art

Rococo Architecture

Rococo Architecture

Neoclassical Art: 1750-1850 Neoclassical Art is a severe, unemotional form of art harkening reviving the style of ancient Greece and Rome. Its rigidity was a reaction to the excess of the Rococo style and the emotional Baroque style. The rise of Neoclassical Art was part of a general revival of classical thought, which was of some importance in the American and French revolutions.

Neoclassical Art J-L David

Neoclassical Art

Neoclassical Art

Neoclassical Architecture

Romanticism: mid-1800s Rejects the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality of late 18th-century Neoclassicism. A reaction against the Enlightenment, 18thc. rationalism & materialism. Emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

Romanticism J Constable

Romanticism JMW Turner

Romanticism C. Friedrich E. Delacroix

Pre-Raphaelite Style

Pre-Raphaelite Art: Late 1840s Revival of Renaissance style Moral sincerity, female & natural beauty, religious or other uplifting themes. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) Dante Rossetti, John Millais, Wm. Hunt original group Art for art’s sake, no political or critical overtones Short-lived but influenced Victorian Age

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood J. Millais Rossetti

Impressionism: Late 1800s Concentrates on the general impression produced by a scene or object Uses unmixed primary colors & small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. Attempts to accurately and objectively record real life in terms of transient effects of light and color.

Impressionism Degas E. Manet

Impressionism C. Monet

Impressionism C. Monet

Post- Impressionism: 1890s-Early 1900s Emphasizes geometric from of the subject – cone, rectangle, etc. Color contrasts, Bold strokes Less accuracy of scale Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh

Post- Impressionism Van Gogh

Post-Impressionism Matisse Cezanne Gauguin: Polynesian themes

Pointillism: 1880s Pointillism was a form of art that created pictures by combining a series of small dots. Seurat developed solid forms by applying small, close-packed dots of unmixed color to a white background.

Pointillism by Seurat

Expressionism: Early 1900s The intention is to portray the subject in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist. Reflected artist’s disillusion with modern society, especially in light of the two world wars.

Expressionism Van Gogh

Expressionism Otto Dix Van Gogh

Expressionism Munch

Cubism: Early 1900s Subject matter is broken up, analyzed, & reassembled in an abstract / geometric form Cubists treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone. Subjects in Cubists paintings are often hard to recognize.

Cubism Picasso L. Popova

Cubism Picasso

Cubism Picasso G. Braque

Surrealism: the Subconscious? Since 1920s V. Kush S. Dali