1. Art Through The Ages How Does Art Reflect the Era

2. 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

3. Medieval Art

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Medieval Art

5. Medieval Architecture

6. Medieval Architecture

7. Medieval Architecture

8. 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

9. Giotto: Transition

10. Renaissance Art

11. Renaissance Art

12. Northern Renaissance Art

13. Northern Renaissance Art

14. Northern Renaissance Art: Do not forget this guy…

15. Renaissance Architecture

16. Renaissance Architecture

17. Renaissance Architecture

18. 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.

19. Reformation Art

20. Reformation Art

21. Reformation Art… Baroque is Catholic Reformation

22. 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.

23. Baroque Art

24. Baroque Art

25. Baroque Architecture

26. Baroque Architecture

27. 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)

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

29. Rococo Art

30. Rococo Art

31. Rococo Art

32. Rococo Architecture

33. Rococo Architecture

34. Neoclassical Art:
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.

35. Neoclassical Art
J-L David

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37. Neoclassical Art

38. Neoclassical Architecture

39. 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.

40. Romanticism
J Constable

41. Romanticism
JMW Turner

42. Romanticism
C. Friedrich
E. Delacroix

43. Pre-Raphaelite Style

44. 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

45. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
J. Millais
Rossetti

46. 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.

47. Impressionism
Degas
E. Manet

48. Impressionism
C. Monet

49. Impressionism
C. Monet

50. 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

51. Post- Impressionism
Van Gogh

52. Post-Impressionism
Matisse
Cezanne
Gauguin:
Polynesian themes

53. 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.

54. Pointillism by Seurat

55. 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.

56. Expressionism
Van Gogh

57. Expressionism
Otto Dix
Van Gogh

58. Expressionism
Munch

59. 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.

60. Cubism
Picasso
L. Popova

61. Cubism
Picasso

62. Cubism
Picasso
G. Braque

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