1. Art Through The Ages

2. Medieval Art and Architecture
Many columns used to hold up the roofs of large buildings.
Bright colors
Items in pictures are not in proportion
Mostly religious themes
Rounded 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
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. Renaissance Art

10. Renaissance Art

11. Renaissance Architecture

12. Renaissance Architecture

13. Renaissance Architecture

14. Reformation Art
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.
N. European reformation art was very plain and usually depicted every day life.
It is often referred to as the art of the Dutch Masters, such as Rembrandt and Hals.

15. Reformation Art

16. Reformation Art

17. Reformation Art

18. 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.

19. Baroque Art

20. Baroque Art

21. Baroque Architecture

22. Baroque Architecture

23. Rococo Art
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 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)

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

25. Rococo Art

26. Rococo Art

27. Rococo Art

28. Rococo Architecture

29. Rococo Architecture

30. Neoclassical Art
Neoclassical Art is a severe, unemotional form of art harkening back to the style of ancient Greece and Rome.
Its rigidity was a reaction to the overbred 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.

31. Neoclassical Art

32. Neoclassical Art

33. Neoclassical Art

34. Neoclassical Architecture

35. Romanticism
Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified late 18th-century Neoclassicism.
It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general.
Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

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37. Romanticism

38. Romanticism

39. Pre-Raphaelite Art Detailed observation of flora.
The use of clear, bright, sharp-focus technique.
Their moral seriousness is seen in their choice of religious or other uplifting themes.
A Brotherhood of artists formed in 1848 to recreate the Renaissance style.

40. Pre-Raphaelite Style

41. Pre-Raphaelite Style

42. Impressionism
The impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and color.

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44. Impressionism

45. Impressionism

46. Pointillism
Pointillism was a form of art that created pictures by combining a series of small dots.
Seurat was one of the major artists of this school of painting.
Seurat rejected the soft, irregular brushstrokes of impressionism in favor of pointillism, a technique he developed whereby solid forms are constructed by applying small, close-packed dots of unmixed color to a white background.

47. Pointillism

48. Pointillism

49. Expressionism
Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist.
Many expressionist artists reflected their disillusion with modern society, especially in light of the two world wars.

50. Expressionism

51. Expressionism

52. Cubism
In Cubism the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form
Cubists treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone.
Subjects in Cubists paintings are often hard to recognize.

53. Cubism

54. Cubism

55. Cubism