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Please Note:. The following slide presentation and the visuals that accompany it are intended for the sole educational purposes of HUMA 1010 academic study. As such, the material contained herein is offered under the rubric of the fair use clause of U.S. copyright law. Any other uses for this material are prohibited without the permission of the instructor and/or additional inquiry into copyrights that may be held by outside parties.-- Prof. John C. R. SilbertHUMA 1010, RMU.
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1. An Overview ofArt History A look at major trends and schools of art in Western Culture
Compiled by Prof. John C. R. Silbert
For use in the HUMA 1010 course, RMU
3. All Visual Art is Imitation Aristotle’s word for imitation is “mimesis”; what the actor sought to do; to reveal the truth of human beings.
Art as Imitation does this in two essential ways:
Art as Likeness:
Rembrandt Van Rijn (top right)
“The Jewish Bride,” 1667
Art as Alteration:
Wassily Kandinsky (bottom right)
“Composition VIII,” 1923
Within each essential form there are any number of styles.
Some seek to paint what is there to be painted, while others seek to paint what is in the artist’s mind (and heart).
4. Classical Art: Art as Likeness
5. Classical Art -- quick facts: Classical art is noted for its strong sense of form, proportion and balance.
Much of the art and architecture served the needs of the state.
Classical art at first sought to idealize the human form; reaching for perfection (as the gods/goddesses were perfect). Note the sculpture on p. 147 in TABH.
Much of the art of the Greek period was attributed to Phidias, a painter, sculptor and architect greatly admired in the 5th cy B.C.E.
In the late 4th cy B.C.E., the emphasis shifted towards realism; with less depictions of idealized forms replaced by more life-like human qualities. Note the sculpture on p. 149 in TABH.
Roman Art often depicted less serene, more dynamic forms that appealed to human passions.
6. Euclid’s “Golden Section” This is a mathematical calculation of balance that states the most pleasing relationship between two connecting parts is such that the smaller is to the larger as the larger is to the sum of the two.
It is expressed mathematically as a ratio of 1:1.68.
The golden section finds its way into architecture and painting in the classical and subsequent art periods.
Leonardo da Vinci was so impressed by this principle that he called it the “Divine Proportion.”
7. The Parthenon, Acropolis, GreeceEuclid’s Golden Section in Architecture
8. Leonardo’s “Annunciation of the Virgin” Divide this painting into a square on the left and another on the right. (If it is a root-5 rectangle, these lines mark out two golden-section rectangles as the parts remaining after a square has been removed).
Also mark in the lines across the picture which are 0·618 of the way up and 0·618 of the way down it.
Also mark in the vertical lines which are 0·618 of the way along from both ends. You will see that these lines mark out significant parts of the picture or go through important objects.
You can then try marking lines that divide these parts into their golden sections too.
9. Byzantine Art
10. Byzantine and Medieval Art For nearly a 1000 years, the art world came under the influence of the Christian church. (5th cy C.E. to 15th cy C.E.).
Beginning with Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity, the church began a strong cultural mandate in Western culture.
The goal of art was to remind people of Jesus Christ, the saints and apostles and the story contained in Holy Scriptures.
Depictions of Christ showed his wisdom and depth (a more adult-like face even when showing him as a child.)
The Pagan world of classical art was frowned upon.
11. Medieval Art
12. Medieval Art
13. The Renaissance
15. Michelangelo
17. Raphael Sanzio
18. Rembrandt van Rijn
19. Goya
20. The Advent of Photography and the end of the dominance of realism
21. Impressionism
23. Post-Impressionism Vincent Van Gogh
24. Pointilism
25. The 1913 69th Regiment Armory Exhibition Named for the building in New York City where this art exhibition took place.
Brought to the U.S. many of the new modern artists who were launching into art as alteration with boldness and intensity.
This art exhibition found few admirers at the time due to its radical departures from traditional painting.
Unlike Van Gogh (and others in Post-impressionist alteration) who began with the natural world and painted it as they saw it, alteration for these modern artists sought to impose something new on the world, something inside themselves.
26. Abstractionism
28. Cubism
32. Surrealism
34. Georgia O’Keefe
36. Modern Realism
42. Abstract Expressionism
44. Pop Art
49. Andrew Wyeth – Prof. Silbert’s favorite artist
53. Modern Architecture
54. Frank Lloyd Wright
55. Frank O. Gehry
56. Philip Johnson