The test is Friday!

1. The test is Friday! Some warm and fuzzy words written by British WWI veteran A.A. Milne (author of Winnie the Pooh) Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

2. Now study, get rest, eat breakfast and (maybe) have fun! Rest is what you need right now.

3. Announcements – - AP announcements • Review sheet and HW collected Monday. DO IT BEFORE THE TEST • Review your textbook, your class work • Also – Albert MC questions, Mr. Brown’s site with review stuff, Tom Richey videos etc.

4. Let’s warm up with some jokes – not just a time waster…these might help jog your memory on the test Adapted from the website “How To Recognise Famous Painters According To The Internet”

5. If everyone has great abs, it’s Michelangelo

6. If the paintings have tons of little people in them but otherwise seem normal, it’s Bruegel.

7. If the paintings have lots of little people in them but also have a ton of crazyness, it’s Bosch.

8. If everyone in the painting looks like Vladimir Putin (women included), then it’s van Eyck.

9. If a girl is pouring something –it’s Vermeer

10. How does art reflect life? Our job: Remind ourselves of how the art styles and subject matter reflect the historical context

11. Medieval Art • Items in pictures are not in proportion • Mostly religious themes • 2-D • Rounded arches (buildings)

12. Medieval Art

13. Medieval Art

14. Medieval Architecture

15. Medieval Architecture

16. Medieval Architecture

17. Renaissance Art and Architecture • Much more realistic • Items pictured are in proportion • Perspective and horizon • Both secular and religious themes • Northern vs Southern • Blended colors, due to the use of tempera paints • Pointed arches • Artists sign their name • Influence of the -isms

18. Renaissance Art

19. Renaissance Art

20. Renaissance Art

21. Renaissance Art

22. Renaissance Architecture

23. Renaissance Architecture

24. Northern Renaissance: Everyday lifeN.REN is more religious but the art is more secular

25. ….with occasional end of the world paintings (DURER – 4 Horsemen of the Apocolypse)

26. Baroque:Ecstacy of St Theresa – BerniniHOW MIGHT THIS BE ART OF THE “COUNTER-REFORMATION”

27. Baroque Art • Emotional, dramatic • grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, vitality, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and often a natural background. • Art of counter-reformation (Italy and France) and everyday life (Dutch Republic)

28. Baroque Art

29. Baroque Art

30. Northern Baroque – why do the Dutch have this kind of art at this time?

32. Baroque Architecture

33. Rococo Art • Characteristics of the Rococo style: • Fussy detail • “pink marshmallow” effect • More ornateness • Sweetness • Light • Playfulness • Cherubs • The Rococo style in painting is decorative and non-functional, like the declining aristocracy it represented.

34. Rococo Art: What historical event might cause this art to become less popular?

35. Rococo Art

36. Rococo Art

37. Rococo Architecture (also Versailles)

38. Neoclassical Art • Neoclassical Art is a severe, unemotional 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.

39. Neoclassical Art

40. Neoclassical Art

41. Romanticism

42. Romanticism • Rejection of the order and scientific thinking of Enlightenment and IR • Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. • Also a literary movement

43. Romanticism

44. Realism Precise images of reality • Also a literary movement –realistic novels that mirrored harshness of reality • Gods and goddesses are out • Peasants and working class are in

46. 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. • Light, color • Associated with Belle Epoque – end of 19th C. • The art of the late 19th/Early 20th century did not need to be realistic/rational

47. Impressionism

48. Impressionism

49. Impressionism

50. 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.