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Art Through The Ages How Does Art Reflect the Era

Explore the evolution of art and architecture from the Medieval era to Post-Impressionism. Discover the distinct characteristics, themes, and styles that define each period.

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Art Through The Ages How Does Art Reflect the Era

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  1. Art Through The AgesHow 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

  4. 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: 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.

  35. Neoclassical Art J-L David

  36. Neoclassical Art

  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

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