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Post Impression and Art Nouveau

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Post impression  Impressionism led to forms being dissolved and the lost of the drawing. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th other painters starting from the impressionism, it developed a more personal style, that us going to be the advance of some of the pictorial movements of the 29th century. Characteristics of the movement : The recovery of the importance of drawing The worry about capturing not only the light but also expression of both, things and people. Interest in building the shape, the drawing and the expression of objects and human images. Equilibrium between the volume and the pure aesthetic taste (Cezanne). Van Gogh He was established in Arles, enthusiastic about the light of Provence. He painted curved, wavy images and landscapes. The flame shapes represented his internal matters. He was passionate of color s the vehicle to express his frequent depressions and anguishes. His brushstroke is very characteristic,
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Romanticism Art

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Romanticism 1800-1840 Romanticism was a cultural movement that started in Europe. It was somewhat a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which occurred during the same time period. The movement has effected philosophical thinking, literature, music and art. The romantic movement started at the end of the 1700's and reached its peak in the early 1800's. It marked the end of the Baroque movement and was followed by the Realism.  Characteristics of the Romanticism Art Romantic art focused on emotions, feelings and moods of all kind including spirituality, imagination, mystery and fervour. The subject matter varied widely including landscapes, religions, revolution and peaceful beauty. The brushwork for romantic art become looser and less precise.  France Antoine Jean Gros began the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism by moving to a more colorful and emotional style, influenced by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens , which developed i
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Baroque Art

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Baroque Art (1600-1750) The term Baroque was derived from the Portuguese "barocco" which means 'irregular pearl or stone'. It describes a fairly complex idiom, originating in Rome which flowered during the period c.1590-1720 and embraced painting and sculpture as well as architecture. Baroque art was a reflection of society that include the art of absolute monarchies, the art of the counter-reformation and bourgeois art. In Baroque art, there are a few characteristic that make it different from Renaissance art. Baroque art are more into movement, realism in representations, complexity, interest in surprising the audience, have curved lines, concave and convex and also predominance of color and light over drawing. Architecture In architecture, the main purpose in Baroque art is to create the sensation of movement in buildings. The characteristics are usually involved curved lines, spirals, elliptic and oval floor plans, solomonic columns , contrast of
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Renaissance art

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Renaissance Art (c.1400-1600) The term Renaissance refers to rebirth of Greek and Roam culture. At this moment, artists has gained prestige and become celebrities. The movement of Renaissance art was originated in Italy in the 15th century and Florence was a cultural leader in the Renaissance period. Characteristics of the Renaissance art are classicism, emphasis on human figure,  realism and expression, perspective also light and shade. Classicism Artists, architects and sculpture studied the art of Ancient Greece and Rome and incorporated elements of these civilizations. Mythological themes, idealized beauty and classical architectural elements. Examples of classicism art are "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli and "The School of Athens" by Raphael. Emphasis on human figure The human figure became very important. Artists rediscovered the beauty of nature and the human body, expressing the optimism of this new age. As in classical art, the beauty i
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Medieval Art

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Early Medieval Art ( 5th - 11th century ) Hiberno-saxon art : 6th-8th centuries in the British Isles Viking art : 8th-11th centuries in Scandinavia Carolingian art : 8th-9th centuries in France and Germany Ottonian art : 10th-early 11th centuries in Germany The Middle Ages of the European world covers approximately 1,000 years of art history in Europe, and at times extended into the Middle East and North Africa. The Early Middle Ages is generally dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE) to approximately 1000, which marks the beginning of the Romanesque period. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres , and revivals. Early medieval art exists in many media. The works that remain in large numbers include sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, and mosaics, all of which have had a higher survival rate than fresco wall-paintings and works in precious metals or textiles such as tapestries.  In
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Byzantine Art

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Byzantine Art (Architecture) Along with the transfer of Imperial authority to Byzantium went thousands of Roman and Greek painters and craftsmen, who proceed to create a new set of Eastern Christian images and icons known as Byzantine Art. Byzantine art includes word created from the fourth century to the fifteenth century and encompassing parts of the Italian peninsula, the eastern edge of the Slavic world, the Middle East and North Africa. Early Byzantine (c. 330-750) Middle Byzantine (c. 850-1204) Late Byzantine (c. 1261-1453) Characteristic of byzantine art Byzantine art had a didactic function but was essentially impersonal, ceremonial and symbolic. It was an element in the performance of religious ritual. Byzantine architecture and painting remained uniform and anonymous and developed with a rigid tradition. New architectural techniques included the use of concave triangular sections of masonry known as pendentives , in order to carry the weight
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Greek and Hellenistic

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Greek Art (sculpture) Greek art is believed to be a mixture of Egyptian, Syirian, Manoan (Crete), Mycenean and Persian cultures. Judging by the language, they are derived from Indo-European tribes that migrate from the open steppes north of the Black Sea. Greek sculptors learned both stone carving and bronze-casting from the Egyptians and Syrians, while the traditions of sculpture within Greece were developed by two main groups of settlers from Thessaly - the Ionians and Dorians. 1. History of Greek sculpture Bone and ivory carving has been produced in Egypt since about 5,000 BCE as part of cultural traditions established during the late Stone Age (10,000 - 5,000 BCE). After the "Dark Ages" - a 400 year period of chaos and fighting, when little if any art was produced. During the calmer 8th century BCE , a new culture of visual art began to emerge. It involving pottery, some painting and sculpture, while Homer's Iliad and The Odyssey were also written ar
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