Greek Archaic, "Kouros"

chapter 14 slide 70

6th c, BCE

more abstract, less life-like

"Kouros": nude broad-shouldered, mostly men but some maidens, sanctuaries to gods, burial markers

amphora

Greek Classical

ch 14, #76, 82,83

480-323 BCE

finest of finest of Greek art

more life-like meant deity more present

bronze later melted down for weapons

slight bulge in columns to compensate for appearance of inward bending visual effect

porch steps rise in middle so they don't appear to sag

Greek Hellenistic

ch14, #85,87,88

last phase greek art 323 bce onward

greek culture spread eastward by Alexander the Great

more women

continuing classical style

balance, restraint

Kraters

chapter 14 slide 68

greek pottery

hold wine, also grave markers

sometimes depict funeral procession

Roman art

 14, #93

Roman

 14, #91

510 bce

came of age during hellenistic

greek brought to rome

excelled at realism

Rome

14, #96,97,98

Roman Architecture/engineering

14, #100-104, 109

mastered arches

built pantheon, coliseum

Roman period

323 bce-537ce

Basillica parts

Apse- curved section on the long ends, serves as a focal point. 

•Nave- open center space that extended up high to admit light. 

•Clerestory- top part of the nave that has windows for light. 

•Aisles- on both sides of the nave, long hallways divided by pillars that buttress the nave. 

transition from round dome to square building top

example Hagia Sophia

specific image

mysterious status

connection to sacred realm

Renaissance

rebirth

observation of natural world

chiaroscuro

linear perspective

atmospheric perspective

italian for smoke

hazy effect translucent glazes

high renaissance

1500-1525

michelangelo davince raphael

Northern renaissance

ch 16, #66-82

Durer, Holbein

Limourgh brothers

Campin

Protestant reform 16th c

all are decorative arts surface detail

miniatures, illuminations, stained glass

about looking

precise rendering like light on velvet

turned to everyday subject matter

Indian Art

ch 17, # 26-38

shiva

vishnu temple

caves

gupta period 320-647 ce

Buddha = awakened

stupa=memorial mounds w buddha's cremated remains

mandala= geometric circular design=universe

part of temple

majestic curving tower, cosmic mountain

Chinese art/culture

lots of images

ch 17,#50-75

harmony

"the way"

behind duality is the tao

lots of white space

Lao Tzu

ethical system

honors tradition

duty conformity

haniwa

ch 17, #77-80

ancient earthenware

also the 1st century shrine that is rebuilt every 20 yrs

here and now

animism/mysticism

native religion

nature/ancestor

multiple rooflines

equivalent of stupa

shrine

31 syllable poem

indirect boy/girl communication

enlightenment through meditation

meaning from chaos

koans - irrational questions

modern art's audience

middle class

leaders of finance and industry

three revolutions

french, american, and industrial

neoclassic

romanticism

realism

impressionism

neoclassical

continuation of classical

academic

Romanticism

ch 18, 10-13

intuition/imagination

awe

mysterious landscapes

struggle for liberty

human experience

Realism

ch 18, #15-17

present

everyday

ordinary

Impressionism

ch 18, 25-31

landscape/leisure

dappled light

no black

fluid brushwork/colored shadows

bright palette

direct paint application

post-impression

ch 18, 33-46

after impressionists

gauguin, cezanne, vanGogh, seurat

20th century

new territory

color/form

"wild beasts"

freed color

color as independent expressive element

Matisse

artist's subjective feelings over objective observation

Kandinsky

Marc

Kirchner

merging figure and ground

fragmenting forms into flat planes

multiple p.o.v./movement

Picasso

Braque

WW1

anti art

anti-war causing things

provocative

spontaneous

out of dada

freud

sexual desire/erotic overtones

poetic appreciation

eliminate divisions between arts crafts architecture, etc

pared down, no embellishment

clean lines

post WW1

african heritage

slavery

realities of modern life

Aaron Douglageometric symbolism

lasted 10 yrs til depression

abstract expressionists

large scale

creative power of unconscious

first post war movement

mostly painters

emphasis on paint

action painting

non objective

dance of painter's creation

pollock

dekooning

krasner

image reduced to field of color

paint thinned merged w canvas

rothko

louis

frankenthaler

meditative

assemblage &

found objects

compositions culled from various sources

&

found object, no alteration, art in itself

Rauschenberg, Johns

Happening

Alan Kaprow

performance art

staged art events

theatrical in nature

meant to jolt audience out of complacency

post dada

pop art

warhol, lichtenstein

give new meaning to overfamiliar items and images

uses mass produced visual material

new meaning as visual emblems

minimalism

Judd, Flavin

pure honest aesthetic

removed images and artist ego

industrial and construction materials

photorealism

Don Eddy

photo as subject being painted

paint can give sharper image than photo

conceptual art

Kouth, Serra

based on idea rather than form

forms ephemeral, ordinary, unpretentious

earthworks

Smithson, Christo

art that enters natural world and participates in its changes

can't be bought or sold

neo expressionism

Basquiat,keifer

paint as sensual material to make recognizable image

revitalization of painting