Art History - A Very Quick Look: Outcome: CH5.3

Name: _____________________________
Outcome: CH5.3 Analyze and describe how arts and pop culture expressions convey information about the time
and place in which they were created.
a. Describe how changes in arts expressions reflect changes in society (e.g., examine artistic and social historical timelines).
b. Explain how knowing more about the context in which an arts expression was created can help in understanding the work.
Art History – A Very Quick Look

Cave Paintings – 40,000BC http://www.livescience.com/48199-worlds-oldest-cave-art-photos.html
Earliest form of art. Often of animals/hunting.
You try:
Ancient Egyptian Art – 3,000BC http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptart.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtc0LQuA3z4
Definite style with eyes/angles. Pick one of these dudes and try to draw him/her. Note the triangle shapes.
Head to the side. More important people were bigger.
Ancient Greek Art – 600BC- 100BC – Columns Try all three. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RchSJSJAbc0
Ancient Roman Art – 300BC-300AD Also called the Classical Period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9bcohqsTGk
Real looking sculpturing. Architecture is key. Roman engineers perfected the arch
Try a one point perspective arch

Try a three point perspective
Middle Ages Art – 500-1200AD
Often colourful drawings of battle. Honour. Glory. Death. Religious. Churches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral
Write your first name with a fancy first letter. Then add little details surrounding your name (e.g. hockey stick)
Renaissance – 1450-1600AD
Beautiful, but full of pride. Exaggerated view of greatness. This painting, the Academy, is nice, but it also refers
to how the people in the Renaissance, and no others, have unlocked the wisdom of the past.
Draw yourself in an exaggerated sense. Making yourself greater than you are. Add background details to prove
your greatness.
Baroque – 1600s
I always say, if it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it. Ba dum ching. A little darker. Light experimentation.
Subjects often off-centre. Draw a quick stick man picture in a scene. But put him off centre.
Romanticism – 1700-1800s (how do you feel today? Doodle on the sides to express it!)
Romantic art focused on emotions, feelings, and moods of all kinds including spirituality, imagination, mystery,
and fervor. The subject matter varied widely including landscapes, religion, revolution, and peaceful beauty.
The brushwork for romantic art became looser and less precise. The great Romantic artist Caspar David
Friedrich summed up Romanticism saying "the artist's feeling is his law".
Realism 1840-1880 (post French Revolution…)
Realism was an art movement that revolted against the emotional and exaggerated themes of Romanticism.
Artists and writers began to explore the reality of everyday life. Draw yourself at your desk. Draw just how
bored and mundane you think this class is right now!
The Gleaners
Impressionism - 1880s (E.g. Claude Monet) draw a past memory in a faded impression form
Impressionism began in France when a group of young and talented artists decided to rebel against the
established art critics, called the Salon in France, and form a new style of painting all their own. Impressionists
wanted to capture a moment in time. Critics said that their work was merely "impressions" of reality and the
name stuck.
Abstract Art - 1910 - Present (e.g. Pablo Picasso)
The Abstract Art movement took place in the United States. In its purest form, Abstract Art has no subject. It is
just lines, shapes, and colors. The Abstract Art movement is called Abstract Expressionism because, although
the art has no subject, it is still trying to convey some kind of emotion.
Picasso Self Portrait:

Others:
Pointillism (1884 - 1900)
1884: Georges Seurat and Paul Signac begin to develop a style of painting using dots of pure color which would
later be called Pointillism
1886: Seurat reveals his masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
http://mentalfloss.com/article/63510/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-sunday-la-grande-jatte-1884
Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1910)
1889: Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night while in an asylum in France.
http://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/the-starry-night-1889
1890: Van Gogh dies from a self-inflicted bullet wound
Cubism (1910 - 1930)
1911: The first organized show of artists from the Cubist art movement is displayed.
1921: Pablo Picasso paints Three Musicians, a classic example of Synthetic Cubism
http://totallyhistory.com/three-musicians/
Draw a cube castle… Draw one like Mr. Millette does now.
Surrealism (1920 - Present)
1924: The Surrealist Manifesto is released.

1931: Salvador Dali paints The Persistence of Memory, perhaps the most famous Surrealist painting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory
Draw some drooping clocks, or something. Bend reality! Make it surreal!
Pop Art (1950 - 1970)
1962: Andy Warhol paints Campbell's Soup Cans https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79809
Question: Do you use a fork or a spoon? Explain your answer:
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Postmodernist Art (1980 - Present)
2004: Pablo Picasso's painting Garcon a la pipe is sold for $104 million.
http://ep.yimg.com/ay/artsheaven/garcon-a-la-pipe-9.jpg
Write some random words and call it postmodern art! Tell me what it means! Make it deep and esoteric and…
dude!
Meaning:
Name: ___________________________ CH5.1 Quiz /10
1) Which period of art was characterized by an exaggerated sense of how great people are?
_________________________________________
2) This early art period used triangles in drawing people: __________________________________
3) The ____________________________ period often was dark, and had the main subject off-centre.
4) “The artist’s feeling is the law” belongs to which period? __________________________________
5) Which style has no subject? It is just lines, shapes, and colours: _______________________________
6) The earliest art discovered: ___________________________
7) Colourful art filled with themes of honour, glory, death, and religion can be found in the
________________________________ period.
8) Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory is an example of this style: _____________________________
9) Everyday life is depicted in the style of: ______________________________
10) Columns! Columns everywhere! _________________________________ period.
EU BONUS:
Who painted Starry Night? ____________________________________
Word Bank:
Greek, Roman, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Realism, Impressionism, Abstract, Cubism, Post-Modern,
Egyptian, Romanticism, Cave, Pointillism, Surrealism,
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Name: _____________________________

Art History – A Very Quick Look

Earliest form of art. Often of animals/hunting.

Head to the side. More important people were bigger.

Try a one point perspective arch

Picasso Self Portrait:

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1910)

1890: Van Gogh dies from a self-inflicted bullet wound

Cubism (1910 - 1930)

1924: The Surrealist Manifesto is released.

Draw some drooping clocks, or something. Bend reality! Make it surreal!

Pop Art (1950 - 1970)

1962: Andy Warhol paints Campbell's Soup Cans https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79809

Question: Do you use a fork or a spoon? Explain your answer:

2) This early art period used triangles in drawing people: __________________________________

4) “The artist’s feeling is the law” belongs to which period? __________________________________

6) The earliest art discovered: ___________________________

8) Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory is an example of this style: _____________________________

9) Everyday life is depicted in the style of: ______________________________

10) Columns! Columns everywhere! _________________________________ period.

Who painted Starry Night? ____________________________________

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