Artapp 02.B
Artapp 02.B
Artapp 02.B
APPRECIATION
ARTAPP0
Chapter 2
The Historical
Development of Visual
Arts
continuation
VISUAL ARTS
The genre of art works which form are primarily
sense by sight, or was created for visual perceptions
such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture,
printmaking, design, crafts, photography, digital arts,
video, film making and architecture
VISUAL ARTS
Later, on Modern Period offers Decorations, Fashion
Styles, Installations, Performance Art and a
Combinations of Kinds and Genre of Arts.
By learning about the historical development of visual
arts such as painting, architecture, and sculpture,
• you will gain knowledge and understanding about
how artists conceptualize and realize their art forms
based on the influences in the society and the
progress of selected visual arts from the pre – historic
period to the modern period.
• you can classify the different works of arts by citing
their characteristics based on the influences of the
artists in a particular period.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
1.distinguish the underlying history and
philosophy of the art period or era;
2.identify the characteristics, dominant theme,
famous artists and their masterpieces of the art
period or era.
3.research about the famous artists and their
masterpieces in each period/era.
4.gather art clips/pictures of the masterpieces of
famous artists and provide data describing the
period of such art existence.
Cave Art (Parietal Art/ Ice Age
A Review with Rock Art) is a man made image
Supplementary Info found in the walls created using
bones, sticks and brush mud
with animal hair.
Egyptian Art
(PAINTING)focuses more
A Review with on expressions of concepts
Supplementary Info
rather than a record of
sensory experience and
mastery over reality
Greek Art (THE GLORY
THAT WAS GREECE)a
birthplace for Western
Civilization, a culture of
A Review with “ARETE”, and later designates
Supplementary Info Archaic, Classical, and
Hellenistic Period for creating
“Greek Style”.
Denotes also Five Wonders of
the World
Medieval Art are purely
religious which came in
A Review with different forms such as
Supplementary Info mosaics, manuscript,
fresco paintings which
mostly can be found in
Churches
Modern Art Period
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period
extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes
the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that
era.
It uses symbols in presenting the art subjects. This movement in France and ideas
shared by the artists are the rejection of the Realism.
Moreover, artists in this movement believed that art should represent absolute
truth using particular images or objects with symbolic meaning; thus, giving
meaning to objects, events and conditions.
The symbolic movement had its roots in Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)
by Charles Baudelaire. As what Confucius said in relation to this movement,
“Signs and Symbols rule the world, not words nor laws”.
Some of the famous artists in this movement include:
a. Henri Matisse. He is a French artist known for his use of color and
his fluid and his original craftsmanship. He is famous of his works:
“WOMAN WITH A HAT”, and “BLUE NUDE”
started in Italy.
The concept of this art movement is that arts should serve a social
purpose which is beyond aesthetics. It is the rejection of the idea of
autonomous art rather; it focuses on the idea that art should be
constructed or related to constructions.
Fountain
It is a European artistic and literary movement that
ignores conventional aesthetic and cultural values
producing symbolic artworks that are non- sense,
no rules, and no values; it is considered as the first
anti-art movement.
b. Hans Bellmer. He is a German Artist who is best known for his life-sized
pubescent female dolls produce in 1930. He is very famous of his work:
“THE MACHINE GUNNERESS IN A STATE OF GRACE”
Suprematism Art
It is an art movement founded by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
in Russia in 1931.
A school of painting flourished in New York after WWII until the early 1960s,(New
York School of Modern Art) characterized by the perspective that art is non-
representational and chiefly improvisational.
Artists in this movement may have their own ways of expressing emotions through
the artwork they produced.
Angel on My Shoulder
Also known as Conceptualism- this art movement flourished in
the mid 1960s and 1970s which posits meaning, concept or idea
which are most important work of art. It rejects the idea that
“Art is Beautiful”
Artists in this movement used text as well as imagery along with
variety of everyday materials and objects. Viewers think
particularly about what art is and its meaning. It is sometimes
incorporated with photography.
Artists of this movement include the following:
• Yoko Ono- She is a Japanese multimedia artist and singer and
the second wife of John Lenon. Her artworks are “PLAY IT
BY TRUST” and “MY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFUL”
• Yves Klein- A French artist considered an important figure in
post-European art. His artworks include,
“ANTHROPOMETRY: PRINCESS HELENA”
“ANTHROPOMETRY: PRINCESS HELENA” by Klein
Photo Realism –
Photography