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ART in any form is an expression or
application of human creativity, skill,
and imagination.
✔ Painting ✔ Literature
✔ Sculpture ✔ Cinema
✔ Architectur ✔ Music
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 “All Art is an individual’s
expression of the culture.
Culture differ, so Art looks
different”
– by Henry Glasses, Art Scholar
Any thoughts?
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 ✔ Ancient Art
✔ Classical Art
✔ Medieval Art
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 Western Classical Art
ANCIENT CLASSICA MEDIEVAL
ARTBC- 2000L BC-400BC
1,500,000 ART ART
400 BC-1,400AD
YEAR

2000BC

⮚Pre-Historic ⮚Greek ⮚ Byzantine

⮚Egyptian ⮚Roman ⮚ Romanesque
⮚ Gothic
PERIOD/
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 ANCIENT ART
Pre-Historic and Egyptian
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 FUNCTIONS
ANCIENT PAINTINGS.
ART PERIOD

PRE- Communication, religious

HISTORIC or ceremonial purposes.

Egyptians used paintings

ANCIENT to honor the dead.
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EGYPT
 ANCIENT ART PAINTING: PRE- HISTORIC

CAVE OF
LASCAUX
(15000-10000 B.C.-
Stone Age)

Can you
Describe the
painting?
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 ANCIENT ART PAINTING: EGYPTIAN

⮚ Paintings from Sarcophagus of

Tutankhamen XVIII dynasty, 1362
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shows the life of the king while he was still on earth and the scenes he
expects to encounter in the underworld after his death.
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ANCIENT SCULPTURE.
ART PERIOD

PRE- Used as religious significance

and charm
HISTORIC
Egyptians sculpture serves as
a home for the spirit or god.
ANCIENT
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EGYPT
 ANCIENT ART SCULTURE: PRE- HISTORIC

Can you Describe

the sculpture?
VENUS OF
WILLENDORF
Carved from limestone showing
heavy breast and large abdomen
believed to be a charm to ensure
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fertility.
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VENUS OF What are the

BRASSEMPOUY materials used?
(discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892)

A sculpture carved from a mammoth ivory Are they

that showed a lady with the hood which
represents the human face and hairstyle.
realistic?
A painted stucco-coated
limestone bust of the Great
Royal Wife of Egyptian Pharaoh
Akhenaten. Realistic, with
heavy lidded eyes, slender
neck, determined chin and pure
profile under her heavy crown.
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QUEEN NEFERTITI
painted limestone 18th Dynasty, 1375-1357 BC
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ANCIENT Architecture.
ART PERIOD
Temple, altar for rituals and
PRE- grave are the main purpose of
HISTORIC Architecture in the Pre-historic
time.

Architectures were built as to

ANCIENT
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make the deceased person’s

EGYPT
afterlife place pleasant
 ANCIENT ART ARCHITECTURE: : PRE- HISTORIC

Can you Describe the

sculpture?
This architecture is made of huge
stone blocks which were probably
intended for burial.

MENHIR
A huge stone standing vertically on the ground usually standing on
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the middle of the field or arranged in rows.

Believed to be a structure where people buried their dead.
 ANCIENT ART ARCHITECTURE: PRE- HISTORIC

DOLMENS CROMLECH

Stone table consisting of two Circle of standing stones

huge standing stones supporting considered as a temple
a horizontal giant stone which where rituals were held.
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served as grave or as an altar.

 ANCIENT ART ARCHITECTURE: EGYPTIAN

PYRAMID OF GIZA
Funerary structures in limestone and granite of the
three kings of the 4th Dynasty

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
TEMPLE
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what do you think is the purpose of Served as places of residence of the gods and key centers of
Pyramid and Temple? economic activity and official worship of the gods. Materials
used were wood, reed matting and mud brick.
 CLASSICAL ART
GREEK and ROMAN
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 FUNCTION
Paintings
S
CLASSICAL
ART PERIOD
It emphasized the importance and
Classical accomplishments of human beings
Greek and honor gods.

Romantic paintings conveys

emotions, feelings, and moods
Romantic - including spirituality, imagination,
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Era mystery and intense feeling.

 CLASSICAL ART PAINTING:
Judgement of Paris
Paintings during the classical
era were most found in vases,
panels, and tomb.

Most of the subjects were battle

scenes, mythological figures,
and everyday scenes.

Painted on an amphora, a black figure

pottery from Attica which displayed the
veneration of gods and heroes in their
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representation of myths.
 ROMAN ART

Head of Alexander
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 FUNCTION Sculpture
S
CLASSICAL
ART PERIOD Classical Greeks’ sculptures are
used for decoration. It visualize
Classical the divine and commemorate
Greek humans, also to embellish
sacred architecture .

In Romantic Era, it imparts

Romantic - history and mythology..
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Era
 CLASSICAL ART SCULPTURE:
MYRON the Discobulus
Greek sculptures
evolved and showed
all the points of human
anatomy and
proportion.
Shows an attitude of maximum
tension, full of compressed energy
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and about to explode an action.

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Architecture
S
CLASSICAL
ART PERIOD Focused on detail, symmetry,
harmony, balance. Architecture
Classical are for public games, baths and
Greek procession.

Romantic Architecture stress

the importance of nature (with
Romantic - grand castles and extremely
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Era decorative towers)

 CLASSICAL ART ARCHITECTURE: Can you compare the architecture
of Ancient art & classical ?

Greek Architecture is distinguished by its highly

formalized characteristics

PARTHENON
Greatest classical
temple dedicated to the
goddess Athena,
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 MEDIEVAL ART
Byzantine, Romanesque And Gothic
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 Paintings.
FUNCTIONS
MEDIEVAL
ART PERIOD Follows strict frontal pose. Used
as visual reminders of biblical
Byzantine stories, which helped teach the
faith to an illiterate population .
Romanesque
To instruct Christian Faith
Gothic through warm and glowing
colors
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 MEDIEVAL ART PAINTING:
The Empress Theodora
Paintings Subjects were
mostly Religious, and Figures
look Flat and stiff with little real
movement also Important
figure are large

Byzantine Art
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Mosaic of an Asian Queen with dark

eyes and hair with fierce expression.
 Christ in Majesty
Spanish Fresco transferred
into a canvas in which Christ
is depicted in full frontal view
with the gospels in his left and
his right hand blessing the
viewers and was surrounded
by the mandorla
(almond-shaped frame).

Romanesque Art
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 FUNCTIONS Sculpture
MEDIEVAL Less in mimicking, more with
ART PERIOD symbolism, religious in
particular.
Byzantine
Designed to convey the message
Romanesque that Christian believers should
recognize wrongdoing, repent,
Gothic and be redeemed.
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Used primarily to decorate the

exteriors of cathedrals and other
 MEDIEVAL ART SCULPTURE:
The Barberini Diptych
Byzantine Art
It represents the emperor
Justinian I as triumphant
victor which consisted of
five ivory plaques fitted
together.
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MEDIEVAL Architecture
ART PERIOD To emphasis function over
Byzantine form.

Romanesque Byzantine used to display

wealth and power.
Gothic
Most importantly tor
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Religious and defensive

 Wells Cathedral in England
FUNCTIONS
MEDIEVAL
ART PERIOD
Byzantine

Romanesque

Gothic
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 MOSAIC ART RUBRIC
Punctuality: _______ 10 Points
10 Points

10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
20 Points

THEME: WESTERN CLASSICAL ART : _______ 30 Points

100 Points
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