Art Through The Ages

Medieval Art and

Architecture

 Romanesque architectural style

 Many columns used to hold up the roofs
of large buildings.
 Bright colors
 Items in pictures are not in proportion
 Mostly religious themes
 Rounded arches
 No rose windows
Medieval Art
Medieval Art
Medieval Architecture
Medieval Architecture
Medieval Architecture
 Renaissance Art and
Architecture
 Gothic architectural style
 Much more realistic
 Items pictured are in proportion
 Both secular and religious themes
 Blended colors, due to the use of tempura
paints
 Pointed arches
 Flying buttresses & fewer columns
 Highly ornate detail
 Rose windows
Renaissance Art
Renaissance Art
Renaissance Art
Renaissance Art
Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance Architecture
 Reformation Art
 Catholic reformation art was of the
baroque style and was designed to
impress an illiterate population with the
glory and grandeur of the Catholic church.
 N. European reformation art was very
plain and usually depicted every day life.
– It is often referred to as the art of the Dutch
Masters, such as Rembrandt and Hals.
Reformation Art
Reformation Art
Reformation
Art
 Baroque Art

 The desire to evoke emotional states by

appealing to the senses, often in dramatic
ways, underlies Baroque Art.
 Characteristics include grandeur,
sensuous richness, drama, vitality,
movement, tension, emotional
exuberance, and often a natural
background.
Baroque
Art
Baroque Art
 Baroque
Architecture
Baroque Architecture
 Rococo Art
 The Rococo style in painting is decorative and
non-functional, like the declining aristocracy it
represented.
 Subjects are painted with wispy brushstrokes &
the colors used often included luscious golds
and reds.
 Its subject matter frequently dealt with the
leisurely pastimes of the aristocracy and risqué
love themes such as sensual intimacy, love,
frivolity, & playful intrigue.
 Rococo art often looks fuzzy. (see examples)
 Rococo Art
 Characteristics of the Rococo style:
 Fussy detail
 Complex compositions
 Certain superficiality
 More ornateness
 Sweetness
 Light
 Playfulness
Rococo Art
Rococo Art
Rococo Art
Rococo Architecture
Rococo Architecture
 Neoclassical Art
 Neoclassical Art is a severe, unemotional form
of art harkening back to the style of ancient
Greece and Rome.
 Its rigidity was a reaction to the overbred
Rococo style and the emotional Baroque style.
 The rise of Neoclassical Art was part of a
general revival of classical thought, which was
of some importance in the American and
French revolutions.
Neoclassical Art
Neoclassical
Art
Neoclassical Art
Neoclassical Architecture
 Romanticism
 Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the
precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance,
idealization, and rationality that typified late 18th-
century Neoclassicism.
 It was also to some extent a reaction against the
Enlightenment and against 18th-century
rationalism and physical materialism in general.
 Romanticism emphasized the individual, the
subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the
personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the
visionary, and the transcendental.
Romanticism
Romanticism
Romanticism
 Pre-Raphaelite Art
 Detailed observation of flora.
 The use of clear, bright, sharp-focus
technique.
 Their moral seriousness is seen in their
choice of religious or other uplifting
themes.
 A Brotherhood of artists formed in 1848 to
recreate the Renaissance style.
 Pre-
Raphaelite
Style
 Pre-
Raphaelite
Style
 Impressionism
 The impressionist style of painting is
characterized chiefly by concentration on
the general impression produced by a scene
or object and the use of unmixed primary
colors and small strokes to simulate actual
reflected light.
 The most conspicuous characteristic of
Impressionism was an attempt to accurately
and objectively record visual reality in terms
of transient effects of light and color.
Impressionism
Impressionism
Impressionism
 Pointillism
 Pointillism was a form of art that created pictures
by combining a series of small dots.
 Seurat was one of the major artists of this school
of painting.
 Seurat rejected the soft, irregular brushstrokes of
impressionism in favor of pointillism, a technique
he developed whereby solid forms are
constructed by applying small, close-packed dots
of unmixed color to a white background.
Pointillism
Pointillism
 Expressionism
 Expressionism is a style of art in which
the intention is not to reproduce a subject
accurately, but instead to portray it in
such a way as to express the inner state of
the artist.
 Many expressionist artists reflected their
disillusion with modern society, especially
in light of the two world wars.
Expressionism
Expressionism
 Cubism

 In Cubism the subject matter is broken up,

analyzed, and reassembled in an
abstracted form
 Cubists treat nature in terms of the
cylinder, the sphere and the cone.
 Subjects in Cubists paintings are often
hard to recognize.
Cubism
Cubism
Cubism
Surrealism
 style focuses on psychological states
which resemble dreams and fantasy.
 artists were influenced by psychological
research of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung,
who sought to explain the workings of the
mind through analysis of the symbols of
dreams
 saw the unconscious as a wellspring of
untapped creative ideas
Surrealism
Surrealism