Artists Throughout Time

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Artists Throughout Time

• A brief overview of styles that have emerged over
  time.
• By Randy Farley

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Can you name a style of art?
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Primitive Art

• Pre-historic
• Egyptian Art
• Ancient Greek Art

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Pre-Historic

• Art made by primitive man. Made out of natural
  materials and painted on the side of caves.
• Found in Lascaux, France.
• Flat, two-dimensional art.
• Prehistoric people http//www.historyforkids.org/
  learn/timelines/10000bc.htm

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Egyptian Art

• Mask of King Tutankhamen
• 1337 BCE
• Made of Gold and inlayed stone
• Used as a burial mask

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Ancient Greek art

• 520 BCE
• Hermes, Dionysus, Poseidon are individuals from
  Greek mythology that are represented on these
  pots.
• The pots are made by placing a black slip on the
  dry clay, then carving away where you want the
  red clay to show through.

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Renaissance Art

• Statue of David by Donatello. Bronze sculpture.
• Made from a wax cast.
• Portraits and paintings were ideal and people
  looked like real people.

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Baroque Art

• CARAVAGGIO
• 1593 AD

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18th Century Art
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Rococo

• Focused on the carefree life of aristocrats.
• William Hogarth, 1729

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19th Century Art
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Classicism

• Around 1825.
• Focused on the revival of classical Greek and
  Roman art.
• Focused on the perfection of sculptures,
  architecture and paintings.

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Romanticism

• The rejection of balance, order, harmony and
  idealism.
• Late 18th and early 19th century.
• The Sea of Galilee by Eugène Delacroix.

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Realism

• Realism is a type of art that shows things
  exactly as they appear in life. It began in the
  18th century, but the greatest Realist era was in
  the mid-19th century.
• Daumiers Third Class Carriage.

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Impressionism

• 1840-1926
• Nympheas Effet du Soir by Claude Monet
  http//library.thinkquest.org/J001159/famart.htmm
  onet
• A style of painting where the artist focused on
  his or her impression of the object. They were
  not concerned with making it look real. These
  pieces often had blurry, quick brushstrokes.

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Expressionism

• In Expressionist Art, the artist tries to
  express certain feelings about some thing. The
  artists that painted in this style were more
  concerned with having their paintings express a
  feeling than in making the painting look exactly
  like what they were painting.
• 1905
• Started in Germany and in France.
• Marc Chagall http//library.thinkquest.org/J00115
  9/famart.htmchagall

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Abstract Art

• Art that is missing parts or has parts rearranged
  so that you do not recognize the object. Artists
  did not worry about trying to make art look like
  the subject appeared in real life.
• Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1954.
• Action painting http//www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/ac
  tionpainting.html

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Cubist Art

• A style of painting where the artist uses
  geometric shapes to create the object. In the
  beginning of Cubism, around 1914, the artists
  used grays, browns, yellows, and greens. However,
  after 1914 they began using bright colors.
• Pablo Picasso is the founding artist of this
  movement.

• Guernica

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Fauvism

• Fauvism was an art style that lasted only four
  years, beginning in 1905. The leader of this
  movement was Henri Matisse. The word Fauvism is
  French for "wild beasts. It got this name
  because the paintings had bright and unusual
  colors. The subjects in the paintings were shown
  in a simple way, and the colors and patterns were
  bright and wild.

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Pointillism

• A style of art where the artist paints using
  small dots only of a single unmixed color. The
  artist actually uses the eye to blend colors
  together by placing two colors next to each
  other.
• Paul Seurat, La Grande Jatte, 1884.

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Pop Art

• Pop art is inspired by items that are part of our
  everyday lives. (Movie stars, Campbell soup
  cans.) Artists use bright, bold colors or unusual
  methods to paint, draw, or sculpt these pieces.
• Andy Warhols Marilyn.
• Claus Oldenburg, Clothespin.

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Surrealism

• Surrealist paintings were generally based on
  dreams. Their paintings were filled with familiar
  objects which were painted to look strange or
  mysterious. They hoped their odd paintings would
  make people look at things in a different way and
  change the way they felt about things.
• Salvador Dalis The Persistence of Memory.

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