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    1.

    Prehistoric art is primarily focused on


    hunting, and shows great variety of stylistic
    treatment, sophistication of form, color, and
    line.
    2. The Greek art rejected magic, combined
    sport and religion and imbued scientific view of
    nature.
    3. Roman art has preference for sharp forms
    and elongated figures. It served the cult of
    ancestors and defied emperors.
    4. Medieval art was focused on spiritual
    expression than physical beauty. Symbols were
    emphasized.

    5. Gothic art emphasized rediscovery of nature


    resulting in a calmer, more plastic style.

    6. Egyptian culture has the elements of nature


    as the sun, moon, stars, sacred animals on wall
    carvings, life size figures of men and women.
    7. Greek sculpture was calm, thoughtful, and is
    more focused on the form of men and women's
    body.
    8. Roman sculpture emphasized bust forms
    represented by famous men and women.
    9. Byzantine sculpture was focused more on
    churches and biblical figures.
    10. Gothic sculpture stressed figures with
    carving of their garments to show impression
    of real bodies and limbs.
    11. Architecture started with the Neolithic Age,
    the New stone age, which lasted roughly from
    8000 to 3000 BC.

    12. Before the Neolithic Age, man often used


    existing caves for shelter and also for religious
    ceremony.

    13. The oldest traces of early man are tools


    made of stone.

    14. Mud bricks and fired bricks were the


    principal building in Mesopotamia.
    15. The architecture in Egypt consists of
    steriometric shape or mass and rhythmically
    articulated elements expressed mainly in
    pyramids and other tombs and temples.
    16. Classic Greek Architecture is best seen in
    the temple that consist of 3 columns: doric ,
    ionic, and corinthian.
    17. The principal building type of Islam
    architecture were the palace, tomb, and fort.
    Spiral buildings and spiral works of art were
    found throughout the Islamic architectural
    history.
    18. The Byzantine architecture is famous with
    large screen with paintings of saints ,Christ and
    Madonna inside churches.
    19. Romanesque architecture features rounded
    arches, low and dark heavy walls and fortress
    walls and piers.
    20. Gothic architecture features pointed
    arches, which verticality, no walls and extensive
    use of glasses.
    21. Renaissance architecture features
    symmetrical, worldly, and aristocratic.
    22. The Romantic classicism architecture
    consists of steriometric shapes or values, such
    as cube, sphere, pyramid and cone.
    23. The current trends in architecture is more
    of weightlessness and transparency.
    PAINTING

    Pre-Historical Painting (40,000 BC-9000 BC)


    Paintings were focused on animal spear and
    other rudimentary materials. They were drawn
    on caves, stones, and on earth-filled ground.
    Greek Art
    The Prehistoric Greek Art was seen in four
    periods:
    1. Formative or Pre-Greek period-motif was sea
    and nature.
    2. First Greek period –largely Egyptian
    influence
    3. Golden Age (480-400BC)
    4. Hellenistic Period (4th century-1st BC)
    heightened individualism, tragic mood, and
    contorted faces (lacaustic painting)
    Roman Art

    The Prehistoric Roman Art had gone through


    two periods:
    1. Etruscan period (2000-1000 BC)-subject
    matters of painting were on ancestor
    worship; catacombs and sarcophage.
    2. Roman Period (2000 BC-400AD)- the subject
    matters of painting were commemorative
    statues, sarcophagi, frescoes, designs with
    vine motifs.
    Medieval Period
    There were three art classifications during the
    Medieval Period.
    1. Early Christian art
    2. Byzantine art
    3. Gothic art
    Franco-Flemish Painting
    Portable easel paintings and oil paintings were
    utilized. Illustrations consisting of altar pieces
    with general wings that open and close .
    Children’s faces were painted like small adults;
    spectator was even drawn into the picture.
    Renaissance Art
    The Renaissance is divided into three (3)
    periods:
    1. Early Renaissance (14th-15th century) .
    2. High Renaissance (16th century)
    3. Mannerism period
    Baroque Art
    Painting style is ornate and fantastic appealing
    to the emotion, sensual and highly decorative;
    with light and shadow for dramatic effect.
    Rococo Art
    The painting style emphasized voluptuousness,
    picturesque and intimate presentation of farm and
    country . Rococo art technique made use of soft
    pastel colors rendering the landscape smoking, and
    hazy with the subject always in the center of the
    canvas.
    Romantic Art
    The emphasis of painting is on the painter’s
    reactions to past events, landscapes, and
    people.
    19th Century Painting (Modern Art)
    Art was aimed to please the public various
    movements appeared
    1. Impressionists-Paul Cezanne was the
    greatest impressionists and the Father of
    Modern Art.
    2. Expressionists- Vincent Van Gogh was the
    Father of Expressionism.
    3. Simplicity in art- Paul Gauguin was simple in
    his artistic style.
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