Week 11 and Beyond

We started team projects and presentaions on Art History. My team, Sean, Jake and myself are doing our presentation on Early 20th Century Art. I will add notes on the presentations as we go.

Presentation One: Early Art and the Bronze Age

Josh, Alison and Gabby H.

Key Terms

StartFragmentPetroglyph:-An image or a symbol carved in shallow relief on a rock surface, usually ancient.

StartFragmentPaleolithic Art: -A very ancient period of art coincident with the Old Stone Age, before the discovery of agriculture and animal herding.EndFragment

StartFragmentNeolithic Period :-Hunt and gatherer lifestyles give way to farming and herdingEndFragment

StartFragmentNeolithic art:-A period of ancient art after the introduction of agriculture but before the invention of bronze.EndFragment

StartFragmentZiggurat: -A rectangular or square stepped pyramid, often with a temple at its top.EndFragment

Presentation Two: Classical and Medieval West

Alisa, Jen and Jordan

Key Terms

Basilica:- A Roman town hall, with three aisles and an apse at one or both ends; Christians appropriated this form for their churches.

Catacomb:-underground burial places in ancient Rome.

Classical Art:- the art of ancient Greece and Rome, particularly the style of Greek art that flourished during the fifth century BCE. It emphasizes rational simplicity, order, and restrained emotion.

Gothic:-Primarily an architectural style that prevailed in Western Europe from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries; characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.

Kouros:- An Archaic Greek statue of a standing nude young male (Kouros means young male)

Presentation Three: Renaissance and Baroque

Jaqueline, Kati and Grace

Key Terms

Renaissance: A period in Europe from the late 14th Century to the 16th Century characterized by a renewed interest in human centered classical art, literature and learning

Baroque: A 17th Century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic lights and shadows, turbulent composition and pronounced emotional expression.

Humanism: A cultural and intellectual movement during the renaissance following the rediscovery of ancient art and literature of Greece and Rome.

Genre Painting: A type of art that takes as its subject everyday life rather than civil leaders, religious figures or mythical heroes.

Still life: A painting of inaminate objects.

Rococo: A style used in interior decorations and paintings in France and Southern Germany in the 18th century, characterized small scale and ornate decoration, pastel colors and an asymmetrical arrangement of curves.

Presentation Four: Islamic Arts

Ben, Nathan and Tim

Key Terms

StartFragmentIwan: EndFragmentA high vaulted porch to mark an important building or entrance

StartFragmentMihrab: A niche in the end wall of a mosque that points the way to MeccaEndFragment

StartFragmentMadrasa: A building that combines a school, prayer hall, and lodging for studentsEndFragment

StartFragmentMinaret: A tower outside a mosque where chanter's stand to call the faithful to prayerEndFragment

Presentation Five: 18th Century Art

Crystal

Key Terms:

Romanticism: A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

Academic Art: a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.

Art Nouveau: style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western Europe and the US from about 1890 until World War I and characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.

Avant Garde: new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them. Impressionism: a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.

Neo-classism:the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music of rome and Greece.

Realism: The attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.