ART HISTORY SLIDESHOW

GREEK ART

• In 400 BC an Ancient Greek would be able to walk down the street and look at the beautiful paintings on the outside walls of buildings.
• Ancient Greeks decorated almost every part of their lives.
• Greek artists influenced Italian artists, who copied their painting styles

ROMAN ART

• The Romans wanted their art to be useful and to tell future generations about life in the past.
• Roman pottery was used to display works of art.
• Many artists designed sculptures, which were placed all throughout the country.

ROMAN AND GREEK

• They both tried to make the bodies look real.
• They made sculptures with marble.
• They both used their Gods in art

RENAISSANCE

Leonardo da Vinci

SANDRO BOTTICELLI

JAN VAN EYCK

FACTS

• They use space by using perspective by depth.
• Humanism means a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
• The Renaissance period began in Italy.
• Becuase a lot of discoveries were discovered. Scientists were also artists and artists were also scientists.

THE 19TH CENTURY

FACTS

• Romanticism was understood broadly as a break from the guiding principles of the Enlightenment – which established reason as the foundation of all knowledge – the Romantic Movement emphasised the importance of emotional sensitivity and individual subjectivity.
• Impressionism was developed by Claude Monet and other Paris-based artists from the early 1860s.
• Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes.

• En plein air is a French expression meaning “in the open air”, and refers to the act of painting outdoors with the artist's subject in full view
• Since its creation 184 years ago, Katsushika Hokusai's work, also known as the “Great Wave,” has been mobilized as a symbol of not just tsunamis, but hurricanes and plane crashes into the sea.

FACTS ABOUT Vincent Van Gogh

• He was close friends with Paul Gauguin.
• His life is documented through the many letters he wrote.
• He attempted many other careers before declaring himself an artist.

Edvard Munch's, The Scream. According to Munch himself, The Scream was a picture he painted to represent his soul.

20TH CENTURY

Abstract Expressionism

• Between 1943 and the mid-1950s
• It began in New York City
• Although it is the accepted designation, Abstract Expressionism is not an accurate description of the body of work created by these artists. The paintings fill large canvases to give these aforementioned visual effects both monumentality and engrossing power.

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

• The Abstract Expressionists were first called “The Irascibles.”The Abstract Expressionist movement is also known as the New York School. The style is also referred to “American-Type Painting.”

Willem de Kooning
was a Dutch artist who became a part of the New York City Abstract Expressionist movement. His most famous painting is Woman III which sold for over $137 million.

Franz Kline was an American painter mostly known for his black and white paintings. He was considered an Action Painter.

Piet Mondrian developed an Abstract painting style that involved straight lines and colored rectangles. He called this type of painting "The Style.”