a brief view of art history according to mr. rogers
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A Brief View of Art History According to Mr. Rogers. Stone Age Art The Chauvet cave in Vallon-Pont d’Arc, France. Approx. 30,000-13,000 years before common era. (BCE) The oldest ever found. Half scale of bulls, horses, and rhinos. Venus of Willendorf – Fertility and Health - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Stone Age Art
The Chauvet cave in Vallon-Pont d’Arc, France.
Approx. 30,000-13,000 years before common era. (BCE) The oldest ever found.
Half scale of bulls, horses, and rhinos.
Venus of Willendorf – Fertility and Health
Why did they paint these scenes or crEATE THIS SCULPTURE?
Khafre, Egypt (c. 2520-2494 BCE)
Moai, Easter Island Culture (c.1250-1500A.D)
Jade cong, Liangzhu Culture (c. 3300-2200 BCE)
Dogon Walu, Africa, Mali (c.1920-1935 A.D)
Civilization’s Rise
Ancient Civilizations and their art.
Can you guess the correct sequence?
Aphrodite, Melos Greece (c.150-125 BCE)
Civilization Still Rising
Greek Sculpture was mainly bronze, but copied later in marble by the Romans.
Art centered around mythology and Kingdom until the spread of Christianity when it took over as the purpose for art in the West.
Why create art for these purposes? Laocoon and His Sons/
Athanadoros ,Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes, Rome (c.1 AD)
Other than Western Art:Eastern
Chinese Tomb paintings. Many afterlife/religiously related.
The Great Stupa housing Bhudda. Monuments to god.
Yakshi and Hindu fertility.
Other than Western Art:Africa
Kingship and the tiers of ranking society.
Nok head for rituals.
Nkisi Nkondi for protection and to cure ailments.
Other than Western Art:Americas
Olmecs and the giant heads, are they divine or just powerful?
Mayan’s depictions of gods and recording of culture.
Mississippian mounds for good crops and others for burials. Appease the gods or ALIENS?
Inuit’s very stylized depiction of their environment.
Back to Western Art:Monuments and Testaments to a Higher Being
1400-1500’s
The Sistine Chapel
Chartres Cathedral
Baldacchino
Pieta - Michelangelo
Back to Western Art:Art for Art’s Sake
1600-1700’s
Caravaggio and the light painters (chiaroscuro) religious undertones
Rubens – Social problems in a classical way
Rembrandt – Everyday life
Back to Western Art:Social Art
1800’s
Goya’s outcry for French massacre in Spain
Gericault’s theatrics changing art’s view (diagonal lines)
Back to Western Art:Photography
1800’s
Delacroix’s Draped Model
O’Sullivan’s Getty’sburg commentary : A Harvest of Death