history of painting (part iii)

Part III (History of Painting)

Altamira

• Discovered on 1880• From the Cave of Northern Spain named

Altamira• Believed that the drawings made after

the Ice age period (difference bet. Chauvet and Lascaux)

• About 13,000 years ago• Uses charcoal and ochre or hematite

Bison

The Egyptian Style (31000 BC)

• The first civilization to establish a recognizable artistic style is Egypt. This style follows a strange but remarkably consistent convention, by which the feet, legs and head of each human figure are shown in profile but the torso, shoulders, arms and eye are depicted as if from the front.

• The paintings in Egyptian tombs and temples usually depict the incidents which will occur during the journey of the dead into the next world. The practical purpose is to provide the sacred details required for this journey, in the form of images and hieroglyphs (Sacred letter)

Style of painting• They prepared Stone in white wash or if rough with

smoother gesso (white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk)layer above.

• Some finer limestone's could paint directly• Pigments were mostly mineral, chosen to withstand

strong sunlight without fading. The binding medium used in painting remains unclear: egg tempera and various gums and resins have been suggested. It is clear that true fresco, painted into a thin layer of wet plaster, was not used. Instead the paint was applied to dried plaster, in what is called "fresco a secco" in Italian. 

Nefertari

Greek Classical Idea (4th Century BC)

• The essential characteristic of classical Greek art is a heroic realism.

• Divided into three groups• Panel Painting/Pitsa Panel• Wall Painting• Polychrome

Panel Painting

• painting made on a flat panel made of wood, either a single piece, or a number of pieces joined together. 

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