GRADE 9 ART HISTORY SLIDE LIST – Part I

THREE ART APPROACHES:

All artwork can be roughly classified into these three different approaches to creating art.

Sometimes more than approach can occur, but one is usually dominant in a work.

As we look at our Art History slides in this course, try to identify what approach is being taken.

  • Imitationalism – Imitating / capturing real life; somewhat photographic in nature.
  • Emotionalism – Attempting to capture or evoke an emotion (through a variety of methods).
  • Formalism – Focusing on creating visual interest through Elements & Principles of Design.

PART 1 – WHY DO PEOPLE CREATE ART?

Throughout time, people have created art for a variety of reasons. The list below contains some of the

most common reasons why people have created art. Let’s look at some famous examples from a

variety of different art periods and movements to illustrate them more clearly.

Religious Ritual

1. Michelangelo. Pieta (1499-1500) Marble.

2.Caravaggio. Doubting Thomas. (1602-1603) Oil on Canvas.

Commemoration of an important event

3.Norval Morriseau Generations of Pain from Residential Schools. (1974) Oil on canvas.

4.Jacques-Louis David. Coronation of Napoleon (and Empress Josephine). (1806-7) Oil on canvas.

5. ______TBD

Propaganda / Social Commentary

6.Michelangelo. David. (1500) Marble.

7.Eugene Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. (1830) Oil on canvas.

8.Pablo Picasso. Guernica. (1937) Oil on canvas

Recording Visual Data (Recording Truth)

9.Hokusai. The Great Wave. (1830-33) Woodblock Print.

10.Andy Warhol. 100 Cans. (1962) Silkscreen on canvas.

11.Chuck Close. Mark (1978-79) Acrylic on Canvas.

Creating Beauty

12.Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa.

13.Vincent Van Gogh. Starry Night (1889) Oil on canvas

Storytelling

14.Theodore Gericault. Raft of the Medusa. (1818-1819) Oil on canvas.

15. Auguste Rodin. The Kiss. (1840-1917) Marble.

Intense Emotion

16.Edvard Munch. The Scream. (1893) Oil and tempera on cardboard.

17. Salvador Dali. The Persistence of Memory. (1931) Oil on canvas.

18.Frida Kahlo. The Broken Column. (1944) Oil on canvas

GRADE 9 ART HISTORY SLIDE LIST – Part II

A CHRONOLOGICAL APPROACH: LOOKING AT ART MOVEMENTS IN PROGRESSION

EGYPTIAN:

  1. The Palette of Narmer (c. 3150-3125 BC) Siltstone.
  2. Burial Mask of King Tut (1325 BC) Gold with inlaid semiprecious stones & coloured glass.
  3. Queen Nefertiti (1360 BC) Painted Limestone.

Sculpture:

  1. Mycerinus and His Queen (2470 BC) Slate.
  2. Ranofer, Old Kingdom, c. 2500 B.C.

Architecture:

  1. The Great Pyramids (2530-2470 BC) & The Great Sphinx(2500 BC) Limestone. Giza, Egypt.

GREEK:

  1. Exekias. Achilles Slaying Penthesilea. Black figure Amphora. (530 BC)

Sculpture:

  1. Kouros (Statue of a Youth) (600 BC)Marble Peplos Kore (c.530 BC) Marble
  2. Kritios Boy (480 BC) Marble.
  3. Venus de Milo (c.150-125 BC) Marble
  4. Nike of Samothrace (c. 190 BC) Marble
  5. Laocoön and His Sons(c. 200-100 BC) Marble.

Architecture:

  1. Iktinos & Kallikrates. The Parthenon(the Elgin Marbles) (448-432 BC) The Acropolis, Athens.
  2. Temple of Athena Nike (c.420 BC)The Acropolis, Athens

ROMAN:

  1. Catacombs of Callisto (60 BC) Rome, Italy.
  2. City of Pompeii (79 AD) Pompeii, Italy
  3. Battle of Issus (c. 100 BC) Marble Mosaic.

Sculpture:

  1. Constantine the Great (330 AD) Marble.
  2. Augustus of Prima Porta(c. 125 AD) Marble.
  3. Portrait of an unknown Roman Marble.

Architecture:

  1. The Colosseum (72-80 AD) Rome, Italy
  2. The Pantheon 118-125 AC) Rome, Italy.
  3. Pont du Gard (c. 20 BC) Roman Aqueduct. Nimes, France.