CHAPTER THREE OUTLINE, “COMMON DENOMINATORS”

DISCOVERING ART HISTORY, BROMER

The world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see, And where, tho’ all things differ, all agree.

Alexander Pope

AT THE COMPLETION OF THIS CHAPTER, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

•Understand that art from various cultures throughout history shares certain characteristics and interests.

•Explain how art demonstrates people’s relationships with one another and society at large

3.1

•Identify some of the commonalities that appear in art throughout the world.

•Comprehend how cross-cultural influences enhance artistic statements.

3.2

•Decipher different cultures’ intellectual and emotional approaches to art

3.3

•Recognize that there are individual regional, national, technical, and historic styles

•Describe commonalities and differences among artistic styles that have existed throughout history and in various cultures

ART TIMELINE (in sequential, non-chronological listing)

1933 Brancussi, Blond Negress II

1806 Goya, Dona Isabel de Porcel

Late 12th Century Mayan, Pyramid Temple

Late 16th Century Japanese, Osaka Castle

1927Robus, Despair

1924 Kollwitz, Bread!

1982 Vasarely, Edetta

1805 Ingres, Mademoiselle Caroline Riviere

1950-1952 de Kooning, Woman I

1600 El Greco, Christ and the Moneychangers from the Temple

1660 van Ruisdael, Wheatfields

1925 Rivera, Flower Day

©1822Peale, Venus Rising from the Sea–A Deception (After the Bath)

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

Page 67 shows the comparison between Classical/Intellectual vs. Romantic/Emotional from 600 B.C.E. to 2000

VOCABULARY

  • Cross-cultural
  • Emotional Art
  • Intellectual Art
  • Classical Art
  • Romantic Art
  • Expressionist Art
  • Style

3.1 COMMONALITIES

  • Despite wide diversity, there are amazing similarities in subject matter and materials.
  • Trade, missionaries, military, and diplomatic envoys have all helped spread cultural styles.

3.2 EMOTION vs. INTELLECT

  • An emotional or romantic approach to art features an active and colorful interpretation of the subject (violent movement, distortion, vivid colors, strong interest in nature).
  • An intellectual or classic approach features an emphasis on design and composition (a cool analytical approach to subject matter using rules, neatness, clean arrangements and proper proportions).

3.3 STYLE

  • Individual style reflects the results of many personal influences and can be easily recognized by recurring characteristics
  • Period style is defined by styles that last for a certain amount of time and are strikingly similar
  • National and regional style evolves over a gradually long period of time derived from cultural, political, regional influences
  • Technique style means a style is based on a certain technique that can be used in any period such as trompe l’oeil, or fool the eye