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Focused on cave art and cave paintings. Imagery often depicted God/Goddesses, Hunting, and Fertility
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Focused on the afterlife. Contained Pyramids at the main architecture, did have some forms of paintings within their tombs.
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Concept of Idealism arose. Balance, proportion, and perfection were at the roots of art. New forms in architecture were developed
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Celtic and Gothic art grew more popular.
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A rebirth
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A flourish of God. Art was used as a weapon in the art wars
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Captures imagination and individually of the artist
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Celebrates the real working class person; peasants
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captures natural light and elements within the art piece
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A revolt against the impressionistic period
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Distorted forms, strong colors, emotional effects were added to evoke a mood
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Helped bring European art (painting and sculpture) towards a more western and modern approach
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Wanted to release creativity of the unconscious
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The Persistence of Memory. It is an oil paint on canvas painting with the use of symbolism within it.
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Incorporated popular cultural elements and ideas into art
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Gold Marilyn Monroe. After her death in 1962, Warhol plays on the idea of an Icon by placing Monroe's face upon a golden background reminiscent of a divine figure
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Whaam! is a comic style piece done through oil and acrylic paint on canvas. It portrays action and fighting but left the message up to whoever was viewing it. It was influential yet impersonal
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Man in shower in Beverly Hills. Hockney loved movement in art especially moving water (showers, sprinklers, pools). The piece is very flat because this was before he experimented with textures in his art.
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Artist projection of a photograph onto a different medium. Ex. A canvas
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Globally influenced, culturally diverse, advancing with technology. Dynamic use of methods, styles, techniques, mediums, and themes.
