is the studying, understanding, and judging works of art.

DESCRIBING –1. size, medium, process used – found in CREDIT LINE                                                                         2. subject, object and details – images viewer can identify      3.      elements used in the work – color, line, shape, form, size and texture.                                                                      ANALYZING – focus on composition.  Is the way the art principles are used to organize the art elements of color, line,      shape, form, space and texture.                                          INTERPRET a work of art, look at content, the message, idea or feeling expressed by an art work.                                     Your personal opinion and experiences.                      JUDGING a work of art. Does it work?  Is it successful!

is an idea or school of thought on what is important in a work of art   SUBJECT, realistic, life-like, abstract                         COMPOSITION, most important part                         CONTENT, mood, feeling

is the study of art from past to present.  You use the same steps as art critics use.                                                                  DESCRIBE: who, where, what, when                                         ANALYZING: STYLE – is an artists’ personal was of using the elements and principles of art and expressing feeling and ideas in art                                                                            INTERPRET: how the times and place the work was made effect it                                                                                JUDGING: does is earn a place in history important contribution  

free standing stone or pillar.  Inscription or relief decoration.

ideas, beliefs, and living customs                                          There as been art as long as there has been people.

PALEOLITHIC PERIOD  30,000 to 10,000 B.C.           people lived to 40 – 50 years everyday was a struggle to keep living.

from Paleolithic Period, found in France, Spain, and United States, thought to be part of a hunting ritual.

NEOLITHIC                                                                              People formed villages, raised livestock and grew food .           Crafts – spin fibers, weave, make pottery. Which showed formal balance & geometric design and Unity.                                       Chief enemy was nature.                                                        First architecture – MEGALITH – a large stone monument.

STONEHENGE – England, each stone about 50 tons each.        Good example of POST AND LINTEL.  Using a crossbeam on top of two uprights.

People became enemies. Fought for grazing land, and land to grow crops. Civilizations organized into groups power, protection and production of food. Four main groups around 3000B.C.       Egypt, China, India & Mesopotamia.

Pharaoh – leader – a god.  Gods were forces of nature.              Greatest achievement in area of architecture.                               Great Pyramids – wonder of today’s world.                              God of the sun  "Re" , His temple was the first to use post and lintel.

were done in relief and painted, each body part seen from the most visible angle.

oldest culture in the history of the world. Divided into dynasties. 

– which carried the name of the ruling family.

Shang 1766 B.C. – ending in Ching

 Paintings date back to 2200 B.C. plus bronze, stone, and pottery

 They capture the spirit as well as the form of their subject.

Not much know about early culture but a brick wall was unearth

 dating back to 2500 B.C. and 1500 B.C.

 Has earliest know soapstone relief art that was found in the “Hill of the Dead” a city housing over 35,000 people.

a region of fertile land between 2 rivers Tigris and Euphrates. City states had their own king and fought among other city states.

1^st people Sumerians

1^st known system of writing - cuneiform made with wedge shaped characters on clay tablets.

LINE is the basic structure element of all Chinese paintings and SPACE is next.  Very creative culture they measured earthquakes 2000 years before the seismograph.  Drilled 2000 feet holes for oil before Texas. Created the compass, kites, and many more inventions before anyone else.                                   Modern Chinese period – Han Dynasty   206 B.C. to 220 A. D. Created new religion.

oneness with human and nature.                                      Meditation – single thought or idea. Painting was considered honorable work. An artist was also a scholar, they wrote and painted with their brushes.

flourished in the T’ang dynasty.                                          Know for tomb sculptures to represent objects they use in the afterworld.

soared during the  Sung dynasty 960 A.D., along with landscape painting.  Fine grained, high quality form of pottery.             KAOLIN – fine white clay – hard to fire.                          Pottery  reached HIGHEST point during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644).

History began around 5000 B.C..  A.D. 500 Japan learned about Buda and the art of Korea, China and Asia. Main architecture was the wood PAGODA- a tower several stories high with roofs curving slightly upward at the edges. Sculptures are in clay and carved wood or cast in bronze.

784 golden age of art – many temples, and 898 new painting styles.    YAMATO-E – a picture in Japanese Manner is the 1^st ex. Of Japanese Art.

is a partition used as a wall to divide a room. The image on it can be viewed right to left.

elegant dress worn by both men and women. Special occasions, praying, tea ceremonies, and marriages. They were handed down to the next generation, highly decorated, embroidery & batik designs.

making prints by carving images into blocks of wood.

Actor – a form of popular Japanese theater. Elaborate costumes

Means before Columbus, 1492 Discovered America.  People lived in Mexico, Central America, and South America before four major cultures developed.

1.      OLMEC,

 2. WEST MEXICO

3. MYAN 

   4. AZTEC

oldest known culture, lived over 3000 years ago. Called Mother culture of Mexico.  Items they left behind influenced all other cultures that came after them.  They had a calendar and interesting art.  They left behind four large HEADS,  Carved in rock at La Venta, Mexico.

Simple handmade tools or objects left  behind for others to find.

artifacts that focus on a subject or scene from everyday life.

an image ( a work of art) that stands for Ideas or beliefs.            Ex. A clay figure of a dog was found in a grave, put there to serve the dead.

First great Pre-Columbian civilization. A.D. 800                 Empire covered the Yucatan Peninsula, accurate calendar.      Gifted Mathematicians, and Great Builders.

located in Northern Guatemala, city of  Tikal. They built step Pyramids with temples on top. Relief sculptures that are simple, realistic, and geometric.  Small figures have a lot of details.

largest civilization in Central America A.D. 1200.  and in 1350 started war with other nations. Very religious – 1600 gods and goddesses.  Settled in an area today known as Mexico City.     Large ceremonial Sculptures. Large calendar of stone left behind that weighs over 24 tons.

Aztec, 1325    Center shows the sun god – TONATIUH           Shows the days, months, days of sacrifice, or celebration.           Aztecs believed the sun god died to create man so they repaid him back in blood.

is a part of a design that is repeated over and over in a pattern of visual rhythm.

South America Tribes – Chavin 1000 B.C.                          Lived in the Highlands of Peru.                                          Earliest tribe of South America.  Jaguar was the sacred animal, seen in art.

simplified or exaggerated to fit a specific set of rules of design.       

Northern Coast of Peru farmers built pyramids and platforms to bury their dead.

a structure created from a single stone slab.                                A large monolith gate found in  Andes, Bolivia, in South America showing their son god and figures.

Cities were not the usual settlements.  No written language.      Sacrificed animals, not humans. Ruled by small elite groups.       Francisco Pizarro overtook them with 168 soldiers.

Conquered all other Andean Tribes. Forced to learn their language – Quenchuan.  No true writing. Did have method of counting – quipu.- which were knotted strings.                    Urban planers – best example Machu Picchu. Great weavers.

Began about 1500 B.C.  Formed small city-states instead of a nation because of geography, its an island and the mountains, self pride & jealousy.  They were loyal to their own – so they did not become a nation.  Athens was the biggest and most powerful city-state.

Greek temple honoring the goddess Athena.                        Located on the ACROPOLIS.  Said to be the most perfect building. Designed by IKTINOS & CALLICRATES                Built between 447 – 432 B.C.

Sacred hill in Athens Greece  Means “High City”

Developed from still and awkward looking forms to life-like and natural , showing much detail.  To show more detail the sculptures  were painted.

Is a decorative band running across the  upper part of a wall, carved from stone in the relief style (only one side viewed).

Greatest Greek Sculptor                                                     Over saw the caring of the freeze on the Parthenon. Made the gold and ivory 40 foot tall statue of Athena which was for the Parthenon.

Started around 776 B.C., Lasted 5 days,  Held every four years,  Stopped when Rome conquered Greece.

Greek twin handled vase. Some amphora's had holes on the bottom and used in burial ceremonies and grave markers.            First decorated with horizontal bands with geometric patterns, Later with human stick figures. Then  developed into more details and realism. Themes were gods, goddesses and heroes, sporting events and battles.

Greece fell to Rome in 197 B.C. Rome was the greatest power in the civilized world with over a million citizens.

was the greatest accomplishment                                 Concrete, Round Arches, and aqueducts were the main contributions.

Mixture of powdered minerals and small stones. This helped to create great domes and ceilings.                                         Made the Pantheon possible.

Roman temple built to honor all the Roman Gods.                  The largest dome building from ancient times still standing.

Curved arrangement of stones over an open space.             Opened up new possibilities for bridges and large expanses of space. Better then the post and lintel construction of the Greece. Keystone – holds arch into place.

Network of channels meant to carry water to a city.

A monument built to celebrate great army victories.                     Largest one built was Arch of Constantine.

Sculptor want to achieve realism.                                    Created portraits or Heads of Roman Leaders.                      Were also very good at relief sculpture with a lot of details.

Buddhism   Hinduism --    Both influenced Indian Art for over 2500 years.

Architecture                  STUPAS

An architectural Bee Hive shaped, domed.                          Place of worship -  Built by Buddhist to honor founders or   leaders. Contains four gates.

Came 600 years later. Cut from a single rock.                    Mountain hilltop, made to be viewed from outside like sculpture.

Mostly of Buddha, Sitting in meditation, Dot on Forehead,        Seated pose, Long earlobes, Very heavy looking.

lighter looking then Buddha, Cast of metal,                                 Posed with a goose – shows souls ability to take flight.                Five headed serpent – evil and danger                                        Creative force of the universe.  They sacrificed the cow.

one of three Hindu gods , Head shown vertical and calm.       Diagonal movement of arms, legs and body captures Hindu style. Could be god of death, dance and love.

one of worlds largest religions, ½ billion followers.                    Birthplace – Mecca     Located on Arabian Peninsula                 Muhammad is leader   Followers – Muslims   God – Allah

collection of sacred writings of Islam.                                    Belief of Muhammad - Book shows beautiful calligraphy and    Gold designs. Muslim teaching forbid pictures of humans and animals.

Is a method of beautiful hand writing created with either a brush or sharp pen.

Swirling geometric patterns of plant life used as decoration.

A Muslim house of worship. Must have a courtyard, a gate, and minarets. Muslims build a new one after every victorious conquest. Decorated with geometric patterns.                        The floor had carpets and mats.

Highly decorated nook found in a mosque. Was on a wall closest to the city of Mecca.

a slender tower from which Muslims are called to prayer 5 times a day. Found outside and next to the mosque.

Famous mosque and tomb, memory of wife’s Muslim leader.

Great contribution in Islamic Art. It is Knotted – pile, very close together.

An art work made up of bits and pieces of two-dimensional materials pasted to a surface.

Second largest continent over 1000 different cultural groups.      Their sculpture is important contribution to cultural heritage. Favorite medium is wood for carving.

is a work in which the artist uses a recognizable subject but portrays it in an unrealistic manner.                                           Has an effect on cubism art in Europe.

Produced by the BENIN EMPIRE                                           Both in Relief Form (flat on one side) also sculptures that free stand.

Help tribes relate to their spirit world.                                        Three Types 1-     headpiece 2-     Facemask 3-     Shoulder mask

a mask worn to hide the identity of the wearer. Worn on different tribal ceremonies. Protect the tribe from unknown forces of  nature. Could bring a good harvest.

Masks carved of wood and worn on the head like a cap.           Created by the BAMBARA TRIBE.                                          Antelope main subject to promote a good harvest.                    Headpieces showed much feeling and grace and power.

Look out from holes cut in the chest.                                          Weighing 75 pounds making person look 8 feet tall.

is a sculpturing technique using newspaper and liquid paste.

African Cloth used in special occasions. Had special colors, patterns and designs.

Land was very important.   Castles – fort like building             Lord or nobleman of the land lived in these high walls and towers , moat and drawbridges. City had walls for protection.   9^th Century - 1^st stone castles were built in the 11^th C.             Churches – had very heavy walls and small windows small roofs, poor lighting.

Architectural structure   1st used to support doorways and walls Still used today, They can crack under heavy weight.          Roman and European architects solved this with the ARCH – TURNED OUT TO BE VERY STRONG.

Middle Ages armor was very heavy 50#, Helmets  11#.         Horizontal Lance was ½ the length of a telephone pole,             Rode Clydesdale horses.

Used to teach the society about religion. The people could not read, building were covered with relief sculptures (one sided) and statues all bible stories people could learn by looking.

Found in hand lettered (calligraphy) books                          Helped to spread church teachings.

pictures found in these hand painted books.

During this period they solved the problem 0f heavy walls in the Romanesque Period with:   Arches, flying buttresses, stain glass and  rose windows.

large complex church – created as a seat of office for the Bishop.

a curved arrangement of stones reaching up to a center point.     The shape helped to carry weight of the roof downward to the ground.

this is a brace or support placed on the outside of a building, which helps to support the walls from the heavy roof.                  This helped to get rid of the solid heavy walls.

Colored glass pieces held in place with lead strips.               These windows were used to give light to the inside of the church, which was made possible by the invention of the arch and the flying buttress.

Is a painting created when pigment is applied to a section of wall spread with wet plaster. Michelangelo – was a famous sculpture and painter of the Sistine Chapel using this method of fresco painting. The Sistine Chapel was still heavy in structure and was built during the Romanesque Period. Giotto was also a great fresco painter who made his figures look real.

During the middle ages different trades were represented by different guilds, similar to our unions today. Weavers, builder’s guild, blacksmiths etc.

Protective ornaments on a building carved in fantastic animals or grotesque creatures. Some were down spouts for the gutters to get the water off the roof. Made of stone or metal.             Looked like spirits fleeing from the holy place.

Were gargoyles looking figures but were just decoration. They did not remove water or have any other function.

Contained symbols and flags to show loyalty. Feudal Lords used them to represent them and their kinsmen when they could not be present.

The study of these symbols found in a Coat of Arms, Family Shield or Crest.  These items were used to identify one another in tournaments, military campaigns and battlefields. There rules in designing the shields for  individuals, towns, guilds, and other groups. Some designs were inherited, and others  were officially granted depending on the reasons.                                           Shield – main element                                                         Motto – below the coat of arms                                          Crest – appears above the helmet                                          Crown – below the crest                                                    Spears – support the shield                                                      Helmet – may have plumes or feathers                                        Symbols that appear on the shield each have different meanings, Birds, checkered backgrounds field called CHEGUY, towers,   animals etc. 

Christopher Columbus Discovered the new World.                 Art becomes more life like. Women become more recognized as artists. Focus was on realistic objects not religious objects.

A period of great awakening  Means a rebirth.

Italian cities were the interest was in Trade, business, clothing trade and banking.  Florence Italy became the center for art.

is the use of slanted lines to make objects appear to extend back into space.  Discovered by Filippo Brunelliscki  1st used by Masaccio,”Holy Trinity” which  was a fresco in a church.

skilled in many areas of perspective art, literature, music, science Famous paintings – Mona Lisa &  Ginerva de benci

another Renaissance artist that painted over 300 Madonna.        Studied under da Vinci

a work of art showing the Virgin Mother with the Christ Child

a picture created by applying wet paint to a wet patch of plaster. Can only work small  areas at a time before plaster would dry.   Paper was invented in the mid 15 C which made fresco painting easier by pricking holes into paper on the design lines – dark      powder was then tapped through the holes putting the image onto the wet plaster for artist to follow with color.

Michelangelo Buonarroti had many fields of interest but sculpture was best - Pieta, David, Moses were a few                  Fresco – Sistine Chapel Ceiling.

is a work showing Mary mourning over the Body of Christ – in Marble carved by Michelangelo at 24 yrs old.                            Many Renaissance artists used the triangle form for a composition.

1^st studied the structure of the human body by dissection.          Made detailed notes and drawings of what he found for others to study. 

Art of Northern           Renaissance

Concentration of Northern Renaissance art found in Flounder, Belgium.   Used a Gothic technique called symbolism.

is the use of an image to stand for a quality or an idea.              A lily (flower) – stood for purity.    A dog    - loyalty

a mixture of pigments ,Linseed oil and turpentine.                     Slow drying so artists could work longer.  Most important contribution to art world.  Could mix colors right on the canvas.  Showed more details in painting.

Flemish artist that discovered oil paint concentration on painting details with precision using the smallest brushes.

Social Studies  Medici Family

influential in Florence Italy 15 C. he father Giovanni                    Sons - Casino and Lorenzo-    Bankers and Started Florence academy of Arts and Science.

discovered perspective drawing, was and architect,                    Designed and constructed the dome on the Cathedral of Florence. The dome is a polygon, 138 feet across,                      180 feet high,  25,000 tons of materials, a ribbed inner dome connected to an outer dome distributed the weight.

Counter Reformation                      had Baroque Style and Rococo Style            Very Expressive styles from artist like Rembrandt

Rome fell and the Catholic Church took over till the 1500’s when the Catholic Church started to spilt.                         Martin Luther started the Protestant  Reformation.                 The Catholics changed religion. The Catholic Church countered with Counter Reformation.   Art was important during this time.   Baroque style – emphasizing movement, contrast and variety.

Italian Artist which lead artists in the Baroque Period with flowing movement and Dramatic light..

Baroque style, Spanish artist dramatic and tense movement.

Flemish Artist put action and feeling into work using line.             Best Baroque Artist, did portraits, religious and mythical scenes

objects arranged into a pleasing to look at                          Picture – flowers the most popular

Very famous still-life painter during the Baroque Period of flowers.

Leading Dutch Painter of 1600’s used soft lighting.

Frans Hals , Pieter de Hooch , Garard ter Borch

Paris – Center of art,    France became wealthiest nation,           King – Louis XIV – ruled France  70 years                               He had rich taste and known as the Sun King.

Ordered the building of the biggest palace  At Versailles – covered 15 acres.       It could hold 10,000 people,                    250 acres of gardens and landscaping,  4 million flowering bulbs  Brought about the happy carefree art style

is an art style stressing free graceful movement; a playful use of line and bright color.  18c French court was dictating the fashion and what was in.

one of the first artists of the Rococo period that showed the make believe world of the ruling class.

portrait artist of the ruling class most celebrated woman artist at 20 yrs.  Employed by Marie Antoinette. 

Spain’s artist famous during the Rococo Period, showed horror of war when the French attacked Spain in 1808 

is an intaglio print made by scratching an image onto a specially treated copper  plate.

Settled in the four corners region of the US                             (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona)                                   They were farmers.  Clothes were woven from cotton.               Democratic form of government,   Traded with other cultures,    Crafts – learned pottery threw trade with                                   400 A.D. Earliest known pottery was a coiled pot.

was a pot formed by coiling long ropes of clay in a spiral.

a rock carving and paintings of animals they would hunt.              Believed these pictures would ensure a good hunt – the painting captured the animal spirit.

1^st they were round pit houses dug in earth covered with branches – this is how they got their name.

a Spanish word for village – stacked – many family dwelling made of adobe mud and straw.

British Columbia, Oregon, Washington, and North California.    Mild climate, rain, cool breezes and tall trees.                          Used resources to build boats, logs for houses and wood art.

largest cultural group settled east of the Mississippi. The Iroquois Indians made up the six different groups.

Weaving -   They used the LOOM – a frame that holds              A set of crisscrossing threads - Vertical threads are warps and are attached  to the frame.  The Weft are the horizontal threads that pass  through the warp.

Supernatural spirit hand carved statuette that represent spirits in Pueblo ritual. They taught them how to live in harmony and nature.

Polychrome – many colored pots                                            The patterns are adaptations of prehistoric designs.

Is the pouring of different colors of powdered rock on a flat surface of earth to create an image or design.

Be aware that cultures without a written language express ideas in the form of visual images, music and dance.                     Symbolism in the Native American tribes were totem poles, Kachina rituals and sand painting.  All carried on the stories of daily life of the culture that created them.

Native Americans also known as Eskimos.                             Carved bone, stone, and ivory into images from nature.

Captured the light on their subject that rapidly changed.

1700’s were stormy times called the French Revolution.      reign of terror, heads were lost in the Geillotine which lasted 20 years. Napoleon Bonaparte – Popular general took control.

“New Classic” art style that borrowed from the early classical period of  Ancient Greek and Rome.                                          French king Louis XVI in control.                                           Jacque Louis David was a well known artist of his time.

used in French academy of Art                                            Look at Roman and Greek sculpture as models.  Stressed balanced compositions, flowing contour lines. Figures were       modeled in light and dark, in noble gestures.                             Expressions and dramatic colors.

1800’s    People upset by the unrest of the times.                 Romanticism- a style of art that found its subjects in the world of the dramatic and exotic – showed off places, colorful and action filled.                                                                                Eugene Delacroix was lead the romantic school in France, appealed to many.                                                             Joseph Turner in England wanted the viewer to use their imagination when he painted landscapes. 

is a drawing or painting focusing on mountains, trees, or natural scenery. 

Paris and London -  Custom and style of the times was to have and go to art shows. 

An annual exhibition of art was a major social  event, a way artists became famous and their work seen by the public.          This would lead to different art movements. 

a trend formed when a group of artists banded together to create works of a single Style.

is an art style that attempted to capture the rapid changing effect of light on objects.  Just an impression. The name came from    an art critic that viewed these paints.   This style was rejected by the salon for viewing.   Impressionists went outside to paint.

Is a name given to an art movement that appeared after the Impressionistic movement.           POST – means after

Believed both content and composition were important features in a work of art.   Artist of this style                                          Paul Cézanne                                                                        Paul Gauguan                                                                   Vincent Van Gogh                                                              Their painting influenced 20^th C. Art Movements like:             Fauvism   Cubism   Nabis     Non Representational Art               Wassily Kandinsky

Did not like the lack of composition in an  Impressionist’s work of art.    He came up with using patches of color like puzzle pieces when placed together created solid looking forms.

He wanted to capture his own feeling about  what he saw in his subject. Did this by twisting lines and forms, rich colors and texture.

He was a rebel, left the business world to pursue painting. Paintings were more for decoration now.                                   Spent most of his life in the South Seas                                   Used Arbitrary colors to communicate different feelings.

Colors chosen to communicate different feelings – not always natural.

Post-Impressionist Artist  Showed blurring effect of sun light by using carefully placed dots of color together to create form called POINTILLISM. 

technique in which small carefully placed dots of color are used to create forms.

Period of great change and growth in U.S.                                 Railroad pushed westward                                                  Trade and industry grew                                                       U.S. became a world power and contributed to the world of art American artist still studied in Europe but they came home to create their own style of American art.

American Artist 1^st realist painter in America.

is a style of art in which everyday scenes and events are painted as they actually look.

Another realist painter.   Paintings told a story – like the outdoors scene, some activity like hunting, fishing, games, the sea and its different moods.

American Portrait Artist  Influenced by Degas in Paris                Did mostly woman and children

Black Artist  -       Religious scenes, portraits and outdoor          American lived in Paris.

Express artist feelings using sharp contract color and heavy lines. Is an art movement in which artist use wild, intense color combinations in their paintings.

Leader of the Fauvist Movement.   Painted with colors that created a happy and joyous mood, patterns, wanted to show feelings.

In Germany was a style that emphasized the Expression of inner most feeling. They changed proportions of figures and objects    to exaggerate them.    Ernst Kirchner                                                                            Kathe Kallwitz

An art style in which objects and the space around them are broken up into different shapes and then put back together in new  relationships to each other.

all forms in nature are made up of 3 shapes sphere, cone, and cylinder.

Created non-objective art  -  Works of art in which there is no object or subjects that can be readily identified.                          He arranged colors shapes lines to express feelings like notes of a song, to create a mood.

Cubist artist -   Analytic cubism – took these analytic objects and painted th3em different ways. 

Life was at a faster pace  -    Airplanes, assembly lines,  telephones etc.   All contributed to a new art movement             Artists    Homer, Eakins, Ryder 

1900’s                                                                                     8 artists got together and started this school                               They reflected the spirit of the times in which they lived.              They were at one time newspaper cartoonists and illustrators.     Views of everyday life.   Realistic paintings of the  working class.     John Sloan, George Bellows artists                                           Alfred Stieglitz – photographer

after WWI    Recording of local scenes and events from the artists own region or area of the country. 

20 C       Unrest in Mexico                                          Pheasants were treated like slaves                                          Diego Rivera – artist – recorded  these times in murals.

an artist who paints large artworks directly onto walls or ceilings.

The style used most in the United States but the speed and movement wanted in art lead to:                                          American Abstract Expressionism or action painting       – Jackson Pollock -  The most famous.

GREAT DEPRESSION                                                     Stock Market crashed                                                        Many artists out of work                                                       Franklin D. Roosevelt created WPA                                           Works Progress Administration                                         Employed artist to paint and decorate public building, sculptures, pottery and  to teach.

The last 100 years of art showed the most change in art styles, media and technique. 

Fantasy Art – work of the mind, familiar and  socking.             Lasted 6 years. Marcel Duchamp

Movement of art formed on the belief that western culture had lost its meaning, beauty was in the mind of the beholder.

Movement in art probed the subconscious world of dreams for ideas – started by Greek      Born Italian, Giorgio de Chirico.    Time has no meaning,                                                      Spanish – Joan  Miro            fantasy world had no rhyme or reason.                                                                                 Paul Klee      Swiss – images = glimpsed  through his minds eye.

Non-objective , self expression – moving away from realism during this time.                                                                  Henry Moore – created both realism and  non-objective works.

Surrealist style Everyday objects but into unusual situations.                    Rene Magritte, 1930’s    “Time Transfixed”

In 1950 – New York replaced Paris France as the center for painting and sculpture.  There were constant changes and new styles trying to speak to the viewer through art.

Style of paint that was dribbled, spilled or splashed on to hugh canvases to express  painting as an ACTION.                      They wanted NO SUBJECT MATTER.  “action painters”       open to the blend of color and shapes and line.

1930 attacking the ills of big city life.                                         Jacob Lawrence could tell a story in his paintings.

Rediscovered the importance of realistic details, Andrew Wyeth showed this in Genre Painting of everyday life.

Louise Nevelson – created from found objects and wood scraps.

Diane Hanson – Realistic sculptures life - like.

LATE 20C                                                                      Precise lines and shapes to create optical illusion  create and impression of movement  -  picture seems to vibrate and reach out to the viewer. Victor Vasarily – founder of  movement.

Part of the art work is set into motion by energy to by the viewer. Some show  movement without moving. 

3 dimensional record of an image made with laser light.  Can be used in Medicine, landing and airplane, credit cards to prevent   forgery.