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•The field of "art history" was developed in the West, and originally dealt
exclusively with Western painting, and Western art history, with the High
Renaissance (and its Greek precedent) as the defining standard.
•Gradually, with the onset of Modernism, a wider vision of history has
developed, seeking to place other societies in a global overview by analyzing
their artifacts in terms of their own cultural values.
FUNCTION OF ART
• Visual art is not produced with
words but with formal artistic
elements. It communicates ideas
but is not intended to convey
information in verbal form.
• Art creates subtle emotional
states or moods and broadens the
aesthetic range of experience of
all who perceive it.
• It can be, it has been, and it
often still is done by means of
visual art.
PICTORIAL ART
There is no law which requires that a painting must tell the same
story to each and every spectator or even that it must tell one at
all.
The pictorial arts may represent a
visualization of sound patterns or by a
series of symbols , evoke the memory
of smell, sight or other sensations but
they do not picture them
ANCIENT ART
• The period of ancient art began when
ancient civilizations developed a form
of written language.
GOTHIC ART
The development and perfection of the Gothic
concept of space and the complete integration of
interior and exterior with ornament took place in
France in the thirteenth century.
RENAISSANCE ART
The term RENAISSANCE in connection with the art of
northern Europe is used as a chronological device , for
there was no parallel to the rebirth of interest in the
antiquities of the past .
Paleolithic
Evidence of artistic expression is known only from the Upper Paleolithic, created
by Homo sapiens. The symmetry and attention given to the shape of a tool has
led authors to see Middle Palaeolithic hand axes and especially laurel points as
artistic expressions as well.
Blombos cave, situated in South Africa, stones
were discovered engraved with grid or cross-hatch
patterns, suggesting that early Homo sapiens were
capable of abstraction and production of abstract
art or symbolic art. These impressive works date to
70,000 years ago, which makes them about 40,000
years older than the Lascaux - type cave paintings.
Upper Paleolithic period (broadly 40,000 to 10,000 years ago)
Pyramid building was also revived, but much humbler then in the old kingdom.
This rise was followed by the ultimate downfall and the country fell into the
hands of foreign rulers.
Early Renaissance, mostly in Italy, bridges the art period during the fifteenth
century, between the Middle Ages and the High Renaissance in Italy. It is
generally known that Renaissance matured in Northen Europe later, in 16th
century.
Shenzhen museum
Contemporary art is exhibited by commercial contemporary art galleries,
private collectors, corporations, publicly funded arts organizations,
contemporary art museums or by artists themselves in artist-run spaces.
Contemporary artists are supported by grants, awards and prizes as well as
by direct sales of their work.