arts appreciation

1. PREVAILING ISSUES DEPICTED BY ART ACROSS TIME
Amir Sharif Tubo
1. THE HISTORICAL PERIOD
 The art of rehistoric men and women depicted the issues of security and
survival.
 They hunted wild animals with crude implements, used animal skins
and fur as primary fabric, used cave paintings to scare the wild beast, and
used polished stones in horticulture.
 They also learned the art of animal domestication to meet their
families' increasing demands for food.
Examples:
Panel of the Unicorn at Lascaux.
Ancient petroglyphs are etched into the stone walls at Canyon de Chelly
National Monument near Chinle, Arizona.

2. Neolithic rock paintings

3. 2. THE ANCIENT PERIOD
 Ancient architecture was essential for communication and education,
such as writing cuneiform, hieroglyphics, calligraphies, and temples.
i. Example: Cuneiform and hieroglyphics
 It also reflected religious beliefs and traditions, such as the ziggurats
of Mesopotamia, pyramids of Egypt, temples in Asian countries, and
mosques among the muslim.
i. Example: Ancient architecture
Neo-Sumerian Great Ziggurat of Ur, near Nasiriyah, Iraq | Mesopotamian
Architecture
 Kingdoms and empires also constructed dikes and drainage systems to
protect their crops.

4. Roman agriculture. Artwork of Roman agricultural workers harvesting cereal crops
and tending livestock (sheep) on a farm in southern Europe.
 Example of the ancient period:
i. The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC
fought between Rome and Carthage. It was due to conflicts rising
from Rome's increasing expansion.

5. 3. THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
 Western civilization was a period of reawakening, marked by the use of
Gothic, doric, ionan, and Romanesque architectural designs.
Other example: Illuminated Manuscripts
 During this time, Christianity had a great influence on art, with the
exception of the Catholic Church, which was the most stable institution.

6. i. Example: Stained Glass window
A stained glass window depicting a scene from the Garden of Eden.
 Other prominent architects of this period included castles, palaces, and
churches with arches, vaults, and domes.
Italian Gothic palaces- The artistic adventure of Mankind

7. 4. THE MODERN PERIOD (1500-1850)
 This liberal consciousness of the artists ushered in more prominence
during the baroque period.
i. Example
Nicolas Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women
 Monarchs commissioned artists to embellish palaces in the modern era,
creating beautiful, vibrant, and elaborate paintings and wall plasters.
Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci

8.  Intellectual, industrial, and scientific revolutions steered new
developments in the art sector.
i. Example:
Gallery of a Collector: Cornelis de Baellieur
 Structuralism in the classical period was replaced slowly with minimalism
- an art movement the eliminates the non-essential form and features in
art.
Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols)
by Vincent Van Gogh

9. 5. POST-MODERN PERIOD (1851 TO THE PRESENT)
 Minimalism allows the artists to have wider degrees of freedom in terms
of their imagination, but there is defiance of Structuralism.
Eva Hesse – Right After, 1969
 Characterizes Jacques Derrida’s Deconstructionism with higher
degree of manipulation and fragmentation which focuses on the artists’
experience.
 Uses maximum control of their space to manipulate wider art planes in
their respective genres.
 Experimentation that resulted in some issues of art bastardization.
Gordon’s Makes us drunk, Gilbert & George, 1972

10. Mao, Andy Warhol, 1972