Art History

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they were usually paintings of people hunting animals with spears and other tools. they usually told a story. they were the earliest sign of any sort of writing/drawing before hiroglyfics.

C. Walter Groplus

It is a line.

lascaux is a cave. The drawings are either Paleolithic or Neolithic, I believe. The drawings are of hunters and beasts and things like that.

Late medieval

Titian is a/an Italian Renaissance artist

el greco

Growing up I remember learning very little about cave paintings, other than that they existed and wasn't it "neat" that humans have been creating art for thousands and thousands of years. However, I recently read an article on BBC News that actually got me thinking about the importance of cave paintings.

The article explained that recently in of Mexico, almost 5,000 new cave paintings were discovered at over eleven different sites in the Burgos region. 1,550 of those were found in a single cave. Looking at photographs of the cave painting, they don't seem to enlightening. There are a lot of stick-people and abstract scratching on the walls. So why is their discovery so newsworthy?

As it turns out, much can be learned from cave painting, including from the mere fact that they exist. In this most recent case of discovery, archaeologists were shocked to find the paintings, because previously it had been believed that no ancient peoples had lived in the region. But these cave paintings showed them that three different groups of hunter-gatherers lived their long before European settlers came. Also, although no specific time has yet been determined for the various paintings, one cave contained a portrayal of an ancient hunting weapon never before found in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.

All the little things archaeologists learn from these painting are interesting, but what we really learn is how much archaeologist (and we) don't know about the world we live in. In our digital age, we seem to think all knowledge and all truths are known, out there somewhere on the internet and easily found with Google. But really, the compendium of mankind's knowledge is very small and limited, and we are constantly discovering new facts that not only illuminate new truths, but also challenge what was accepted as truth before.

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The relationship between painting and early photography was complex and soon led to development of a proto-agricultural photography fairly early on after the invention of cameras and photography in the mid-19thy century. Adrien Tournachon's Paris studio photographs of farm animals as much as William Henry Fox Talbot's Pencil of Nature photographs of a haystack and door to a farmhouse in Britain heralded the coming of agricultural photography by two countries.

Many early photographers were also painters and painting suggested artistic conventions of recording and depicting animals, landscapes and farm scenes to photographers - photography became the new pre-eminent mode of the visual agricultural record of agricultural subjects, themes and elements.

Donatello (born Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence who created what is believed to be the first free-standing nude statue since classical times. Around 1430, the foremost art patron in the area, Cosimo de Medici, commissioned Donatello to create a bronze sculpture of the biblical king David. The statue that Donatello created from this commission is considered to be his most famous work.

In Italy: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian.

Caravaggio used the realism technique chiaroscuro to inspire many painters in his generation. For example, he often showed dirt on the bottom of feet and dirty fingernails.

First of all a true worshiper worships in spirit and in truth and they can worship anywhere, but as society became more stable, buildings dedicated to worshiping God and performing the sacraments were built. Someone once said "Atmosphere determines expectation." It is true in a restaurant, hotel, store or a church. Many years ago, in Western Roman Catholic Churches, the Stations of the Cross were depicted on the walls of the church. From Medieval times in Europe, stained glass windows to look through and murals on the walls were all there for an illiterate congregation to see the gospel. These older churches also had sculpture to convey the biblical teachings. Many churches were denuded of the iconography in the 800's during a period in the Eastern Orthodox church when church embellishment were considered by some to be excessive. These opinions were overturned at the Seventh Ecumenical Council. This iconoclastic spirit also effected churches in England which saw the removal of religious artifacts as part of the reformation movement. The result is that in America today, in the predominant Protestant churches, much emphasis is placed on artificial or natural lighting, images are projected on a large screen, crosses, warm spaces, open spaces, etc.

Early churches were based on a variety of shapes. Some were cruciform and others were bassilica style. An altar was at the front, evolving to a point that it was set behind a screen, separating the altar area from the nave. Religious pictures were placed on the screen, walls, ceiling etc (see Hagia Sophia). Religious art provided pictures into heaven, so to speak. Spaces were provided according to the tradition of a particular church. Architecture provided spaces of different sizes and shapes according to the need of the services.

Architecture can affect our minds and bodies as does any sensory experience. The design of buildings is a reflection of the way people worship and what they believe.

Cubism

The Amida Nyora is displayed in Phoenix Hall in Kyoto, Japan. It was created by Jocho Busshi and is a Buddhist statue. The form and expression on the statue established a direct and intimate relationship between the worshiper and the Buddha.

Pop art is the abbreviation for popular art, a style that emerged as a direct response to abstract expressionism. The style emerged in the UK and US during the 1950s and was inspired by everyday objects and bright colours, so that everyone could appreciate and enjoy it. It used advertising imagery, photographs and ordinary elements of consumerism (like soup cans, cereal boxes etc) to make it more connected to people. Famous pop artists include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Patrick Caulfield, Blek le rat, Banksy, Pixnit etc.

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carefree

The Spanish cubist painter, Pablo Picasso, was born in Spain in 1881. He was one of the most prolific painters of modern art.

mannerism