A Brief View of Art History According to Mr. Rogers.

Stone Age Art

The Chauvet cave in Vallon-Pont d’Arc, France.

Approx. 30,000-13,000 years before common era. (BCE) The oldest ever found.

Half scale of bulls, horses, and rhinos.

Venus of Willendorf – Fertility and Health

Why did they paint these scenes or crEATE THIS SCULPTURE?

Khafre, Egypt (c. 2520-2494 BCE)

Moai, Easter Island Culture (c.1250-1500A.D)

Jade cong, Liangzhu Culture (c. 3300-2200 BCE)

Dogon Walu, Africa, Mali (c.1920-1935 A.D)

Civilization’s Rise

Ancient Civilizations and their art.

Can you guess the correct sequence?

Aphrodite, Melos Greece (c.150-125 BCE)

Civilization Still Rising

Greek Sculpture was mainly bronze, but copied later in marble by the Romans.

Art centered around mythology and Kingdom until the spread of Christianity when it took over as the purpose for art in the West.

Why create art for these purposes? Laocoon and His Sons/

Athanadoros ,Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes, Rome (c.1 AD)

Other than Western Art:Eastern

Chinese Tomb paintings. Many afterlife/religiously related.

The Great Stupa housing Bhudda. Monuments to god.

Yakshi and Hindu fertility.

Other than Western Art:Africa

Kingship and the tiers of ranking society.

Nok head for rituals.

Nkisi Nkondi for protection and to cure ailments.

Other than Western Art:Americas

Olmecs and the giant heads, are they divine or just powerful?

Mayan’s depictions of gods and recording of culture.

Mississippian mounds for good crops and others for burials. Appease the gods or ALIENS?

Inuit’s very stylized depiction of their environment.

Back to Western Art:Monuments and Testaments to a Higher Being

1400-1500’s

The Sistine Chapel

Chartres Cathedral

Baldacchino

Pieta - Michelangelo

Back to Western Art:Art for Art’s Sake

1600-1700’s

Caravaggio and the light painters (chiaroscuro) religious undertones

Rubens – Social problems in a classical way

Rembrandt – Everyday life

Back to Western Art:Social Art

1800’s

Goya’s outcry for French massacre in Spain

Gericault’s theatrics changing art’s view (diagonal lines)

Back to Western Art:Photography

1800’s

Delacroix’s Draped Model

O’Sullivan’s Getty’sburg commentary : A Harvest of Death

Modernism Commeth:Reality

Late 1800’s

Millet’s The gleaners

Dumier’s The Third Class Carriage

Modernism Commeth:French Impressionism

Manet

Monet

Degas

Modernism Almost:Post-Impressionism

Later 1800’s

Van Gogh

Seurat

Rousseau

Modernism is HERE:Thinking before the visual

Early 1900’s

Kandinsky

Severini

Modernism

Testing the waters of Art

Duchamp

ManRay

Weston

ModernismSurrealism

Margritte

Dali

Kahlo

ModernismMid Century

Johns

Nevelson

Pollock

ModernismLater Century

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Hanson

Smithson

Post-Modernism

Paik

Koons

Hirsch

Rogers