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Overview of Art History
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Overview of Art History Year 12
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Jackson Pollock was
He suffered from alcoholism and depression
He focused on brightly coloured abstracts
He was in the movement of artistic innovation and creativity
An artist during World War II
All of the above
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Architecture is the art of planning and designing buildings that will satisfy human needs for physical and psychological security
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What years did Leonardo da Vinci feature?
1452-1519
He was born in a small village of Vinci outside Florence, the illegitimate son of
a notary, Leonardo was reared in his father house and studied painting in
Florence.
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Photography originated in
1420 Piero della francesca
1975 Steven Spielberg
1930/Alfred Hitchcok
1564/ Willaim Shakespeare
1839/ by Louise Daguerre and William Fox Talbot
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Christopher Wren was a great painter?
Who is Christopher Wren?
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Christopher Wren, was known as the greatest English Architects, he started designing after the age of 30. He devised a method of supporting the ceiling from above using an ingenious framework of timber trusses. His fame rests in building 51 city churches and his masterpiece, the new cathedral
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What is one of the oldest forms of story telling?
Sculpture
Symbols were incised on the walls and ceilings of the caves of primitive peoples. For example in Egytian
pyramids, which were in fact massive artificial burial mounds, the life story of
the dead person was carved into the walls of his or her burial room.
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Narrative art Narrative—or story—art represents events taking place over time. These events may, however, be compressed into a single image that implies something that has already happened or is about to take place.
Painting, of course, has told stories since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians. Starting in the Renaissance, “history painting”—paintings of events from biblical or classical history—acquired the highest status. Nineteenth-century painting and sculpture depicted not only great moments in history but also domestic dramas of a decidedly sentimental nature. Such subjects were rejected by modern painters during the late nineteenth century in favor of scenes from contemporary life. Later modern artists sought to purge painting and sculpture of narrative. Storytelling was thought best pursued by writers rather than visual artists, and literary became an insult in the argot of modern art.
The most popular form of visual narrative now is painting, with performance, installations, and video art the runners-up. Narrative artwork ranges from Bruce Charlesworth’s amusing “who done it” installations suggestive of B novels to Faith Ringgold’s affecting autobiographical stories written and painted on quilts. (Words are a frequent element in narrative art.) The narrative approach seems especially suited to psychological self-examination and the investigation of the role-playing that is so conspicuous an element of late-twentieth-century social interaction.Extracts from 'Artspeak' by Robert Atkins (copyright (©) 1990, 1997 by Robert Atkins) reproduced by permission of Abbeville Press, Inc. Sourced from http://www.moca.org/pc/viewArtTerm.php?id=24 4/8/2012 , Moco the Museum of Contempory art.
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