12. • Usually called the dark ages but it’s not really
as dark as you might think.
• Timeline: 500-1100 CE
• Most art were of religious sense
• Medieval, meaning the period in between two
different golden ages
22. Early Romanesque Churches
• Were fortified for safety. They were small and
dark with thick walls and tiny windows.
23. Early Medieval Castles
• Were heavily fortified with
thick walls and moats
• Were not at all romantic or
comfortable to live in
24. Styles began to change in the 12th
Century
• Abbot Suger
designed the church
of St. Denis outside
of Paris
• Notice the round
arches, the rose
window, the three
large doors
29. Hagia Sophia
“Holy Wisdom”
Mystical atmosphere
• Nearly 3 football fields long
• Pendentives- four arches formed a square
• Forty arched windows encircle the base of the dome to
give illusion of halo
30. Romanesque Cathedral
• 1050-1200
• Horizontal Emphasis
• Stone roof with rounded arches
• Thick piers and walls support roof
• Smaller windows- dark and solemn
32. Gothic Cathedral
• 1200-1500
• Vertical Emphasis- reaches to heaven
• Stone roof with pointed arches and ribbed vault
• Thin walls and piers supported by Flying Buttresses
• Large stain glass windows- airy and “Holy Light”
36. Medieval Paintings
• Were all religious in subject matter– many
were book illustrations or altarpieces
• Were expressionless, flat and almost cartoon-
like
• Showed no background or perspective
• Were usually frescoes (tempera paint on wet
plaster) although some were painted on wood
43. Literature
• Secular Poetry
• Often sung or recited
– Epics (stories w/ a hero
based on history)
• Song of Roland
– Romances
– tales of chivalry (knight’s
code of honor)
– True love
• Performed by
troubadors
44. Secular Literature with religious themes
– In the vernacular:
the language of the
people (not Latin)
– Canterbury Tales by
• Geoffrey Chaucer
– The Divine Comedy
• Dante Alighieri
The Canterbury Tales:
The Wife of Bath
48. The artwork . . .
• Focused on religious
subjects
• Lacked perspective--
paintings appear flat.
• There is little use of light
and shadow.
• The artwork is not
natural. Figures appear
"placed" in the picture.
Large = important
49.
50. The
artwork . . . .
• Children are painted to
resemble small adults.
• Colors are more
subdued than in later
periods.
• In the earlier paintings
there is heavy use of
gold.
• Religious symbols
used--haloes, Biblical
figures, saints, etc.
57. More . . .
• Artists became
known for individual
style and imagination.
• This is a DaVinci—
• note the similarity in
the mouth in this
work to the another
famous picture by
DaVinci
Ginevra de' Benci
61. Realism & ExpressionRealism & Expression
Expulsion from the GardenExpulsion from the Garden
MasaccioMasaccio
14271427
First nudes since classicalFirst nudes since classical
times.times.
62. 2. Perspective2. Perspective
First use ofFirst use of
linearlinear
perspective!perspective!
The TrinityThe Trinity
MasaccioMasaccio
14271427
64. 4. Emphasis on4. Emphasis on
IndividualismIndividualism
Batista Sforza
& Federico de
Montefeltre:
The Duke &
Dutchess of
Urbino
Piero della
Francesca,
1465-1466.
65.
66. 5. Geometrical Arrangement of5. Geometrical Arrangement of
FiguresFigures
The Dreyfus
Madonna
with the
Pomegranate
Leonardo da Vinci
1469
The figure as
architecture!
69. Masaccio 1401-1428
• Founder of early
Renaissance Painting
• Painted human figure
as a real human being
(3D)
• Used perspective
• Consistent source of
light (accurate
shadows)
73. #2 Donatello 1386-1466
• The sculptor’s Masaccio
• David (1430-32)
– First free standing, life-
size nude since Classical
period
– Contrapposto
– Sense of Underlying
skeletal structure
88. AristotleAristotle::
looks to thislooks to this
earth [theearth [the
here andhere and
now].now].
PlatoPlato::
looks tolooks to
thethe
heavensheavens
[or[or
the IDEALthe IDEAL
realm].realm].
95. Modern Art
Rejecting the past
Expressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Dada
Surrealism
Abstract Art
Pop Art
Minimalism
96. Early Expressionism
• Style that portrayed emotions through
distorting form and color
• Edvard Munch
– Mental illness, depression
– Said he would never want to cast off his
illness
– Aimed to induce strong reactions in his
viewers
100. Fauvism
• 1904-1908
• Explosion of color, exaggerated and vibrant
• Disregard for true/actual color
• “as if gremlins seized the color knob on the tv”
• Influenced by non-European tribal art of the
colonies
• Leader: Matisse
109. Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
• His mother said, “If you become a soldier,
you’ll be a general. If you become a monk,
you’ll end up as the Pope.” He said, “I became
a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
• Painted around 50,000 pieces
• Notorious for relationships with women
• Children from many women
120. Expressionism
1905-1930
• Art should express the artist’s feelings rather
than images of the real world
• Distorted, exaggerated forms and color
• Began with van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch
• Dark colors and woodcuts relay sadness of
war
123. Abstract Art
• Began with Kandinsky in 1919
• Post WWII to 80’s
• Abandon any reference to recognizable
reality
• No subject
• Color can convey emotion even without
content
• Founder: Kandinsky
127. Dada Art
• 1916-1923
• Got its name from nonsense
– French for hobby horse
• Protested the madness of war
• Founded by WWI refugees
• Strategy was to denounce and shock
130. Surrealism
• 1920’s and 1930’s
• Implies going beyond realism
• Painted the bizarre and irrational to express
truths
• Defy common sense
• Looks like a dream-world
131. Joan Miro
1893-1983
• Invented unique biomorphic images
• Geometric shapes and amoeba-like blobs
• Colorful, playful
• “Cartoon from another planet”
135. Salvador Dali
1904-1989
• Exploited his own personality quirks
• Fears: bugs, crossing streets, trains, boats,
airplanes, Metro, buying shoes in public
• Actual objects but distorted
• Had the canvas next to his bed and woke to paint
dreamscapes
• Disliked by some because of his fascination with
Hitler
• Pulled publicity stunts
– Gave speech with foot in pail of milk
– Press conference with lobster on his head
– Wore a diving suit and lectured but no one could hear
him and he started to asphyxiate himself
145. Abstract Expressionism
• Also called action painting
• 40’s-50’s
• Came out of the jazz era’s lack of form
• No longer was art required to be a visual
representation of some object
• Jackson Pollock=Jack the Dripper (1912-1956)
– Paint Hard, Live Hard
– Died drunk in a car crash-age 44
149. Minimalists
• Color Field
– Huge canvases of color
– Representations of feelings and ideas
• Hard Edge
– Calculated, simple forms
– Colors in harmony
154. Pop Art
• 1950 ‘s and 1960’s
• Derived from the word popular
• Used everyday items as inspiration for art
• Soup cans and comic strips
• Mass produced
• Pope of Pop: Andy Warhol
– 6 hour movie called Sleep