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    ART STYLE – the way the artwork looks.

    The manner in which the artist portrays


    his or her subject matter and how the artist expresses his or her vision. Style is
    determined by the characteristics that describe the artwork, such as the way the
    artist employs form, color, and composition, etc. another important factor in
    determining they style of an artwork is to examine the way the artist handles
    the medium, taking into account the method or technique that the artist uses.
    - Artworks that have certain features in common are considered to have
    the same style.
    ART MOVEMENT – classifying artists of a certain period or style.
    - Collective titles that are given to artworks which share the same artistic
    ideals, style, technical approach or timeframe.
    ART APPRECIATION – knowledge and understanding of the universal and
    timeless qualities that identify art. The more you appreciate and understand the
    art of different eras, movements, styles and techniques, the better you can
    develop, evaluate and improve your own artwork.
    TIMELIME OF ART MOVEMENTS:
    30,000 B.C – 2500 B.C – Stone Age; Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic
    structures
    3500 B.C – 539 B.C – Mesopotamian; Warrior art and narration in stone relief
    3100 B.C – 30 B.C – Egyptian; art with an artificial focus: pyramids and tomb
    painting
    850 B.C – 31 B.C – Greek and Hellenistic; Greek idealism: balance, perfect
    proportions, architectural orders
    500 B.C – 476 A.D – Roman; roman realism: practical and down to earth
    653 B.C – 1900 – Indian, Chinese, and Japanese; Serene, meditative art and arts
    of the floating world.
    500 B.C – 1550 – Medieval Art (Early Christian, celtic, Byzantine, Coptic,
    Orthodox, Islamic, Romanesque, and Gothic)
    1400 – 1600 – Renaissance
    1600 – 1725 – Baroque Art
    1720 – 1760 – Rococo Art
    1760 – 1830 – Neoclassical
    1800 – 1850 – Romanticism
    1800s – Academic Art
    1840 – 1870 – Realism
    1848 – 1854 – Pre-raphaelite Art
    1870 – 1900 – Impressionism
    1880 – 1920 – Post-impressionism
    1880 – 1910 – Symbolism
    1905 – 1908 – Fauvism
    1905 – 1925 – Expressionism
    1908 – 1920 – Cubism
    1909 – 1918 – Futurism
    From 1910 – Abstract Art
    1916 – 1923 – Dada
    1915 – 1945 – Precisionism
    From 1920s – Surrealism
    1920 – 1935 – Art Deco
    1956 – 1960s – Pop Art
    1970 - present – Postmodernism and deconstructivism

    1. STONE AGE/ PREHISTORIC ART – early human first made and used simple
    stone tools. They carved into rocks, painted on rocky cave walls, made
    figurines from stone and toward the end of the stone age, they
    constructed crude stone architecture.
     Cupules – cup shaped hollows in the ground and rocks, sometimes in
    groups or geometric patterns.
     Petroglyphs – carvings on cave walls and protected surfaces like rock
    overhangs. Some are geometric shapes; others are simple figures of
    people or animals.
     Megaliths/Petroforms – arrangements of standing stones
     Venus figurines – very exaggerated bodies of women; prominent
    breasts and hips.

    Sources:
    http://www.identifythisart.com/timeline-of-art-styles-trb.htm
    http://www.dummies.com/education/art-appreciation/art-history-timeline/
    www.essential-humanties.net/art-overview/stone-age/
    www.visual-arts-cork.com/ancient-art/stone-age.htm

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