History of Art, Humanity and Post-Impressionism

History of Art, Humanity and Post-Impression

Part 1: History of Art

The history of art is very vast and chronological study including its development in different periods of time in a stylistic context. The study includes all the objects starting from architecture to minor forms like decorative objects.

Ancient Art

Initially, art comprises of all arts and crafts that are created in cultures that was not aware of the development of record keeping and written language. Prehistoric art is the art that described culture in the objects.

Ancient near East

The development of art in ancient societies was somewhat different from the prehistoric societies. In this era, the introduction of Neo-Sumerian, Akkadian, Mesopotamian, Assyrian, Hittite, Babylonian, Elamite, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Sassanian and Achaemid took place in societies.

Ancient Egyptian Art

This art category started from Nile valley during 5000 BC to 300 AD. Egyptian art was very high quality work with creativity and symbolic, includes sculpture and paintings which were the most famous art at that time. It did not affected by any culture.

Greek Art

Architecture and sculpture was the specialty of Greek art. It was influenced by East and Western art. The influence of East and Alexander the Great's capture built the contact between Greek, Central Asian and Indian culture. Lately, in nineteenth century Greek art traditions have been dominating the western art world.

Roman Art

It consists of the elements of Egyptian, native Italic and Etruscan culture. According to Historian, Pliny, Greek art remained more advanced than Roman art throughout the Greek and Rome periods.

Medieval Art

In Medieval times, knights created a unique form of artwork that symbolized who they were, and the values and ethics that they live by. This is called a “Coat of Arms.” Each one was designed for a specific knight and was emblazoned on his shield, his armor, his horse and even his house. During this project you will create your own “Coat of Arms” that is unique to us. Each symbol should represent something about the person of middle age era.

The official coat of arms of a state is the synthesis of its history. Thus, starting the research with Wallachia's, Moldavia's and Transylvania's coats of arms and their diverse representations, reaching the moment of the Union of the Romanian principalities, then widen this research to the European heraldic area. This science uses sources such as seals, coins, tombstones, architectural monuments, therefore making use of other historical sciences such as paleography and numismatics.

The art of the middle Ages

The art of the middle Ages emphasized the irrational features of art, which is the best form of religious expression that characterizes this era. Through the aesthetic expressions are intended to indoctrinate the population to get her closer to God. The middle Ages are known as the era in which art is the expression of religion and became the Bible of the illiterate.

During, the middle Ages, were considered inferior activities on hand and carried a physical work, such as sculpture, while literature, music and architecture were part of intellectual ...