APPRECIATING ART FROM ANCIENT TIMES UNTIL THE PRESENT

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Overview

The History of Art Learn about the artists’ lives and influences and how they are

reflected in their works. Hear the crazy stories you never knew about your favorite pieces!

Explore the stylistic elements of different periods, movements and artists, and learn about how art influences our lives and why it is important.

The following topics will be broken down into individual sessions which we will explore together!

Drawing Hands, M.C. Escher, 1948

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Ancient World Art

Journey to the ancient worlds of China, India, Japan, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Egypt

Learn about mythology and history Discover examples of architecture,

sculpture, and earthenware

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Ancient World Art

Laocoön and his Sons, Vatican Museums, Rome

Hall of the Bulls28,000- 10,000 BCE, Lascaux, France

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Ancient World Art – Did you know…

While excavating a village near Baghdad in 1936, the mysterious 2,000 year old vase at the left was found

A German archeologist performed an experiment by filling it with grape juice (as the ancients would have done), and it produced nearly 1 volt of electricity

This proves our ancestors had battery technology over 1,800 years ago!

It would have been used to electroplate objects with precious metals, such as gold and silver

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Ancient World Art

The ancient battery in the Baghdad Museum

Chinese Art

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Unearth ancient Chinese sculptures and ceramics

Unlock the secrets of the Terracotta Army and its creation

Learn about crafting methodology in the Jade Empire

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Chinese Art – Did you know…

While studying the Terracotta Army, Pablo Wendel, a German graduate student, dressed up like an ancient warrior and hid amongst the statues.

"I got to the area where he was supposed to be, looked around and didn't see him - he looked too much like a terracotta warrior," Hong Kong newspapers quoted a Chinese security guard as saying!

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Three GoddessesPhidias, 5th century BC, Greece

Italian Renaissance Painting

Explore the mind and works of the masters Botticelli, Michelangelo, Rafael, van Eyck, and da Vinci

Learn about the social and religious impacts on Renaissance art

Learn about the images and techniques used to create them

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Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, ca. 1511

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Detail, Ghent Altarpiece, Singing AngelsJan Van Eyck 1432

The Birth of VenusBotticelli 1486

Detail, Sistine MadonnaRaphael 1513-1514

Italian Renaissance – Did you know…

On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen right off the wall in the Louvre!

Oddly enough, the Mona Lisa wasn't even noticed missing until the following day. 

Who would steal such a famous painting?  Why did they do it? Where was it hidden?  

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Mona Lisa, da Vinci, ca. 1503-1519

Dutch Golden Age

Understand everyday life of 17th century Netherlands and how it came to define the style of the Golden Age

Meet influential artists of the period, such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and van der Helst

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Girl with the Pearl Earring, Vermeer, ca. 1665

Self PortraitRembrandt 1660

Detail, Justice, from Tomb of William the Silent, Hendrick de Keyser 1614- 1620

Dutch Golden Age – Did you know…

March 18, 1990, 13 pieces collectively worth $300 million, including the Vermeer painting on the left, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

A reward of five million dollars is still offered for information leading to the return of this painting!

Do you know where it is?

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The Concert, Vermeer, 1664

Romanticism

Recreate the emotional journey of the artists

Discover the symbolic reflection of emotions and ideas in landscape

Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Cole

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Friedrich, 1818

Lake with Dead TreesThomas Cole, 1825

Romanticism – Did you know… Hudson River School painters helped

shape our romantic ideas about the West, often exaggerating landscapes to what they should be rather than what they actually were

This painting on the next slide, which hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., is over 9 feet wide!

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Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Bierstadt, 1868

Photography

Acquire an overview of the development of photography and photographic practices

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Camera Obscurainvented 13-14th centuries

Picture of how Camera Obscura was used originally

Photography – Did you know…

Photography was discovered by accident!

The first picture took 8 hours to develop

12 years later, the development process was shortened to 15-20 minutes

Subjects had to be given rest breaks to be able to sit still for so long!

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Compare the realist elements of Impressionism to the abstract influences of Post-Impressionism

Impressionists: Degas, Monet, Klee, and Renoir

Post-Impressionists: van Gogh, Cézanne, Seurat, and Gauguin

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

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Luncheon of the Boating Party, Renoir, 1880-1881, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

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The Starry Night, van Gogh, 1889Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Mont Sainte- Victoire, one in series of paintingsCezanne, 1882-1887

A Sunday on La Grande JatteGeorges Seurat, 1884-1886

Impressionism and Post-ImpressionismDid you know…

“Impressionism” comes from Monet’s painting on the next slide entitled “Impression, Sunrise”

An art critic used the title to come up with the term “Impressionism” in an attempt to harshly criticize Monet, but it ended up being the name for an entire movement of painters and one of the most important styles in history!

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Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise)Claude Monet, 1872, oil on canvasMusée Marmottan

Expressionism

Presents the world in an utterly subjective perspective

Understand how personal and environmental factors directly influenced the artists’ work and development

Empathize with the artists on a new level

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The Scream, Munch, 1893

Expressionism – Did you know… Kandinsky, who painted the picture on the

next slide, is known to be the first abstract artist in the world!

Do you like it? What does it look like to you?

Kandinsky’s parents wanted him to be a lawyer...and he was a lawyer until age 30

Now Kandinsky’s paintings hang in the Guggenheim in New York and sell for millions!

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On White II, Wassily Kandinsky,1923

Dadaism and Surrealism

Experiment with the abstract ideas and subconscious expressions of Dadaism and Surrealism

See how and why anti-war sentiments sparked these movements across all media in the early 20th century

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Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, Hannah Höch, 1919Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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The Persistence of Memory, Dali, 1931, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Dadaism & Surrealism – Did you know

The artist of the painting on the next slide started out as a wallpaper designer, but since 2008 he has an entire museum dedicated to his works!

What is out of the ordinary in this painting? Do you see how the sky is sunny but the house and trees are dark, like it’s the night? Do you like this painting?

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The Empire of Lights,Rene Magritte, 1954

Understand the anti-consumerist roots of the Land Art movement and discover examples of this often overlooked art form

Land Art and Earthworks

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Land Art and Earthworks – Did you know…

This giant spider shown on the next slide made over 2,200 years ago and was only discovered when a plane flew overhead in the 1930s!

It is so large (over 1,000 feet across) that archeologists cannot explain how it was made… without help from the air

Why and how do you think it was made? Some speculate this and other objects were

carved into the desert floor for religious purposes, or to map the stars, or even that they were created by aliens!

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Giant Spider, Nazca linesPeruvian Desert

Alternative Art

Expand your horizons to include art forms that escape traditional classification

Appreciate the simplicity of emerging art

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Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol,1962

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Sidewalk Chalk Arthttp://hubpages.com/hub/Amazing_Sidewalk_Chalk_art

Alternative Art – Did you know…

Claes Oldenburg created this sculpture in 1976 out of “velvety” Corten steel

The steel turns a warm reddish brown as it weathers

Oldenburg said that he was always “fascinated by values attached to size”

This sculpture is nearly 50 feet high!

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Next time…

More on Art of the Ancient World!

The Great Pyramid of Giza

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